The Frontier
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Zeppelin is pulling off a few air nav
igation stunts himself.
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There will be no decline In the value
of Nebraska lands this year.
The senate promises to be through
with the tariff bill so that congress
can adjourn early in July.
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If President Taft should acomplish
nothing else during his administration
the obliteration of the Mason and
Dixon line would be enough.
The apprehension of three of the
bandits that held up a U. P. train
near Omaha is credited to the dis
coveries of a school boy. Score one for
the kids.
Mrs. Taft has been early put out of
the social game in Washington by the
breaking down of her health. Her
illustrious husband, however, is stand
ing the strain superbly.
With prices better than they ever
were before and the crops being boost
ed along by ideal growing weather,
the Nebroska farmer is wearing the
smile of contentment and prosperity.
The Board of Agriculture of Mis
souri has It llgured out that it costs
$12.26* to grow an acre of corn. This
does not represent that much cash
outlay, a large per cent of It represent
ing labor.
A county with the area, population
and wealth of Holt ought to afford a
decent jail building. Since the burn
ing of the old box that served through
the pioneer days the county has no
place to keep prisoners.
With the appearance of the petition
of one candidate for county office,
other prospective candidates are be
ginning to cast about to see what en
couragement they can get. The indi
cations are that politics will soon liven
up In Holt county.
The Atkinson Graphic favors the
continuance for another term all of
the court-house officials whose terms
expire this year. In that case we
might as well save the expense of
election; the taxpayers would probably
be as well satisfied.
The Elkhorn Valley Editorial as
sociation is going to enjoy the hos
pitality of Long Pine In the annual
meeting next Saturday. Those who
are able to break away fpom the office
grind long enough to attend will
doubtless have a pleasant and profit
able time.
A petition has been circulated for
Judge Malone as a non-partisan can
didate for re-election as county judge.
That office has been brought to a
high standard of efficiency during
Judge Malone’s incumbency and he
goes before the voters for re-election
with strong recommendations in his
otllcial record.
Democrats resent the imputation
that Mr. Bryan’s abscence in Canada
during the late municipal campaign
in Lincoln was to escape the necessity
of declaring himself on the issues in
volved. The democrats may say what
they please, but this isn’t the first
time Mr. Bryan has taken to the tall
timber rather than face an unpleas
ant issue.
The agricultural department of the
state university has been carrying on
some experiments to ascertain the
amount of butter produced by one cow.
The experiment was made with a
young Holstein cow. During a period
of seven days the cow produced over
twenty-six pounds of butter, an aver
age of nearly four pounds daily. Of
course the conditions for the experi
ment were such as to get the maxi
mum of results and such as are not
found on the average farm. They
show, however, the value of the cow
as a money maker and the results
that may be obtained from a good
breed of cow when properly cared for.
Henry Clews, in a recent speech in
New York, paid high tribute of praise
to former President Roosevelt. The
value of the services of Mr. Roosevelt
to the country can not be computed
in figures, Mr. Clews pointed out. He
awakened the public conscience,
brought about reforms and set forth
principles that will continue to be
felt in the administration of the gov
ernment.
Times have been good throughout
the Uaitcd States since the enact
ment of the Dingley tariff bill twelve
years ago. Then, as now, democrats
charged that republicans were fram
ing a tariff measure to suit special
interests. Time has established the
wisdom of the tariff schedules then
adopted. With the experience of the
years before it, we believe congress
will enact a tariff law that will safe
guard the Interests of all.
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In another column will be found a
letter from Congressman Kinkaid in
which he gives the reasons why he
voted for Cannon for speaker of the
house of representatives after having
pledged the electors of the district to
oppose him. The Frontier, like other
republican papers of the district, has
censured him for his betrayal of trust.
As we desire to be fair we give space
that he may be heaid in his own be
half and that our readers may see the
reasons given for voting in opposition
to his pledge.
While the railroads of England did
not kill a single passenger in 1908,
says the Homestead, the railroads of
the United States killed 292. How
ever, the showing is so much better
for last year than for the preceding
year that there Is cause for rejoicing.
