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NO FUND OVERDAWN
Place to Look for Overdrawn Accounts
Is the Funds Themselves and
Not the Warrant Stubs.
Every conceivable means is being
resorted to by the fusion demagogues
in charge of the campaign in Holt
county to deceive and mislead the
voters as to tlie real financial condit
ion of the county. Anyone with the
slightest knowledge of plain business
transactions knows that it is impos
sible for a fund to be overdrawn when
there is money in that fund to pay
whatever draft may be made upon it.
Notwithstanding this simple truth
efforts are being made to deceive the
voters into believing Hut the county
general and bridge funds are and have
been the past two years overdrawn.
Proceeding on the theory that the
county clerk’s warrant book discloses
the condition of the county finances it
could be made 10 appear that more
money is being expended than received
and that the county is running into
debt. To illustrate this, below is
published a certificate from County
Clerk Simar showing the amounts
levied in the general and bridge funds
for the years 1905, 1906 and 1907:
General fund levy (including
transfers) for year 1905.$19,781.
Amount drawn on 1905
levy. 58,196 39
General fund levy (including
transfers) for year 1900 . 34,033.
Amount drawn on 1900 levy. 35,207.75
Bridge fund levy for year 1907 11,360 80
Amount drawn on 1907 levy
(was amount on hand and
does not include amount
levied at June equalization). 7,303.23
I, W. P. Simar, county clerk of Holt
county, hereby certify that the above
figures are the amounts of the levies
and the amounts drawn thereon for
the above named years as shown by
the warrant books in my office.
W. P. SIMAR,
County Clerk.
ll mignt, appear 10 some nuui turac
figures, and the fusionists are endeav
oring to convey that idea, that the
general and bridge funds have been
over-drawn for the years 1905 and 1906
because the amounts of warrants
issued against the levies of these years
exceeded the levies But as a matter
of fact the funds themselves in the
hands of the county treasurer were
not over-arawn. Every warrant that
was issued against the levies of 1905
an I 1906 were paid in cash as soon as
they were taken to the treasurers
office. Now, how does that come?
Simply this way: There is money
coming into all the funds every day
from taxes that have been delinquent
from one to ten years. These taxes
are apportioned oif into the various
fun Is and in this way it is possible to
have in actual cash in any one fund
double the amount of the levy for any
given year. Hence not the levy of a
given year but the fund itself tells
whether there is an overdraft. In
conjuction with the above certificate
we publish another from Mr. Simar
showing the total amounts of warrants
drawn on the general and bridge levies
of 1905:
Warrants numbered 1 to 1577 inclu
sive drawn on 1905 general fund
amounting to $58,196 39.
Warrants numbered 1 to 1239 inclu
sive drawn on 1906 general fund
amounting to $35,267.75.
Warrants numbered 1 to62 inclusive
drawn on 1907 bridge fund amounting
to $7,303 23
I, W. P. Simar, county clerk of Holt
county, hereby certify that the above
are the numbers of warrants and
amounts drawn on the different funds
for the above named years as shown
by the warrant books in my office.
W. P. SIMAR.
You will see by this certificate that
there warrants issued against the
bridge fund levy of 1907 to the amount
of $7,303.23. We have been telling
you that not a penny of the 1907 levies
have been used yet, but how does these
warrants to the amount of $7,303.23
drawn on the 1907 bridge levy compare
with that statement? Have we been
trying to deceive? There will not be
a cent of the 1907 levy in the treasur
er’s hands until the 1907 taxes begin
to come in and they are not due and
collectable until November 1. It is
plain then that these $7,303.23 of
bridge warrants could not be paid out
of the 1907 tax. If the bridge fund
had been exhausted when these war
rants were presented for payment
they would have been registered and
maiked “not paid for want of funds.”
But they were all paid out of funds on
hand in Lhe bridge fund. The war
rants could have just as well been
drawn against the 1906 levy because
the treasurer had the money to pay
them and did pay them. Mr. Harnish
certifies to this as follows:
State of Nebraska, Holt county, ss.
I, J. C. Harnish, treasurer of Holt
county, do hereby certify that the
warrants drawn on the 1907 bridge
levy, were paid by money on hand in
the bridge fund; and that no taxes
have been collected on any of the levies
made for 1907, for the reason that the
1907 tax will not, be due until No
vember 1, 1907. Further, that all the
warrants that have been presented at
this office for payment, have been paid
in cash: and that no warrants have
been presented, registered and unpaid
for want of funds.
