The Frontier
Published by D. H. CHON III.
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
COUNTY TICKET
Treasurer. J. C. Harnlsb, O’Neill
Clerk.W. P. Simar, Atkinson
Clerk Court..J. N. Sturdevant, Stuart
Sheriir.C. E Ilall, O’Neill
County Judge... C. J. Malone, Inman
SuDt.Florence K. Zink, Stuart
Assessor.L. E. Skidmore, Ewing
Surveyor.W. W. Page. Page
Coroner.Dr. E. T. Wilson, O’Neill
SUPERVISORS
Second District.W. S. Roberts
Fourth District.J- L. Roll
Sixth District.Rodell Root
Seventh District.Jacob Rocke
DISTRICT JUDGES
J. A. Douglas.Bassett
D. B. Jenckes.Chadron
It Is the opinion of everyone who
has seen Douglas and Jenckes that
they will make exepllary Judges.
O'Neill will give L. E. Skidmore a
big vote for assessor. He Is well quall
lled for the place and has an easy vic
tory.
Dr. Wilson makes a good candidate
for coroner and no one coming before
him for official consideration, If elected,
will have any complaint.
If you think the raising of the stand
ard of the schools of the county 100
per cent, the past two years Is worth
anything, vote to keep Miss Zink In the
superintendent's office.
John Slurdevant Is of the right qual
ity for clerk of the district court and
you should not fall to make a cross
opposite his name. Or a cross In the
republican circle at the top will do Just
ns well.
Clarence Malone has made an able
and consistent county Judge and gives
satisfaction to democrats and populists
and republicans alike. His re-election
Is assured, but let's make it pretty
nearly unanimous.
W. H. Bedford was a Hurrlngton
tool in the legislature and would be
the sume thing on the board of super
visors. If you want men on the board
who are under no obligations to uny
• kind of rlngsters vote for the republi
can candidates.
The supervisor situation resolves
Itself into the plain proposition of hav
ing either a board to administer the
uffairs of the county in the Interests
of ull the people or a Hurrlngtonized
body that will run things in the in
terests of the ring.
If there is any excuse for any re
publican voting anything but the
straight party ticket we don’t know of
it. The ticket is composed of clean,
capable men throughout, and a cross in
the circle at the top will leave any
man's conscience clear.
If honesty and faithful service count
for anything, W. P. Slmar will get
about the biggest majority ever given
a candidate In the county. The clerk's
otllce has been kept in fine shape dur
ing Mr. Slmar’8 term and he is ac
commodating and obliging to ull.
It is just as consistent for Charley
Hall to have an eight-year tenure us
for John Harmon, or for Judge Har
rington to want twelve years and West
over sixteen, isn't it? Charley has
made an Ideal sheriff, and for that rea
son should be given a bigger majority
than ever.
“I don't suppose there is a word of
truth in it," suid a good democrat the
other duy in reference to the Independ
ent’s statements about the finances of
the county. "It is strange to me," he
continued, "that any newspaper should
feel Itself called upon to spread abroad
such slanderous reports to the detri
ment of the community."
The claim of the fusionlsts that the
county is bankrupt and their complaint
thut the county is getting only 2 per
cent, interest on its deposits in the
banks are contradictory statements
that look odd placed beside each other.
It is a little strange that the county
has any money to loan even at 2 per
cent, if it is true that it is “broke."
Fusion orators in this county argue
that Loomis should be elected chief
Justice of the supreme court that we
muy have a divided court politically
so that political bias will not creep
into the rulings of the court. They
are not asking for a politically divided
district court, however. In fact they
are importuning the voters to elect a
partisan district court.
Though nominated on two partisan
tickets. Judge Westover is circulating
cards appealing for the support of non
partisan voters. If Judge Westover
wanted the non-partisan vote why
didn't he do as Judge Welsh in the
Norfolk district, and Judge Grimes in
the North Platte district, run as a
strictly independent candidate? The
play for a non-partisan bench with a
partisan candidate is decidedly incon
sistent. __ __
I LET PEACE AND PROSPERITY
CONTINUE.
