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VOLUME XXVI.
_ O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1905
NUMBER 19.
TAXSHIRKING NABOBS OWE COUNTY SUM EQUAL TO ONE-THIRD
OF ENTIRE INDIVIDUAL TAX OF HOLT COUNTY FOR YEAR 1905
Total taxes of Holt county for 1905, exclusive of railroads ... $47,216.00
Total taxes owed the county by populist leaders at O’Meifl, shown by delinquent tax list publish
ed in the I foil County Independent in July, 1905 .• 18 000.00
Do you see why |he gang arc lighting the revenue law? Do you want them to continue in control of
the treasiircr’s*§ffiee and evade payment of taxes?
1'W1*
Individuals Reduced JO Per
Cent; Railroads Raised 72
County Treasurer Cronin and the
attorney-at-law and land syndicate
trust at O’Neill are busily engaged
this week in sending out tax state
ments fur 1905 taxes in an effort to
deceive and befog tlie minds of some
tax payers in this county. Their
method is to send statements only to
those whose taxes may show an in
crease over some previous year. If
the personal tax of the tax payer is
higher and his land tax is less? then
a statement of the personal tax only
is sent; and vice versa. In most
cases where there is any increase in
the personal tax of individuals over
last year, an investigation will show
that it is due to an increase in the
school levy over previous years.
The tax records of this county show
that in 1903, the last assessment under
tlie old revenue law, the taxes in this
county for state and county purposes
exclusive of railroad tax, was $52,515.
A comparison of figures is interesting.
Note the following table:
Total taxes for 1903exclusive railroads,
under old revenue law .
Total taxes for 1905 for state and
county purposes, exclusive of rail
roads..
Decrease in state and county taxes to
be paid by individuals .*
This demonstrates conclusively
that, generally speaking, the stale
and county taxes to be paid by individ
uals is 10 per cent less in 1005, under
tlie new revenue law, than they were
in 1903, under the old revenue law.
In 1903 the railroads in Holt county
were assessed at $277,429; in 1905,
under the new law, tlie railroads are
assessed at $178,391, an increase in the
county on railroads of $200,962, or i2
per cent increase in the assessed valu
ation of railroads in tlie county.
In the face of these figures, the pop
lawyers who are now stumping tlie
county have the brazen afl’rontery to
tell the people that only the taxes .pf
individuals have been increased and
that there lias been no increase on
the railroads. There is method in
their madness, their object being to
deceive enough voters by their mis
representations to elect a populist
board of supervisors and county treas
urer, and then upset tlie operations
of tlie Scavenger delinquent tax law,
return to the old system of tax fore
closures whereby tiiey can get title to
land for little or nothing, pocket large
publication fees and at the same time
let their ovui taxes, amounting to
several thousands dollars, go unpaid.
The tax notices of Mr. Cronin at
this time are only a part of this well
laid.plan to permit a few lawyers and
land sharks in O’Neill to perpetuate
tlie most diabolical graft ever worked
in any county. Tax payers should not
again be deceived by their tricks.
*...*
: I ask that vv e scorn alike the base •
: arrogance of the rich man who :
: would look down on his poorer :
: brother and the equally base envy :
: of the poorer man who would hate :
: 11is richer brother: and that you :
: apply to every citizen of this re- :
: public just this one test, the test :
: that gauges his worth as a man. :
: Does he do his duty fairly by him- :
: self, his family, his neighbor and :
: the state and nation? If he does, :
: be for him, whether rich or poor, >
: because if you do not you are re- :
: creant to the spirit of American- :
: ism.—Roosevelt.
*.*
When the long and dreaded roll is
called, when the revibrations of a
wrecked and ruined world peel forth
and humanity stands before Divinity
to render account of things here be
low, in all solemnity, we would hate
to be. a campaign writer for tiie Holt
County Independent.
One Needed to Keep Wreckers
Out of Penitentiary
The Independent, acting as the
oracle for the attorneys of the bank
wreckers, is making a villianous lying
campaign against Sheriff Hail in a
superhuman effort to accomplish his
defeat by any means.
