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ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor
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It 50 tbe Year 75 Dents Six Months
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Address the office or tbe publisher.
The Holt county oil machine seems
to be as successful in stiflling oppo
sition as the Standard Oil company.
President Taft, here’s to you. May
the success of your administration ex
ceed your fondest expectations, or
that of your friends.
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The cheering information is given
out that Mr. Bryan will be a presi
dential candidate up to 1920. That
insures at least three more republi
can presidents in succession.
Governor Haskell having lost out in
the courts of his own state in the first
round with the Hearst newspaper
syndicate, that excellent and immacu
late democrat may conclude to pro
ceed no further toward making good
his bluff.
There continues to be something
doing in this world of Invehtlon. A
college professor has perfected a
machine which he claims will reveal
objects on and inhabitants of the
planet Mars. Another scientific genus
says he has solved the problem of
storing the sun’s rays.
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The state legislature is proving a
travesty on the popular conception of
the term democratic. Instead of leav
ing the administration of the state
government in the hands of the rep
resentatives of the people they are
exerting every effort to centralize the
power in the hands of one man.
The railroads have been getting
some pretty severe jolts for rebating.
It is costing these big corporations
several millions to learn the lesson
that the laws for the protection of
the public are valid, but they will
probably learn in the end that the
legitimate way of railroading is the
more profitable.
Everybody wishes Mr. Taft a pleas
ant and prosperous administration,
his duties as president beginning to
day. He takes hold of the reigns ol
government under favorable circum
stances. The country is prosperous
and at peace and the large vote Mr
Taft received indicates that the
people have faith in his ability tc
maintain or improve present condi
tions.
Jim Jeffries, the undefeated heavy
weight champion pugulist of the
world, who retired from the fistic
arena four years ago, announces that
he will re-enter the ring and fight
Johnson forthe championship. John
son is a colored man and won the
title from Burns in Australia a few
months ago. Jeff may find it a case
of “too much Johnson’’ before he gets
through with the nig.
The Holt county delegation in the
legislature, especially the O’Neill con
tingent, are proving a disappointment
even to their party friends. There
never was a better opportunity and
probably will not be again for manj
years to come to get a state norma
school located in this county, but
they seem to be too busy framing up pc
litical jobs and introducing bills of ne
consequence to do anything substan
tial for their constituents.
Experience demonstrates that twc
newspapers are enough in the ordi
nary town. O’Neill has had a varied
experience with newspapers, and the
discontinuance last week of the third
paper after a little over one year’s ex
istence is further evidence that twc
papers are enough for a town the size
of O’Neill. Mr. Eves published a
fairly good paper but with the field
already occupied it could not be made
a paying venture. The Frontier has
for over a quarter of a century main
tained supremecy with the largest list
of subscribers who order and take the
paper because they want it. Our re
lations have usually been pleasant
with all competitors and we expect tc
coutinue issuing a paper vegularlj
each week.
DEM ) liATlo INDIc/OiEN i.
The Columbus Telegram, which is !
usually satisfied with anything bear
ing the democratic label, is disgusted
with the horse play of the legislature.
It brands three of the democratic
majority as seducers, and says:
There is a strong law in Nebraska
against seduction, but it does not ap
ply to political seduction.
The only law which can reach and
punish that kind ot a crime is the law
of public opinion, and the Telegram
now invokes that law against mice
men who have seduced the democratic
majority in the Nebraska legislature.
The three seducers are:
Senator Ransom, of Douglas.
Senator Howel, of Douglas.
Representative Clark, ot Richardson.
These three seducers have had
many assistants, but to these three
belong the credit or the shame for
eveiy step the democratic legislature
has taken in the direction of doing
the will of the corporations.
it is a mistake to imagine that
these men appear in the guise of dev
ils with horns, although all the devils
and all the horns could not bring
greater injury or greater shame to the
democratic party in this state than
they are bringing. Fact is, each o
the three is a winsome seducer. Each
has a pleasing personality, and each
uses that personalty to betray the
democratic cause.
Frank Ransom and Edward Howell
were sent to the state senate for a
speciilc purpose. That purpose is to
guard the interests of the Omaha
Stockyards company and the Omaha
brewery combine, primarily, and the
interests generally of every other
Nebraska corporation which seeks
special favors in the law. Represen
tative Clark stands more prominently
as the lieutenant of the railroad lobby,
although he works in perfect harmony
with Ransom and Howell, because It
must always be remembered that in
every legislative session the corpor
ation lobbyists always work together,
each delivering the votes it controls
to the other.
After this indictment, the Tele
gram continues with a half column
appeal for the democratic majority to
redeem itself and the party pledges,
concluding with:
GENTLEMEN OF THE DEMO
CRATIC MAJORITY, YOU CAN
NOT MAKE A SATISFACTORY
RECORD WHILE FOLLOWING
THE LEAD OF RANSOM HOW
ELL and CLARK.
You dare not go home and ask your
home people to approve a record of
subserviency to such leadership. It
is time for you to awake to the situa
tion, and to the danger of it. There
is yet time to save the situation
There is yet time to show the people
of the state that the democratic party
In Nebraska is strong enough to re
sist an attempted rape by the corpora
tions.
We call upon every legislator not
under the hypnotic spell of the cor
poration leaders to run Quick to the
work of taking the democratic leader
ship out of the hands of the Ransoms,
and Howells, the Hartos and the
Clarks, and place it in the hands of
men who love the party, and who love
the cause of common men.
It is too late in the session for the
democrats to throw off the corpora
tion grip. They sold themselves on
the start and will not be able to get
away from the clutches of the
“seducers.”
