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For Clerk of the District Court.
I have filed as a candidate for nomi
nation to the office of Clerk of the
District Court of Holt county, subject
to the action of the republican voters
at the primary election on April 20,
1920. If nominated and elected I
promise to perform the duties of the
office to the best of my ability, with
out fear or favor. Your vote and
active support at the primary will be
greatly appreciated.
J. A. JARMAN,
41-8 Chambers, Nebr.
TO SUPPORTERS OF JOHNSON:
I would like to hear at once from
men and women who will support
Hiram W. Johnson in the primary, and
who will help welcome him on his tour
of the state.
Frank A. Harrison, Lincoln.
Anent the O'Neill-Spencer Road.
In the last issue of the Independent
the late Brewery Senator had a long
article about the above mentioned
road and the burdea of his effort seem
ed to be to take a crack at the writer.
He has on several other occasions
grossly misrepresented matters re
garding this road and our connection
with the changing of the same, which
were a tissue of falsehoods. We have
heretofore ignored his tirades because
we are confident that the people who
know him as a betrayer of the trust
they placed in him have no faith in
his statements. He has always been
a tool of others, and perhaps always
will be, because he lacks the brains
and stamina to be otherwise. Now
to the road.'
The law providing for state and fed
eral aid highways was passed by the
legislature of 1917 and the Brewery
Senator was a member of that ses
sion. This law provided that the
county boards should designate the lo
cation of all roads that would be built
under that act The county board of
this county, acting under that law
designated the road running north of
the cemetery. The Brewery Senator
was not satisfied with this location as
it went a mile west of his farm and he
is so selfish that he determined there
would be no road built unless it went
by his place. He took the matter up
with his “boss,” Arthur F. Mullen, and
a government man was sent to exam
ine the road and said that the road
should be located on the east road for
the reason that there were more mail
boxes thereon, and it should go there
to comply with the federal law, al
though he did not think a good road
could be made or maintained there.
But the county board did not recsind
their action in locating it on the ceme
tery road and, as far as the records of
the County Board show, and they arc
the ones who are by law required to
locate the roads, the original location
still stands.
The reason the government man two
years ago favored the east road was
because the law at that time stated,
that is the federal act, that the roads
should be mail roads. This part of the
law was changed by congress in 1917,
which took from the Brewery Senator
the only prop on which he had to
stand.
The state engineering department
never did favor the east road, as the
slate engineer told W. T. Hayes,
chairman of the county board, a little
over a year ago, that a good road
could not be built or maintained on
the east road. He also told me the
same thing the only time I ever talked
to him about the road, prior to my
visit to Lincoln as a member of a com
mittee from this city on March 2,
1920. It was in March, 1917, 1
talked to him about the road at the :
request of the county board and it was i
the only time the road was discussed
by me and the state engineer or any
of his assistants. Robertson says I
beat the committee to Lincoln two .
days, giving the inference that I was
there to see about the road. I was in
Lincoln on March 27 and 28 in attend
ance at the annual meeting of the
State Press association and did not
go near the state engineers office.
When he says that promises were
made for me during the last campaign
that if I was elected the road would
be taken away from the east road and
placed on the west road he deliberately
and maliciously lies. I do not think
anyone every spoke to me about the
location of the road prior to the elect
ion, but if they did I told them all
that the county board had the locat
ing of the road and whatever location
they decided upon would receive the
road, as they were the persons author
izd by law to locate the roads and the
only ones.
He pretends to be very sympathetic
with Chambers and attempts to deceive
the people of that section of the coun
ty into believing that if his propo
sition was accepted and the road built
past his eighteen hundred acre ranch
and two miles further north the bal
ance of the money required to build
the O’Neill-Spencer road could be used
on the O’Neill-Chambers road. Does
he wish the people to believe that it
is ignorance that makes him write
that or, is it another attempt to deceive
the people. He knows, or should
know, that the O’Neill-Chambers road
has never been designated as a state
and federal aid highway and that until
it is no state money can be used there
on. The O’Neill-Chambers road was
the fourth road in the county which
the county board designated as a
st^te and federal road and asked aid
from the state upon. It will be built
as soon as the other three roads are
built. The other roads are designated
by statute and the engineering depart
ment must build them first. The state
engineer, his assistant or any other
person has no authority to use the
money in the road fund on any road
that is not designated and approved
by the state and federal road depart
ments. And Robertson knows this, or
should know it.
