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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.
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