Relieving that the majority of citi
zens will arrive at a sane conclusion
and proper solution of important pub
lic questions no fear Is entertained of
the outcome of next Tuesday's election
In this county. Lest we forget some of
the benefits enjoyed in recent years
and now bestowed upon us as a people,
this paper cannot refrain from making
a few observations as to our county
affairs as a final word before the bal
lots are cast.
The majority of us are glad for the
peace and prosperity we enjoy, feel a
certain degree of pride In the advance
ment made by the community ns a
whole and face the future with an
abiding faith that a Divine Providence
still rules In the affairs of men.
Politics have always been strenuous
In Holt county. Though other com
munities may be politically tranquil,
we are prone here, perhaps too much
so, to enter into the contest wirii an
earnestness as though the fate if the
nation lingered on the outcome. Un
fortunately the judicial contest adds
fuel to the flame each succeeding four
years and affairs finally shape them
selves to make Holt county the one
great battleground for the local and
judicial fight. Again unfortunately our
contests are not for the mere purpose
of determining which of the great po
litical parties are to control the offices.
As a mere matter of politics It amounts
to nothing whether democrats or re
publicans hold the county offices. Fully
as competent men to run a county of
fice satisfactorily to the taxpayers can
be found in one party as another. The
proposition must be admitted us unim
peachable evidence, however, that the
competent ones are not always nomi
nated. Then the taxpayers have to ex
periment. Yet It Is not always wise to
experiment. Suppose, Mr. Farmer, you
had proved by a number of years' ex
perience that a certain method of feed
ing swine, fattened them quickly and
brought you large and speedy returns.
Suppose some one came along and sug
gested that you discard the system you
had used for years and try a new and
uncertain process on your whole herd
of swine. Would you do It? Suppose
again that your system of hog growing
was not satisfactory to you and some
one came along and suggested a way
whereby you could make It profitable.
The chances are you would try it.
Now then this matter of county gov
ernment Is more business than politics,
yet It has Its political side, especially
In Holt county. Have the affairs of
the county not been administered to
your satisfaction by the republican offi
cials now In office and those before you
for election this fall?
Take the sheriff’s office. Has there
ever been as good a sheriff as Charley
Hall In this county? You know, or
the most of you, what it was when
Mr. Hall took it six years ago. You
know that if you wanted to transact
business at that office previous to
Hall’s incumbency altogether likely you
would have to first make a search of
the barrooms for that official. You
know, too, that that official went out of
public office short In his accounts. We
would not insult any voter by asking
him if he wanted another such a sher
iff.
Has not J. C. Harnish made n faith
ful, honest and competent treasurer?
Is it worth while experimenting on a
new man In that office? The last fus
ion treasurer Illegally used thousands
of dollars of your school and township
money to pay county warrants and
you could not get the money when
your township or school district needed
It. Harnish has not used a dollur il
legally and the townships and schools
get all the money due them whenever
they call for it. As a man faithful to
the trust bestowed upon him by ap
pointment and experienced in the du
ties of treasurer isn't Mr. Harnish en
titled to your vote for a full term?
Hasn’t C. J. Malone made a good
county Judge, and do you not believe
the election of his opponent would be a
serious mistake and possibly a costly
experiment? Malone is a substantial
citizen of the county, has education
and ability, has had two years experi
ence as county judge and Is universally
regarded as a fair, competent and
trustworthy official. His re-election
will Insure the continued safe adminis
tration of that Important office, where
good judgment, a knowledge of the law
and a sense of justice are needed.
Hus W. P. Simar conducted the coun
ty clerk’s office in a manner satisfac
tory to you? This is an Important
branch of our county government and
Mr. Simar has proved his worth in that
office by two years' service. He doesn’t
claim to be a politician, but has made
good as the custodian of the most Im
portant records of the county. That is
what the voters want, and we believe
will confer the honor of another term
on Mr. Simar by an Increased major
ity.