According to a report just issued there
were 1,932 fewer fatalities to passen
gers and employes In railway accidents
in 1908 than in 1907. The report says
the marked diminutation in fatalities
in 1908 was due almost entirely to the
recession in freight traffic, which took
the strain oil every department of
service and substituted orderly observ
ance of rules by passengers and em
ployes for their violation in the fev
erish rush of prosperity that culmin
ated in October, 1907.
This bit of Information from New
York is likely to take some of the
breeze out of the sails of the fellows
who claim the money kings are im
mune from punishment for crime:
"George Haglin, vice president of the
United Copper company, was taken to
the Tombs prison today and must re
main there under an order of Judge
Lacombe.of the United States district
court, until missing books of the com
pany, which contain evidence upon
which the federal district attorney
seeks to convlot F. August Heinze,
are produced. A similar punishment
also hangs over the head of Sanford
Robinson, a prominent director of the
company, whose case will be further
considered by Judge Lacombe tomor
row,’’ Balin was adjudged incontempt
of court for permitting tbe spiriting
away of the company’s books that
were under subpoena in the Heinze
case.
It Is predicted that wheat will no
go below the dollar mark in the future.
As a reason for this it is claimed that
farmers have taken to raising other
crops, the acreage of wheat falling off
while the population and demand for
bread increases. Some fifteen years
ago, because of the low price of wheat,
an agitation was started among farm
ers to reduce the acreage of wheat.
Government statistics do not support
the claim that there is any material
reduction of the acreage of wheat, but
they do prove the contrary, a steady
increase from 15,000,000 acres in 1866
to 45,000,000 acres in 1907. Some years
the acreage has been a few million
less than others, but this does not and
will not effect the price of wheat
permanently. The amount of wheat
produced, as well as the price, will
continue to vary in the future as in
the past.
WANTED: lntelegent man or
women to take territory, and appoint
canvassers to sell our water filters.
Exclusive territory, and nice, profit
able work for the right party.
Seneca Filter Co.
47-4 Seneca, Mo.
Bert Hemingway, Joe Delay and
Clarence Rinesmith, all of Bartlett,
were in the city this week on land
business.
KINKAID AND HIS PLEDGE
Sixth District Congressman Explains
Insurgents' Attitude on Cannon.
There are a few who think I did
not keep my promise made relative to
the Speakership question. The fol
lowers of Cannon, remembering how
I helped to bombard the Speaker and
the Old Rules, in reponse to the senti
ments of my constituents, while
knowing that I had nothing to gain
as to the Speakership, except unfavor
able consideration for committee as
sigments, would, if they knew of it,
highly appreciate this information
both for its Irony and humor. They
know that when the steadfast “in
surgents” of whom it is universally
acknowledged I was one, finally did
cast their votes for Cannon for the
Speakership, that it was after he had
been overwhelmingly renominated by
the House republican caucus; and
that it was not to placate Cannon,
but to preserve there claims and the
interests of their districts for party
consideration with the other seven
eighths of the republican mem
bership, also with the President and
his cabinet officers, that they so
voted. Any of the Cannon supporters
who may criticise us, therefore, do
not understand the facts, else they
would give hearty approval of our
action which lias already been
universally accorded us by ttiose cor
rectly understanding the facts and in
sympathy with the movement. Per
sonally, I did the same as the other
steadfast “insurgents.” Do my con
stitutents ask more? No. My
promise, made in printed circulars,
was: “Will oppose the re-election of
Mr. Cannon as speaker.” This I ful
filled with the utmost fidelity by con
stantly opposing ills renomination
and reflection to the extent that I
could go, and remain within the pale
of the party, which was until he had
been overwhelmingly renominated by
the House caucus. This did not ex
press or imply I would bolt a possible
nomination of Cannon, and no con
stituent required a promise so
suicidal for me to have made, as I
was then asking for votes because I
was myself the nominee of my party;
to have made such a promise would
have justly invited my own defeat.
Of all the tests of party loyalty, the
record a member makes as to the
permanent organization of the Con
gress is the supreme one. If he shall
repudiate the action of this caucus,
as to nominations, a party question in
the highest degree, he thereby for
feits his right to party consideration
without which, his efforts made in
behalf of his district, must prove
a failure. I regard this paragraph a
sufficient vindication of my vote.
