The Frontier ■ .— Published by 0. H. CR0M1K. ROMAINF SAPNOKKS. Assistant Itdltor and Manager. II 60 tbe Tear 76 tJenta 81i Months official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. ADVRHTIbINU KATKH; Oispiay adeertlaments on pages 4, 6 and I re Charged for ou a basis of IS) cents an tnot oneoolumn width) per month; on page 1 th< charge Is II an inch per month. Local ad vertisements, 6 oents per line eaob Insertion Address the office or the publisher. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. For President, William H. Taft, of Ohio. For Vice-President, James 8. Sherman, of New York. For Congressman; Sixth District, M. P. Kinkaid. Governor .George L. Sheldon Lieut. Governor.M. R. Hopewell Auditor.Silas R. Barton Secretary of State. ..George C. J unkin State Treasurer.L. G. Brian Superintendent......E. O. Bishop Com. Public Lands.E. B. Cowles Attorney General... W. T. Thompson Railway Commissioner.J. A, Williams For State Senator, 13th District, F. W. Phillips. For Representative, 50th Dist., II. A. Allen of Atkinson, Willie Calkins, of Conley. County Attorney.L. 0. Chapman giiaiaiaisia^iaiisiBieiaiBiBiaiaisiaEiaiaiaisisisi I “I don't care for the presid- 1 1 ency if it has to come by com- | I promise with Senator Foraker | | or anyone else in a matter of | 1 principle.—If it would win me I p every vote in the United 1 (States I cannot hit a man § when he is down." — W. H. | Taft. j rimfsimmfnirrnnnifnrarafnirafrafnirairiifHirrijrarnJi^ifuiruirfi Another way to break the brother In-law combination Is to elect J. U. Yantzi supervisor. The list of contributions given to the newspapers and the one behind the screen are two different things. Bryan promises free trade if elected. , That would be a fine thing for the capitalists, who could buy up the farm property at half its present value. 1 A repetition of the bard times of the last democratic administration is the only thing that will satisfy a lot of the crokers. The Independent has started in on the congressional campaign with a lot ol warmed over slush and slander that the voters of this district have repudi ated time and again. ‘Haskell’s 8600,000 suit against Hearst started out sensational enough, but a good many are of the same opin ion as the defendant, that it will not come to trial. 4-— * There will be no need of Bryan’s bank guarantee scheme if he is elect ed. Experience teaches that noboby but capitalists have money to put in banks under the democratic free trade Whey- __ Eugene Walter Leake, democratic representative in congress from New Jersey, in bolting the national ticket, ravers to Candidate Bryan as a "crafty v seeker after votes, a fanatio—a politi cal brainstorm.’’ Judge Westoversays in his platform that he favors the government guar at)tee of national bank deposits. The depositors of the defunct Elkhorn Valley bank at O’Neill are aware ol what the judge thinks should be done with bank wreckers. ■ - 11 1 During the last year of the last dem ocratic administration the farmers were hauling 5-cent corn to market. This year they are too busy gathering 50-ccnt corn to take any interest in the campaign. The south part of the county pre sents a good man for representative in the person of Willie Calkins. No man stands better in the community in which he lives than Mr. Calkins. He is in full accord with the progressive spirit of the times and may be count ed on to stand with the people on all questions affecting their Interests. The Independent’s “furnished” editorial on bank wrecks serves as a reminder to the depositors of the de funct Elkhorn Valley bank that the fusion candidate for congress in this district denied them the right to prosecute the thief in court and his chief supporters at O’Neill now had their coats off to save the bank wreck ers from the pen. One of the most forceful and logical approvals of Taft’s candidacy yet penned comes from Dr. Lyman Ab bott, who has the reputation of being the greatest preacher in America today. This does not look as though the ministry regarded Mr. Taft as they would a follower of Mohammed, as some narrow-brained democrats have tried to make out. H. A. Allen of Atkinson is the kind of a man to send as representative to the legislature. Personally he is one of the finest men in the county. Po litically he has always been consist ent. In business he has been sucess ful and no man has greater interest in the welfare of the county generally. Mr. Allen has never been an office seeker. He has been a resident of the county many years and thoroughly understands our Interests and needs. His election as representative would be a wise choice. All that the Omaha World-Herald may say in behalf of the Bryan ticket avails nothing with sane and level headed men so long as it maintains its attitude of compromise and apology for the Oklahoma crowd. The pub lic is will) the president in all his ellorts to route the grafters, whether they be governors or United States senators. The attitude of Bryan’s personal organ in Nebraska is one of insincerity and demogogy. It de nounces Foraker with a horrible show of shocked piety and and comes to the defense of Haskell as though he were a martyred