Has not Miss Zink made good as
county superintendent and broken
down much of the prejudice against a
woman holding office? The standard of
our schools have been raised 100 per
cent, the past two years through the
active, earnest and untiring endeavors
of the lady from Sand Creek and It
would appear that the voters would be
little short of Ingrates if they failed to
roll up for her an overwhelming ma
jority. The schools of the county were
at low ebb when Miss Zink took
charge of the office two years ago,
while today they rank with any in the
state. It is a difficult office to till and
please all of the numerous patrons,
but Miss Zink has always done what
she believed to be for the best inter
ests of the schools.
J. N. Sturdovant has made a good
citizen of the county for a quarter of
a century and there is no reason why
he would not make a good official as
clerk of the district court. He has the
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education, energy and business training
to qualify him for that office, has grown
from boyhood to manhood in this coun
ty and we believe would make an ex
cellent official.
L. E. Skidmore has had several years'
experience on the board of supervisors,
which especially qualifies him for as
sessor. W. W. Page has served the
county in the past as surveyor and his
qualifications for that office are well
known. Dr. E. T. Wilson, for coroner,
Is an energetic and active physician in
practice in O’Neill and a thorough
going gentleman who makes a friend
wherever he makes an acquaintance.
The business side of our county gov
ernment, which is the most Important,
has been generally satisfactory to the
taxpyaers during the tenure of the re
publicans. There has been a noticeable
absence of partisan feeling or personal
rancor on the part of the officers. There
Is a well defined sentiment abroad that
a restoration of the fusionists would
revive the partisan sentiment once
prominent in the court house and again
Ilarrlngtonize and Mullenice our coun
ty offices. Wo are getting along nicely
now and the election of the republican
ticket will continue the good work.
BIG THIEVES ESCAPE.
It Is claimed for Westover and Har
rington that as district judges they
have reduced crime to the minimum in
the Fifteenth district and that many
stock rustlers have been sent to the
penitentiary by them. Credit is also
given them for the work done by a
former republican judge in breaking up
a notorious band of outlaws that
preyed upon the ranchers and settlers
from tlie Black Hills region east to the
further developed settlements, in the
"wild and wooly" days of six-shfooters
and bad men.
The claim that stock rustling has
been summarily and invariably pun
ished will bear some revision. Has
anybody been punished for the raid on
the Ferguson ranch, near Atkinson,
tbout a year ago? Several said to have
jeen implicated in it were brought be
ore the district court of Holt county,
and how many of them are serving
sentences in the penitentiary? Is there
a solitary one suffering any legal retri
bution, although practically the whole
bunch were convicted on the open con
fession of one of the defendants. What
mysterious link of legal technicalities
or "consanguinity of affinity" has
kept them from the penalty of the
law? What sympathetic chord was
touched in behalf of the chap who stole
the horse on the streets of O’Neill and
took it to Knox county, that a pop
county attorney should Intervene and
dismiss the case against him?
But these are only some of the "lit
tle fishes" who have swam through
the rent in the ludtctal net. The rent
was extensive enough to let through
some pretty big fish. How about Bar
ney McGreevy and Pat Hagerty and
Myron Irwin and Pat Handldy and a
few more of them? Did not McGreevy
and Hagerty and Handley steal enough
cold cash of the people of Holt coun
ty to pay for every head of cattle,
swine or horses that have been stolen
in the Fifteenth judicial district the
past dozen years? Have they or either
of them ever been punished for that?