Tiie motive back of tiie dirty cam
paign is very apparent to close ob
servers of the operations of tiie gang,
who will stop at nothing to accomplish
their purpose.
Tiie cards are stacked and they
have got to save McGreevy from tiie
penitentiary. Of course this can be
accomplished much easier with a
“friendly injun” in tiie sheriff’s office.
They know it will be difficult to tix a
jury in that case while Charley Hall is
sheriff. To make sure of saving Mc
Greevy they have got to have a pliant
tool in tiie sheriff’s office, hence tills
dastardly fight against Sheriff Hall.
To the Editor of The Frontier: i
desire to make a statement in regard
to an article that was published in
last week’s Ilolt County Independent,
wherein it is charged that 1 turned
Miss Margaret Hurley, candidate for
county superintendent on the fusion
ticket, out of doors, or refused to keep
her and J. P. Mullen, candidate for
county treasurer, over night.
Now the facts are, that I am not
running a hotel, nor am 1 in the habit
of keeping people over night. I have
a wife and five small children, and
keep a hired man, and my wife does
her own work. We have oidy one i
girl who is six years old, and she has
been an invalid for the past year.
She was in the hospital in Omaha
early last spring for four weeks and
back again to Omaha in the summer
for treatment, and is likely to be back
again in a few days. At the time
mentioned in the Independent, our
baby one year old, was also sick, and
myself ana wife had been up for three
nights in succession. In the after
noon of the same day mentioned, W.
H. Iliscox called at my place to stay
over night and I refused to keep him.
That evening .7. I’. Mullen called
to my door, and asked to stay over
night. 1 told him that my wife was
not well and that my children were
sick, and that I could not very well
keep him and ho then asked if there
wasanyplaceclo.se by that he could
go and stay. I directed him to the
nearest neighbor, a distance of about
eighty rods, and as he turned to go lie
made the remark that he had a lady
with him, who was to address the
meeting. I told him that I was sorry
that we were not prepared to keep
them, but thought that they could
get to stay at the house that 1 direct
ed them to. Two days later, Miss
Florence Zink, candidate for county
superintendent on the republican
ticket, and her father came and asked
to stay, but we did not keep them be
cause of Die reasons [ have given.
The facts are, I think more of my
wife and children and their welfare
than T do of Miss Hurley, J. 1*. Mul
len, Miss Zink, or any other candidate
in Holt county. It is further said in
this article 1 hat I was later approach
ed by a voter of the township that I
live in, and that I made the state
ment that I peddled stuff about the
precinct, about Miss Hurley and J. I*.
Mullen, and that if 1 kept them over
night, the. people would think it was
all guff or words to that effect. This
statement is absolutely false and un
true, and 1 challenge the editor of the
paper to publish the name of the man
to whom 1 tngde any such statement
Cither fn Steele Creek township or
elsewhere.
The facts are that the whole article
is absolutely untrue. We have about
seventy-five voters in Steele Creek
township, where I have lived twenty
six years, and I am willing to leave it
to them in regard to my hospitality.
C. L. McELIIANEY.
Authentic word comes from Cham
bers that a “lady friend” is peddling
cards and cigars for the fusion candid
ate for superintendent. Such work
belongs to the school of depraved pol
itics and should never stain the
lingers of one aspiring to the sacred
trust of public educator.
“POOR”
People Who Didn't Have to
Pay Their Taxes
One arguments used by the "Mdlens
which tax payers should pay a rntion
to is that w idle the Mullens were in
possession of the county treasurer’s
ollice no “poor man” was compelled to
pay his taxes.
Mr. Taxpayer, if you have always
considered that it was a duty you
owe the state and county to pay your
taxes promptly and support your
schools, how do you like such guff?
From an examination of the tax
list it seems that the “poor people”
who were not compelled to pay their
taxes consisted mainly Of the Harring
tons, the Mullens, the MeCarthys and
their strikers.
Examine the delinquent tax list for
yourself and see if this is not true.
A set of rascals that will lie them
selves into ollice can’t be depended
upon as honest officials.
