.■V-'-V 61 THE r. -..v : *f' Frontier v / ' v*' *' *'V J 4 v ■;<1 • / ~ „v ■■•'■■ ' ' ‘ • ‘ ' ,* m ' • i* • *■ ^ T * ^ "''•-.*’^'4 a' a ‘■‘i i" v v" / '„'***■} . ,< Jr v* i fs.-. v-H;‘ ' N>-0 ‘ I' .i'V . V' ', VV ’\y~-'4 %s • ;-K - ■■>:.. % ■■■■; v, ■:...' . ;■■■;■.■■■■. ■:• 7 ■ . V , - - - , , ■■■•■ •> ; v.fJB- f; ■i-S,:1**1?.'i‘!<3;-.i*-J if-i! . . ' ■' v'.v..i........^,'VyM''s7,t->.«»7i VOLUME XVIII. O'NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASkA, SEPTEMBER 9. 1897. . ‘ ■' v K ! :• 'iVV. \ ’ NUMBER 10. MS SANS WHISKEBS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED Look! Happening* Portrayed Tot Omni Edification ud Amusement. 0. W. Moss was in from Amelia Mon day. Tom Carlon left this morning for Omaha. Joe Mann was over from Spencer Sunday. Wiltsie Stewart was up from Page yesterday. f - W. E. Scott was down from Atkinson last Friday. Joe McCafiery was in from the ranch last Friday. Hugh O’Neill was in from Chelsea last Tuesday. Mrs. Benedict left for Clarion, la. this morning. Arthur. Cruise was down from Atkin son Tuesday. Mrs. Jenness was down from Atkfh son Saturday. Editor Eves,of Atkinson was in O’Neill last Saturday. Elmer Merrimah went down..to Fre mont yesterday. Fresh bananas 20 cents per dozen at Hatfield & Halls. W. H. Blackmer was down from At kinson last Saturday. Prof. Schubert was up from Neligh the first of the week. ' Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Cole went to Oma ha Tuesday morning. Billie Davis is holding cases on the Independent this week. Fresh oysters sold by the can, stew or fry at Hatfield & Hall’s. 9-2 S. B. Stewart, of Page, is seriously s-iftof blood poisoning. t Alex Searles, of Atkinson 'Was an ^O’Neill visitor last Friday. Judge Hamen, of Kearney, transacted business in O’Neill Tuesday. Seth Woods, of Atkinson, was an O’Neill visitor last Saturday. F. W, Phillips, of Star, made this office a pleasant call last Saturday. W. W. Wright, of Cleveland town ship, was in O’Neill Tuesday. Ed Gallagher visited relatives and friends in Laurel over Sunday. Geo. Mellor, of Lynch, was in O’Neill Tuesday visiting his brother Jess. Geo. Byel, of Norfolk is visiting friends in this vicinity this week. Mrs. Mary Carberry, of Deadwood, visited Mrs. John Skirving Tuesday. Mrs. Kay, of Sioux City was in O’Neill last Sunday calling on old friends. Bill Fallon and Joe Meredith went down to Sioux City last Friday evening. Mike Brennan went down to Laurel last Friday evening returning Monday. U~ John McHugh was looking after bus iness matters in the south country last week. B. E. Sturdevant passed through O’Neill Tuesday morning en route for the city. Mrs. J. W. Finnigan, of Chadron, vis ited her friend Miss Bee O’Donnell, of this city. Miss Carrie Gallagher, of Emporia, visited friends in O’Neill several days last week. The Misses Maggie and Teas Harring ton and Dr. Berry visited friends in At kinson Sunday. wu account or me Heavy stock run on the F. E., Operator Gallagher ie doing night duty man. A number of young people picniced at Bayne’s grove last Friday. A good time is reported. Stuttgart Free Press: George Mer ritt and familey started Tuesday night fof Seattle, Wash. There will be a meeting of the board of directors of tbe Golden irrigation district next Monday. 8umner Adams came over from Spen cer last Saturday and went down the , road Sunday morning. jf The F. E. & M. V. railroad company \ ere making some greatly needed im ■ provements i-___ greaeive until it wu uked to free the stares. On tbia queatiou it waa forced by,Abe aouth to take the negative position that alavery abould not and could not be abollabed. The pos llivenmlad of the nation then origan* used itaelf into a new party which not only freed the alayea, but put American labor both white and black on a higher plain than it had ever occupied before. From the close of the war to '98 the ma chinery of our government wu in con trol of the poaitive and progreaalve mind and there was such growth and progreu as had never before been witneued in any land. During these year* of prog resa, the democratic party, having be come the negative party, waa the natur al rendevoua of all objectora. It held out ita arma to all malcontenta, aaying, "Come to me!" Every offahoot, every new organisation of diagruntled obstruo ionlat, no matter what party name they uaumed or what high Bounding preten sions they advertised, drifted at last to the common center of organised dis organisation—the democratic party. By skillful agitation this negative party grew until in '98 It got control of the government. Having by the force of majority gain ed the position of control, it wu unable to exercise the functions of control over the business of the country or over it self, for it wu a party not of organiza tion, but of negative, disorganising force turning, not only against the progress ive instincts of the nation, but against itulf, overwhelmed itself and the whole eountry la disaster. , , ▲t this juncture, populism, calling It self the people’s independent party, came into the arena and said : “Let us take the lead. Under a new name we can still hold the negative forces togeth er and with the buaineu forces paral ized we can pay our debts in fifty cent dollars and bring -the-bottom of society to the top.” Bryan, more reckless and unscrupulous than the old leaders of his party, listened to the populist, and while pretending to consider their prop osition, manipulated the