The Frontier
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
JUDGES SUPREME COURT
John B. Barnes.Norfolk
Jacob L. Fawcett.Omaha
Samuel H. Sedgwick.York
UNIVERSITY REGENTS
CharlesS. Allen (long term) ..Lincoln
YV. G. YVhitinore (long term)... Valley
Frank L. Haller (short term). .Omaha
COUNTY TICKET
Treasurer—J. C. Harnlsh.... O’Neill
Clerk—W. P. Slmar.Atkinson
Sheriff—H. D. Grady.O’Neill
Judge—C. J. Malone .Inman
Supt.— Floience E. Zink.Stuart
Coroner-Dr. E. T. Wilson....O’Neill
Surveyor—M. F. Norton.Bliss
SUPERVISORS
2d dlst—J. M. Hunter. .Middle Branch
4th dlst—Th D. Severs.Ewing
6th dlst—F. Dobrovoloney.Tonawanda
Don’t overlook the fact that next
Tuesday Is election day.
The republican candidates for
supreme judges are able, conscientious
jurists and worthy the support of the
people.
Holt county tax payers have a
chance to vote for “the home product”
this year In the person of Ilenry
Grady, candidate for sheriff. Henry
is a native of Holt county, a sober,
industrious and capable young man
who will make a worthy successor of
Sheriff Hall.
W. P. Slmar has a strong following
throughout the county for re-election
as clerk. Mr. Slmar, being crippled,
cannot campaign over the county as
actively as others and he also has the
office to look after. Some precincts
he has not been able to visit on this
account. When the votes are counted
W. P. will be well up in the lead on
the tloket.
This has been a remarkable cam
paign in Holt county. It is the first
time since the organization of the
fusion forces that every republican
who assayed to run for office has not
been branded as a rascal by the oppo
sition. The present republican can
didates must feel flattered that noth
ing has been found in their records to
condemn. It is an Indication that
the administration of the county
offices has been satisfactory to even
the democratic leaders. The public
will note with pleasure that a cam
paign has been conducted in Holt
county sans Blanderous attacks on the
candidates.
Many citizens throughout the
county who have had buslhess at the
county judge’s office are aware that
the affairs of that office are kept up in
proper shape and are supporting the
present incumbent for re-election.
Since Judge Malone went into the
office none of the important cases that
daily come before the county court
have been left uncompleted for
months at a time to make endless
trouble and annoyance to heirs inter
ested in estates. The county court is
growing in importance and it is a
matter of concern to all that the
light man is elected as judge. Judge
Malone inaugurated the reforms that
we believe the voters will allow him
to continue.
Republican voters who desire to
vote the straight ticket this year by
placing their “X” in the party circle
near the top of the ballot are warned
that the democratic circle comes first
at the top this year instead of the re
publican circle, as has been the case
for several years past, and that the
republican party circle appears second
from the top of the ballot. The law
so provides owing to the fact that the
democrats cast the largest vote last
last year for the head of the ticket
(Shallenberger). All republicans hope
to replace the republican circle at the
head of the ballot by winning this
year and replacing the party circle at
the head of the ticket for the import
ant election of next year vzhen a com
plete list of state officers, a United
States senator and a legislature is to
be chosen.
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS;
What Does a Change In the School
System of This County Mean to
Our Children?
There is one important matter for
the careful consideration of the
voters of this county .that is para
mount to all other questions, political
or otherwise, to be determined at the
polls next Tuesday, viz: 'Educational
Interests.
It is a well established fact that our
present county superintendent, Miss
Zink, has proven herself to be one of
the most efflolent.palns-taklngofflclals
that has ever presided over the edu
cational branch of our county affairs.
During her term of office she has
annually visited 120 schools of the
county, exclusive of the schools in the
towns and villages. This will avearge
about one school for each day daring
the school year.
Under her management an excellent
and beneficial system has been In
augurated throughout the county
that being fully developed will prove
not to be second to that of any county
in the state relating to Improvement
in school facilities and both theoreti
cal and practical training.
Miss Zink has devoted all of her
time and energy in the discharge of
her official duties.and the establish
ing of a school system that will the
better promote the best interests of
our schools.
To accomplish this she has made a
study of the best systems adopted
throughout the state and has familar
Ized herself with these matters by
constantly attending the various
meetings of our prominent instruct
ors and the different normal schools,
and otherwise, during her administra
tion. Her ability has been recognized
by her selection as assistant in
normal work, heretofore, and she is to
take a prominent part at the teach
er’s state meeting at Lincoln next
month.
The school system she is building
up in this county is not fully complete
but has reached such a state of per
fection as warrants us in saying that
the best results have been, and will
be, attained.
A change of the present incumbent
means, more or less, a change of
policy or system such as might work
irreparable damage to our school
interests and greatly retard, if not
altogether defeat, the splendid work
that we have thus far obtained. This
loss is not to be measured as we
ordinarily view money values. Its
effect is more far-reaching and it is
within your power, Mr. Voter, to pre
vent any such change.
It is not our intention to reflect any
discredit upon the otHer candidates
for this office, but, is a reminder of
the situation and the probable results
that are liable to obtain by an experi
mental proposition that involves a
a matter of such vital importance.
