The Frontier
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
JUDGES SUPREME COURT
John B Barnes.Norfolk
Jacob L. Fawcett.Omaha
Samuel H. Sedgwick.i ork
UNIVERSITY REGENTS
Charles S. Allen (long term).. .Lincoln
W. G. Whitmore (long term)... V alley
Frank L. Haller (short term)..Omaha
COUNTY TICKET
Treasurer—J. C. Harnlsh.... O’Neill
Clerk—W. F. Simar.Atkinson
Sheriff—H. 1). Grady.O Neill
Judge—C. J. Malone .Inman
Supt.—Florence E. Zink.•Stuart
Coroner-Dr. E. T. Wilson... .O’Neill
Surveyor—M. F. Norton.Bliss
SUPERVISORS
2d dist—J. M. Hunter.. Middle Baanch
4th dist—Th D. Severs.Ewing
6th dist—F. Dobrovoloney.Tonawanda
At all events, Dr. Cook will have to
present stronger evidence that he was
at the pole than Perry gives us that
he wasn’t.
Governor Shallenberger Is evidently
pretty mad. Come now, dear demo
crats, don’t get sore because your
laws are all unconstitutional.
The state Woman Suffrage associa
tion meets at Lincoln November 18
and 19. Nebraska women interested
along this line are straining every
nerve to have a suffrage amendment
submitted by the next legislature and
the convention next month will prob
ably develop some Interesting phases
of their program. The experience of
the average man is that woman
usually gets what she wants because
she keeps on asking until we men,
like the unjust judge, grant the re
quest. It begins to look as though
we might as well make up our minds
to let them vote.
The delinquent tax list of the
various counties in the state have
dwindled down to nearly nothing
compared to what they were a few
years ago. In Holt county the tax
list this year makes a little over nine
newspaper columns. A few years ago
It filled twenty-four columns. One of
the causes of the great reduction in
the volume of delinquent taxes is the
“Infamous” revenue law which en
abledthe county to clean up the tax
records. Another reason is that the
high prices and great demand for
everything produced on the land has
made the land valuable and worth
paying taxes on. The day of long
lists of dead and unpaid real estate
tax Is over in Nebraska.
There is a lot of silly rot Indulged
by representatives of various religious
sects over President Taft’s visit to
Salt Lake Oity and appearance in the
Mormon tabernacle. We are not in
sympathy with the Mormon teach
ings, but some of the critics of those,
people now condemning Taft might
take some lessons from the Mormons
Salt Lake City and other cities of
Utah have some of the finest works of
man found anywhere in the world.
The despised Brigham Young was a
hundred years in advance of our
time in constructing irrigation canals,
building cities and making garden
spots of deserts. The achievements
of the Mormons in Utah indicate that
they are a people of intelligence and
industry.
Most of the republican candidates
have been able to visit only a small
portion of the county. They have
felt that they could not neglect the
offices to which the people have
placed them in trust to go over the
the county thoroughly and solicit
votes. Hence their will be many
voters whom they will not get to see.
To these The Frontier would say that
it is generally conceded that Holt
county never had a better set of
officials than those now candidates for
re-election. They did not seek the
re-nomination but took it because
none others desired it. They are all
now entitled to the support of the
voters. They have served the county
well and there is no occasion to take
the risk always entailed in making a
change.
Business Is Business.
Beginning with the year R. E.
Chlttlck: served as county treasurer,
the treasurer’s office has had an ex
cess of fees eacti year to turn into the
general fund of the county. This is
something quite new in the adminis
tration of that office as a search of the
reoords from 1902 to 1905, inclusive,
discloses no excess. In 1900 Mr.
Chlttlck had an excess of $398.01,
which went into the county’s general
fund. In 1907 Mr. Harnish turned
into that fund an excess of $855.28; in
1908 an excess of $748.85.
The office lias made a good record
during the past three years by cutting
down the cost of clerk hire. The
average paid in salaries per year for
the last three years, Including the
treasurer’s salary, is $3,763.72|. For
the four years preceeding, or from
1902 to 1905 inclusive, an average of
$4,903,294 was paid annually in salar
ies. By these figures It is seen that
the treasurer’s office is now effecting
a saving of about $1,200 a year on this
one Item.
The same sort of business methods
obtain in every detail of the office.
