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VOLUME XXII. O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY. NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 19, 190L NUMBER 12.
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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.
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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.
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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.
