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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1901)
V PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. 8UB80RIPT10N, • I .SO PER ANNUM. D. H. CRONIN EDITOR AND MANAGER. VOLUME XXII. O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 19, 190L NUMBER 12. smm,. . . __.. . . . DEMAGOGUES AND HYPOCRITES WHO CRY AGAINST 1 Defaulting State Treasurer Bartley Whom They Sought to Pardon 1 The position of the leaders of tho populists party of this county with reference to the Bartley parole shows them to be past masters in the art of demagogue and hypocrisy. For the past six weeks the Indepen gent has dovoted most of its space in a frenzied effort to make political buncombe out of the sixty-day parole given Bartley by Governor Savage. To the unsophistocated, reading the Independent, and the populist platform adopted at their recent county convention, it would appear that any populist that would favor the exercise of executive clemency in Bartley’s behalf would be branded a traitor and weeded out of the party. It may not be generally known, but it is a fact never the-less, that the leaders of the populist party in this county and at least two of the candidates on their ticket are on record and committed to favoriug an uncon ditional pardon for Bartley. Some thing over a year ago there was circulated in O’Neill, Atkinson and other towns in the county a petition to Governor Poyntor to pardon Joe Bartley. Following is a copy of the petition as it was presented to the governor with the names of a few star actors in tho populist party in this county: To His Excellency, the Governor of Nebraska: Joseph S. Bartley entered upon the discharge of the duties of state treasurer on the 8th day of January, 1893, and served as such officer for two consecutive terms. Shortly after his induction into office com menced a period of financial depres sion marked by shrinkage of values and financial ruin unparalleled in the history of the United States. At the expiration of his last term of otlice he was unable, through no criminal intent on his part, to de liver to his successor all the money with whioh he was charged. He was prosecuted for embezzelment and convicted, and since June, 1897, has been in prison. He has a wife j and four children who require his care, support and protection. In the opinion of your petitioners his is a proper case for the exercise of executive clemency and they there fore pray you to grant him, the said Joseph S. Bartley, AN UNLIMIT ED, UNRESTRICTED AND UN CONDITIONAL PARDON. M. H. McCarthy, Chairman Populist County Central Committee. W. H Blackmer, Populist Candidate for County Sberitf. John Trommershausser, Populist Candidate for County Clerk. The petition bears the names of many others that are prominent in the councils of the corrupt strategy board that have controlled the populist party in this county the past eight years. To show the dishonesty and insincerity of these men and what they will resort to for political buncombe we have but to refer to the platform adopted at the recent populist convention. Appropos to the Bartley parole the platform has this to say: “We point out to the people that the last governor, if corrupt, could have received $25,000 for this pardon, and we are fully convinced that the present chief executive did not reduce the price. We condemn this release as an outrage and trav esty of public justice.” Lee W. Henry, editor of the A.t kinson Plain-Dealer, was a member of the committee on resolutions at the populist county convention and his name is attached to the above resolution. In the issue of the Plain-Dealer of July, 19 1901, speaking of the Bartley parole, Editor Henry has this to say: “Word reached Atkinson last Sunday evening that ex-State Treas urer Joe Bartley had been paroled by Gov. Savage tmd there was general rejoicing among the people of his old home town over the fact. Mr. Bartley has served over four years of his time and there is a strong feeling throughout the state that he should be pardoned. Here in At kinson, where he lived so many years as one of our foremost citizens, he would be welcomed back with open arms. Of course there will be a difference of opinion and many fusion papers will use this as cam paign thunder, but we will do noth ing of tho kind. Mr. Bartley has suffered enough for a crime that was not a tithe his own and we believe the action of Governor Savage WILL MEET WITH THE APPROVAL OF MOST OF THE PEOPLE.” If Editor Henry was sincere when he wrote the above, what excuse can he offer for helping to prepare and signing the lying, pusillanimous, scandalous resolution impugning the motive of Governor Savage and by implication accusing him of getting $25,000 for paroling Bartley? Another member of this famous committee on resolutions was S. B. Howard, who was chairman of the committee and is doubtless the real author (with the