In her official capacity Miss Zink
has exercised great care and judg
ment in passing upon conflicting
school interests in different localities
of the county, and may have, as all
officials are liable to do, antagonized
a few persons through adverse action
upon whose prejudice the opposition
largely depend for her defeat at the
coming election. In thus presuming
upon the intelligence of our voters
they will, or should, fail in their de
signs for we believe there is no person
so blinded to the best Interest of his
household to the extent of wittingly
permitting some trivial bias or preju
dice to influence him in wrong doing.
Neither is the matter of Miss Zink
seeking a third term in issue. Some
of our democratic officials are serving
a third and fourth term and are seek
ing further recognition at the hands
of the voters. In educational matters,
above all others, such argument should
be eliminated for it is wholly a ques
tion of the greatest good to the great
est number. It is within the province
of the voters of this county to aid a
true and tried servant or turn to
others and try an experiment that
may require years to overcome.
Danger in a Change.
When a person aspires to a county
ofllce their qualifications for the ofllce
is a fit subject of inquiry. The re
publican press of the county has up to
this time been silent as to the quali
fications of the democratic candidate
for county superintendent, Miss Min
nie Miller of Atkinson, and in doing
so now it is with no thought of invid
ious comparison or personal reflection
on the lady. It is the simple duty of
the newspaper to inform the voter
and let them pass judgment.
Miss Miller has been a teacher in
the eighth grade of the Atkinson
schools for the past thirteen or four
teen years but has no experience in
general school work above or below
that grade. In fact she has been con
tent to remain in the eighth grade
year after year while other teachers
in the same school have been advanced
to higher grades or teachers brought
in from elsewhere and placed in the
higher positions with no effort on the
part of Miss Miller to advance herself
to a higher place.
Miss Miller is a graduate of the
Atkinson school when it ranked as an
eleven grade school. The Atkinson
school the last year has added anoth
er grade and some of the school board
thought that Miss Miller, in view of
her long tenure as teacher, should be
given a place in the twelfth grade at
a higher salary and tendered her the
same but she declined because she felt
herself unprepared to teach twelfth
grade work.
In a few words, the election of Miss
Miller would mean a change in the
office of county superintendent from
one who has had large experience in
all branches of school 'work, is aggres
ive and has recognized executive
ability and stands higli with the lead
ing educators of the state to one who
has never graduated from anything
higher than the eleventh grade, who
is content to remain in the same old
place year after year, is not in
touch with the live, active educators
and is really unprepared to teach
above the eighth grade.
Such a change would certainly be
calamitious to the schools of Holt
county.
Lessons of a Texas Ranch.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The
Taft ranch in Texas spreads wide and
far enough to give room for the carry
ing out of a number of settled Roose
velt policies. Room is of the essence
of Roosevelt pplicies. Reports just
at hand from Africa show that Mr.
Roosevelt had need of room in enforc
ing one of his policies against the bull
elephant which contested it. But
room was found, and the Roosevelt
policy prevailed. The Roosevelt poli
cies are capacious. They take in a
wide range and they ought to include
a far view. The view, however, was
always less important to Mr. Roose
velt than the room. lie sought to
cover everything, and had to have
space over which to spread himself,
even if he was sometimes in danger or
running thin in the spreading.
A big Texas ranch is accordingly a
fitting place for Mr. Taft to go into
training for the performance of the
Roosevelt policies which he is said to
contemplate during the coming win
ter. Riding a bucking broncho, of
which there must be many on the
Taft ranch, will give him the Roose
velt spirit which enabled Roosevelt
himself, when in the saddle, to hold
down the fractious elements in Con
gress which were always trying to
throw him. He rode the beast to the
end of his journey, and at the end he
dismounted in good form and turned
the brute over to Mr. Taft, with T.
R. burflfed in the saddle blanket.
Whether the cinch is as tight as it
was is yet to be shown. Mr. Taft did
not put it to any strain during the
special session of Congress in the
early part of the year. Mr. Taft has
just been presented with a Texas sad
dle of unusual size, in the housings of
which he will And the little iron ring
known in that part of the world as
the latigo ring. There is a knack in
putting the divided ends of a cinch
through these rings and then tying
them in those complicated knots
which hold them fast. This knack
was a part of the Roosevelt policy.
Mr. Taft must learn it if he is to
carryout the Roosevelt policies. And
we know of no better place for learn
ing it than a big Texas ranch, where
“cinching up” is a necessary part of
the strenuous life in the saddle.
The president will be on the Taft
ranch four days. It is not a long
time, but if he improves It well Mr.
Taft should be able to know how to
“cinch up” before he leaves there, so
well that he will be able to turn his
expert knowledge to good use this
winter. He should also be able to
learn, in that time, how to hold a
seat on a bucking broncho Such
training will qualify him to deal with
Congress better than a century of
experience on the golf links could.
We hope great things from the brief
sojourn at the Taft ranch. We don’t
want the president to ride too fast or
too far, and we want him always-to
bear in mind that the Congress has a
right which sometimes becomes a
duty, to rear up, at any time, on
either its forelegs or hind legs. And
the American people don’t want to
see their first citizen thrown so far
up, and so far out, that he will not
fall into the saddle.
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Especially night coughs. Na
ture needs a little help to quiet
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flammation, check the progress
of the disease. Our advice is
— give the children Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral. Ask your
doctor if this is his advice also.
He knows best'. Do as he says.
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We urge you to
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consequence, just ask your doctor. He
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