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand this 23rd day of
October,1907. J. O. HARNISH,
County Treasurer.
It is noticed that Mr. Harnish also
cjrtities that all the warrants present
ed to the treasurer’s office have been
paid in cash. He conld not tiave paid
them if he did not have the money in
those funds. He might have done so
by doing as the fusion treasurer’s have
done when a fund was exhausted—use
the money belonging to townships and
school districts. But this has not
been done in a single instance. The
warrants were all paid with money on
hand in the fund on which the war
rants were drawn. Therefore there is
not a dollar of outstanding unpaid
warrants for the lack of funds. The
total amount of claims against the
county, legal' and illegal, is a little
over $21,000. With the money now on
hand in the general and bridge funds
and that collectable November 1 un
der the 1907 levy 1 he county has
enough money to pay all these claims
and have twelve or fifteen thousand
dollars left. Compare that with the
condition when the last fusion treas
urer went out of office and see if you
don’t think the whole republican
ticket should be elected. Dan Cron
in’s term expired January 7,1900, with
the county owing dvt r $21,000 more
than it could pay. Hainish’s first
year will expire January 6, 1907, with
all that debt paid off and nearly
$15,000 ahead.
TWO WAYS OF DOING IT
Same Results Quietly Obtained Over
Which Fusionists Make Grand
Stand Plays.
Up at Bassett last week there were
some mandamus cases before Judge
Harrington to compel the Northwest
ern railroad to fnrnish cars to hay
shiDpers. Then the official organ of
Judge Harrington at O’Neill came out
with a great blare of trumpets in a
half-page display of the event to boom
Judge Harrington’s candidacy. The
Independent may as well have said in
so many words that the mandamus
cases were started purely for political
reasons. It also tried to connect the
two republican candidates for district
judges and the “railroad attorney” at
O’Neill with the cases. Douglas lives
at Bassett and there is nothing un
usual in the fact that he was at home.
Jenckes came in from Boyd county
and Dickson from O'Neill to confer
with Mr. Douglas in regard to a speak
ing tour of nolt county which Mr.
Douglas began this week and also to
arrange for meetings at dill'erent
places in the district where Senator
Brown and Attorney General Thomp
son will speak next week. Mr. Dick
son did not even know that there were
any hay car cases billed for Bassett
until he got onto the train at O’Neill
and found A. F. Mullen on his way to
Bassett on the political mission of
mandamusing the railroad. What
these three men could have done for
or against the mandamuses is not
made clear by the Independent.
Does the Independent suppose, had
they known anything about the cases,
that they would entertain the thought
that their presence would have any
bearing on Judge Harrington’s ruling
on the application'? The court did
not enter a writ because the hay
shippers were supplied with cars by
tlie railroad simply being notified that,
a wr't would he applied for. That
could have been done without a term
of court and the taxpayers of Rock
county would have been saved the ex
pense of convening and dismissing
court. Down here in Holt when
court is convened Bailiff McG.nnis
opens it in the morning and Bailiff
Pinkerman comes in from the country
and adjournes it in the afternoon and
the taxpayers pay them $2 10 each.
But had court not convened and the
cars secured by notifying tlie railroad
company’s freight agent there would
have been no material for a grand
stand flourish to catch suckers on the
Harrington political hook.
Down at Page last Saturday the
same results were obtained by a re
publican lawyer in a quiet way that
it took all the district court machin
ery to obtain at Bassett on Monday.
There has been no blare of trumpets
about it or grandstand plays to pro
claim tliata republican lawyer brought
a railroad company to time. There
were no expensive lawsuits with court
costs and attorneys’ fees to pay and
there has been no proclaiming from
the housetops that a republican lawyer
forced the railroads to supply cars to
shippers without the aid of the court.
A gentleman from the southern part
of the slate was in the Page country
last week and bought a carof potatoes.