weakened and helpless democracy into adopting the populist shibooleth, free silver, and before the populist realized what wu going on, their invention bad been pat ented, their trade mark had been stolen and their party, ushered into life with such fond hopes, found itself annexed to democracy without any further reu on for ita party existence. During the national campaigns of '90 it still struggled to maintain ita idenity, but the struggle was hopeless and pa thetic. Like a poor relation, it hung around the premises of the adored pres idential candidate but wu never invited in. All this indignity, while it wu keenly felt by the nonoffice seeking pop ulist, was easily condoned by the popu list office holders in this state, for they had no instincts and no party pride higher than their own personal interests. They could see their party swollowed by democracy, its banner taken down for ever, if only their hungry bellies were warmed by the pottage of petty spoils. With orators from Mlnnuota, Iowa, Kansas, Texu Band Montana, with ora tory thundering from a half dozen plac es and with the pin worm politicians from the state house wriggling in and out among the farmer delegates, it wu euy for democracy to strangle ita riv al in the late fusion state convention and end its struggles forever for national recognition. Of tbe Nebraska populiit a large proportion were formerly repub licans. Many of them still believe in protection, in reciprosity, and other ten ants of tbeir old republican faitb. These had seen democracy swoilowing each political offshoot for the last wenty-flve years, had seen this swoilowing process commenced against their own new par ty last year, and knowing that the swoi lowing ordeal was to be completed in this state this year, they prepared as best they could to resist it. In most of the counties the sentimen t was over whelming against fusion on a democrat candidate for supreme judge and in many of the counties the delegates were pos itively instructed against it. Bryan, reo ognizing the trend of, the populist, but realizing his affiliation with them in Ne braska has weakened him with the pop ulist hating democracy of the south, de termioed that this fusion convention, no matter what the farmers desired, should manifest and show forth democratic control. And there was democratic con trol. Not for one moment, from the time the conventions were called until their woik was complete, was there any possible chance for fusion on a populist nomination. The democrats had set themselves firmly and would not be mov ed. For two days the delegates were harrangued by the Imported orators. "Get together” was the cry. Whenever thatery was sounded each democrat cheered it to the echo, and turning to his populist neighbor he repeated, “yes, we must get together.” With this same exhortation the democracy has ab sorbed every political offshoot for twen ty five years and the getting together has always been at last under the democrat ic banner. Of all the aupreme Judge candidates in the fusion list, the one named, in his political belief and in his political afllie tions, was and is farthest from populism and closest to democracy. When the manipulators saw what a snap they had they threw Thompson overboard and took Sullivan. In Sullivan the humili ation of the populist is complete ind the populist hating democrats need no long er apologize. The conference commit tee was the trick by which the swollow ing process was made easy. When the conference committee was announced, half the populist delegates abandoned the convention and went home. Less than half the fusion delegates were in the city of Lincoln when the nomina tions were made.’ The whole thing from beginning to end was a political Job, concocted and carried out by a lot of in terested politicians, and this is the "gov ernment by the people” that we hear so much about. I must say to the credit of the populist delegates that in the main they did what they could to carry out the withes of their constituents, but the "conference committee” was to cute for them. Four hundred of the delegates were office holders. They of course ac quiesced in whatever the state house ring required. The so called free silver re publican convention was made up al most entirely of populist. I learn that the local caucuses of this pretended par ty were participated in and controlled chiefly by populist^ ail oyer the state. The doctrine enunciated by the speakers was along the old calamity line. The only new thing in the speeches was that wheat ought to be two dollars a bushel Instead of one. They had never said that silver regulated the price. Ah, my friends, we never said it. While these orators were boldly sultifying themselves I looked to see if there was one man among the delegates brave enough and honest enough to rise up in his place and ask those orators, "If you did not teach that silver regulates the price, what did you teach, and what do you teach nowT The price was what we complained of. The price is all we want. If we get the price we prosper. If now you teach that the price is regu lated by supply and demand and not by silver, then what is the mission of the silver 6ause?” I listened for this, for I said to myself, "Among so many there is surely one who is honest,” but the torrent of oratory rolled on, the pin worms bored in and out among the delegates, the deckers cheered! ncess antly, Edmunstin nodded approvingly, the swollowing process