The Frontier.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY
PHE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
D. H. CRONIN, Editor.
BOMAINE SAUNDERS, Associate.
,flR Ast.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
State
Judge uupreme court.. .9. H. Sedgwick, York
Regents. C. J. Ernst, Lincoln; H. L. Goold,
Ogallala. _
County
For treasurer Janies Holden of Chambers
For olerk.E. 8. Gllmour of Ewing
For sheriff.C. E. Hall of O'Neill
For Judge.L. C. Chapman of Atkinson
For superintendent.I. L. Cahill of Stuart
For surveyor.R. E. Bowden of Agee
For eororon.I. R. Hmlth of o Neill
As to "Tax Shirkers.”
The Independent of last week
made certain reference to the
taxes owed by the editor of The
Frontier on the post office build
ing and which Eves says “we re
fuse to pay” and calls us “a dead
beet on the county that refuses to
pay his share of the taxes.”
These statements of Eves are
about as true as the other malic
ious lies he and the other land
pirates have been circulating dur
ing this campaign. The lower
part of the building was purchas
ed by us in 1899 and there was
then several years delinquent
taxes on the property. There is
a contract with the owners of the
upper story of the building by
which they are to pay half the
tax. There has been some mis
understanding between the party
from whom we purchased as to
how much of the tax, prior to
1899, we were to pay and as a
result of this coupled with the
fact of joint ownership of build
ing, the matter has draged along
until about thirty days ago when
a settlement was agreed to and
payment of taxes arranged for.
We were advised over three
weeks ago that certain papers
would be sent to the lx; ik
and when they are received
every dollar of taxes wilt be paid
■ and the county will not be beat
out of a dollar, as if has been in
so many cases by the infamous
gang of land pirates, of which
Eves is a past master, by this
nefarious system of tax fore
closures.
If owing a few years delin
quent taxes makes one a “tax
shirking land ownei” and “a
dead beat on the county that re
fuses to pay his share of the
taxes,” then, Mr. Eves, you have
many of them in your camp.
County Judge Selah owns lots
7 and.8, block 50, McCafferty’s
addition to O’Neill, and on which
taxes are delinquent and unpaid
as follows:
1898 .$28.35
1899 . 22.37
1900 . 31-18
Judge J. J. Harrington owes on
his residence, which is a part of
Sec. 29-29-11, as follows:
*.898.$26.00
1899. 16.09
*9°°. 25.98
M. F. Harrington is the prin
cipal owner of Riggs addition to
O’Neill, on which the taxes are
delinquent for the past ten years
and now amounting to several
hundred dollars. If Mr. Harring
ton is so solicitous as to the taxes
being paid into the school dis
tricts, why does he not pay his
taxes?
Another member of the land
syndicate owns over 50 quarter
sections of land in this county, on
which the taxes are delinquent
from one to six years. Why is
he not made to pay?
We are in receipt of a letter
from Judge Selah taking excep
tions to our article of last week
concerning the land syndicate, and
in which he expatiates to some
extent on the “tax shirking land
owners.” It would better be
come him if he would pay his
1-..... ——
own taxes before saying too
much concerning “the lax
shirking land owners.” People
living in glass houses should
stear clear of rock piles.
No sir, Mr. Eves, we are not
“refusing to pay our taxes.” We
have been a resident of Holt
county for 24 years and we have
always managed to pay our taxes
in full and have never yet beat
the county out of any taxes by
this foreclosure method. We
were paying taxes in this county,
Mr. Eves, before this county was
burdened with your presence.
Facts About “Facts.”
“Facts vs Abuse” is a standing
20-point gothic headline in the
much beloved but ridiculous sheet
that comes to The Frontier office
to borrow leads wherewith to
double-lead its classical columns
of “facts.” The thoughtful and
observing reader sees that the
historical truths and undeniable
facts winch The Frontier pro
duces from the public archives of
Holt county are being answered
through the four populist fake
mills by abuse of R. R. Dickson
and one or two other republicans
in a way that should bring the
blush of shame to any one not
abandoned to all sense of man
hood or political etiquette. The
Frontier aims to abuse no one,
but it, like the public in general,
is disgusted with the hypocritical
pretenses of the ring of
plunder mongers, which—unfort
unately for the party—has abso
lute control of populism in Holt
county.
The “ facts ” appended to
the above headline in last week’s
Independent we make no attempt
to deny; they are simply foreign
to the charges made by The
Frontier—a belabored and coarse
effort to dodge the point to which
the land syndicate has been pinned
Hut come, gentlemen, let us
reason together, for neither—
“ Morld prose, nor honied lies of rhym,
0.m blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a
ci ime."
From the way the Independent
has misconstrued, misunderstood,
distorted and estrayed, we must
begin with it in the primary;
therefore, dear reader, pardon the
simplicity of this lesson.