McGreevy was the only one that there
was ever any pretense made to prose
cute. He was taken before Judge
Westover at Basset on a half dozen
complaints filed by the depositors. Mike
Harrington who is now working
night and day for the re-election of
Westover and Bro. Jim, appeared in
court in defense oi tne nans wrecker,
and defaulting treasurer. Art Mullen,
who Is also hotfooting it over the coun
try and writing editorials for their re
election, s'nys he was prosecuting Mc
Greevy. McGreevyls attorney asked
for the adjournment of court several
times—and it was granted and he be
sieged the depositors to settle and dis
miss the cases. The depositors refused
to settle. No record was kept of the
prosecuting attorney working himself
into a sweat to secure the prosecution
of the cases, and after adjournment
from time to time at the request of Mc
Oreevy's attorney to let the prosecu
tion continue their bombardment of the
depositors for a settlement the cases
were finally dumped out of court be
cause the depositors were trying to
make a collection agency out of the
court! The prosecution on the com
plaints of the depositors was annulled
at one stroke, although one of the de
positors filing a complaint was not
there at all, had no part in the alleged
use of the court us a "collection
agency" and did not know even that a
change of venue had been taken on his
ease.
MeGreevey and Hagerty stole $65,000
or $70.00 in one swoop. Pat Handley
"touched” Grattan township for about
$5,000. Has anybody heard of them suf
fering any legal penalty? Neither Hag
erty nor Handley were ever arrested
and after the farce in the McGreevy
cases tile county wisely took down the
reward for the apprehension of Hag
er t y lest the expenditure of $1,000 to
get him would prove as fruitless as that
silent to get McGreevy.
The records of the fusionists in crim
inal prosecution discloses many things
that call for a change in the judiciary,
but nothing they should boast of.
PENALTY FOR CORRUPT PRAC
TICE.
The corrupt practice act makes it
tisky business lor voters to be inliu
enced by anything hut a sense of duty
in casting their ballots. Any one at
tempting to bribe a voter or the voter
bribed is subject to a tine of $50 or
imprisonment in the county jail for
six months.
It is an open secret that the fusion
ltaders of this county' have used money
lavishly to carry elections and it is
well for the voters to be informed of
their methods. They will pay a stip
ulated sum from $50 to $100 to a cer
tain individual in certain precincts if
a specified number of votes are cast
i nthat precinct for the fusion candi
dates on election day. This system has
been in vogue among the fusion bosses
In this county ever since the day they
had everything their own way and did
not need to buy votes.
The corrupt practice act imposes a
severe penalty on anyone convicted of
giving or accepting a bribe. Voters
should be on the lookout for any at
tempts to corrupt the election. Anyone
so doing lays himself liable to fine or
imprisonment.
SCHOOL AND TOWNSHIP MONEY
A word with township and school
treasurers. You haven’t forgot the diffi
culty you had in getting money belong
ing to your districts when the last fu
sion county treasurer was in office. You
haven’t forgot your great surprise when
you went to the treassurer's office after
the republican treasurer came in and
found hundreds of dollars there for you
when you had been told all along by the
fusion treasurer—or rather, his clerks,
for he was rarely in the office himself—
that there was nothing for you or may
be a few dollars at the best.
You have been getting your money
rlfeht along whenever you wanted it the
past two years, haven't you? When you
go to the county treasurer’s office to
get your money you can find out to a
penny what is due your township or
school district, and you get it, don't
you?
What is the reason of this? You
couldn’t get your money when Dan
Cronin was treasurer because Dan was
using it to pay county warrants. You
can get It of Harnish now because he
doesn't use it to pay county warrants.
The money is always there for you.
You can get it anytime you want it.
Now', if you are satisfied with that con
dition, vote for Harnish.
INTEREST ON COUNTY DEPOSITS
The fusion candidate for county treas
urer has the audacity to claim in a let
ter he is sending out that if elected he
will see that the county gets three per
cent, instead of two per cent, for the
county deposits. John Robertson cer
tainly knows better than that. If he
doesn't he has no business being a can
didate for county treasurer. If that is
all he knows about the county treasur
er's office he is not a safe man to put
there. He says in his letter:
“If the county board and the treasur
er are in harmony there will be no trou
ble in getting three per cent, for the
funds. All that Is necessary is that we
insist that business be done for the
county on business principles.”
