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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1906)
Tb.e Frontier Pnbllshed by D. H. CRONIN KOMAINK SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor and Manager. tl 50 the Year 75 Cents Sli Months Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertlsmonts on pages 4, 5 and 8 are charged for on a basis of fill cents an Inch one column width) per month; on page 1 the ehargo Is *1 au Inch per month. Local ad eertlsetnents, 6 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. For one thing, the packing house Investigation has reduced the appetite for beefsteak. An O’Neill man sold a beef steer on Monday for $102. A pretty fair price for steers, even the pops must admit. _ The Stuart Ledger had a roast for Oilligan last week because he doesn’t look through the same glasses the Ledger does. The Ledger is given to roasting rather than the extolling of virtues. South Dakota holds out a line ob ject lesson for the machine politician. The wave of revolt against a few men manipulating the party machinery is producing results that will redound to the good of the people. King Edward may pay a visit to America. The custom of heads of governments visiting outside their own realms would go a long ways toward establishing better feelings among the nations if practiced more. Three Nebraska children died the other day, two from eating bottled pickles put up by a canning concern, the other from eating pieplant as nature produced it. Now, if the pickles were “adulterated” what was the matter with the pieplant? The Nebraska press of all shades of political belief are breathing out voluminous compliment and praise for the Rosewater candidacy that is giving some of the other aspirants a tired feeling. The veteran editor appears to be “solid” with the bulk of the newspaper fraternity. The Independent thinks it very shocking the bribe and graft and knavery the republican administra tion is bringing to light, but little things like bank wreckers in our own midst escaping the pen doesn’t worry It. Purification of politics and society, like charity, begins at home. A special from Washington says President Roosevelt has up his sleeve a plan to land a body blow on the trusts. He would have a law enacted imposing a fine of $1,000,000 for grant ing a rebate. Teddy is determined to secure an effectual law with which to handle the big corporations before he quits. A democratic exhange tears off this: “The republican party has brought the country to a shocking state of affairs and there is no end to the scandals and exposures that are con stantly being brought to light.” And then quotes: “The present is a period of havoc and upheaval. The gale of reform that rages o’er the land lays bare most hideous conditions. A dol larized society, insensible to all but pricking selfishness, makes possible corruptions high and low. Bribe, graft, knavery, exploitation, investiga tion, disclosure, confusion, shame—in all the avenues of activity the public ferret is at work.” We would ask our democratic friend wherein the republi can party or republican administra tion is responsible for the actions of dishonest rascals in high and low society? Is graft and defiance of law indulged in only by men who may have voted for republican candidates? Are there no democrats, no pops, no socia lists, no prohibitionists midst the motely throng who hold in defiance the laws of God and men, who race the mad race for gold unmindful of the rights of others? Is not the republican party, the republican administrations, be hind and pushing the "exploitation, investigation, disclosure,” and labor ing with all its might to correct exist ing evils and spprehend the guilty? The local pop organ, together with others throughout this district, soon after the enactment of the Kinkaid homestead law, claimed the credit for a former populist congressman from this district who had some sort of an idea for enlarging homesteads in western Nebraska but who never accomplished anything to that end in congress. Unmindful of their claim that the enlarged homestead was a populist idea, these papers are now condemning themselves out of their own mouths by denouncing the Kinkaid law. No doubt if a pop had been instrumental in securing the law they would have considered It the greatest piece of legislation ever enacted. Sure enough—consistency, thou art a jewel! The esteemed Chambers Bugle is highly insulted. It takes what The Frontier said on the subject of “petty prejudices” to heart very greviously. Its wrath must have partaken of the velosity and fury of the cyclone that passed through there about the time the Bugle went to press. It calls us a liar. The rules of chivalry might demand that the Bugle take it back or confront us with a forty-live, but a few dashes of cold led from the end of a pencil is about all ttie Bugle can stand. It is not The Frontier’s in tention to “lie” about any person or thing. We desire to be perfectly fair with everybody. What was taken as reliable information came to The Frontier to the effect that Chambers business men, with a few exceptions, prohibited the posting of the bills, with the observation that it was an “O’Neill graft.” This, of course, they had a perfect right to do; and, as we said before, it is nothing to O’Neill one way or another whether the bills were posted or not, but we did object to having it called an “O’Neill graft.” The Frontier does not want to mis represent in any particular, but like all newspapers is liable to be misin