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The Frontier Published by D. E. CEONIH, KOMAINK SAONDKRH. Assistant Editor and Manager. 11 50 the Year 75 Cents Six Months Offlolal paper of O’Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING KATES: Dismay advertlsments on pages 4, 5 and 8 re charged for oo a basis of 5t> cents an inch oneoolumn width) per month; on page 1 the charge Is 81 an inch per month. Looal ad vertisements, 5 cents per line daob Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. __• For President, William H. Taft, of Ohio. For Vice-President, James S. Sherman, of New York. For Congressman; Sixth District, M. P. Kinkald. Governor .George L. Sheldon Lieut. Governor..-;...M. R. Hopewell Auditor.Silas R. Barton Secretary of State. ..George C. Junkin State Treasurer.,L. G. Brian Superintendent.....E. C. Bishop Com. Public Lands.E. B. Cowles Attorney General.. .W. T. Thompson Railway Commlssioner.J. A. Williams For State Senator, 13th District, F. W. Phillips. For Representative, 60th Dist., , II. A. Allen of Atkinson, Willie Calkins, of Conley. County Attorney.L. C. Chapman |®SJSISIS®lBISISISISISIBiaiMB15!OJ31Bf5!JS!SIS f “I don't care for the presid 1 ency if it has to come by com- j I promise with Senator Foraker !j | or anyone else in a matter of I principle.—If it would win me 3 every vote in the United ! States I cannot hit a man when he is down." — W. H. Taft. Postponed, Not Abandoned. Candidate Bryan's declaration that a platform is binding as to what it omits as well as to what it contains is of special importance in its bearing upon the money question. The Den ver platform makes no mention what ever of the money question, yet accord ing to Mr. Bryan’s ruling it is binding as to the monetary issue. The Dem ocratic national platform of 1904 also dodged the money question, so that In order to find out just wherein this 1 year’s platform is binding with respect \o that issue we must go back to those year’s In which the democracy had the courage to make an open-face declara tion of principle. That takes us to 1900, when the democratic platform readopted the platform of 1896, which pledged the party to the free and un limited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 As (o that issue, Mr. Bryan serves notice that this ye« r’s platform is bind ing, notwithstan. ng its omission. His attitude is clearly defined in a speech delivered in Knoxville, Tenn., September 16, 1896, in the course of which he said: If there >• any one who believe* the gold standard ia a good thing, or that it muat be maintained, I warn iin not to cast his vote forme, be cause I promise him it will not be dmiptained in this country longer fhap I am able to get rid of it.” It la but simple justice to Mr. Bryan to point out that he has never with drawn his threat to destroy the gold standard. He has never recognized l,t as permanent or disirable and has pever admitted that it is the only se cure foundation for our monetary System. He bas never uttered a word por written a line to Indicate the „ Slightest modification of the financial doctrines wbicb be so noisily proclaim ed in J896. He frankly acknowledges that those dootrines are binding upon film ip spite of the silence of this year’s platform. ( The Bryan assulb upon the gold |tandard has been post poned, notaban goned. Circumstances over which he bad no oontrol have prevented Mr. Bryan from executing his threat. Those who flatter themselves that he bas gained wisdom from experience and moderation from defeat simply do pot know the man. “I am more radical nopr,”^a declared in London on July 12,1906,” than I was in 1896 and have qotbing to withdraw on the economic questions.” Here is Mr. Bryan, self declared, radical, uncompromising and bound fast to the ruinous policies which he advocated twelve years ago. Confronted with Mr. Bryan’s defini tion of his attitude and of the binding force of his platform in spite of its Omissions, reasoning citizens must un , _ ueTimuu that he is st*<! the Bryan of 1896, pledged to the platform of 1896, and that his election to the presidency would be immediatly followed by a detrimental effort to execute his oft repeated threat to exterminate the gold standard. Mr. Bryan has boldly disclosed his attitude and purpose. Fie should be taken at his word. The platform of 1896 is still binding upon him and he will enforce its policies if he gets the chance. The tight for free silver has merely been postponed— never abandoned. Bryan himself says so, and he knows. Mr. Taft’s devotion to duty when in charge of a public trust is emphasized by the fact that he returned home from a remarkably successful governor ship of the Philippines a poor man. President Roosevelt states that all Mr. Taft had when he returned from the Philippines was $1,500. There are not many men who would spend two years in charge of one of the in sular governments and come out as poor as when be went in. “I would rather go down to eternal oblivion than be instrumental in the election of Roosevelt.”