Ho was trying to get a car from the
Greit Northern railroad in which to
ship them to his home, but although
empty cars stood on the tracks at
Page the railroad would not let him
have one and there his potatoes lay
exposed to the weather. A republi
can attorney from O’Neill was in Page
last Saturday and learning of the
gentlemen’s prediciment he went to
the railway station and telegraphed
the freight agent that if a car was not
furnished at once to ship those pota
toes suit would be commenced against
the railroad company. The gentle
man got his car and it didn’t cost him
a cent.
Tlie Rock county hay shippers could
have got cars the same way. They
could have got them by applying to
the railway commission. They could
have got them just as quick with
Douglas and Jenckes presiding as
judges as with Harrington and West
over.
Some voters may be misled by the
claim of the fusionists that the Long
Pine Journal, an alleged republican
newspaper, is refusing to support J.
A. Douglas for district judge, and is
bitterly attacking him. The facts
are that the Long Pine Journal was
sold in February, 1906, by Luke M.
Bates, now register of the U. S. Land
Office at Valentine, to William Glover
of Aurora, a life-long democrat. The
paper is being run by Glover’s son-in
law, who is also a democrat. The
Long Pine Journal has not been a re
publican paper for over a year and a
half. The above facts come from Mr.
Bates himself, and are correct. Every
republican newspaper in the district
is supporting Mr. Douglas for judge.
Republican Meetings.
R. R. Dickson and James C. Gar
nish will address the voters of Scott
township at Seottvilie on Monday
night, October 28; at Phoenix Tuesday
night, October 29. These men are
well qualified to discuss the financial
condition of Golt county and every
taxpayer is invited to attend these
meetings.
LEGISLATIVE RECORD
Douglas Replies to Fusion
Strictures
Editor O’Neill Frontier: Please per
mit me through the columns of your
paper to answer some of the charges
made against me in this campaign,
principally by the Holt County Inde
pendent. If that paper was being
sent only to its regular subscribers I
would pay no attention to it, but it is
circulating throughout the district in
large numbers, and those who do not
know its methods might accept as
true many of its statements.
It charges that in the legislature
I dodged a number of bills pertaining
to failroads, not voting though I was
present, and asserts that I was re
sponsible for the defeat of Senator
Cady’s Constitutional Amendment
bill, S. F. No. 253, giving the impres
sion that I opposed the Ltailway Com
mission idea. I did not dodge a bill
mentioned by the Independent, and
in every instance where that paper
says I was present and did not vote
the record shows that I was absent.
It may be asked why I was absent
when these bills were voted on. It
hardly ever happens that a bill is
voted on in either branch that there
are not some members absent, and it
often happens that the introducer of
a bill is absent when it is voted on.
Committee work, and other duties
frequently call members away from
their respective branches during ses
sions, and I was chairman of the com
mittee on revenue and taxation, and
a member of several other important
committees which took a good deal of
my time, and required me to be fre
quently absent from the house while
it was h> session.
The bills referred to by the Inde
pendent came on for passage during
the last days of the session, and at a
time when about all of my time was
taken up in securing the passage by
the senate of the wolf bounty bill
which I had introduced in the house.
This bill passed the senate on the
02nd day of the session, after several
days of hard work on my part in get
ting it out of the sifting committee,
and getting the promise of enough
votes to pass it. It passed the senate,
with amendments, and with only one
vote to spare. I then had to get the
house to concur in the senate amend
ments, and after that was done, had
to work hard with the governor to
prevent him vetoing it, and also from
cutting out of the appropriation bill
the $15,000 for the payment of the
bounty provided for by the bill.
The Independent says 1 dodged Sen
ate File 166, which provided for equal
facilities as to grain elevetor sites,
side tracks, switches, etc. I had voted
for a companion bill to this which
passed the house, being House Roll
351, (see page 964 of the House Jour
nal, 1905). The Independent says I
was present and dodged, and the rec
ord shows 1 was absent and not vot
ing. I was not against the bill, and
on the contrary I favored it. It came
up in the house for passage on the
63rd, or last day of the session, the
day I was getting the wolf bounty bill
disposed of in the house on the senate
amendments, and laboring with the
governor to prevent its veto and the
veto of the appropriation.
Perhaps the wolf bounty act is not
of great impotrance but still it is of
value to the people of this judicial
district, and I believe I was justified
in absenting myself from the house to
lopk after it in the senate and before
the governor.