assistance of Mike Harrington) of the resolution. Lest we forget, it might be well to in dulge in a few reminiscences and refresh the minds cf our readers as to who this man Howard is and see if his resolution anent Bartley is not another case of the kettle cal ling the potblack. Let it be remember ed that this is the same Howard who was the fusion candidate for state treasurer laist fall and is the man who was, in May, 1897, appointed receiver of Bartley’s defunct bank at Atkinson. Perhaps the most high handed corruption ever practic ed by a man holding a similar posi tion in this state was practiced by Samuel B. Howard in disposing of the assets of the Exchange bank. The appointment of Howard as receiver and the looting of the assets by him and his political lieutenants in this county is a story pregnant with rottenness, fraud and corruption from start to finish. If Bam Howard is so solicitious about the acts of a publio official being “an outrage and travesty on public justice” it is deemed not impertinent to ask him, in the interest of “public justice” to explain a few of his many shady transactions in connection with the receivership of the Ex change bank. The columns of The Frontier are open for such explana tions and as a starter he might ex plain why he secretly sold the Ex change bank building, safe, furni ture and fixtures for $790 when they were well worth $5,000 and cost over $7,500 and there were persons in Atkinson that stood ready to take the property at $3,500. He might also tell us why he sold assets of the bank aggregating over $5,000, and many of which were worth par, among them judgments against school districts, to Harring ton and McCarthy for $40. In order that the public may have a more clear understanding of the facts in the case he might also ex plain why he never filed a final re port with the clerk of the district court and state banking board as is required by law. And he might also take the public into his con fidence and tell them what he did with the files in the receivership ease that he took from the office of the clerk of the district conrt and has never returned. Perhaps he can throw some light on the where abouts of his official bond, from which a search of the records high and low fails to bring any bond to light or anything to show one was ever filed. If our readers will pause a moment and behold the piteous spectacle of Howard being appoint ed receiver at the behest of Mike Harrington; Jim Harrington being appointed attorney for the reoeiver; Mike Harrington aoting as attorney for the depositors, and the receiver selling the assets of the bank to Jack Harrington and his partner McCarthy who was chairman of the populist county central committee it will not take a very vivid imigina tion to determin whether the popu list ringsters or the republicans of this county have been the beneficia ries of the Bartley defalcation. It is a sight that would not only make the angels, but the unfortunate depositors weep. When Mr. Howard, Mr. Eves and the corrupt gang of land pirates that have absolute control of the populist party of this county, have explained a few of these shadey transactions and others that will be shown up from time to time, it will then better become them to oondemn “outrage and travesty of public justice.” The ring is on the dodge. POPULIST ROSTER SHOWS SEVERAL TRAITOROUS CHARACTERS Ewing, Neb., Sept. 17 —The Frontier: Why this wailing and gnashing of teeth in the populist camp over the ap pointment of Heaver to the O’Neill land office? Let us see, my masters, whom you have upon your roster in the way of political traitors. George A. McCutchon went to bed a republican and before noon the next day was a full b>own pop. Why this sudden change? Ring Master Harrington - “fixed” him for the pop nomination for county judge. Only one thiug was needful on McCutchon’s part; he must flop. He put his principles on one side of the Harrington scale, on the other his political disappointments, greed and lust for office and then put on the Har rington prepared eyeglasses, accepted the nomination and—Trommershausser like—professed to have entertained pop ulistic. faith for lo, many moons! He did the political bidding of Harrington for four years. He wanted a third term Rut the pop party, with the consent of Harrington, then turned him down, when he bolted the ticket and run independ ent and was defeated by Selali. another political discontent out of a job. Why did Mr. Selah turn populist? He was deputy revenue collector on a re publican appointment at a salary of $1, 800 a year and a railroad pass, which did not prevent him from charging the government railroad fare. He lost his job and then—Trommershausser-like— announced to Ring Master Hariington that he was entertaining populist ideas and would like a job. The pop party— with the consent of Harrington—nom inated him county judge, and just as long as you keep him in office and