The Frontier.
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THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
D. H. CRONIN, Editor.
ROM AIN E SAUNDERS. Associate. I
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
NATIONAL TICKET.
For president.William McKinley
For vice-president.Theodore Roosevelt
STATE TICKET.
Governor.Charles II. Dletrloh, Adams
Lieutenant-Governor_E. I*. Savage, Custer
Secretary of State. .G. W. Marsh, Richardson
Auditor.Charles Weston, Sheridan
Treasurer.William Steuffer. Cuming
Attorney-General.Frank N. J’rout, Gage
Commissioner Public Lunds and Build
ings .G. D. Folmer, Nuckolls
Superintendent...W. K. Fowler, Washlngtoi
Presidential electors—John F. Nesbitt, Burt
county; A. B. Windham, Cass county; Ed
Boyse, Custer county; J. L. Jacobson,
John L. Kennedy, Douglas county: John
J. Danger, Saline county; It. L. Hague,
Buffalo county; S. P. Davidson, Johnson
county.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Congressman Sixth district—M. P. KlnkalJ,
Holt oounty.
McKinley and Roosevelt.
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Dick Croker’s party are pretty
much all croakers.
Yon never know where the armies
of the world are going to be next
The crop prognosticators have cat
down their estimate of the wheat
crop about 25 per cent
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The war clouds hovering around
do not present a very flattering
inducement for a man to join the
army.
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Three hundred and sixty thousand
Chinese soldiers are ready for action
at Pekin. The allies are amalgamat
ing forces to offset that number and
bloody times may confidently be
looked for soon.
In all the plentitude of its great*
vness the esteemed Independent re
iters to them as “little dinky repub
lic^ papers.” We don’t know just
whatlSfO. Eves intends to imply by
“dldky,” but The Frontier is here to
state that its “dinky” is as big as
the Independent’s.
r. McKinley and Roosevelt for presi
dent and vice-president; R. B.
Schneider of Fremont national com
mitteeman for Nebraska. Couldn’t
'be better. President McKinley’s
re-nomination and re-election has
been considered an assured thing
since his inaugural in 1807. The
immense popularity of Gov. Roose
velt makes him a vote getter. The
Philadelphia convention oouldn’t
Rave expressed the will of the party
better nor the Nebraska delegation
pleased republicans of their state
better in the selection of committee
man.
■ New York San: The fellows who
are calling upon the other fellows to
rally around the repnblio and keep
away the “empire” are as confusing
as confused. Suppose that some
innooent is innocent enough to trust
their tale. Which shop shall he go
to? Here are five gopher silver re
publicans writing a letter to the
country and swearing that “it is the
duty of all who desire to see our re
public preserved to fully identify
themselves with the democratic
party.” And here is the great
eryptogram gopher, the Hon. Igna
tious Donnelly of Nininger, shout
ing to the earth and to the moon
that “if this nation is to live as a
free repnblio it needs the people’s
party.” Which is the real original
repnblio saver, none other genuine?
Kearney Hub: The railroad assess
ment made by the present state
board of equalization is two million
dollars less than it was in 1893,
when depreciation and shrinkage
were doing their worst. The assess
ment of 1893 was made by a repub
lican board and was roundly de
nounced by the populists as a gross
undervaluation of the railroad
property of the state. What then
shall we say when it has shrunk still
a couple of million dollars more,
while values have been returing,
railroads are properous, apd there is
a great deal of new mileage and
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars invested in depots, rolling stock
and other improvements. The Hub
is not prepared to say that the as
sessment was too high seven years
ago or that it is too low now, but one
thing is neverthless quite clear, that
Governor Poynter’s administration
has put the reform party of the
state in an embarassing position
from which it can not well be ex
tricated. .M '
Chambers Bugle: O’Neill “na
bobs,” it is said, are preparing to
fight the new railroad through the
South Fork valley.
Mark the words, “it is said.” Who
said ? The bombastic but somewhat
fresh young editor of the esteemed
Bugle has been spoiling for a fight
with somebody ever since he landed
in Holt county three or four months
ago. The Frontier refrains from
slapping a child on all occasions.
But it must not let an injury to our
city'go unrebuked nor a brazen false
hood undenied. .The Bugle, in its
over-zealous efforts in a good cause
has simply lied about it. O Neill
“nabobs” or any other bobs have
not layed a feather in the way of the
construction of the new railroad.
It is none of our affairs, nor
if the road is built will it materially
affect O’Neill. One of the needs of
the day not only in Holt county but
in other sections of the west is better
transportation facilities. Railroads
are the only means whereby thin
wide section of country may event
ually be cut up into smaller and
more densely populated communities.
Every railroad added is a step in
that direction. As to the proposi
tion for a road from the south, it is
entirely a question with the citizens
of the five townships through which
the road is to pass whether it
will be of sufficient importance to
them at present to warrant the con
siderable inorease in taxation neces
sary to procure the road. Naturally
the towns of Atkinson and Chambers
are working hard for the road. But
it would appear that the sentiment
to vote bonds is by no means unan
imous throughout the various town
ships.