Among other “facts” the In
dependent says:
On the same date The Frontier
published a notice of Holt county
vs Rock Island Plow company,
for which they charged $27.50.
What did you charge $27.50 for
in this case,Dennis, when you say
it is only' worth $10?
The proverb has wisely said
that a fool can ask more ques
tions than ten wise men may an
swer, but in this instance our
poor wisdom will he staked
against the fool’s folly'.
The notice referred to was pre
pared by County'Attorney' Butler.
It was brought to this office for
publication and Mr. Butler re
quired a contract before leaving it
that 25 per cent of the publication
fee be paid to hint. Was it The
Frontier’s business to cut the
notice down any? Was it our
business to take the notice which
the county attorney had written
out and change it? Was it our
business to cut it in two, once,
twice or three times? The only
thing we could do with it was to
publish it as written. The county
attorney was the author of the
notice, was responsible for the
number of lines it contained and
responsible to the tax payers of
Holt county for the cost of pub
lication. The size of the notice
determined its cost of publication.
It was worth $27.50 to publish!
it because there were ten lines
eleven times in the notice. The
same legal notice might have
been given to the Rock Island
Plow company in a third or one
■ quarter less number of words.
i But the county attorney—a pop
A WORD FROM MR. DICKSON
James P. Mullen, Chairman of
Peoples’ Independent Party: On
my return home from Rock coun
tv, where I had been for a week
attending court, my attention was
called to your challenge in the In
dependent.
Now, Mr. Mullen, I do not see
my way clear to accept your kind
and generous offer for many
reasons. It has been my obser
vation that joint discussions are
productive of no good. As a
rule, they engender bitter feelings
and in many cases personalities
are indulged in, which the voters
care nothing about. Ever since
the organization of your party,
the policy of its leaders has been
to abuse and malign everyone
who votes the republican ticket,
and your campaign speakers have
followed this method without a
single exception. Your challenge
is couched in language which I
think justifies me in believing you
approve of this method. The
issues this fall cannot be discussed
without feeling, and you know
from past experience that
no possible good can come from
joint discussion as you suggest.
At a meeting of our candidates,
and after consulting with our
committee, the campaign was
outlined, and from this I do not
propose to deviate in the least.
My intention this fall has been to
reach the voters through the
press. The rank and file of our
people, irrespective of politics,
want to vote right and to the best
interests of the county at large.
They demand that the searchlight
of truth be turned on your party’s
record and that the cold, bald
facts be seen. That the voters j
may have a chance to see your
party record as you have made it
it was determined to review that
record through the press of the
county. You have four papers;
through these you should be able
to reach ever voter in the county.
We have but three and through
these the facts are being put be
fore the people. The issues of
this campaign can be better pre
sented through the press, in m.y
judgment. We took the initiative
and that at an early hour, giving
you plenty of time to explain
every transaction and statement
made and published. We.use the
public record made by your party,
which is the best evidence. We
want every voter to know the
truth and if any are in doubt they
should examine the record and
satisfy themselves.
Your papers have evaded the
facts and instead have sought to
answer by a personal attact on
myself. This is not what the
people want; they want onlyr the
facts, and nothing more. Let the
truth come out. If the facts are
put before the people I do not
fear the result. Your party mask
will be torn off and your party
will stand condemned before the
taxpayers of the county. Its
paraded honesty and alleged re
forms will be exposed to all.
Through your press show the
people, not by abusing me, where
in the charges against your party
are untrue.. Bring out the facts
and let the people pass judgment.
As chairman of the republican
committee of Holt county I want
the evidence placed before the
voters, and in their judgment I
have the utmost confidence.
Thanking you for your not
over courteous challenge and de
clining your money and electing
to continue our campaign on the
lines of the past, I am, sir, yours
respectfully, R. R. Dickson,
Chairman Holt County Republi
can Committee.
ulist, an economizing reformer, a
lover of the dear people and a
sworn guardian of the interests of
the tax payers—wrote the notice;
The Frontier printed it as it was
. *
written.
Hut did you notice The Fron
tier didn’t charge $29.50 for this
$27.50 notice? Did you notice
that we didn’t tack on any extras
above legal rates nor stretch the
notice out in the largest type in
the otlice? That’s what we are
talking to you about, Mr. Eves.
That is what your are trying to
dodge. The county attorney,
leagued with the land syndicate,is
responsible for the notices being
from three to seven times longer
than need be and they will have
their settlement with the voters
on election day.
Now, don’t dodge, Mr. Eves;
don’t hedge, don’t try to escape
the lire. Here is what we want
to know: Why did you charge
$72 for a notice which only
figured $70? Why did you have
it set in type that run your pub
lication fee up $25 in excess of
what it would have been set in
type universally used in legal
notices?
