The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN.
ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant editor
and Manager.
II 50 the Year 75 Dents Six Months
Official paper of O’Neill and Holt county.
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
COUNTY TICKET
For county attorney, W. E. Scott of Atkinson
For representatives. S. W. Green of Kwiug
and D. M. Stuart of Stuart.
State senator. . . F. W. Phillips of Holt
STATE TICKET
Governor.Geo. L. Sheldon of Cass
Lieut. Governor.M. R. Hopewell of Burt
See. State.O. O. .1 unkln of Gosper
Auditor.E. M. iSearl(lncnmbent)
Treasurer.L. J. liraln of Boone
Attorney General — W. T. Thompson of Hall
Railway Commissioners.
.M. J. Winnettof Lancaster
.Robert Cowell of Douglas
.J. A. Williams of Pierce
Land Commissioner H. M. Eaton (Incumbent)
Superintendent....J. L. McBreln (Incumbent)
U. H. Senator.Norris Brown of Buffalo
CONORKKHIONAL TICKET
Congressman 6th dlst. JM. P. Kinkalnd, M. C.
The Independent’s “cartoonists”
took the precaution to label each
character—otherwise no one would
have known who lie meant them for.
The fusion strategy board is light
ing for its life to retain control of the
county attorney’s office—a tiling in
itself sufficient to stampede the voters
for the republican candidate.
Joe Horiskey, republican nominee
for supervisor forO’Neill and Grattan,
is an industrious, sober young busi
ness man who has lived here pract
ically all his life and has the con
fidence of the tax payers. Vote for
him.
” The Stuart Ledger editor has at
last got down where her sympathies
have been all along. As “birds of a
leather flock together,” so grafters
feel more at home with each other.
Defending bosom friends of the Han
ley-McGreevy-Hagerty stripe comes
natural to some people.
One thing that animates the fusion
strategy board in their zeal to elect
a fusion county attorney and get con
trol of the board is some 150 county
foreclosure cases still pending that
they want to shove through. It would
mean about 82,500 in their pockets in
fees for publishing notices. The mem
bers of the gang have grown rich
plundering the people in this way and
they want to keep at it.
The "defenders of the faith” who
“heartily Indorse the record of our
county attorney,” haven’t yet explain
ed1 how ft was that Pat Hagerty could
not be found to be brought back for
trial on the charges against him, al
though bis signature was obtained to
a deed transfering property to the
county attorney’s father. Perhaps the
Stuart Ledger can shed a little light
on this.
The local promoter of government
ownership clubs is meeting with a
chill wherever he goes in the county.
The intelligent taxpayers haven’t for
got that while they and the railroads
he so muchly hates pay their taxes re
gularly every year he paid nothing at
all for ten or twelve years, and in all
probability wouldn’t have done so yet
but for the “infamous republican re
venue law.”
An important thing to keep in view
this election is the political complex
ion of the next congress. Should such
a thing happen as the democrats con
trolling either branch of congress they
could effectually block the carrying
out of the president’s plans and tie
up legislation so that nothing could be
done. It is important, then, that the
republican congressional candidate be
elected and also the state legislative
ticket, as the next legislature will se
lect, a United States senator.
Ed Whelan claims he told the attor
ney for the defense in the Hagerty-Mc
Greevy cases that if elected he would
prosecute both of them if the deposit
ora wanted him to. That is just what
the people are objecting to—having
the prosecuting attorney run to the
attorney for the defense with his plans
and give him a chance to get word to
totonlients to “hike.” A county at
torney is wanted to prosecute this
class of criminals who doesn’t have to
“see the attorney for the defense” be
fore he knows what he can do^ _____
♦ “My highest ambition will be to be- ♦
icome the peer of our present county ♦
attorney, if elected."- From Edward ♦
H. Whelan's speech of acceptance at\
♦ Atkinson Sept. 22, 1906. ♦
DOUBLE DEALING.
The fusion leaders of Holt county
stand for shielding the large crim
inals while making a show at law en
forcement by punishing the pretty
offenders. They always have stood
for this kind of law enforcement and
probably always will. They have kept
depraved and desperate men from the
penitentiary when no other explana
tion could be made for it than the
value of gold above the requirements
of the law and the public good.
Horse stealing is a crime punishable
by a penitentiary term. It is only a
short time since a man was caught
with a horse in tiis possession that he
stole on the streets of O’Neill. It was
the sworn duty of the county attorney
to prosecute the prisoner on a criminal
charge. The charge was changed to a
misdemeanor, and a ten-days’ jail sen
tence imposed. Similar instances
might be multiplied indeiintely show
ing that fusion leaders have defended
criminals
They cannot control the county by
openly declaring against criminal pro
secution. Consequently they resort
to strategy—flop completely over and
declare themselves the best friends
and only hope of law enforcement. Ed
Whelan, the fusion candidate for coun
ty attorney, is heralding far and wide
that he will prosecute anybody and
everybody without fear or favor.