John H. Batchelor of Valentine, one
of the wealthiest cattle men in the
state, filed for the republican nomi
nation for governor last Friday. Mr.
Batchelor’s entrance into the race
makes it a seven cornered fight. This
practically insures the renomination
of Governor McKelvie.
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Senator W. J. Taylor of Custer
county, one of the most militant dem
ocrats in the state and a leader in the
nonpartisan league, has filed for the
democrtic nomination for governor.
Mr. Taylor has been in public life for
several years and is one of the ablest
men in the democratic party in the
state. He is one of the best rough
and ready scrappers in the common
wealth and there is no question but
what he will make it mighty interest
ing for the balance of the candidates
before primary day.
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J. D. Ream of Broken Bow, one of
the “big guns” in the nonpartisan
league organization in the state, has
filed as a candidate for the republican
nomination for congress from this dis
trict and will contest for the nomin
ation with Mose Kinkaid. We under
stand that heretofore Mr. Ream has
always affiliated with the democratic
party, but prospects for success of
democratic candidates in the coming
election are not very bright and he
changed his political allegiance.
AN OBLIGING OFFER.
The atmosphere of the smoking-car
lent itsself to reminiscence. “Captain,”
asked the hardware salesman, “would
you mind telling me how you lost your
arm?” Not at all, not at all,” re
plied the bronzed officer with the
empty sleeve. “It happened this way:
We were due for another turn in the
trenches the next day, so they were
giving a dance for us that night back
in the rest camp. A few welfare
workers were there, and among them
was the cutest little girl I ever met.
I*managed to dance with her most of
the evening, and toward the end we
wandered out in the moonlight, “Cap
tain,’ she said, after a while, ‘please
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remove your arm,’ And you know,
she was such a little queen I just
couldn’t refuse her.’”
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SAFETY FIRST!
Many farmers will make settlement for their
farms March 1st. These settlements represent the
reward of years of hard work and are the earnings
of nearly a life time.
The question that naturally arises is what to
do with the money to insure its safety and still re
alize a fair return.
The Legislature of Nebraska answered this
question by passing the Guaranty Law wherein de
positors of state banks are protected by the Guaranty
Fund of the State of Nebraska. The Nebraska
State Bank of O’Neill is the only bank in O’Neill
operating under this law.
SAFETY FIRST was a good motto during the
war—why not now?
We pay five per cent on time deposits. Come
and see us.
NEBRASKA STATE BANK
O’Neill, Nebraska
I What’s the Matter I
I With the Soldiers? 1
if t ^ s t
vniThear a lot
I UU of harping
about nobody wants
a soldier for Presi
dent. Why not? Do
the \parents, broth
ers and sisters want to come out
now against the men who fought for
this country and deny them of the
same priviliege as the men have
who escaped the draft? Maybe you
want a man like Bryan who ran like
a rabbit when he seen trouble com
ing, or a man like Hoover who sat on
the grub box, or a man like Ford
who stuck his head in the sand and
prayed for peace. ' But a man who
went out and faced the guns and
helped fight for you-not him. You
don’t want him. You want some
smooth-tongued Dude with a canary
back to have the privilege of holding
office after the Soldier made it safe
for him and you. If there is anything
in the United States worth giving I
say give it to the men who really
I earned it No one has a better ctaim to anyuuny we
have to give than a soldier. Its a cinch. No grape |j
juice advertisement—no grub box marshal, earned |
anything. In this county, in this state and in this nation, If
/ say the soldiers first. Anyway you should be fair g
and them the same privilege as the men who did not p
have to be soldiers. p
Every purchase made in my store between now and g
April 15th will give you an opportunity to get a 100 =
pound sack of sugar free. Ask us about the particu- |
lars. Soldiers get the same privilege as anyone else. j
What have the soldiers done that would deprive them ||
if of their rights? - S|
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John Brennan, O'Neill
Ca^sh Does It j