It is not at all surprising that
the populist editors are laboring
hard to continue an administra
tion that promises them a con
tinuation of this extravagance;
they have been well paid for all
they can do for the success of the
ticket, and as Mr. Eves looks
again at that six thousand
dollars, which has been his
share of the booty, he
will astride the editorial tripod
afresh and compile his burning
“Facts vs Abuse,” which have
become decidedly stale, fiat and
unprofitable.
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John Maher is the Man.
A short time ago the Omaha
Bee published a special from
O’Neill laudatory of D. Clem
Deaver as receiver of the O’Neill
land office. The editor of The
Frontier is and lias been for
several years the O’Neill corres
pondent of the Bee and our
esteemed contemporary in the
cellor published the special in
question and in its comments
thereon accused the Frontier
editor of groveling in the dirt at
Deaver’s feet in order to hang on
to his own federal position. The
editor of The Frontier was posit
ive at that time that Mr. Eves
knew who wrote the special and
so stated; but we claimed the
special in question was written by
Mr. Deaver himself, which we
believed at that lime to be true.
In publishing this we done Mr.
Deaver an injustice, for the follow
ing letter from the managing ed
itor of the Bee clearly shows the
authorship of the communication:
Omaha, oept. HO, 1901.—Mr. D. U.
Cronin, Editor Frontier, O'Neill.— Dear
Sir: I have had called to my attention
an item in your paper with reference to
a news dispatch in the Bee at the time
Mr. Deaver went to O'Neill to take his
position in the land office. In this para
graph in which you make out that
Deaver wrote the dispatch himself you
are doing him an injustice. While we
usually keep our sources of information
confidential, for your infomation I can
Hay that the message in question was
Sent to us by John G. Maher who oc
casionally sends us news itlma from
different points where he may happen
to be within the judicial district iu
which he serves as reporter. Ue bap
peued to be iu O'Neill at the time
Deaver arrived there and covered this
item under the impression that no one
else was furnishing us news Irorn that
point.
Vcry truly yours,
Victor Rosewater.
Think of John G. Maher, the
man who furnished startling
statistics for the daily press on
the proclamation issued by the
Mayor which lie, Maher, wrote,
following this up by specials
laudatory of him. There evident
ly was a motive back of this and
that was to create discension
among republicans. But in that
they have failed and the Indepen
dent editor, by his statements,
has only lowered himself in the
opinion of all fair minded men.
No, don’t hoist the white flag
yet.
Another Evidence of Wisdom.
Stuart Herald: When Dickson
came up to Stuart and wrote that
article about that six cause legal in
this paper and had his article pub
lished in*the Ledger he put the
price $10 to high on the legal
and all legal notices that are pub
lished whether they are set in 12
or 10 point type cannot charge
only that which the law allows
and is on an 8 point basis. That
is where there ignorance is shown.
The above literary jem, rhetori
cal curiosity, grammatical buck
saw and orthographical inaccur
acy exhibits a new source of pop
ulist wisdom. The notice in the
Herald contains 164 10-point, or
long primer, lines; it occupies
twenty-three inches of space and
figures $42.50. The Herald says
it charges from an 8-point, or bre
vier, basis. There are 205 8-point
lines in the twenty-three inches
of space occupied by this
notice, or forty-one lines—equal
to five squares—more than the
10 point, in which the notice is
set. Measuring from a brevier
basis the notice would come at
$52.50. On this basis of com
putation the Herald is able to add
to the publication fee, which the
land owner or the county has to
pay,the 25 per cent which Mullen
probably gets out of the notice.
The Herald should add another
foot to its yard stick.
The most shameful, cowardly
and brutal personal attack that
has yet been made during the
campaign is that of John Trom
merhausser, populist candidate
for county clerk, in his challenge
for a joint debate with his oppon
ent Mr. Gilmour. To those of
our readers who may not have
the pleasure of a personal
acquaintance with Mr. Gilmour
we can only say there is no more
perfect gentlemen in the county
or one better qualified to perform
the duties of county clerk. Na
ture, however, has not been as
kind to him as it has to Mr.
Trommershausser, and he has a
physical infirmity which is known
to the medical profession as
“palatoschisis,” more commonly
known as “hair lip.” This in
firmity, of couse, materially in
terfers with the power of speech
and his articulation is indistinct.
This Mr. Trommershausser well
knows as he has lived neighbor
to Mr. Gilmour for years. Knowr
ing this,Trommershausser has by
his challenge for a “joint debate”
with Mr. Gilmour referred in a
contemptuous way to this physi
cal infirmity, for which only God
Almighty is responsible. Mr.
Gilmour is but a plain harness
maker, a successful business man
and makes no pretentions of his
oratorical powers as does the
learned (?) disciple of Black
stone who epposes him. But of
this the taxpayers may rest as
snred—every hair in Mr. Gil
mour’s head is honest, and his
election insures a faithful county
official.
$89 Yet Due, Trom.