Now, John Robertson knows if he
knows enough to be county treasurer
that the county treasurer has absolute
ly nothing to say about what rate of
interest shall be lfaid by the banks for
county money. The matter of deposit
ing funds of the county is governed en
tirely by law and the banks who take
the deposits. The law says that county
money shall not be loaned to bankers
at a lower rate of interest than 2 per
cent. Two per cent, then is a legal bid.
The banks of Holt county have com
bined and bid the minimum legal bid
for the county money. The treasurer
has nothing to say about where the
money is to be deposited but is directed
by the board of supervisors where to
deposit it. The banks file their bid and
bond with the county board and if both
bid and bond are legal the board is
compelled by law to accept the bid and
approve the bond. They can not de
posit the money in banks of other coun
ties even at a higher rate of interest
when the home county banks offer a
legal rate of interest and furnish a
legal bond.
A year ago last winter the county
board labored hard to secure a higher
rate of interest for the county money,
hut ^he banks formed a combine and
bid the minimum legal bid of 2 per
cent., furnished legal bonds and the
board could do absolutely nothing but
accept the bid and approve the bonds.
They tried to get some help from the
populist county attorney to break the
combine and secure a higher rate of
interest for the county money. But the
county attorney made no effort to se
cure a higher rate. He no doubt want
ed tile 2 per cent, bid to stand so he
would have a little politics to play
later.
If John Robertson should be elected
county treasurer and the banks of the
county bid 2 per cent, for the county
money that’s all the county will get.
The Stuart Advocate says it knows
what a republican is and asks, "What
is a fusionist?” The answer is plain
as applied to fusion in Holt county.
It is a combination of what is left of
the once great pop party with the Har
tingtonized element of democracy
brought about by the designing of a
ring of greedy political manipulators
for the purpose of Harrlngtonizing the
effices.
SHAME, GENTLEMEN, SHAME!
A half truth Is worse than a whole
falsehood. The local organ of the strat
egy board has been dealing In half
truths all through the campaign and
will doubtless continue to do so to the
last issue. Many marked Illustrations
of this appeared last week. They are
afraid to let the whole truth out for
they know the truth clearly and posi
tively stated sweeps away the whole
fabric of fusion campaign argument
and leaves absolutely nothing to sup
port them.
One instance of attempted deception
in the last Issue of the strategy board's
organ is as amusing as it is noticeable.
They copy the stub of a warrant, and
have County Clerk Slinar certify to 1 a
genuineness In an endeavor to dispute
what the Frontier has been telling you
all along that not one cent of the 1907
levy has been used yet to take up coun
ty warrants. An article in these col
umns last week made this proposition
clear and clearly disproved by the rec
ords the claim made by the Independ
ent. The Frontier anticipated some
such statement from fusion headquar
ters. The extended limbed gentleman
compiling the deceptive articles for the
Independent had the same opportunity
to publish the truth concerning these
J7,303.23 bridge fund warrants issued on
the 1907 levy that The Frontier had, but
he preferred to continue the policy of
deception that has become chronic w ith
the fusion bunch of ringsters. He was
given v certified copy by Mr. Simar
identical to whqt The Frontier pub
lished last week which showed that
those warrants drawn on the 1907 levy
were not paid and could not possibly
be paid out of the levy that has not
yet been collected, but were paid in
cash out of money on hand in the
bridge fund. Mr. Simar’s certificate
showed that in these words: “Was
amount on hand and does not include
amount levied at June equalization.”