The simple truth is that Mr. Whelan
is playing fast and loose with the vot
ers. By declaring for law enforcement
he hopes to win enough votes to land
him in office. In buttonholing the
voters he tells them he stands for law
enforcement and do’S not approve of
the way the present county attorney
conducted the cases against the bank
wreckers. In the democratic conven
tion, Mr. Whelan declared Mullen has
made the best county attorney we ever
had and the height of his ambition
would 1>" to become his peer. The vote
of the gnmr is cMi ifel on by Mr.
Whelan as an inalienable asset. He
figures nothing he may say of them be
hind their back will detract from their
support election day. The great effort
is to supplement this vote with the
votes of a sufficient number of reput
able citizens who may be hoodwinked
by double-dealing.
The history of Mr. Whelan’s politi
cal endeavors since he came to this
county does not warrant the strongest
faith in ills campaign promises. He
stumped the county in 1901 in defense
of an iniquitious and unlawful land
grabbing system; he compliments A.
F. Mullen as the best county attorney
we ever had and accepts his nomina
tion on a platform endorsing Mullen;
he then goes to the voters and tells
them lie does not approve Mr. Mullen’s
record and promises to prosecute crim
inals. To say the least, Mr. Whelan’s
dual attitude has the earmarks of
double-dealing.
AN IMPORTANT PLANK.
The attention of the voters of the
state is especially called to the dairy
commission plank of the republican
state platform.
The amount of wealth produced
from the cream industry is in small
amounts to the individual producer,
but when a year’s total of these
amounts are considered the amount is
enormous.
The republican party in their state
convention recognized the dissatisfac
tion of the cream producers through
out the state, and inserted in their
platform the dairy plank, recommend
ing the dairy commission be establish
ed, whose duty would be to inspect
the tests of the creameries, and see
that the farmers and cream producers
recrive a “square deal” in their cream
tests.
This will perhaps amount to $10 to
$50 per year to each cream producer
and you realize the conditions it you
are selling or have sold cream to the
creameries, and you understand the
need of a commission which could be
created and managed in connection
with our present pure food commission,
thus not entailing much additional
expenses, and giving to the wealth
producers of our state thousands of
i
dollars more for their cream product,
and the satisfaction of knowing that
they are getting what is due them for
their cream product.
Support tile republican nominees
for the legislature, and they will use
their best efforts to pass a law giving
you your desires protecting the cream
industry.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES.
A comparitive statement of the
costs of maintaining the county at
torney’s office under County Attorney
Mullen’s administration, which is
“heartily endorsed’’by the fusion plat
form on which Ed Whelan accepts the
nomination as fusion candidate for
that office, is interesting just at this
time. The following tables will show
what has been done and what it has
cost us. The figures are taken from
the county records and can be varified
by any one wishing to look them up.
The table showing the items of ex
pense are made up from bills filed by
Mr. Mullen which haveeither been al
lowed or are on lile awaiting action of
the board.
ITEMS OF EXPENSE.
Postage, telegrams,telephoning etc. .$1,216 67
Office rent and sienographer. 1,958 62
Assistant council . 1,785 00
District court costs. 40,000 00
Total..144,960 19
These figures, of course, are exclu
sive of the coun y attorney’s salary,
which will amount to $4,800 by
January 1. The item of district court
costs can not all properly be charged to
the county attorney’s office, though a
large proportion of it originated there.
It is a safe estimate to say the county
attorney’s office will have cost the tax
payers of the county $45,000 by the
time Mr. Mullen retires in January,
including ills salary.
The subjoined table shows what has
been accomplished during Mr. Midi
len’s administration:
No. of criminal cases docketed.69
Pleas of guilty, penitentiary sentence.ft
Pleas of guilty, fines amounting to $131. 8
N.». of convictions after trial by jury, jJenl- J
ten*5-i»*v sentence. . 2
No. • i rii. v ict.ions after trial, jail sentence. 1
No of acquittals.1#
No of dismissals..33
Otises of which there is no record of their
disposal. 5
It will be seen by this table that
nearly half of the cases started were
dismissed, nearly half of the balance
plead guilty and only the merest frac
tion of the total were convicted. Mr.
Whelan stands on tills record and says
his “highest ambition is to become
the peer” of tire man who made it.
CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
An hodgepodge effort is being made
to make politics out of the Nickoli
zack cases. The fusionists should keep
stilt about those cases, for in the try
ing of them it was simply three or
four thousand dollars of the taxpayers’
money thrown to the wind for the
benefit of a suspected blackmailer.