The charge about my having been
responsible for the death of Senator
Cady’s Railway Commission bill is the
vilest kind of a lie. I supported three
different Railway Commission bills
We could not pass all of them, and we
finally agreed on Senator Cady’s bill
numbered 196, and the others were in
definate.lv postponed by the house or
senate. 1 voted for the Commission
bill that, passed both houses. (Sec
House Journal 1905, page 1154).
The Independent charges me with
having spent a day in Norfolk during
tile campaign and endeavors to leave
tlie impression that Mr. Jenckes and
1 were there conferring with railroad
officials. At tiie time referred to ]
stopped over night in Norfolk on my
way from the State Convention to
Boyd oounty. 1 saw no one in Nor
folk I knew, and was obliged to wait
there over night, for a train to Boyd
county. Mr. Jenckes was not witli
me in Norfolk.
The Independent in its last issue
connects ray name witli certain hay
car cases recently instituted here, and
indirectly charges that I was connect
ed with the cases on behalf of the rail
road company. 1 had come home Sun
day morning from a ten days absence
in the campaign, and it happened
that these cases were on for hearing
the next day. 1 had nothing what
ever to do witli any of these cases, and
that paper’s accusation about my hav
ing been in any conference with any
attorneys or persons about those cases
is false in every particular.
The other charges made by the llolt
Oounty Independent are as unjust,
unfair and false as the ones referred
to, and that paper’s methods should
condemn any candidate it supports
The people of this district want fair
play in the courts and they can hardly
expect it from judges who are elected
by the unfair methods employed by
the Hole County Independent and the
clique who use it for their political
and personal advancement
Respect fu 11 v,
J. A. Douglas.
Bassett, October 21st.
HOT SHOT FROM CORNELL
The Chicago and Northwestern rail
road through its political boss, Ben
jamin T. While, of Omaha, has se
lelected Charles H. Cornell of Valen
tine, to run the campaign for both
Douglas and Jenckes. The chairman
ship was bestowed by White in person,
and no clearer proof has been furnished
In this contest of the dominating In
fluence of the Northwestern railroad
in this Judicial District than is shown
in the selection of Cornell. From the
day that he landed In Cherry county
twenty-live years ago, he has been a
pass-holder, a pass-peddler, a railroad
politician agent and a campaign boodle
distributer in his home county. From
the day that he arrived in this county
up lo the present moment lie has
never paid a dollar railroad fare,
neither has any member of his family.
He served as a member in one ses
sion of the legislature, and no more
subservent tool of the railroad com
pany ever sat in that body.
The railroad company has furnished
him m mey with which to make this
contest. They are even paying for tin
paper and postage stamps he is using.
Cornell has the railroad brand all over
him. He never drew a free political
breath in twenty-live years. He stands
for all that is worst in railroad poli
tics. He stands for every corrupt in
fluence that the railroads have exer
cised in Nebraska politics, it is due
the voters of this district that they
shall know the kind of man Cornell is.
When any of them receive a letter
from Cornell they will know who it
was that hired him to send it. They
will know whose campaign boodle is
doing the business.
We urge every friend of good govern
ment in this district to advise the
people fully as to this corrupt poli
tician.—Holt County Independent.
Tt has been my pleasure as chairman
of the republican congressional com
mittee, for three consecutive cam
paigns, in behalf of Honorable M. P
Kinkaid, to conduct the same upon
the issues without resort to rancor or
personalities. On accepting the ju
dicial chairmanship at the request of
Messrs. Douglas and Jenckes, the re
publican canidates, I had no reason to
suspect that contrary methods would
be employed. However the foregoing
attack is so very malicious, so incon
sistent, and, in several statements, so
untruthful, it demands a reply. I
therefore respectfully submit the fol
lowing:
1st. I was in this county three
years ahead of any railway, and was a
pass holder before the railway or any
politics reached Valentine, and con
tinuously until a republican legisla
ture relieved me of that perogative,
since which time 1 have had at no
time any transportation, directly nor
through any evasion ol the law.
2nd. I am, and have been since he
was an attorney in general
practice at Norfolk, this stale,
an acquaintance and friend of Mr. B.