furn ish him a pass he is yours. McCutchon got mad and said nasty things about the ring. To appease his wrath he was appointed county attorney to succeed Twent-Ber-Cent Rake-Off Butler. When the nominating convention came together McCutchon was again turned down and the classical gentleman from Ann Arbor, Arthur F. Mullen, re instated at the public crib. On the pop rotser of Holt county is that prince of political turn-coats, John A. Trommershausser, at present popu liet candidate for county clerk, who has just come to" light in populism. He had not yet left the pop political nest and brooding grounds in David Brion’s bsrn yard. He blinked in the sunlight and ' lien Ring Master Harrington came from the west to look upon his infant populist candidate he found that the infant candidate was in no shapejto at tend the convention. Why, he was covered with down where feathers ought to grow. Mother David Brion had ne glected to wash off the yellow streaks and remove the shells from whence ^ie had just been hatched. He appeared entirely too new. It was first declared he was a candidate for county attorney on the republican ticket; next that he was a candidate from year to year as a republican for the legislature and blow ing over the bar $40 of the peoples' money secured from Joe Bartley, a petition for whose pardon this same infant pop had signed; next it was in sisted that he was chairman of a repub lican countycon\ention and then stirring up the n.itiveswith giving away the fact that the c -adidate with many letters to his name nad been an applicant for the appointment of consul to Germany under President McKinley, the which if he had got he would be as much of a republican today as ever instead of running for clerk on the pop ticket and swearing vengeance on Chairman Skriv ing and Senator Thurston for not in dorsing him. The condition of the in fant pop was critical, but Mother Brion administered a dose of Harrington's ‘‘cordial,’’ guaranteed by the O'Neill land syndicate to seor the political and personal conscience of any office seeker. The infant was rocked to sleep in pleas ant dreams of himself and Harrington as commanding officers of the campaign with Lord Malloy of Emmet, who had grown gray and weather-beaten in service, as a bull work against them. His dreams carried him to the battle in O’Neill on August 24. The command ing generals, Trom. and Harrington, presented a battle front with McCarthy, Cronin, Blackmer, Woods, Henry, Davis, Eves—the pop editors—and Art Mullen at the head of the procession. Then the battle scarred veterans under the command of Malloy lined up to do battle with the corrupt but more sagas tsh ring of wirepullers. The men that were voting the pop ticket from princi ple didn’t last long, and when Malloy fellthey were conducted to the RingMas ter’s office and were released after pledg ing their support to the infant Trom. in his campaign against Malloy for clerk The pop nomination for county clerk was looking for someone to DU it who had been a traitor to another party and it found a good specimen in Trommer shausser. Harrington had him write that telegram to David Brion several days before the convention as well as the answer accepting the nomination, be sides pledging himself to harmonize as county clerk with the land-grabbing association. Harrington waa satisfied and the infant Trom again received a nomination for office. If the fates have nothing better in store for him in the future then in the past his last political sun wilt set in the evening of his life and bis name will go down in history as a political ahistar, a man unworthy the confidence of any party. Is this the man wanted for clerkf I. Know Trom. Arabia of tbs Kora*. The Arabic used In the Koran differ^ an much from the Arabic used in or dinary conversation and intereonrna hi the East aa ‘hi differs trom the* Italian. T*> KJrru / cable Is that of the literary oW.-. the colloquial Arabic is that oi tho common peoples Ozolgosz may have thought, he was serving humanity a great turn. He seems surprised that the people show no appreciation of his work. The breaking down of party and sectional lines, the mingling of re publican and democratics tears over ^ a common sorrow, shows the Ameri can people are a unit in opposing any thing aimed at the life of government. Therein is the secret of the sucess of the United States as a nation. Ewing Advocate: Never in our newspaper experience have we been so crowded with job work as we are at present. Editorially the Advocate preaches hardships and populism early and late. There is such dissimiliarity in things that are real and what the Advocate preaches that it lets slip a fact unmindful of its duties to howl calamity. The Frontier is glad to note that iu these republican days the Advocate editor is enjoying a degree of prosperity not before ex perienced. Anarchy has triumphed in the death of America’s chosen chief, but anarchy