The expert testimony in each trial
of that case proved that nothing had
happened to the alleged victim. A
physician at Ewing testified that he
had made an examination of complain
ing witness at the instigation of offi
cials immediately after the alleged af
fair was supposed to have happened
and found absolutely no evidence of
the thing complained of. After some
time had elapsed and opportunity had
for manipulation results were obtain
ed to lend color to the charges.
Then there were long and expensive
trials in court for the taxpayers to
put up for and nothing accomplished
but a big bill of costs piled up and a
nearly financially ruined defendant.
There would be as much sense in
trying to make politics out of the
Irwin cases. In this case it was ad
mitted that there had been a killing,
but for some reason tire jury came to
the remarkable conclusion that the
one who did the killing wasn’t guilty.
The taxpayers’ again footed the bill
with nothing tangable to show for
their money.
The McGreevy cases are another
specimen of what the taxpayers’ of
the county are getting for their money
in criminal prosecution under a fusion
county attorney.
In all the criminal cases the past
three years but one conviction has
been had, and that was obtained not
by the county attorney but by an at
torney employed by the parents of jm
unfortunate little victim.
It takes the fusion party organs of
the county to twist everything into
polities. If they find any political
comfort in this record of criminal pro
secution they are welcome to it.
AN ODOR OF GRAFT.
Things are smelling pretty strong
of graft around the county attorney’s
office. For instance, there are two
bills at the county clerk’s office, filed
by Mr. Mullen, of $5 each for postage
for the months of May and June. That
is, in sixty days the postage in that
office amounts to $10. This figured
down is 10} cents a day or over eight
letters a day for sixty days. Any body
knows that there is no such an amount
of letter writing necessary in the coun
ty attorney’s office. There ought not
to be over that many letters a week
on an average. Is Mr. Mullen charg
ing the postage on his private corres
pondence up to the county?
Another item is $20 for janitor work.
The county board hires a regular court
house janitor and pays him a monthly
salary. A few years ago the court
house was remodeled at considerable
expense and a room provided for the
county attorney. Mullen refuses to
occupy this room and maintains an
office down town in which two-thirds
of his law business is not for the coun
ty at all. This is paid for by the
county. He makes the county furnish
him an office building, fuel, janitor
work, postage and all incidental ex
penses, while most of his time is spent
in looking after his own private
business.
This is the sort of graft the fusion
platform “heartily endorses,” and
which Mr. Whelan says he hopes to
emulate if elected. How do you like
the proposition, Mr. Voter?
EASILY NAILED.
The fusion strategy board aomit the
defense of the bank wreckers is inde
fensible. They don’t say so in so many
words, but they are trying to make
it appear that W. E. Scott had some
thing to do in defending McGreevy.
This they paraded last week in aouble
colimin under a frightening head.
lb will be impossible to chase after
all the lies set afloat, but Jet us nail
this one right here.
Mr. Scott is a notary public in and
for Atkinson. During the negotia
tions in court for a change of venue in
the McGreevy cases, Mr. Harrington
as attorney for McGreevy, sent some
blank affidavits to Scott with a letter
saying some parties would call on him
to have their statements and signa
tures acknowledged. Scott acknow
ledged these as a notary pnblic, Mr.
Harrington paying him the notary
fee.
And that is all their is to the
strategy board’s sensation about
Scott being “McGreevy’s attorney.”
Gratuitous Misreprese tf-f.ans.
Fremont Tribune: Th^ most des
perate and despicable effoit < le being
made to discount the sen it »rio 1 candi
dacy of Norris Brown and brin, aoout
his defeat. Mr. Brown is mir no v
down in Washington lorkmg ;utcr the
interests of the tax payers of i he str to
in prosecuting in the lurprame . o.’rt
of the United States in the case 01 the
state against the railmads fr- eli"
♦ We heartily endorse the record of our l
X county attorney, A. F. Mullen, and re- ♦
♦ cognize in him an able and fearless ♦
X defender of justice to all alike.—From X
X Populist county platform. X
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quent taxes, but in due time he will
return and refute some of the villain
ous reports set afloat against him.
Meantime friends have given a true
vision of one calumny, which exposes
the vile nature of the vicious assualts
upon the faithful state official who lias
been named by his party for the sena
torship. It has been paraded by the
fusion press as coming from former
state Treasurer Bartley that Mr.