T. White, general attorney for the
Northwestern railway, and in the
times I have visited his olllce in the
headquarters at Omaha, he has never
made a request of me any man need
blush to entertain. The extent of my
“pass-peddling” has been an occasion
al request by me, of Mr. Bidwell, the
Manager, for trip-transportation for
indigent sick to get to the hospital in
Omaha, an occasional recommenda
tion to iniluence cattle shipments to
the Northwestern, and a like occasion
al recommendation for an army officer
at Fort .Niobrara, in the interest of
the retention of the post. I have not
been a "pass-peddler” in a political
sense and that statement is false.
3rd. As chairman of our county cen
tral committee, 1 have collected and
disbursed the funds for the legitimate
campaign expenses the same as any
ottier chairman, but the charge of the
"independent” that I have been a
"boodle distributor in the county” is
likewise false.
4th. The charge that Mr. White or
anyone else, for any railway company,
or any other corporation, has ap
proached me, by word, letter or other
wise, or that any railway company is
furnishing me as much as as a penny,
a postage stamp or a sheet of paper is
also absolutely false.
5lh. If the charge that “He never
drew a free political breath for twen
ty-live years” refers to my pass-hold
ing, J may be pardoned lor saying I
I lave, for a greater portion of the time
at least, had distinguished company
not always of my own party. On my
parting trip on my lasty ear’s pass to
Omaha, 1 was in company with Judge
Westover and Mr. Scott, his stenog
rapher, when the three of us, with
several others on that train, were
harvesting the last fruits of our sub
serviency for that year. We were all
three favored for “08” but a business
like republican legislature deprived
us of that genial pasteboard compan
ionship. If I was doing wrong in
carrying a pass 1 am glad, so long as I
had to be “set afoot” that the repub
lican party, the party of Theodore
Roosevelt, Douglas and Jenckes, on
discovering the same, had the courage
to act at once, and effectively. I am
glad that I do not belong to an in
cipient, “double-barreled” organiza
tion which has been resolving agaiDSt
it in convention for nearly twenty
years, while all the time the larger
number of its delegates, like Judge
Westover, carried the “despised cor
rupter of official integrity.”
(ith. In visiting Mr. White’s office
in Omaha, I have met the same dis
tinguished Judge, and if I, not an
office holder, nor office seeker, did
wrong in making an occasional visit
there, wtiat can be said of the Judge,
the “Independent’s” candidate, who
was and is presiding over and ruling
upon the causes brought by thepeople,
igainst the railroads? If Mr. White’s
■iociely was corrupting, whom would
tie most likely wish to corrupt, a mere
•itizen or a Judge? In other words if
f was in the pay of the railways, as a
private citizen, as the Independent
would have you believe, in whose pay
was the Judge who was doing the
same identical things fur which I am
so mercilessly arraigned by the “Inde
pendent?” If I carry the “railroad
brand;” if the “railroad company has
furnished him (me) the money to make
this contest;” if they are “even pay
ing for the postage stamps he (I) is
using; pray, what particular
"BRAND” does your preferred candi*
date carry, and who is footing his
stationary and postage bills?
If 1 am a “corrupt politician” due
to my railway affiliations, why is the
“Independent” supporting a like
“corrupt politician” for an office that
should be, above all others, free from
corrupting intiuences? If 1 have nut
“drawn a free political breath in
twenty-live years,” it being impreg
nated witli the impure gasses of the
Northwestern, 1 suppose the Judge
being in official life, was to go me sev
eral better, since he was not only able
to stand the impregnated ozone of the
Northwestern, but “inhaled”an equal
amount of unhealthy B. & M. annual
ly, and on his long vacations to the
Pacific coast, his vigorous constitution
enabled him to withstand all those
“courtecies” no matter in what par
ticular manner they might have been
“tainted.” I, on the other hand,
(excepting for a short time) being a
plain citizen, with no official designa
tion, was obliged to be content with
straight Northwestern, “good only
from the Wyoming line to the Mis
souri river.”
But what credence can you place in
au editor, Mr. Voter, who seeks to in
fluence you through his columns in the
article which I have quoted, when
most of his charges are maliciously
false and when the ones which he in
the least can sustair, can be said of
the candidate whom he has supported
through three campaigns, and is now
championing for a fourth election, all
the time knowing all the facts?
0. FT. Cornell, Chairman,
Republican Judicial Committee,
15th District, Nebraska.
Valentine, Nebr,, Oct. 21,1907.