saint. If Lew Chapman is elected county attorney the people will have a rest from the brother-in-law combination that has been in full operation the past year. Notwithstanding there is a county court eleoted by the peoole who expect county cases to be tried there, our present fusion county at torney has taken nearly all the county cases the last y.ear to the justice court in O’Neill presided over by his broth in-law. Cases have been brought here from remote parts of the oounty to swell the brother-in-law’s fees. There are more than a score of justices of the peace in this county and if the county attorney did not want to take the county cases to county court why hot to some justice of the peace be sides his brother-in-law? Why, for instance, bring cases that are proper . !"■■■! I I .. I ZTi ly under the jurisdiction of the justice of the peace of Inman precinct to the county attorney’s brother-ln-'aw at O’Neill? __ Let the Farmers Stay There. Up until the last session, it had been the fashion to send lawyers to represent the people in the state leg islature. The last session contained many farmers, and it is generally conceded that more legislation was enacted for the benefit of the people than at any previous session. In the senate was one of the substantial farmers of this county, F. W. Phillips. Senator Phillips voted and worked for every reform measure passed at that session. Among these were: The anti-pass law. The 2 cent passenger rate. The reduction of freight and ex press rates. The direct primary law. The child labor law. The free high school law. The law providing state aid for weak school districts. Senator Phillips is a candidate for re-election, his opponent being a lawyer at O’Neill. The B'rontier has no disposition to make an attack on the lawyers, but inasmuch as a body of farmers enacted laws at one session hat the lawyers had for years failed to give the people the men who were in that session and are now candid ates for re-elecl ion should receive the hearty support of every man who be lieves in a square deal. Opposing their candidacy is equivalent to re pudiating tiie reform laws they have given us. "A democratic paper lectures a Pennsylvania manufacturing concern for giving notice to its men that it will shut down if Bryan is elected,” says an exchange. “If such is its pur pose its notification is a matter of business, and may be of service to those who will have time to look else where for a job. The concerns that give notice of this kind will not be one in a hundred of those that will necessarily shut down if the next pres ident is Bryan, the free trader, the free silver apostle, the advocate of the public ownership of railroads and other issues calculated to disturb bu siness to its foundations. The emer gency currency plank in the present Bryan platform is a greenback utter ance. Not many firms will announce that they will stop if Bryan Is elected, but thousands may find it compulsory to stop if the chronic agitator, a man of proved fallacious judgment, is in vested with the powers of the presi dential office.” Promiment members of the glass blowers’ union, in speaking of the the action of their organization in turning down Samuel Gompers, say that under previous experiments in voting against the republicans glass blowers lost heavily, and that when they wore roosters in their hats after the Cleveland election they had good cause to regret it during four years following, with reduction in wages and little work. They declare that the interference of the high officers and the attempt to lead them against their best interests into the Bryan camp is resented. A sentence of the minutes of the meeting runs: “If the officers of the American Federation of Labor would spend less time in Wash ington trying to run the government and more time attending to the affairs of their own craft we would all fare better.’’ If the poor man who fancies he has a grievance against republicans could succeed in oarrying the country for Bryan, he would injure himself more than those on whom he would seek revenge. In bard times the rich do not feel the pinch of want like the man depending on his daily toil for the maintenance of himself and fam ily. The large business men of the country have money enough to live in luxury during a period of hard times that would seem inevitable with Bryan in the presidency, while the small business man would be pinched out and the wage worker go hungry and idle. The action of the democratic state chairman, T. S. Allen, manager of Bryan’s campaign and brother-in-law of the candidate, in fixing his signa ture and notarial seal to a statement of campaign contributions and ex penses, certifying that the same was signed and sworn to in bis presence by the treasurer of the democratic com mittee, when the signature of the treasurer does not appear on the doc ument at all, is additional evidence or the illegal and highhanded methods of the democratic leaders in this state. ;Whe* such methods are employed as little confidence can be placed in the several items in the statement as the act of the notary itself. -- Kola Items. Miss Louie Pfund came out on her homestead last week. J. B. Myers