There is no doubt about the re-elect
ion of Mr. Harnish as treasurer. His
excellent qualifications for that office
have been fully demonstrated and
men of all parties are giving him their
hearty support.
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Three Fat Years.
The figures are Dot now of course
obtainable for the full two terms, but
the records for the years 1906,1907
and 1908 disclose that County Clerk
W. P. Simar has turned a pretty
penny over to the county in excess
fees. During those three years Mr.
Simar turned into the county general
fund the neat sum of $5,239.76.
There has been no unusual volume
of business in the office over proceed
ing years but Mr. Simar has managed
to pay all the expenses of maintain
ing the office and have about $1,800
left each year to go into the county
general fnnd.
This is not the only particular in
which Mr. Simar has made a good
clerk. He has given universal satis
faction all around and his re-nomi
nation for another term came as a
party compliment. His re-election
will insure continued economy and
good service in that very important
office. ^
Guaranty Law Void.
The blow has fallen. The issue
upon which democrats fought and
won in the campaign a year ago and
embodied into law by an act of the
legislature is as dead and worthless as
the autumn leaves now strewn about.
Last Saturday the federal court
sitting at Lincoln made perpetual the
restraining order preventing the gov
ernor and state banking board from
enforcing the bank guaranty law.
The court holds that the law conflicts
with the constitution of the state,
and also of the United States, which
provides, section 1, fourteenth amend
ment:
No state shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge the privileges
or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state
deprive any person of life, liberty or
property without due process of law.
And is in conflict with section 3 of
article i of the constitution of Ne
braska, which declares: “No person
shall be deprived of life, liberty or
property without due process of law,”
and therefore is void.
The conflicting portion of the law
with the above provision lies in the
clause prohibiting individuals from
engaging in the banking business
under the guaranty law unless they
do so as a corporation. On this point,
the real test of the validity of the law,
the court in the syllabus says:
The provisions of the Nebraska act
of March 25, 1909, supra, which pro
hibit individuals from engaging In
the banking business, unless they do
so through the agency of a corpora
tion, and also condition the right to
engage in that business in that form
upon the making of enforced contribu
tions from time to time a depositors’
guaranty fund to be employed in
the payment of the claims of
depositors of any bank which shall
become insolvent, were the induce
ment to the passage of that act,
and as those provisions, so coupled
together, are void, the entire act is
thereby rendered invalid.
Willis Van Devanter and Thomas
C. Munger were the judges who
passed upon the law.
It will be remembered that the
guaranty law was Mr. Bryan’s own
idea and chief campaign slogan in
this state a year ago. This is the law
that the democratic legislature paid
Judge I. L. Albert of Columbus $300
to draw up. Mr. Bryan would not
undertake to frame a bill for the
legislature himself, but tiled with the
governor his ideas of what should go
into the bill and then left the state.
W. V. Allen, Nebraska’s former popu
list senator, brought the suit to test
the law.
A good many republicans are prob
ably going to be tempted not to go
to the polls on November 2. The
Individual will think that one vote
will make no difference, which in fact
probably would not. But let from
one to a dozen in each of the thirty
four polling places in Holt county get
to thinking that way and act upon it
and it is easy to see what the result
would be. Every republican candidate
on the ticket ought to and will be
elected this fall if every republican in
the county gets out and votes. Its
now only twelve days to election.
Make up your mind now that you will
not miss going to the polls.
By a question which implies the
answer an exchange infers that
Joseph Cannon would be no longer
speaker of the house of representa
tives were the people to vote directly
upon the proposition. The people
have a way to depose Mr. Cannon at
the next organization of the house as
matters now stand. The house is
the representative body, the congress
men coming direct from the people.
If enough of the people desire a
change in speakership the change can
be effected. The trouble has been,
Caunontsm has been stronger than its
opponents. Certain localities have
been against the Illinois congressman
for speaker and have opposed him
through their representatives in con
gress. This sentiment was not suf
ficiently wide-spread at the last organi
zation of the house to effect a change.
No congressman will go deliberately
contrary to the wishes of his constitu
ents, and if a change in speakership is
really desired by a majority of the
people of the country, let them de
mand of their representatives in con
gress that the change be made and
it will be done.
Prepare For Drought at Asylum.