Brown borrowed money from a Kear
ney bank that had state funds on de
posit; that the bank failed and the
state lost its deposit of $6,000; that
Mr. Brown had $2,000 of the bank’s
money and that he settled with the
receiver of the bank for five cents on
the dollar. There is, according to the
testimony of friends who say they are
familiar with the facts in the case,
just this much truth in the charge:
The bank failed and the state lost
some money; a man named Brown
owned it $2,000. But instead of being
Norris Brown it was another Brown,
in no way related to him; Norris
Brown owed the bank $264, but as
the bank owed him more than that
for legal services no demand was ever
made on him by the receiver for the
sum and he never collected the balance
due him from the bank. Norris Brown,
like many another in those days of
panic under the last democratic ad
ministration, had hard sledding, but
he weathered the storm and always
kept to the good. He was a poor man
and he is still a poor man. He will
be one senator who has not bought his
way into the famous “rich man’s club. ”
And we are of the opinion that Mr.
Brown cannot be beaten by the gra
tuitous misrepresentations of the
enemy.
A Comparison.
The Lincoln staff correspondent of
the Bee says:
The judicious manner in which
Treasurer Mortensen has handled the
state’s trust funds has resulted in
adding several thousand dollars to the
temporary school fund during the
three and one half years that he has
been in the office. In the olden times
it was customary for treasureis to
keep on hand large amounts of these
trust funds, using them for their own
benefit instead of for the benefit of
the temporary school fund, for which
they were intended. Mr. Mortensen
has made it a rule to keep these funds
invested as closely as possible and the
temporary fund has benefited accord
ingly. Below will be found a state
ment of the average monthly balance
on hand in the state trust funds dur
ing the last four years of demo-pop
rule and for the three and one-half
years of Mr. Mortensm’s incumbency;
also the amounts realized from inter
est on the same funds for the same
periods:
FUSION.
Av. M’thly
Balance.
1897 .. $191,550
1898 . 161,696
1899 . 321,262
1900 . 263,035
REPUBLICAN.
1903 . 21,950
1904 . 107,087
■'903 me 9Q3
1906 (nine months). 94^547
Amounts realized from interest on
invested permanent school funds and
apportioned semi-annually to the
school districts of the state:
FUSION.
1897 .$174,061
1898 . 169,275
1899 . 171,313
1900 . 157,359
REPUBLICAN.
1903 . 186,560
1904 . 222,900
1905 . 200,039
1905 (first half). 121,680
M. F. Harrington will “rip up” the
railroads in general and the republi
cans in particular at Lincoln the 29th.
FOR SALE BY
E. H. BENEDICT, O’NEIEL, NEB.
Choice farm of 640 acres, black loam,
lies close to school; 2-story 10-room
house, barn 38x40, 20-foot posts, cattle
shed 48x48, another shed 12x48, gran
aries and cribs, wells and windmill, 2
tanks, 2 large groves of ash, boxelder
and other trees, 200acres under cultiv
ation, 200 acies meadow, balance pas
ture, 10 acres hog pasture; 7 miles
northeast of O’Neill; price 25 per acre,
one-third down and balance on time to
suit purchaser. Will consider Missouri
farm, not to exceed 85,000. Some
thoroughbred Short Horn cattle, and
teams and farm machinery that can
go with the place.
A very fine stock ranch of 2,720 acres
3 miles from Ewing, Neb , 2,420 deeded
and 320 school land with lease for 22
years; small amount under cultivation
balance pasture and meadow; 2 good
houses, 2 good barns and other build
ings; watered by Elkhorn river, 4
wells, windmills and tanks; 25 miles
of fence; natural timber enough for
posts and fuel; buildings all new,
painted and in good condition; price
842,000, 810,000 down, balance in five
years at 5 percent. Will consider as
part payment smaller farm near good
t wn.
Half section unimproved land 12
miles southwest of O’Neill, 81,600.
i60 acres meadow land 7 miles south
west of O’Neill, Slogan acre.
Well improved 320, good heavy soil,
creek springs and timber, 1 mile from
Middle Branch, Holt county, Neb.
$15 an acre.
Well improved 320 acre farm 15 miles
northwest of O’Neill, watered by well
and creek; $12 an acre.
Stock ranch of 800 acres, good house,
barns, pastures, grove, 100 acres under
cultivation; 1 mile from Emmet, Neb.
Price $8,850.
Very fine farm of 160 acres 3i miles
west of Inman, Neb. Good house, 2
barns, 8 acres of grove (large trees), 20
acres of timothy and elover, 40 acres
under cultivation, 95 acres meadow, 2
wells with windmill, fenced and cross
fenced, 40 bearing fruit trees and
more younger ones; all good heavy
soil, nearly level, but rolling enough
to drain. $25 an acre, partly on time
if desired.
Fine farm of 160 acres 8 miles north
west of O’Neill. New and well finish
ed 2-story house 16x24, barn, well and
windmill, 70 acres under cultivation,
90 acres meadow. $25 an acre.
A Large List for Sale and
for Exchange.
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