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AND THE CROW IS STILL
BLACK.
The attorney for the bank wreckers
—through the columns of the Inde
pendent of last week—spewed up a
two column effusion in an effort to
make himself appear as a certain
brand of baking powder, which is al
ways advertised as “absolutely pure;”
and also to pave the way for a judicial
whitewash of the bank wreckers by
undertaking to make the outraged
depositors believe that he will recover
from the bank examinerand his bonds
men the money stolen and still re
tained by McGreevy, Hagerty and
their accessories.
So preposterous and rediculous are
most of the statements in the article
that they are beneath consideration
or comment. There may be some few
of our readers, however, whose per
ceptabilitles are so obtuse that they
are unable to locate the real African
or joker that is lodged in the suit
brought against the bank examiner.
For the edification of these, if any
there be, a brief resume of the prin
cipal events anent the bank failure
may serve to refresh and enlighten
their minds.
By inference the article in the Inde
pendent charges The Frontier with
working against the interests of the
depositors and that we have “determ
ined that the depositors must be
skinned right and left in the hope
that they would thereby be dissatis
fied.” It also says that M. F. Har
rington, the hired counsel for Mc
Greevy and Hagerty, is working in the
interests of the depositors.
Let us see.
After the bank had been looted by
McGreevy and Hagerty and their flight
made possible by their aocesssories,
the outraged depositors assessed them
selves $400 (the county $400 in addi
tion) as a reward for the apprehension
of McGreevy and Hagerty.
In December, McGreevy was located
and arrested in Arizona. He was
brought back to O’Neill, the deposit
ors paying the reward. At the pre
liminaryhearing Harrington appeared
as attorney for McGreevy and made a
statement in court to the effect that
he was going to sue those who had
Subscribed to the reward for defama
tion of the character of McGreevy—
the paragon of virtue.
Mr. Harrington, of course, had the
interests of the depositors in mind
when he made the threat to sue them.
After McGreevy’s arrest and before
his return to O’Neill, Harrington got
busy and prepared an offer of settle
ment, which was signed by Mrs. Ilag
erty, in which they proposed to turn
over property worth not to exceed
•4,000. In consideration of turning
over this property they demanded that
the depositors release their claims in
full and each and every depositoi
must pledge himself not to prosecute
McGreevy or Hagerty. The accept
ance of this offer was industeriouslj
and vigorously urged by the paic
henchmen and McGreevy sympathiz
ers.
This rotten proposition received the
editorial endorsement of the Inde
pendent of January 20 in the follow
ing language: “If a settlement wai
to be made along the line of Mrs
Hagerty’s proposition all expenses am
costs would stop, while if the prose
cution goes on there will necessaril;
be a great deal of expense."
Some of the outraged depositor
asked space in The Frontier to expos
the heinous offer, which was cheerful
ly given, and through this exposur
and our own efforts in bringing t
light the damnable manipulations c
the bank wreckers and their accessoi
ies the scheme was abandoned.
The wisdom of our position in at
vising the depositors to reject this ri
diculous offer has already been demon
strated as more money is already Ir
' sight for the depositors than thej
could have possibly obtained by ac
cepting the proffered offer. It ha?
also since been brought to light that
McGreevy was a defaulter to the
school district for $4,300 instead ol
$2,700, as the gang first undertook to
make it appear.
The next move of counsel for Mc
, Greevy and Hagerty was to undertake
to create political prejudice and senti
ment favorable to McGreevy and
Hagerty by charging the republican
party with being responsible for the
bank failure. So thoroughly did we
explode this scheme and throw the
lime light on the “fusion attorney”
that we were informed through the
columns of the Independent that Mr.
Harrington had authorized the state
ment that The Frontier would be
prosecuted for criminal libel.
Of course when this threat was
made the gang did not know that we
had the documents to prove our state
ments and when they found it out
the threatened criminal prosecution
was dropped like a hot potato.
Two terms of court have elapsed
since McGreevy was arrested and no
effort has been made by County At
torney Mullen to bring him to trial.
It begins to look as if he did not in
tend to prosecute McGreevy, and if
this is the case it is high time that
the attorney general take charge of
the prosecution or the county board
employ some one who will prosecute.
If the cards have been stacked to
give McGreevy a judicial whitewash it
ts time the people of this county are
made acquainted with the fact.
It is evident to any thinking person
acquainted with the operations of the
manipulators that the primary object
of the suit against the bank examiner
is only a ruse to divert attention, gain
time for and be used as a means of
saving McGreevy and Hagerty from
the penitentiary. The Frontiar does
not say that the depositors in whose
names the suits have been commenced
are knowingly permitting themselves
to bring about such a result, but be
fore they are two years older they will
realize the truthfulness of this state
ment.