and Frank Wilber,went to O’Neill where Mr. Myers relin quished his land and Mr. WHberJhome steaded it. William Uenjiman built a home on his land about one half mile South of Kola. Mr. Victor Howarth is having lum ber hauled to his homestead this week. Mr. W. Dillon is having a sody built on his homestead, Mr. Shaw and Spar ling are doing the work. Jacob Pfund is putting on an addi tion to his soddy, 20x22»feet. The first of the week we could hear the bum of the thrasher at Die homes of Walter Benjiman, P. J. Kennedy and W. W. Stration. The Kola School house was to hare been built on the 5th. of Oc^ and only three families were represented so of course no school house was built, bat was started and if the rest of those that promised at the annual election to be there to help, would take hold where the three left of, there would be a school house. is PURTINENT POINTS PUT TO BRYAN i isc The Peerless One in Congress. Omaha Bee: Grand Island, Neb., Oct. 15.—To the Editor of the Bee: Your Let ter Box Brigade has interested me to some extent, and as you allow both parties to use the Letter Box, I would like to ask any of the correspondents to answer the important question that Governor Huhges asked Bryan, as he does not seem inclined to do so: What did he do when he was four years in congress, with a democratic presi dent, and the house and senate absolutely controlled by democrats? Now, I have voted twice for Bryan, but I have got to have some explanation of the above or else you can hear my vote drop, when it goes into the box, for Taft. 1 have commenced to think that in following Bryan we have been following the blue skies. When the most important issues are ignored in a cam paign I think we had better commence to sit up and Iook around, and that we can not afford to support a man just because he is a campaigner, and run the risk of upsetting good times unless we have some assurance that the would-be party can show a record and stand on it, not merely talk. A Commercial Man. || “Woefully Inconsistent." P New York Tribune: Omaha, Neb., Oct. § 13, 1908.—To the Editor of the Tribune— <3 Sir: I’ve read the Tribune for more than ^ forty years. It always gave me satisfaction. > Its discussion of my quondam neighbor (I J j used to be pastor at Lincoln), Mr. Bryan, is usually quite to the purpose. As private ■30 citizen and member of the church he is a * l model. I wish I had a few dozen like him in my church. As a candidate, in his “par t amount issues,” he is woefully inconsistent, i There are two things which the papers ^ in Nebraska and those east could use effect 21 ively. (1) For years Bryan had power in Sg Nebraska to pass any laws he desired. The democrats and populists had the legislature and the governor. To both of them Mr. Bryan’s wish was law. They didn’t pass any laws to curb the domineering of the railroads for the Standard Oil, nor did they enforce any they found on the statute books. (2) Two years ago the republicans adopted a platform promising strong measures to limit the aggressions of corporations and make them pay taxes. Thomas Allen (Mr. Bryan’s brother-in law), state chairman, issued a secret circu lar, promising “aid and comfort” to the corporations if they were willing to return tfie favor. Of course this deal wasn’t known (officially) to Mr. Bryan—same as the $30,000 Ryan deal. The “corporation smasher” is very gentle with them when he has power. Eight years ago the private houses and business places were full of Bryan pictures in Otnaha. Very few' such appear this year. There are more Taft pictures. L. Groh, Pastor of St. Mark’s. "Crowds” Flock to Hear Him. Omaha Bee: Endicott, Neb., Oct. 16.— To the Editor of the Bee: Reading in ihe jjs» morning World-Herald of October 16 of the ^ Bryan meeting here, 1 can not help but give the true version. Mr. Bryan’s train arrived e&J at 7:55 a. m. and there was not to exceed eighteen voters (mostly old-time populists £>« and some republicans) and sixty or seventy school children to meet him, and he spoke §j>o by actual count seveuty-tvvo#words, and the train was backed up to Fairbury on its re- jsjj turn. Mr. Gilbert, democratic nominee for ^ congress, spoke two or three minutes, (the most he said of importance was, “We will !&« be elected,”) to a crowd of like proportion. To show the interest taken, an old soldier farmer kept on plowing in his field in 200 feet of the depot. When a paper says hundreds of farmers drove in here and they ‘E* left a Mr. Brandon to address the overflow ggj meeting, it becomes a “roaring, laughing farce.” Charles Dawson. Jsd l Hon. Joseph C. Saylor OF RED CLOUD. NEB. * Will address the voters on the political topics of the day, from a republican standpoint, at the following places in this county: Monday evening, Oot 26, at Inman Tuesday evening, Oot, 27, at Page Wed, evening, Oct, 28, at Chambers Thursday evening, Oct, 29, at Amelia Friday evening, Oct, 30, at Stuart Saturday evening, Oot, 31, at Dustin p Mr. Saylor is a strong, forceful ami logical speaker, and has something to say of the utmost importance to every voter and none should fail to hear him. 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 lo