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| The constant and persistent manner in which J. P. Mullen has insisted j
| on holding office in this county can best be illustrated by a few mom- |
I ent’s reflection and study of the following chronological table of politi- |
| cal convention, together with the public records of the county. Fol- 1
1 lowing is the record of seventeen years:
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| 1888, county supervisor; 1889, county supervisor; 1890, county supervisor |
and candidate for representative to legislature, to which he was elected; j
1891, member of legislature and candidate for county treasurer, for which he |
iwas defeated; S892, candidate and elected to state senate; 1893, state sen- |
ator and candidate for county treasurer, to which he was elected; 1894, |
1895, 1896 and 1897, county treasurer; 1903, candidate for fusion nom- 1
ination for county clerk — defeated for nomination; 1905, candidate for J
county treasurer. j
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From the above it will be seen that during the past 17 years there has J
| been but two general elections for county officers—1899 and 1901—but jg
| what J. P. Mullen has either been holding office or a candidate for office. |
| During this time he has drawn in salary over $10,100. Should Mr. Sj
1 Mullen be elected at the coming election and be a candidate to succeed 1
p himself, w hich of course he would be, it will make but two general g
g elections for county officers out of 21 consecutive years that Mullen has |
| not either held office in Holt county or been a candidate for one. It is jg
| apparent to anyone that Mr. Mullen has the worst case of office itch |
| that has ever beset anyone in this part of the state.
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There are many honest populists in Holt county who have asked for the |
| nominations that have been sought, demanded and given to Mullen and the I
I aspirations of these worthy men ruthlessly set aside by Mullen and his attorn- |
| ey-at-law and land syndicate strikers in O’Meill. To be candid, Mr. Voter, 1
| don’t you think it an opportune time to give Mullen the political rest he so g
1 richly deserves, and give someone else a show?
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SHORT
Officials Been Proven Thieves
Notwithstanding Denial
The Independent is using consider
able space denying that County Treas
urer Cronin is short in his accounts,
and is making the usual bluff about
“courting an investigation.”
It is certain that if Mr. Chittick
and a republican board of supervisors
are elected, their bluff will be called.
It will be remembered that four
years ago, when The Frontier charged
that Sheriff Stewart’s accounts were
irregular, the Independent insisted
that we were lying. After election
an investigation was made, showing
Stewart to be a defaulter and he went
out of office owing the county several
hundred dollars, part of which was
recovered by action of the county
board.
Last January, when The Frontier
charged Pat Handley with being short
in his accounts as township treasurer,
the Independent again said we were
lying and “an investigation would
show that the charges were thin air.”
The fusion strategy board did all in
its power to head off an investigation
and had one of their members “ex
pert” Handley's books and pronounce
his accounts straight.
An investigation, however, by a
competent and disinterested expert
showed Handley to be short $5,500,
and lie is now a fugative from justice,
his whereabouts unknown except to
the pop gang that helped Hagerty and
McGreevy in their get away.
The Graphic: Treasurer Cronin,
through the Independent, says that
the books in his office are open to in
spection. This may be true, but when
the office will sell land and issue a tax
certificate and the owner has a receipt
from the treasurer for the taxes paidi
and also gives a receipt for personaj
taxes and afterwards gets a distress
warrant for the payment of these
same taxes and refuses to give credit
until flic receipt is produced, would
indicate that if the office force cannot
tell anything about the books from
inspection, how can they expect an
outsider to do so?
While the use of passes by office
holders and candidates for public of
fice is being discussed it is well to re
member that Judge Hastings, the fu
sion candidate for supreme judge, is
an old and confirmed user of the little
pasteboards. In his speech of accept
ance before the democratic state con
vention Judge Hastings stated that
for many years he had been a paid at
torney of the railroads and had used
passes. Wlule promising to accept no
more annuals from the roads Mr.
Hastings neglected to state that he
would return his present ones.
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And so the pop nabobs are offended
becauae a man with a sick family on
his hands would not turn his home
into a hotel to accomodate the Idol
and “the lady from O’Neill.” Miss
Zmk, too, was turned down at this
same place and couldn’t even get a
meal, but she is too practical and
sensible a woman to whimper like a
school kid about it.
_Yote ’er straight!