formed, and nobody is more anxious to rectify mistakes. The Bugle might have shown wherein we were mistaken without imputing sinister motives. A spirit of liberality has always characterized the people of Chambers and they are just as good citizens as can be found anywhere. That they are not "guilty” as charged by our in formant we are glad to learn and hasten to say so. The principle of one community regarding every enterprise or movement of some other neighboring community as a “graft” is decidedly small and narrow, but Chambers has always been as free from this spirit as any place we know of. CONTEMPORARY COMMENT. The Fremont Tribune ventures the supposition that “the old topers have doubtless been sitting up and taking notice of the free alcohol bill. But when they learn it simply means that alcohol has been dehorned they will feci their spirits drooping.” “Mayor Mott of Oakland,” says a California paper, “thinks the damage done In that city by the earthquake would have been a world sensation at any other time, had it not been over shadowed by the terrible disaster across the bay. He estimates Oak land’s damage at $1,500,000. About 50,000 chimneys were thrown down by the quake.” The Norfolk Press notes that the public is getting a good deal of infor mation out of the inquiry being made by the interstate commerce commis sion into the relations between the coal mines and the coal-carryiilg rail roads. “It may be possible,” says the Press, “by the time the inquiry ends, for the consumer to know how much of the price he pays goes for coal and how much for graft, for it must be borne in mind that the graft finally comes out of the pocket of the con sumer.” The Lawrence Locomotive relates that Mrs. Newcomb, a Deweese wo man, wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt a short time ago asking her to kindly contri bute a handkerchief for a church ba zaar to be held at that place. Mrs. Newcomb explained to the president’s wife tfiat her home and little church was located on the historic Blue; that the old Mormon trail crossed their farm and that a quarter of a mile be low was Liberty farm (ranch), main tained years ago by Uncle Sam for the Pony Express company, etc. The wo man also told the cheif executive’s wife that they had been and were still democrats, but that “our president, God bless him, is making it very diffi cult for us to know where we are at.” Mrs. Newcomb received the following letter in answer. The White House, Washington. May 4—My dear Mrs. Newcomb: Your letter to Mrs. Roosevelt interested both her and me so much that I write just a line myself. I am sending you a photograph and I wish you all success in building the little church. What an interesting life you have had, and how fortunate we Americans are to have the chance to lead such lives, and, my dear Mrs. Newcomb, it is of mighty small impor tance whether we are republicans or democrats, but it is of very real im portance that we should be good Am ericans and do our duty in straight and decent fashion. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. “The democratic press bureau has divorced Berge for governor and mar ried itself to an affinity in the person of Dr. Hall of Lincoln,” says the Columbus Journal. “Is it not strange that these friends of the ‘dear common people’ can find their polititical affini ties only in canidates with fat bank accounts? But then, it takes money to run press bureaus, and incidentally Hall pleases the railroads as xvell as did Silas of old when the railroads elected him on an anti-railroad plat form.” __ STORY OF A GOLD BRICK. Democratic Senators Try to Entrap President On Rate Bill. F. J. Stillman in Sioux City Journal: When all the facts in connection with the negotiations for the support of democratic :senators for an effective railroad rate bill have filtered out into the light of day one thing will be quite certain, and that is that public confi dence in President Roosevelt as a po litician, as well as a statesman and fearless leader, will be immensely in creased. It was to be expected that Sen ators Bailey and Rayner would yell “surrender” and undertake to estab lish the fact that the president had given up at a time when he might have won. They, of course, declared that the solid democratic support was ready to be turned loose the moment the republicans led by Senator Allison, Dolliver, Clapp, Long and others were ready to deliver the necessary votes. It sounds grand, this talk of the twenty-four democrats and the twenty two republicans marching forth and casting forty-six votes and routing the Aldrich-Crane, Spooner-Knox forces. But the trouble was that the twenty four democratic senators were not there and they never would have been there had the president waited until the crack of doom. In the begining, Senators Tillman and Bailey assured the president, through Mr. Chandler, that twenty four democratic votes would be ready when an agreement had been reached upon the basis of action; when the various proposed amendments had been approved. After a week or so it occured to the president to make a lit tle private inquiry as to what Senators Tillman and Bailey could deliver. He had a secret conference with a demo cratic senator who heartily favored the house bill and the. latter under took the task of sleuthing. After some days he reported to the president that Senators Tillman and Baily were apparently acting by themselves and assumed to be able to do this and that, but that in fact they did not know what they could do. It was dis covered that