We are reliably informed that in a
very short time a move will be made
to get bail for McGreevy. Depositors
will then be asked to not prosecute
him, with the understanding that his
testimony will be used in the farcial
effort to recover from the bank exam
iner the money McGreevy and Hagerty
stole from the outraged depositors.
A communication was received on
Tuesday from a well known citizen of
Page that strikes to the core of a very
prominent feature in a two column
diatribe which found a place in the
last issue of our local contemporary.
The communication brings out some
vital points of more than passing in
terest and handles the subject so well
that we give it special prominence.
“I SPY—MUM’S THE WORD.”
Page, Neb., April 24.—To the Edit
or: When the Apostle Paul wrote his
first Epistle to Timothy, he particu
larly besought his brother in the faith
to give no heed to the fables of some
who, desiring to be teachers of the
law, understood not what they said
nor whereof they affirmed. Paul
characterized the efforts of these false
teachers as “vain jangling”; that the
law was good if used lawfully, that
the law is not made for the righteous
man, but for the lawless and disobed
ient; for liars, murders, perjurers
thieves, and the advocates of anj
other old thing that is contrary tc
sound common sense. Perhaps yoi
doubt that Paul said anything like
: that? Well, he just did, as you maj
read for yourself in the first chapte
• of the epistle mentioned above. Pau
i was speaking of things spiritual. Ant
what is good for the spiritual mai
l should apply equally to him intellect
- ually, physically, politically and in j
r business way.
These thoughts are suggested fron
s reading the “vain jangling” of a mor
5 or less ponderous political editoria
- in the last issue of the busted-banl
3 organ. What could be more mischiev
i ous to good citizenship than for it t
f warn the people not to speak thei
- real honest sentiment to each othe
about whatever may interest then
i- whether it be for or against any par
ticular subject—bank failures, c
what not? Then what of the open,
public request of the bank organ of
the conspirators, for people to snoop
aronnd and eavsdrop on their neigh
bors, and report to the organ what is
said? God hates a cowardly sneak, a
liar, and a tattler, and so do all honest
men. Why does all the world today
sing the praises of Theodore Roose
velt? Simply because the world be
lieves in his open, innate honesty—
that there is not the least little streak
of yellow sneak in him. He has noth
ing to conceal from the people, and
they heartily believe in him for that.
The “vain jangling” of the con
spirators who are trying to divert the
attention of the public and the bank
depositors from the facts in the case,
are evidently themselves afraid of be
ing prosecuted for fraud, and are mak
ing a big bluff by pretending to be the
real friends of the injured parties, the
depositors,a nd hence the call for spies
and defectives. Talk about the
Spanish Inquisition! What could be
more damnable than to adyise all
people to espy on their neighbors and
report to headquarters? What are
these “vain janglers” afraid of, the
truth? The writer of this has for
months been aware that there is a
well developed system of espionage
going on in O’Neill, but it is beyond
belief that these inquisitors should
publicly proclaim the fact. Why, the :
first time I dropped into O’Neill, it i
was noticed with some amusement :
that wherever I went, at the hotel,
on the corners, or in groups of men,
certain persons would suddenly appear
at my elbow to listen and apparently
to find out if possible what I was
talking about. And this has never 1
ceased, when I am in town. Every- 1
one will notice a certain lot of sneaks 1
that will crawl up beside a man when
he is talking to his neighbor, to hear
what is said, and mayhap have some
thing to report to the “vain jangling”
boss at headquarters. Why this
system of spying out? Again I ask,
what are they afraid of? Can they
not hold up their heads and act like
men? Must they, in order to bam- 1
boozle the people, keep up a secret
detective system? “Suspicion always
haunts the guilty mind; the thief
doth fear each bush an officer.” They
say straws show which way the wind
blows. Friends, here is a whole straw
stack ready to fall on you. Conduct is
three-fourths of character, and here
you have the other fourth in words:
“Spy on your neighbors and keep mum
yourself—tell it only at headquarters.”
That is what the bank organ says, in
effect. Is it any wonder that this old
crowd is execrated by all right think
ing people, when they have to rely
solely for their information on the
blunted morals of tin horn detectives.
No wonder some of them have hides
like the leopard and a record as full of
holes as the seive.
Now, my tax-paying brother, while
you help to pay for an almost continu
ous session of court, what do you think
of that fine old hypocrite with a virtu
ous imagination who writes the heavy
editorials for the busted-bank organ?
Isn’t it a fact that his public life,
romantic and ornamental as it is, has
been decorated with grandstand
nourishes only as a means to personal
emolument! There are cases where
the bad faith of some of the parties as
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