Another proposition, sufficient in
itself, if I needed it, is that between
the time when the promise was made
and the time for its fulfillment, con
ditions had so changed as to render
its successful performance impossible.
The fall election, carrying with it the
re-election of Mr. Cannon and enough
of his repulican friends, both to nom
inate and elect him, the question as
to the Speakership became settled in
in his favor. Accordingly, his pre
election republican competitors,
numbering six or more, withdrew,
and turned their support to him; lead
ing dailies generally conceded his re
election to the Speakership; and,
thereafter, the opposers of Cannon
restricted their letters to requests,
not for the defeat of Cannon, but for
Rules reformation, through which
the power wielded by the Speaker,
obnoxious and held excessive had been
exercised. This turn would, itself,
have excused me from further effort
as to the Speakership, but I did not
stop here. Notwithstanding that
previous to election, I had made no
promise whatever as to rules reforma
tion, I united earnestly in co-opera
tion with other “insurgents” in that
behalf, with the result of a partial
victory which would have been com
plete, except that a democratic
element insurged, going over to the
Cannon element on the republican
side. Nevertheless, we gained a
great victory, which lias already
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Well—Here we are again!
An old acquaintance back.
Just as happy, just as snappy,
just as gingery, just as enticing—
borne fruit by the passage of bills
which have been pending for several
previous sessions, for the non-con
sideration of which the Speaker had
been responsible, notable among
which was the bill to control intoxi
cants shipped in packages from one
state to another, after reaching their
destination. The result of a change
in the rules is far more reaching,
permanent and effective, against the
essence of the difficulty, about which
the people complained, than would
have been the personal defeat of the
Speaker himself, which was wholly
impossible. The Cannon following
would have many times preferred
that I voted against him and for the
old rules, rather than the reverse, as
I did vote. This, of itself, was a
gratuitous and abundant performance
of the substance or purpose of my
promise, and proves that I had the
real cause at heart throughout.
Another very important feature
was that, while the President was at
first reckoned to be in sympathy with
the “insurgents,” finally, deeming
the success of tariff revision, along
the lines promised, without which his
administration were a failure, im
periled by the serious division in
republican ranks, he threw the great
influence of his administration in be
half of reconciliation, conceding the
Speakership to Cannon, and a modifi
cation as to what the “insurgents”
asked as to rules. I was pledged to
help carry out the policies of the plat
form, and those personally avowed by
the President by his letter of ac
ceptance.
In confirmation that the defeat of
Cannon had been determined by “in
surgents” to be hopeless, I cite that
the “insurgents” who participated in
the House caucus did not attempt to
concentrate their votes upon any one
member, but scattered them indis"
criminately upon several, neither of
whom had been, or was, a candidate.
Likewise, the 12 republicans, who at
the last, did not vote for Cannon,
neither did they concentrate upon
one candidate, but scattered their
votes upon four, two of the 12 even
voting for Cannon. In their justiti
cation, as well as my own, it had been
determined that very morning in
caucus by the “insurgents,” the de
feat of Cannon being regarded as
legitimately impossible, that “in
surgents” exercise their individual
choice as to whether they would vote
for Cannon without the propriety of
theircourse being questioned. I,with a
majority of the 27 “insurgents” had
kept out of the House caucus to avoid
being held by its action as to Rules,
a non-partisan question; but I held
myself as much bound by its action
as to nominations, a partisan ques
tion, as if I had actually participated
therein. For whom should I vote?
“Insurgents” had gone to the limit,
in co-operation with the democrats,
for Rules reformation, this a non
partisan question. Here was a parti
san question of the highest order, the
Speakership. Nothing could be gain
ed by way of the consideration of
the Speaker for committee assign
ments, as he knew he did not need
my vote, and I had opsosed him as to
Rules. But here was the President,
with his cabinet officers, here the re
publican organization, numbering 7
for every 1 “insurgent.” Was I to
throw overboard the important in
terests of my district, involved in
both the executive and legislative
branches, for raught but the idle ex
pression of a protest or resentment
against what had already been de
termined by so overwhelming a
majority of the republican member
sliipy Of tlie three alternatives, to
vote for Cannon, Clark, or one of the
four voted for by the “insurgents,”
or even a fifth to be chosen by myself,
1 chose to take an affirmative rather
than a negative or neutral position,
by voting for Mr. Cannon. It was
Cannon a republican, or Clark, a
democrat, to be elected. Voting for
any other candidate, as did the 12,
was the same, mathematically,'as to
the result, as not voting at all. The
result is, no republican voted against
Cannon, but the 12, as significantly
expressed by the Success Magazine,
“refused to vote for Cannon.” As a
republican, I thought then, and
think now, that I did morally and
politically right.