has not triumphed in the death of our government, which yet is anchored upon principles as enduring as eternity. Of the three presidents to fall by the assassins hand, President McKinley is the first to go down before avowed an archy. The tragedy brings Ameri can people face to face with the fact that anarchy is no longer confined to despotic governments of the old world, but has obtained a dangerous foot hold upon American soil. It is a noticable fact, however, that leaders of anarchy are of foreign parentage or foreign born. If then the old world is coming here to kill our presidents and antagonize the government the doors of immigra tion should be closed. Treasurer Stueffer says he will ignore the resolution adopted by the last republican convention to the effect that county and state treas urers make public statements monthly as to wnere state or county moneys are deposited. As a matter of fact the state treasurer can do nothing else. The law destinctly defines the treasurer’s duties. It provides dates of public statements What ever a treasurer does more j than this he must go beyond the law. The convention went at the matter backwards to begin with. Instead of forming a resolution that the laws be ammended requiring such monthly statements it was re solved that treasurers should do so. Of course there could be no binding force to such a resolution and Treas urer Stueffer is only acting as a man with a head of his own in ignoring it. In last week’s Independent much is said as to the honesty, financial standing and responsibilty of busi ness man Blackmere, candidate for sheriff on the populist ticket. Will you tell us, Mr. Eves, why his note to the State bank for $700 is being offered by a representative of the owner for $125, and that the Jonly offer he could secure thereon was an offer of $25, just to get it out of the way, you know. Much is being said by the popu list press of the county as to the sppoinment of D. Clem Deaver as ltecoiver of the United States Land office at O’Neill. The Independent charges the editor of The Frontier with indorsing his appointment and to prove it, copies a dispatch from O’Neill to the Omaha Bee and would have the public understand that the editor of The Frontier as correspon dent of the Bee sent the same. Evos knew when he published this that he was publishing a malicious lie. He knew that Deaver wrote the telegram himself and sent it to the Bee. -- The republicans of the city of O’Neill are called to meet in convention in tbe ciiv of O’Neill on Saturday Sept. 28, 1901, at 8 p. m. at tbe implement house of E. Sniggs, for tbe purpose of placing in nomination an assessor for tbe city of O’Neill, and any other business that may proper come before tbe convention J. 0. Uarnisb J. C. Olson O. O. Snyder, _ Comittemen. E. K. Benedict and wife of fovra are in tbe city visiting Mr. Benedict’s brother, E. H. Emmet Items. Mr. and Mrs. L. Puckett were O’Neill visitors Monday. Harry Deck of Ithaca, Neb., has been visiting with L. Enbody and family the past week. Miss Mary Ryan commenced a term of school in the Barrett district last Monday. The Misses Anna and Martha Strollenger of Arkansas are visiting at Mr. Maring’s home. They formerly lived in this vicinity. Miss Norah Ryan commenced a term of school seven miles south of O’Neill on Monday. Olen Baker of O’Neill has been helping Mort Hyatt with his hay L. Enbody, Mr. and Mrs. Mort Hoytt and Miss Myrtle Enbody were in O’Neill last Friday afternoon. .--—«••-« J. H. Hanley who has been attending the Fremont Normal for the past year, went to Scottville Sunday to teach a nine months term of school in district number 38. A very pretty wedding occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed White, near Inman, when Dr. George J. Hess, of Chambers, and Miss Carrie E. Benson of Turner, were united in marriage, by Rev. L. lleddeu, of Chambers, Wednes day Sept , 4. Dr. Hess is the very popular physician of “Southern Holt’ and Miss Benson is the beautiful and accomplised daughter of Mr. Benson, of Turner, and neioe of Mrs. White at whose home she was married. The cereiuoney was performed at 7 a. m After the ceremony the company was invited to the dioning room where a delicious breakfast was served in a man ner that showed the excellent tast of the Hostess. After breakfast the happy couple took the traiu for Omaha, Chic ago, Niagra Falls and Bnffallo. They returned to Chambeis Sunday evening Sept., 15, where they were welcomed by their many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Hess will be at home for a time in the Charles Hotel but expects to build soon and locate in Chambers. One who was there. Philippines Devoid of Flaps There Is no record that the Philip pines was ever visited by a Mg epi demic of bubonic plague, and It Is moa| remarkable that while this dread dis ease has periodically appeared and ravaged Hong Kong and Macao, Ma nila has retained its immunity.