T*hey evidently did not like the reading
of that certificate after they got it. It
would not serve the purpose of decep
tion they intended. Hence the honor
able chairman of the populist county
committee went to the county clerk's
office and got a copy of the stub of
warrant No. 62 for $60. The stub of
course shows the amount of the levy
tor 1S07 and the amount issued against
the levy. They did not go into the
whole truth and say that in truth and
in fact that that warrant and the to
tal amount of that issue of warrants
was not against the 1907 levy at all but
that the whole of that issue of war
rants amounting to $7,303.23 were paid
in actual cash by the county treasurer
with money he had on hand In the
bridge fund, and«that in very truth and
very fact not one penny of the 1907 levy
has been used. O, no! that would not
serve their purpose of deception and il
lusion. They want it to appear that
$7,303.23 of the 1907 bridge levy of $11,
366.80 had already been expended and
they couldn’t do that by telling you the
whole truth. These warrants to the
amount of $7,303.23 were simply issued
on the 1907 levy. The 1907 levy was not
yet collected, but there was money in
the bridge fund in the treasurer’s office
to pay those warrants without waiting
until the 1907 levy was collected, hence
they were paid and therefore the whole
of the 1907 levy amounting to $11,366.80
still remains.
Shame on such methods to deceive
and to hide the truth! Shame to the
men who will call themselves Christian
gentlemen and worthy citizens that will
stoop to such base and belittling meth
ods! Sovreign citizens of Holt county,
what do you think of such damnable
political traffic?
“CORPORATION TOOLS.”
The efforts of the fusion campaign
writers in this county to inject the
railroad pass into politics this fall
would be very amusing were they not
-o deceptive and grossly misrepresent
ative. They have studiously steered
clear of Westover’s pass grabbing pro
pensities and have avoided all mention
of the publisher of the Holt County
Independent having been the official
pass distributor for the Elkhorn Valley
Editorial association. Neither have
l hey referred once to the rank rail
road record of their candidate
or supreme judge. Douglas and
Jenckes, the republican candidates for
district judges, have been pictured as
some unnatural specimens of human
creation with the horns and cloven
hoofs who desire to devastate and con
sume ihe community in which they
have lived as peaceable and honored
citizens for many years. Out of the
mere fact that each of them have per
formed legal services for a railroad
company a great mountain of imagin
ary subserviency is erected and every
artifice of the deceiver and traducer
is brought into play to arouse base
passion and prejudice.
In view of the record of Judge West
over, who seeks a fourth term, as a
pass-grabbing district judge it is the
rankest kind of inconsistency to raise
such a cry against the republican can
didates. Neither of the republican
candidates ever had a pass on the
terms which Westover accepted them.
Westover always rode on passes on the
Northwestern and Burlington railroads
until prohibited from doing so by a re
publican legislature. So did every
member of his family and his court re
porter. Douglas and Jenckes had
passes when they were in the employ
of the railroads as attorneys. It would
be just as consistent to call a brake
man or a conductor or an engineer a
pass-grabber because the railroad fur
nishes himself and family with passes
when they wish to take a trip as to
to call an attorney who is in the em
p! >y of a railroad a pass-grabber.
Djuglas and Jenckes turned in their
passes when they severed their con
nection with the railroad. Westover and
Scott held onto theirs until it was
taken away from them by law. Doug
las and Jenckes paid for their passes
in legal services. What kind of serv
ile did Judge Westover and Reporter
Scott render for their passes? If these
two attorneys got railroad passes only
on the condition they act as attorneys
for the railroad company in law suits,
what were the conditions on which
the district judge sitting in judgment
In the same law suits, got his passes?
Were the passes meant for a bribe to
3ccure favorable judgment for the
railroad? The supporters of Judge
Westover for a fourth term should
explain some of these things instead
of wasting so much valuable space
calling the republican candidates
“railroad tools."
The onlv thing that has ever been
done to curb the powers of the rail
roads has been done by the republi
cans. The fusion demagogues and pop
ringsters of Holt county have been up
on their hind legs raising a howl for
fifteen years, organizing “raise hell
clubs." storming and frothing about
the railroads and corporations, while
the taxes on the houses in which they
lived went unpaid. But you notice the
republicans have done the business.