—Bryan, Oct. 17,1904. A Contrast of Candidates. Governor Hughes of New York con trasted the qualities of the candidates as follows: “There are a thousand exigencies in the affairs of this great nation which cannot be forseen or attempted to be controlled by any platform. The saga city, steadiness of charrcter, firmness and sound judgment of the chief execu tive must be the security of the nation in many a trying emergency. And it is no injustice to Mr. Bryan’s attract ive personal qualities, to his effective ness as an orator, his skill as a party leader, nor is it any disparagement of the purity of his motives to say that the man who espoused free silver in 1886, renewed its advocacy in 1900 and later declared his belief in govern ment ownership of railroads cannot be regarded as a safe leader to whom may be conflded the great powers of the president merely because those doctrines are omitted from his pres ent platform. The country needs a man rockbased in sound conviction and fundamental principle, in whose good judgment in any difficulty all may feel secure, and sucli a man pre eminently is William U. Taft. “Our opponents seem to regard the questions before us as simply involv ing a program of legislation or of con stitutional amendment. But first and chiefly we are electing a president, the executive of the nation. Nor should we in considering legislaslve proposals forget this. Now, there is no man in the country better fitted properly to preside over and direct the varied business of the executive de partment than Mr. Taft. He already knows it thoroughly. He has rare ex ecutive ability. No one is better qual ified than he to do the work which under the constitution the president is called upon to perfrom. ’’ Usefulness in Length of Service “The assertion has frequently beer made that prestige and influence in the national house of representatives depends largely on length of service," says the State Journal "Some figures showing the length of service of the chairman of the twenty most import ant committees in that body indicate the situation. After each committee is given the state from which the chairman comes and his length ol service in the house: OomiulMee State Servloe Agriculture.Kansas_ g Appropriations.Minnesota ....16 Bank’g and currency New Jersey.. .14 Diet, of Columbia.. ..Michigan.12 Foreign affairs.Iowa.16 Immigration.New Jersey...14 Indian affairs.New York....2C Insular affairs.Wisconsin ....16 Int. and Fn. Com—Iowa .22 Invalid Pensions—New Hamp...14 Judiciary.Wisconsin_14 Merc., Mar. and Fish.Massachusetts^ Military affairs.Iowa.16 Naval affairs.Illinois .14 Postoffices and P'rds..Indiana.14 Pub. Bldgs. ard Grds. Missouri.16 Public lands.Wyoming_12 Ri vers and harbors... Ohio.16 Rule.Illinois .34 Ways and means _New York_24 “Thus the average length of service of the chairmen of the leading com mittees is 16.3 years. Only two of these chairmen come from west of the Missouri river. So long as western states replace their representatives with other men every few years, just so long will the big places in congress go to men from eastern and central states, where the rule is to keep a man in Washington while be gives good service." Roosevelt's Endorsement of Taft Upon receiving the news of the nom ination of Secretary Taft for the pres idency, President Roosevelt said: “I feel that the country is indeed to be congratulated upon the nomination of Mr. Taft. I have known him in timately for many years and I have a peculiar feeling for him, because throughout that time lie worked for the same object with the same pur pose and ideals. “I do not believe there could be found in all the country a man so well fitted to be president. “He is not only absolutely fearless, absolutely disinterested and upright, but he has the widest acquaintance with the nation’s needs, without and within, and the broadest sympathies with all our citizens. “He would be as emphatically a president of the plain people as Lin coln, yet not Lincoln himself would be freer from the least taint of dema gogy, the least tendency to arouse or appeal to class hatred of any kind. "He has a peculiar and intimate knowledge of and sympathy with the needs of all our people—of the farmer, of the wage worker, of the business man, of the property owner. “No matter what a man’s occupa tion or social position, no matter what his creed, his color, or the section of the country from which he comes, if he is an honest, hard working man who tries to do his duty toward his neighbor and toward the country, he can rest assured that he will have In Mr. Taft the most upright of repre sentatives and the most fearless of champions. “Mr. Taft stands against privileges and he stands pre-eminently for the broad principles of American citizen ship which lie at the foundation ot our national well being.” Caught With the Goods. Ainsworth Star Journal: It might have done even twenty yearas ago, but not now. The Chicago Record-Herald’s Con norsville, Indiana, correspondent re ports that while John W. Kern, the democratic vice-presldental candidate, was there making a red hot anti-trust an.i an -eopur&tion speech lie lost his “note book’’ and that when it was found it contained an annual pass over the Big Four railroad good until Dec. 31,1938 An offlcal of that road, when asked why he was carrying such a passreplied that he was a regularly employed at torney for the road and as such was entitled to transportation. It certainly is an interesting dis covery—that the nominee of the demo cratic party for the high offlccof vice president should be a regulary employ ed attorney for one of the biggest corp orations in the world and riding about the country on passes while making democratic speeches. It might have done even twenty years ago, but now. Mr. Kern had better get off the ticket. "The democratic party has begun a war of extermination against the gold standard. We ask no quarter; we give no quarter. We shall prosecute our warefare until there is not an American citizen who dares to advo cate the gold standard. You ask why. We reply that the gold standard is a conspiracy against the human race, and that we should no more join in it than we would an army to destroy our homes and to destroy our families.”