Chambers Bugle: It will be rememb
ered very distinctly by the members of
the county board and those who were
present as interested parties that on the
26th day of July, 1897', the Chambers
Fair Association, through their rep
resentatives, Win Lell and L. G. Lam
bert, presented its claim to the county
board for the state appropriation and
that J. A. Trommershansser, president
of the Elkhorn Valley Fair Association,
was also present and urged the claims
of his association that after lengthy dis
cussions upon the matter as to which
association should receive the appropria
tion, it was decided and positivelyagreed
by and between Win. Lell and L. G
Lambert for the Chambers Fair Associa
tion and J. A. Trommershausser for the
E. V. F. A that the warrants were to be
issued to Trommershausser as president
of this fair association,that the warrants
were to be cashed and the proceeds
divied equally between the two fair
associations. With this distinct under
standing, the following vote was taken
by the county board as taken from the
records of the county board.
Mr. Chairman.—I rnoys that we ap
propriate the sum of $329.40 to the
Elkhorn Valley Fair Association accord
ing to section 342 Compiled Statutes of
1895 and instruct the county clerk to
draw a warrant on the general fund of
1897 in favor of the president of said
association for the sum of $329.40.
C. W. Moss.
Seconded by J. A. Robertson.
Votes: Yeas, 4. Nays 3.
Thus it will be observed that J. A.
Trommershausser drew $329.40, of
which amount, $164.70 was to have.been
paid to the Chambers Fair Association.
Messrs Lell and Lambert were ordered
by the association to proceed to collect
the share of the appropriation. They
made a demand on Mr. Trommershausser
and were not very pleasantly greeted.
After some time and much urging the
sum of $75 was paid to the fair associa
tion, leaving about $89 which has not
vet been received and is justly due the
Chambers Fa’r Association. For the
correctuness of the statement thus made,
we refer those desiring information to
Wm. Lell and L. G. Lambert. In mak
ing their report to the Chambers Fair
Association, these gentlemen have said
ihat the treatment received by them
from J. A. Trommershausser was any
tning but gentlemanly.
Cahill Recommended.
This is what the Board of Education
at Stuart has to say respecting the re
publican candidate for superintendent
of public instruction of Holt county:
To whom it may concern: The bearer,
Prof. J. L. Cahill, has been principal of
the Stuart high school for the past two
years and has given the best of satisfac
[ tion in all respects. He is well qualified,
earnest and faithful in his work. He is
a man of excellent character and a good
citizen. We take pleasure in recom
mending him to any school board.—H.
Shank (director), W. N. Coats (moder
ator), If. E. Chittick (treasurer), Wil
liam Krotter, A. C. Powell, Charles F
Johnson, school board district 44.
Notice.
Notice is hereby cgiven that all parties
owing the old firm of Mack & Peeler,
will greatly oblige the new firm by call
ing and settling their accounts as soon
as possable. Thanking you for past
favors, we beg to remain yours truly.
14 4 Peeler & McManus.
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All people owing bills at MoCaflerty’s
are requsted to come in and pay same
as we need the money.
2-w M. A. McCafferty.
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No. 5770. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
j The O’Neill National Bank j
At O’Neill, in the Btate of Nebraska, at the close |j
I of business, September 30, 1901. ij
RESOURCES |
Loans and discounts. iuVi «-i H
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured. ..'[x! ,'J g
U. 5$. bonds to secure circulation. YxJjV X2 g
gj Premiums on U. S. bonds. XX'? X.‘. g
g Stocks, securities, etc. ®J)wl g
g Ranking house, furniture and iix-ures. ip oiou g
p Due from national banks (not reserve agents). WUotJ in g
I Due from state banks and bankers. 55 JJJ P
Due from apuroved reserve agents. 95i*i; 43 P
Checks and other cash items. i5** P
Note* of other national banks. . 2500 90 g
I Fractional paper currency, nickles and cents. do 01 g
Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz: B
Legal-tender notes..( 2,000 00) 3213 50-20980 04 j|j
Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer (5 per cent, cir’l’n.) _____ g
Total. 59433 4» g
LIABILITIES |
Capital stock paid in. ££ P
8 Undivided profits less expenses and taxes raid. ...vj] ** g
Individual deposits subject to check. -43”* i!9 P
gj Time certificates of deposit. 2940 «o g
Total. 59433 49 1
g State of Nebraska. County of Holt, ss.
1, James F. O’Donnell, cashier of the above-named hank, do rolemnly swear g
g that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and i el ef. g
g ,j AS F. O’DONNELL, Cashier. p
Correct—Attest: M. Dowling, Thos. H. Fowler. C. W. Smith, Directors. g
1g Subscri ed and swown to before me this 8th day of October, 1901. g
g [sbalI M, D. Long. Notary Public. g
g (My commission expires January ti, 1905.) g
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