The Bryan Vote.
(The Conservative.)
Mr. Bryan has frequently made
the claim that he received an un
usually large popular vote in 1890.
Because of the oft-repeated asser
tions of this character, many people
have been deceived into believing
that Mr. Bryan proved an exception
ally strong candidate and would
have been president if the popular
vote instead of the electoral vote had
determined the result. To correct
an impression so at variance with
the facts it is only necessary to re
ter to the history of presidential
elections. Mr. F. H. Clifford has
compiled the presidential vote, from
the first campaign of Jackson in 1824
to the election in 1806. It will be a
surprise to many an ardent Bryan
archist to know that the representa
tive of the sacred ratio received the
smallest per cent of the popular vote
of any democratic nominee during
the entire period. The de feat of
Greeley has always been regarded as
the most humiliating disaster to the
democratic party. Greeley received
44 per cent of the popular vote.
This record of Greeley was eclipsed
by Bryan in 1896. Mr. Bryan re
ceived but 40 per cent of the popu
lar vote. This showing ought to si
lence the absurd claims put forth by
Bryanarchists, whose lack of judg
ment is in part compensated for by
an excess of enthusiasm. There is
but one possibility for the democrats
to duplicate the humiliating record
of 1806 and that is by repeating the
nomination made at that time.
Ex-Bryanites Contribute to the G. O. P.
Philadelphia, June 22.—Gov. Heber Well*, Tom Kearns and Charles
i Loze, three of the six delegates from Utah, announce today that they have
each forwarded checks for $50,000 to Chairman Hanna as a contribution
to the campaign fund. Four years ago these three delegates were Bryan
leaders. Wells is a silver republican and voted for Bryan. Kearns is
the owner of a silver mine at Provo, and Loze is vice-president of a bank.
They contributed *25,000 each to the Bryan campaign.
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(contributed.)
The increase in oar foreign trade
keeps pane with industrial combina
tions.
The Philadelphia ticket and plat
form are abont as near all
right as things ever get in the po
litical world.
Hon. W. S. Taylor is now being
criticised because he declines to
voluntarily allow himself to be
murdered by the gouls who are
anxious to earn the blood money
they have received.
Chairman Babcock of the re
publican congressional campaign
committee, who never makes a po
litical bluff, says the republican
majority will be larger in the next
house than in the present.
At the close of business May 31,
the public debt, less cash in the
treasury, amounted to $1,122,608,
811, a decrease for the month of
$2,103,275, which is accounted for
by the redemption of bonds.
The population of the United
States has doubled since 1870, and
there has been an increase of 163
per cent, in the number of post
offices, thus affording 63 per cent,
better mail delivery to the people.
Secretary Long stated the policy
of this government toward the
Chinese trouble in a sentence when
he said: “The United States will
protect the lives and property of
of its citizens to the fullest extent.
What democratic papers say of
his aots has no influence whatever
on President McKinley, who knows
that they will abuse him for any
thing that he does, even when they
have previously advocated doing
that yery thing.
In 1896 President McKinley said:
“I hope that the time will not be
far distant when every workingman
in this country can get work and get
it, too, at fair and remunerative
wages.” The time was not far dis
taht and it is still with us.
The war department reports that
the total receipts of the Puerto
Bican treasurer for the month of
April were $102,869.18. The re
ceipts were divided as follows:
Customs, $70,279.92; postal, $6,
287.02; internal revenue, $27,588.84';
miscellaneous, $1,713.40.
Washington Post: The prosperity
upon which the republican party
mainly relies for victory is the gen
uine article. It is unexampled in
the history of this or any other
country. It is so great and all
pervading that the oalamity howlers
of 1896 have lapsed into silenoe.
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sion to hear charges against Caban
officials General Leonard Wood
said: “The time has come when
these persistent accusations against
men holding office should, for the
sake of the office holder, be faced.
My desire is to keep officialdom in
Cuba as clean as possible.”
The Clark faction whipped the
Daly faction out of their boots m
the election of a Montana delega
tion to the Kansas City convention,
and it is hoped the Montana repub
licans will do as much for the
Clarkites when it comes to electing
the legislature that will fill the
in the United States senate.
Cuba’s first elections passed off
quietly; almost too quietly for a
people who take proper interest in
the government of themselves. More
than one close observer of them
has said that the Cubans are entirely
unfitted, by nature and education, to
be citizens of a free republic; that
the only government they under
stand is one that always makes its
authority felt.
In the United Kingdom the aver
age amount of money to the credit
of each depositor in the savings
banks is $103. In the United
States it is $370.
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Rosewater 3ays the whole thing
has gone to the dogs. It is such
measely little acts as these that have
so everlastingly endeared Mr. Rose
water in the hearts of Nebraska
republicans. If he had taken the
national committeemanship defeat
like a man of common sense he
might have restored lost prestidge,
but he brushes away the last shadow
of hope of ever again being enthron
ed as a leader of Nebraska politcs
by his slander and contumely in
reference to R. B. Schneider.