went on serene ly while Tobias Castor and bis railroad assistants roared with laughter in their rooms at the hotel. Whatever be the re sult of this election all Nebraska peo ple who are tired of populism will thank God that the party is at last swallowed and out of sight forever. J. W. Johnson. SUPXBVIlOBJt COVTZKTIOH. A delegate convention of the republi can party for the purpose of pladng in nomination a supervisor for the sixth supervisors district will be held at the Fountain Valley school house in Fran cis on Saturday, September 35, at one o’clock p. m. The representation will be tbe same as that to the county con vention. T. B. Making, Chairman. YOU WANT THE BEST. Service for your money, and you get it when traveling via the Pacific Short Line. Through connections dally, ex cept Sunday, each way between Sioux City and the Black Hills via O’Neill, saving three hours in each direction. Close connections with trains to and from Yankton, Sioux City, Mitchell, etc. Buy local tickets to O’Neill. Low est rates. _ ■ TO WHOH IT HAT COHCEBJT: 1 have been in the drug business for twelve years, and during that time have sold nearly all the cough medicines manufactured; and from my personal knowledge of such remedies, I say that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy gives better satisfaction than any on the market.—W. M. Tbbby, Elkton, Ky. [ Sold P. C. Corrigan, druggist. JOHN BXDirT uaiev. It vu reported around town the fore part of the week that John Stewart, populist candidate for sheriff, was go ing to pull out of the race, assigning * family trouble as the cause. The real reason, however, being that he was be. coming weak-kneed, knowing that he had no earthly show of being elected. The rumer created untold Joy In the 1 hearts of about half of the pops in and around O’Neill, and they, believing it, immediately called a meeting of the pop central committee to HU the vacancy ' before there was one. Then what a hustling there was among f $ the faithful, all being possessed with the same uncontrolable yearning to sacrifice home, happiness and their hope of hear en, in the interests of the pop party that possessed them on the day of the conn* - ty convention—the only difference being that there were several new names in the list. me central committee mat Tuesday afternoon In the court houae, doaed doora, and with a anffioiant guard to prevent an? eres-dropplng. The demo-pope, wilh their fuaion aoheme, were locked out. aa alao were the “de cent pope" aa Jim Pinkerman expreaaed it , % What took place in that atar-chamber | meeting ia kept a Secret, hut Judging from the looka of diagnat on the facea ot thoae whoae hopea had been raiaed to the hlgheat pitch at the thought that ! perhapa the? might be the one for the aacrifloe, the? were none too well pleaaed when the? diacoverd that Mr. 8tewart had no Intention ot with drawing. It waia a aore diaappointment to Black mer, of Atkinaon, who had been led to believe that Mr. Stewart would reeign in ^ tavor, and a atlll greater diaappoint ment to John Hopkina, who had been working for two day a to get the appoint ment, and who had had it promiaed him aa a aalve for the wound he had received when he waa thrown over in the treea- ^ urerahip fight. But John didn't reaign, and now there ia rancor in the hearta of thoee who had S been led to expect great things. but were ao cruelly diaappolnted, and John's chancea of an overwhelmning , eolely at the handa of his friends— . grows atronger every day. "It wee el mean thing to do, thoiegh^ lead hia frianda on to expect that there would be a vacancy that they could Juat - fill to a niceit?, and then not reaign. Anybody who would do auch a trick would “ateal the penniee oil a dyad nlx ger’aeyea." * ‘HOLD ON! HOLD ON! STOP, STOP, I eay 1 writing that order for a auit of that Nebraska clothing houae. There ia no uae talking, P. J. McManua haa juat opened np a new stock of clothing that excells any thing I ever saw alnoe I left the city of Mew York. Scotch cheviott anils, clay worsted suits, fine beaver cloth suite and beaver over coats. Irish freize over coats, youth’s three piece suite and boys two pelee suits. Child’s two piece suite, also child’s three piece suits and I feel satisfied that I can clothe my family for less money at P. J. McManus store than at any other store In the weat. And you would be suprised to see the stock of dress goods. The latest novelties in the market. Trimmings of all description, you can also suit yourself in the latest up to date hat at his store. For shoes, I never saw a finer stock. All sizes from A to EB in all shades. I also note you that hia basement store for a grocery department is second to none that I visited in the city. It is well stocked, arranged In a neat and tasty manner and would impress you that the proprietor knows his business. Truly yours, A visiting ntnwo. Running sores, indolent ulcere end similar troubles, even though of many years standing, may be cnred by using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It sooths, strengthens and heals. It is the great pile cure. Hbbshisbr & Gillioan. Charlie Barrett, who has been work* ing on the Independent for the last three years, left Tuesday morning for Yank ton, S. D., where he has accepted a po sition with Ham Kautzman. Charlie is a straightforward, -honest young man, and a good printer. We bate to see him leave O’Neill, but wish him all kinds of I success in his new home.