practically none of the democrats had been consulted as to what they would do or want to do. Of course It was generally known among the minority members that negotia tions between Senators Bailey and Tillman and the president were being carried on, but democrats complained that they could get no idea of the sit uation. Senator Bailey and Tillman seemed strangely secretive and indis posed to unloosen. At the same time that the president assumed the demo crats were in full conference with Sen ater Tillman and Bailey the great majority of the democratic senators were groping about, wondering what was doing and where they were “at.” It is scarcely to be wondered at that the president, who felt the great re sponsibility of giving to the people a good rate law, was disinclined to place dependence upon such a slender and weak cord as the claims of Senators Tillman and Bailey, after he had dis covered the way in which they were dealing with their people. Another thing: Senator Bailey has made an attractive disclaimer of any disposition to deal with those un friendly to effective rate legislation, or to be a party to any scheme or amendment that would in any manner injure the bill. He has also been giv en a clean bill of health by Senator Tillman. Notwithstanding this, and without making any general or speci fic charge of lack of sincerity against Senator Bailey, it can be said in truth that from several quarters there came suggestions and hints that it would be advisable to keep a very close watch on the junior senator from Teaxs. The president was warned and Senator Dolliver was warned. A member of the Iowa delegation in the house, in conversation with a democratic sena tor, was given to understand that the minority, as a whole, was disposed to entertain some fears of Senator Bailey. The statement of Mr. Chandler, while making no charge against Sena tor Bailey, is indicative that some slight suspicion existed. It comes^straight from one of the parties that upon one occasion Senat ors Tillman and Bailey asked Senators Bacon and Overman who they were discussing rate matters with. The latter replied that they had had some conference with Senators Dolliver, Allison, Clapp and Long. It is declar ed that Senators Tillman and Bailey, in a depreciating way, pooh-hoohed the idea of dealing with Senator Dol liver, Allison andthecrowd. Of course inferences may be drawn as to who Senators Bailey and Tillman may have had in mind as the proper per sons to deal with It is certain they did not refer to the president at that time. It is also recalled that the in timation has been heard that Senator Aldrich had some conference with Senator Baily. From all the facts obtainable it ap pears that Senators Tillman and Bai ley offered, through Mr. Chandler, a beautiful brick which appeared to be gold. For that matter Senators Bai ley and Tillman may have sincerely believed it to be gold. The president admitted it looked good, but he took the precaution to have it plugged. When an examination of the inside of the brick had been made it was found not to be gold. The president there upon sent the brick back to Senator Tillman and Bailey. Of course they yelled murder and surrender because they were disappointed. They did not want the brick back again. Senator Bailey has a calm and min isterial style of delivery which im presses one not only with the great ability of the man, but with his sin cerity and good faith, and this is not saying that he is not sincere. But Senator Bailey is a democrat of the peepest dye. He never fails to play politics when it will count. Without saying that Senators Bailey and Till man deliberately set about getting the president into a trap, it can be said that the president would undoubtedly have fallen into a serious error had he gone ahead and depended upon Sen ators Tillman and Bailey to deliver him twenty-four democratic votes, and it does not require a great stretch of imagination to reach the conclusion that as a result of the failure that would have followed such an attempt Senator Baily would have taken occa sion to play the political end of the game for all there was in it. As the matter now stands the demo crats appear in the light of having had a magnificent opportunity to make a political play and failed mis erably because of dissensions within the party. Incidentally the people get a first class law. HOME-COMING OF KENTUCKIANS. Low Hates via the North-Western Line from All Points for the Great Kentucky Celebration at Louisville m June. The Chicago & North-Western Rail way announces that low rates will be made, effective June 11 to 13, with con venient and liberal return limits, on account of the “Home-coming of Ken tuckians” celebration which is to be held at Louisville June 13 to 17. Itis expected that a large number of ex-Kentuckians will make this the oc casion of a visit to their native soil. Anticipating a representative assem blage of such from all parts of the United States, the people of Louisville are making great preparations to en tertain them with true Southern warmth. The program for the acca sion is understood to be interesting and varied. Ask your ticket agent for full particulars. New Homes in the West. Over a million acres of land will be thrown open to settlement on the Sho shone Indian Reservation August 15, 1906. These lands are reached by the direct route of the Chicago & North Western R’y from Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, and other points in the Mississippi Valley. 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