THE UNITED STATES
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Supplies Nearly All the World With
Wooden Ware Nowadays.
This country is the source of supply
of wooden ware In general of the en
tire civilized world. American brooms
are exported to many countries, and
broom huidles are sent by us to
Australia. Wherever churns are used
there you will find those of American
make. American washtubs go chiefly
to the Argentine Republic, South
America and theLatin-American coun
tries. Meeting in competition, how
ever, a galvanized sheet iron article
that up to date the American article
has not been able to supplant as to
washtubs, the whole world is ours. The
American output of ice cream freezers
is on top throughout the world, wher
ever ice, either natural or artificial, is
known. Ten chances to one the bulk
of the ice cream eaten in Melbourne,
Calcutta, or any other city or country,
not excepting Europe, is made in
American freezers. Take many other
of the simple and homely articles of
daily or common use, for example
clothes pins. No matter where you
go you will find that the pins used in
hanging clothes are made for the most
part in the United States. Wooden
palls, chopping trays and bowls, fold
ing chairs, many different kinds of re
frigerators, some of which can be
taken apart for transportation, pastry
boards, ironing boards, all owe their
origin to Yankee invention and
thoughtfulness. School slates made in
this country, all of which have wooden
frames, find a ready sale abroad, but
meet with opposition from Germany
and England. The American product,
however, sells up to the standard of
either. It may surprise some people to
slates find their way to distant Bur
learn that t housands of American
mah. The wooden ware of American
manufacture having successfully en
tered into competition with that of
England and Germany on their own
soil is now branching out and invading
Russia.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
A CITY OF BEGGARS.
When Conventions Are Held in New
York They Are In Evidence.
“One reason that New York city is a
bad place to hold a convention,” said
an up-state political to a New York
Sun reporter, “is that the delegates
are exposed to the greatest crowd of
beggars that can be gathered any
where on earth. I don’t mean profes
sional beggars, but their fellow-towns
men. There is not a town in the
country, and particularly not a town
in the state, that hasn’t sent a great
many people to New York. Of course
a great many of these people have not
succeeded in life here. They welcome
a state convention for the reason that
it brings to town people they knew at
home, and they feel themselves free to
go to these people and ask for help.
The politicians are easy marks for
them, tor most of these people have
friends or relatives where the politi
cians, to whom they apply, live, and
if, after they relate pitiful stories, the
politician turns them down they go
off and write letters to their friends
in his town giving him a black eye. A
great many of them don’t ecruple to
lie about him, and what he has done
while in the city, .with the result that
when he gets home he has explana
tions to make. I've had six people
from my town here at the hotel to see
me today. Two of them wanted money
to get out of the city. When I told
them I had no money to spare they
demanded railroad passes, and Insisted
I could get them, because I was in
politics. It happens that I can’t. The
other four wanted money help. I gave
money to three of them, though I
hadn’t a cent t© spare. I did it to
save trouble'at home, for if I hadn’t, I
knew these people would write home
about me. State conventions should
never be held in New York city.”
Visiting cards just like an engraving,
50c for 50 at The Frontier.
THE REASON WHY
1 sell the J. I. Case and Morrison farm imple
ments and the world-famed Plano harvesting
machinery is because of their popularity.
EVERY FARMER KNOWS
That there goods are the best on the market. I
have riding and walking plows, cultivators and
listers, disc harrows, corn planters, end-gate
seeders, and the famous Daim hay goods, and
in fact anything you may need in the line of
farm implements. When a man wants the best
buggy made he goes to... .
EMIL SNIGGS
and gets one of those fine Staver buggies. This is also
true of wagons. I have the Milburn, Kush ford and Bet
tendorff, any size you want. I also desire to call attention
to the Kaw feed grinders and the old reliable Freeman
windmills, Cypress tanks, etc. When in need of anything
in my line give me a call. I will save you money.
Yours for business,
EMIL SNIGGS.
The Old Reliable Dealer for
HARDWARE
*££, FARM MACHINERY
In the Retail Battle for Life we always lead, be
cause we sell Good Goods at prices that defy compe
tition. The Majestic Range leads them all and is a 1
household necessity. The Anti-Rust Tinware is
another standby, and one the people all admire. For
Barb Wire we take a back seat for no one, because
we always did and always will handle the best goods
and at prices none can excel. When you are ready
to start your Fall plowing come and get one of the
John Deere new improved riding plows and the rest
will be easy. Genuine Moline and Birdsell wagons,
the best on the market.
NEIL BRENNAN. ,
A Hambiltonian Mambranian stallion,
weight 1100, recently imported from On*
awa, lo., will be at Tinberg’s barn in O’*
Neill every Saturday during the season.
Dick is sired by Ringwood, record 2:28.
Terms—$8 to insure for single mare,
two for $15, or more at same rate.
Partice living at a distance who wish to
breed mares can leave same at my place
and they will be pastured free of charge.
Residence 5 miles north of Emmet. At
home every Sunday.
Z. ■W-AJEKTEEa,
Atkinson, % % Nebraska.
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