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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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<v 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 failing 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. Jordan, Ticket Agent, O’Neill
L. W. Wakeley, G.P.A, Omaha, Neb
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