In conclusion, I call attention to
the fact that my vote cast as to Rules
accords in every instance with those
of the 27 “insurgents” universally
regarded as loyal adherents to the
cause, and that my vote upon the
Speakership was also in accord with
a majority of the 27 and a much
greater majority of the “insurgents”
in general; that the great magizines,
conspicuous among which are Colliers,
Success, and LaFollette’s,unstintingly
praise the action of the 27 “insur
gents,” and that the two latter in
clude my name and picture with
those of the other 2G under the head
ings, respectively, “The Roll of
Honor,” and “On the Nations Roll of
Honor.” If “insurgents” themselves,
and these great magazines, besides
many scholars and statesmen of dis
tinction, and the thousands of con
stituents who have wi.tten “insurg
ants” in the most complimentary
terms, are not qualified to determine
whether an “insurgent” faithfully
discharged his trust, then I am at a
loss to know to what higher authority
the question may properly be sub
mitted.
I am pleased to submit these facts
through you for the consideration ol
any who may entertain doubt as to
the complete fulfillment of my
promise. M. P. Kinkaid.
Methodist Church Items.
Services at our church next Sunday
will begin at 10 a. m., with the class
meeting led by Mrs. O. O. Snyder.
Sermon by the pastor at 10:30 a. m.,
subject “Witnessing for God.” Ser
mon at 8 p. m., subject, “The Import
ance of Small Things.” To these as
to all other services ot our church we
cordially invite everybody, especially
the strangers that may be in the city.
Sunday school at the close of the
morning service; Junior League at 3
p. m. and Epworth League at 7 p. m.
Weekly prayer meeting Thursday
evening at 8 o’clock and we are always
glad to have our friends come in with
us while we spend an hour in prayer
and the study of God’s word.
Ladies’ Aid meets in the class room
each Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock,
and all ladies are cordially invited to
meet with them.
T. S. Watson, Pastor.
STUART.
It is reported that Vincent Kaziza
has become mentally unbalanced and
he was taken to O’Neill for exam
ination today.
Martin Hamik, of West Point, ar
rived in Stuart Saturday night with
a well developed case of measles. lie
was taken to the home of Mathias
Schneider, where he will be confined
to his bed for some time.
A letter from Seattle, Wash.,
written by our old neighbor, T. E.
Stanton, says that Mr. and Mrs.
Hamilton and their son, Roy had
visited them the past week. Roy
had just returned from Alaska, where
he is assisting in the development of
a copper mine. He likes the far
north country, and will return to
Alaska soon. Stanton’s folks are
well, and send regards to their old
friends here.—The Advocate.
ATKINSON.
Mrs. B. E. Sturdevant went to
Omaha, Tuesday, to be present at the
graduation exercises of her son, La
zelle Sturdevant, who received the M.
D. degree last evening.
Donat Seger was the recipient of
material assistance last Wednesday,
when eight of his brother members of
the O. D. H. S. assembled at his place
and proceeded to list his corn. The
start was made early and when night
came his corn was planted, taking
considerable worry from Donat’s
mind, as he has not yet recovered
strength enough to enable him to do
any work whatever. This is a
brotherly spirit that should be more
in eyidence than is generally shown.
—The Graphic.
Cutting Humor.
With cap and bolls jangling, he burst
Into the king's presence.
"Have you heard my last joke, your
majesty?" he cried.
“I have,” was the reply as the royal
ax descended on the neck of the court
jester.—Life.
Realism.
The Author—Well, how did you like
my play? The Critic—Oh, it was very
nice! Tlie Author—Didn’t you tliinic
the church scene realistic? The Critic
—Intensely so. Why, a great many of
us actually went to sleep while it was
on.—Cleveland Lender.
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