THE LEGISLATURE.
Lincoln, Neb., Mar. 1.—(Special
Correspondence.)—During the state
oampaign of last fall the people heard
many repeated charges from demo
cratic orators alleging extravagance
in the conduct of the state govern
ment by the republican party in con
trol of state affairs through the state
officers. It is a safe guess that no
one hears the charge repeated just
now and probably will not hear it
again in a long time, and the reason
therefore is not hard to seek. The
democrats of the house have just
found out something they either did
not know before or if they did refuse
to tell. The house committee on
linance, ways and means, of which
Representative Clark of Richardson
is chairman, lias just completed the
general appropriation bills for the
conduct of the state government for
the next two years and despite the
efforts of this able gentleman and his
assistants on the committee to trim
expenses and thus make good the
campaign statements of tire demo
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crats, that the republicans were ex
travagant, they have found it neces
sary to report a general appropriation
bill, carrying nearly $30,000 more for
salaries and maintenance than were
represented by the same items in the
appropriation bill of two years ago.
The total carried by the bill this year
is $1,807,668. _
Should even a quarter of the bills
now pending before the legislature
creating new state offices and salaries
be passed, the expenditures of the
state government every year will be
increased over the republican record
by many thousands of dollars. Per
haps the worst sign of the times that
may be observed by the taxpayers of
the state is that there is a great
probability that not only one-fourth,
but indeed a great majority of the
“new job” bills will pass and become
laws. _
The business of creating new jobs
for democrats has not languished this
week in the legislature. This branch
of legislation appears to have peculiar
attractions for the democraaic major
ity and but few days are allowed to
pass without some new and brilliant
thought on the part of an enthusiastic
member directed towards making a
new place on the state payroll for
some faithful democrat. During the
past week this effort is represented by
a bill providing an additional deputy
game and fish warden for the Eighth
senatorial district who shall be ap
pointed by the governor and draw $50
a month; a bill creating a board to be
appointed by the governor, regulat
ing the practice of public accounting;
another providing for the control of
the liquor traffic through a state dis
pensary, which would create another
multitude of state officers; a proposed
law that the governor shall hereafter
appoint the state board of agriculture;
another bill giving the governor the
power to appoint the secretaries to
the state board of health; a bill which
makes the governor the state archi
tect and provides for the appointment
of an assistant at $3,000 and a second
assistant at $1,500; another bill which
creates a state bureau of printing
with the governor as printing com
missioner. _._
These little additions proposed to
the state payroll are merely heaped
upon those of the weeks which have
gone before since this legislature came
into being. The thought may come
to the average taxpayer that he will
be reasonably busy within the next
two years earning the money neces
sary to pay the taxes inflicted on him
by these peculiar brands of demo
cratic “economy.”
A legislator may be judged as well
by what it refuses to do as by the
things accomplished. The democratic
majority in House and Senate have
left some marks of this character
during the past week. Among the
bills killed in the Senate were S. F
261 by Thompson of Cuming, provid
ing for reduction of 20 per cent in the
freight rates on unwashed wool. The
Senate also took a fall out of the bill
by Taylor of York, II. R. 58, which
had already passed the House. This
bill provided for the taxation of real
estate mortgages, and the exemption
of the mortgage real estate to the
amount of the mortgage. This did
not appeal to the sympathies of the
democratic Senate and the measure
was put to death in that body. The
House occasionally shows the same
disposition towards measures of a
character regulating corporations.
During the week the House killed the
bill by Leidigh, H. R. 333, providing
maximum rates for long distance tele
phone messages.
The oft-repeated assertion that no
legislation seriously regulating cor
porations would be passed by the
democratic Senate at this session
would seem from developments to
have some of the democratic members
of the House. The influence of the
three democratic senators from Doug
las county is admittedly great in the
upper house of the legislature and
no one has ever accused these gentle
men of any radical antipathies toward
corporate organizations. In fact,
Senator Ransom, who heads the
Omaha senatorial delegation, and is
an old and experienced legislator is
known throughout the state as an
able corporation attorney. House
members in many cases have been
nervous about what might happen to
their measures in the Senate, and
among them Taylor of Custer had an
opportunity to find out. Taylor’s bill,
providing for a canvas of constitu
tional amendment votes by the State
Board of Canvassers, recently reached
the Senate and was killed there with
out delay. This made the Custer
county member sit up and take
notice. He remembered that several
bills regulating the charges at stock
yards had been quietly sleeping for
weeks in the hands of a House com
mittee and one day during the past
week he suddenly moved that the
committee report the bills at once
and that they be placed at the head
of the general file. This movement
the House supported and the bills are
now in condition for consideration.
The Omaha senators are much inter
ested in the Omaha charter which is
now pending in the House and it is
freely predicted that there will not be
“much doing” in the matter of the
Omaha charter in the House until
the Douglas county senators make a
showing of their attitude towards
the stock yards legislation which bill
will come to the Senate from the
House. _
During the past week one of the
newspapers published at the capital
city made some observations along
the line that decided friendliness was
exhibited by the Senate towards cor
porate interests, and that these in
terests had received some favors at
the hands of the railroad committee
of the Senate. This led Senator Ol
lis of Valley to introduce a resolution
in the Senate, the purport of which was
that the article contained false and
misleading statements, asked for an
investigating committee to the end
that “untruthful and unreliable re
porters” be denied access to the
Senate chamber. The Senate took
cognizance of the resolution and ap
pointed a committee of three to in
vestigate the reporter who had made
the reflections on the railroad com
mittee. Up to this date there has
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