The democratic legislature added
some restrictions to the liquor trade,
but at least one democratic state
official has come to the rescue. The
Bee’s Lincoln correspondent reported
last Saturday:
Superintendent Baxter of the
asylum at Hastings has certainly pre
pared himself for a drought. His
liquor bill for the quarter ending
December 31 is of such proportions
that the board which allowed the con
tract has decided to hold it up for
future action. Compared with a year
i ago, when the liquor estimate was
| only four and a half gallons of alcohol
for the quarter for this institution the
present superintendent has capped
the climax. Here is what he asked
the board to buy for him:
Brandy, J. & F. Martel 3-star
Cognac, two cases.$ 31.70
Brandy, peach, one case. 7.50
Brandy, apricot, one case.._ 11.50
Wine, Wateison’s Old Tawney
port, one case. 8 50
Wine, claret, Chaetau, Coville,
one case. 16.50
Wine, sherry, Watersom’s Gene
rose, one case. 8.50
Wine, Rhine, Rauenthals, one
case. 17.50
Wine, Moselle, Josephshofer, one
case. 13.00
Wine, Lisbon port, one keg, 11
gals. 24 00
Whisky, Yellowstone, two cases 27.00
Whisky, King William V. O. P.,
one case. 17.75
Rum. London Dock Jamaica,
Red Cross, one case. 12.00
Clysmic, 100 splits, one case_ 10.00
Total.$205 45
On the heels of this enormous wine
bill, came a letter to Governor Shal
lenberger this morning from a saloon
keeper at Arapahoe, saying that the
8 o’clock closing law had increased his
sales and he favored it as a permanent
institution. The letter was written
to the chairman of the democratic
committee of Furnas county and for
warded to the governor. It said the
saloon keeper objected to the law at
first, but as it had increased the sale
of liquor in his place of business he
felt very much in favor of it. Dr.
Baxter, however, bought nothing
from the Arapahoe saloon keeper, so
far as the records show.
Spiteful.
Dear Creature ((speaking metaphoric
ally)—That absurd Maud Forsyth can’t
see an inch beyond her nose.
The Other Dear Creature (speaking
spitefully)—Perhaps she is dazzled by
Its brilliance.
The public man needs but one patron
—namely, the lucky moment.—Buiwer.
British and German Physique.
Ten millions of our people inhabit
dwellings Inferior to the kennels pro
vided for the hounds in a well man
aged hunt. The results of living In
dwellings unfit for human habitation
and the prevalence of a dietary scale
from which English meat, bread and
milk are excluded are fatal to success
ful rivalry with a virile and healthy
race where agriculture is fostered for
strategical reasons.
Having spent hours in watching the
arrival of the early morning trains in
Berlin and Hamburg, I am appalled
with the contrast between the vigor
ous and well set up, broad chested and
healthy looking clerks, brawny shop
men and stalwart laborers on the oth
er side of the North sea and the cham
pagne shouldered, cow hocked, pigeon
chested, lack luster trainfuls of men
of the same classes landed at Liver
pool street, Victoria and Charing Cross.
—Arnold White in London World.
He Studied It.
H. Rider Haggard in “A Winter Pil
grimage” tells this anecdote:
“When I was a ‘soaring human boy’
my father took me up the Rhine by
boat with the hope and expectation
that my mind would be improved by
contemplating its lovely and historic
banks. Wearying of this feast very
soon, I slipped down to the cabin to
enjoy one more congenial, that of ‘Rob
inson Crusoe.’ But some family trai
tor betrayed me, and, protesting even
with tears that X hated views, I was
dragged to the deck again. ‘I have
paid 6 thalers,’ shouted my justly in
dignant parent as he hauled me up
the steamer stairs, ‘for you to study
the Rhine scenery, and, whether you
like it or not, young man, study it you
shall.’ ”
Much Married.
The following, taken from “Evelyn’s
Diary,” refers to a Dutchwoman who
lived in the seventeenth century: “To
wards the end of August I returned to
Haarlem. They showed us a cottage
where, they told us, dwelt a woman
who had been married to her twenty
fifth husband and, being now a widow,
was prohibited to marry in the future,
yet it could not be proved that she
had ever made away with any of her
husbands, though the suspicion had
brought her divers times into trouble.”
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