Passenger rates have been reduced to
2 cents a mile, railroad taxes have
been doubled, real estate taxes lowered
and an anti-pass law enacted. And ,
the shysters of the fusion ring are
still howling. It is time to effectually
and forever put this ring out of busi
ness by electing Douglas and Jenckes
to the district bench.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
Atkinson Graphic.
While the fusionists are striving to
regain control of the treasurer’s office,
it is well for the voters to remember
the difference in the cost of maintain
ing the treasurer's office since the fu
sionists were retired from control. A
few figures will show the saving that
has been effected in the matter of the
number of clerks employed and sal
aries paid.
There were fifteen men and girls on
the pay roll in the treasurer's office in
1905, the last year D. J. Cronin served
as treasurer. The total amount drawn
in salaries by these fifteen people was
$6,760.10. The collections that year,
which included the large amount
brought in under the scavenger sale
proceedings, amounted to $203,947.55.
The cost then to handle this amount
of collections was $6,760.10, which was
paid in salaries to the treasurer, dep
uty and clerks. The force of clerks
was larger at times than others, the
highest the whole force numbered at
any one time being fifteen.
It. E. Chittick, the republican treas
urer, who succeeded Cronin, served one
year, from January, 1906, to January,
1907. The records show that during the
year 1906 there were five persons on the
pay roll in the treasurer’s office for
about two months, and four the balance
of the year. The collections for 1906
amounted to $313,392.68, about $50,000
less than the previous year. But it
required only five people in the office
to do nearly the same amount of busi
ness fifteen people were paid for doing
the year previous. The total amount
paid in salaries during Treasurer Chit
tick’s incumbency was $3,959.50. Sub
tract that amount from the amount
paid in salaries during 1905 when the
fusionists had control of the office,
namely $6,760.10 and we have $2,800.60. /
Hence it will be seen that it cost the
taxpayers of this county $2,800.60 less
to conduct and maintain the treasur
er's office in one year under a repub
lican treasurer than it did in one year
under a fusion treasurer.
The figures are not yet available for
a similar comparison for a like period
under Treasurer Harnish, and hence
can be given only for the first six
months, up to July 1, 1907. The first
half of the year more help is required
in the office than during the last half.
At present there is only the treasurer,
his deputy and one clerk in the office.
That has constituted the force most of
the time since July 1, and figuring on
that basis, the salaries of three for the
six months ending next January would
be: Treasurer, 81,000; deputy, *350; clerk,
$300; a total of $1,650. It will, how
ever, exceed that sum a little as an
extra man was employed for three
months. The first six months of Treas
urer Harnish's incumbency there was
expended on salaries $2,004.98. The totul
for the year will not exceed that of last
year.
It will be seen by these figures that a
saving has been made of nearly $3,000
a year In the one item of clerk hire
the past two years by the republicans
in the treasurer's office. It is a mat
ter worth thinking about when you go
to the polls on November 5. *r'
It is well known that the last fusion
treasurer was rarely in the office as he
spent most of his time at his ranch.
He drew the salary Just the same and
kept clerks enough in the office to run
three offices. We don't believe the tax
payers want a repetition of the Dan
Cronin system. The fusion nominee
this fall is incumbered with business so
that he would either have to neglect
his private affairs or the office if he
were elected, as was the case with Dan
Cronin. He runs a farm and a real
estate agency and has a business he
probably would not care to neglect or
lose for a county office job. Hence it
might happen that the countv would
have to stand for excessive clerical hire
again. The saving effected the past
two years on this one item alone in
itself comends the republican candidate
10 the favorable consideration of the In
telligent voter.
Judge Harrington is personally ap
pealing to the voters for a third term
because his running mate has had three
terms and is asking for four. With
\\ estover four years ahead, how long
will Harrington have to be a candidate
to catch up with him? If they are
both elected this fall Harrington will
want another term because Westover
has hud four terms, and Westover will
want the fifth term. The best way to
settle it Is to elect Douglas and
Jenckes. _ ^