— Bryan at Albany, N. Y., 1896. "If the gold standard goes on and people continue to complain the gold standard advocates, instead of trying to improve the condition of the people, will be recommending that you close your schools so the people will not realize how much they are suffering.” —Bryan at Monmouth, 111., 1896. “If I am elected president I propose to devote all the ability that is in me to the constructive work of suggesting to congress the means by which the Roosevelt policies shall be clinched.” —W. H. Tafu. -^ m ^ Educational Notes. By tlie County Superintendent. Teacher’s examination at O’Neill, Friday, October 1G, and Saturday, October 17, 1908. The Holt County Teacher’s associ ation will meet October 24, at O’Neill. The State Teachers association and the Superintendent's and principals’ meeting will be in session November 4, 5, and 6th, at Lincoln. One of the pleasant features of the State Teachers’ association this year will be the union school banquet the first evening, Wednesday, November 4th, at 6 p. m., at the city auditorium Lincoln. Hoh. H. K. Fowler of Lin coln is master of ceremonies. Orders for plates at $1 each should be placed with him. Mr. Thomas, for six years principal of the McCook 'junior nor mal school, has been chosen orator for the combined junior normal schools. The various normals, colleges, and universities of the state will be repre tented at this banquet by a special table and a speaker. The following program has been sent to all the teachers in the county: 11 a. m.—School House. Model Recitation.Miss M. Grady 1:30 p. m—Court Room. Value of Mental Drills (Especially in Arithemetic).Miss Sarah Doubt Discussion, Principals Lockwood and Robinson. Suggestions to the Story Teller.. Miss Cozima Zack. General discussions. Address. Supt. J. L. McBrien 8 p. m. Our Young People, and What Shall We do with Them.Supt. J. L. McBrien Preparations are being made for a interesting program for the teachers October 24th at O’Neill. In addition to the model recitation by Miss Grady’s pupils the second primary pupils will dramatize a selection, give an autom motion drill and a soug. The Democrats prate loudly about campaign publicity. Republican Ne braska haB a publicity law wtalnh the Republican State Committee observes to the letter, while the Bryan democ racy, through “Brother-In-Law Tom” end “Cowboy Jim," Ignores the law. Treasurer Sheldon of the Republican National Committee declares that he will publish all campaign contribu tions received by him; thus comply ing with the New York law. With the Republicans, campaign publicity Is now a faot; with the Democrats, It is a promise supported by s failure to perform. “I feel that the country is indeed to fce congratulated upon the nomination of Mr. Taft. I do r->t believe there cotftd be found In all the country a man ao well fitted to be President.”— (President Roosevelt on learning of Secretary Taft’s nomination.) Does the BabyThrive If not, something must be wrong with its food. If the mother’s milk doesn’t nourish it, she needs Scott's Emulsion. It supplies the elements of fat required for the baby. If baby is not nourished by its artificial food, then it requires scon’s EMULSION Half a teaspoonful three or four times a day in its bottle will have the desired effect. It seems to have a magical effect upon babies and children. A fifty-cent bottle will prove the truth of our statements. Send this advertisement, together with name of paper in which it appears, your address and four cents to cover postage, and we will send you a "Complete Handy Atlas of the World.’ SCOTt & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St, New York J. H. Davison Successor to A. E. McKeen Anew and enlarged stock of all kinds of Harness Goods / . I have baught the harness business of A. E. McKeen in O’Neill and will add a large quantity of goods to the stock, making a complete and up io date stock in every particular. Repair work promptly done. Come and see me. 17-tf J. H. Davison. i Absolutely Pure Insures delicious, health- | ful food for every home, every day. The only baking powder made . from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar— j I made from grapes, Safeguards your food against alum and j| phosphate of lime-harsh mineral acids which w are used in cheaply made powders. i j PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. The following proposed amendment to the constitution of the State of Ne braska, as hereinafter set forth in full, is submitted to the electors cf the State of Nebraska, to he voted upon at the general election v" held Tuesday, November 3rd, A. D. 1908: I A JOINT RESOLUTION to propose an Amendment to Section 9, Article S ot the Constitution of the State of Ne tll’ilSkH * Be it Besolved and Bnacted By the Leg islature of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. (Amendment.) That at the general election for state and legislative officers to be held on the Tuesday suc ceeding the first Monday in November. 1908, the following proviso ho and submitted to the electors of the State as an amendment to Sec-ion Ai. - cle S of the constitution of the State of Nebraska: _ * Section 9. (Educational Funds, Invest ment.) All funds belonging to the state for educational purposes, the interest and Income whereof only are to be used, shall be deemed trust funds held by the state, and the state shall supply all losses thereof that may in any manner accrue, so that the same shall remain fro-ever Inviolate and undiminished; and shall not be invested or loaned except on Tinted States or state securities, or registered county bonds of this state, or registered school district bonds of this state, and such other securities as the legislature may from time to time direct. And such funds with the Interest and income there of are hereby solemnly pledged for th» purposes for which they are granted and set apart, and shall not be transferred to any other fund for other uses. Section 2. (Ballots; Adoption.) That at said election in the year 1908. on the ballot of each elector voting thereat thc-c shall be printed or written the words: “For proposed amendment to the Cons.dic tion with reference to the the permanent school fund " and “against said proposed amendment to the constitu tion with reference to, the Investment of the permanent school fund.’ And if a majority of all voters at said election shall be for such amendment, the same ■hall be deemed to be adopted. Approved April 5. 1W17. 1 Geo. C. Junkin. Secretary of State, of’the State of Nebraska, do hereby cer tify that the foregoing pronosed amend ment to the Constitution of the State o' Nebraska Is a true and correct eofiy of the original enrolled and engrossed bill, as passed by the Thirtieth session of the legislature of the State of Nebraska, as appears from said original hill on file In this office, and that sa'd proposed amendment Is submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Nebraska for their adoption or rejection at the general elec tion to be iheld on Tuesday, the 3d day of November, A. D. 1908. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto Bet my hand and affixed the Great Seai of the State of Nebraska. Done at Lin coln, this 15th day of July. In the vear of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hun dred and Eight, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Thirty-third, and of this State the Forty-second. GEO. C. JTJNKTN. (Seal) Secretary of State. The Tragic Loco Weed. The abominable Mexican plant known as the loco weed has the peculiar prop erty of making irrational both men and beasts who partake of It Horses and cattle out on the prairies after grazing upon it go crazy, and a “locoed” pony will perform all kinds of queer antics. It is said that if a man comes under its spell he never regains his senses, the insanity produced by It being incur -able. It is said that the loss of mind of the ill fated Carlotta was no doubt due to the fact that some enemy drug ged her with a preparation of loco, al though history has it that site went In sane by reason of her husband’s exe cution.—Baltimore American. A Gentle Husband. Woman (to her husband, busily en gaged writing) — My dear, correctly speaking, what is a dentist? Husband (crossly)—Derived from dent, French for teeth, a man who pulls teeth. (Hus band settles down to writing again.) Wife—My dear, you said this morning that linguist was derived from the Lat in lingua, a tongue. Husband (crossly) —Yes. Wife—Well, dear. Is a linguist a man who pulls out tongues? Hus band—No, madam, but I wish he did.— What a Blessing! Smith—What a blessing children are! Jones (enthusiastically)—Aren't they' Now that my wife has two to look after she has no time to play the piano.—San Francisco Chronicle. The Plot. Doctor—I think I shall have to cal', in some other physicians for consulta tion. Patient—Thafs right Co ahead. Get as many accomplices as you can.— Loudon Telegraph. Winter in California Go In October while the low colonist rates are in effect. Daily through tourist sleepers via Denver, scenic Colo rado and Salt Lake. Go ahead of the rush at the end of the month. Homeskeers Rates First and third Tuesdays each month to the far west, northwest and the southwest. These make very low rate winter tours. Secure an Irrigated Farm . The best chances of the day in the BIG HORN BASIN AND YEL LOWSTONE VALLEY. Gov ernment irrigated lands one-tenth down, remainder prorata in ten years without interest. Corpor ation irrigated lands equally cheap and favorable. A paramount and ruling fact in this region is the never falling water supply. Do not make your new home in any irrigated region without a full study of ehe water supply. Write D. Clem Deaver, General Agent, Land Seekers’ Information Bureau. Omaha, or J. F. Jokdan, Ticket Agent, O’Neill L. W. Wakeley, G.P.A, Omaha, Neb ♦^The Cash-4* Meat Market FULL LINE OF Cured and Fresh Meats Fit R SI IFI8IIE VElt 7 FRIDA Y W. F. Giklisii, :: Proprietor trade marks i Designs t rfwm ' Copyrights Ac. \ Anyone sending a sketch and description may r quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an > invention is probably patentable. Communion. I t lot is strksthr confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents * ; sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. ► Patents takeu through Munn A Co. receive » • tptt'ial notice, without charge, In the Scientific American, i A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Largest olr- * , dilation of any solentlflo journal. 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