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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1922)
The Frontier L>. H. CRONIN, Publisher. <iV. C. TEMPLETON, Editor and Business Manager. Republican Candidates Governor—Charles II. Randall, Ran dolph. Lieutenant Governor—Fred G. John son, Hastings. Secretary of State—Crawford Ken nedy, Lincoln. Auditor—Geo.’W. Marsh, Lincoln. Commissioner Public Lands and Buildings—Dan Swanson, Fremont. State Treasurer—Charles D. Robin son, Red Cloud. Attorney General—O. S. Spillman, Pierce. Railway Commissioner—Charles A. Randall, Newman Grove. United States Senator—R. I}. How ell, Omaha. Congress 6th Dist. (Reg. term)— Robert G. Simmons, Scottsbluff. Congress 6th Dist. (to fill vacancy) —A. R. Humphrey, Broken Bow. State Senator—Brantley E. Sturde vant. State Representative—Donald Gal lagher. County Clerk—E. F. Porter. County Treasurer—W. E. Conklin. County Sheriff—Robert N. Brittell. County Attorney—Julius I). Cronin. County Surveyor—M. F. Norton. Sup. 1st Dist.—C. F. Englehaupt. Sup. 3rd Dis.—Andrew Schmidt. Sup. 5th Dist.—C. E. Farrier Sup. 6th Dis.—C. B Nellis. Sup. 7th Dis.—C. E. Havens The Party of Achievement The final chapter in the primary contest for county supervisor at Stuart last July was written Tuesday when William Krotter was fined $26 and costs in the court of County Judge Malone for electioneering on primary day within 100 feet of the polls and John Robertson, of Stuart, was ac ?uitted in the court of Judge Frank lampbell on a similar complaint. The complaining witness in both instances was Richard Moon, of Stuart, who was a candidate at the primaries for nomination for supervisor. There were three candidates for supervisor in the Atkinson-Stuart district at the primary: Charles Havens, of Atkin son, republican; Conrad Kramer, of Stuart, republican and Richard Moon, of Stuart, republican. The rivalry be tween Atkinson and Stuart over the supervisorship being rather intense it seems that Mr. Robertson and Mr. Krotter with others conceived the plan of having Mr. Kramer’s name written in on the democratic ballot for the democratic nomination so that Stuart would have another chance at the of fice in case Kramer did no secure the republican nomination. The carrying out of this plan resulted in the filing of the two complaints as mentioned above. Mr. Krotter appeared as his own attorney in Judge Malone’s court and admitted to the court that he might have been within the prohibited distance. Mr. Robertson appeared with an attorney before Judge Camp bell and the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. In his wild campaign of falsification against the county board of supervi sors because the federal road did not go past his place, John A. Robertson takes County Clerk E. F. Porter to task because the county board did not always vote and act in the interest of Mr. Robertson. Just why Mr. Porter should be attacked for any action of the county board, is hard to see or understand. A man of the great wis dom which Mr. Robertson modestly proclaims from the house tops that no possess is surely aware that Mr. Porter is merely the clerk of the board when he sits with that august body. He does not control the board and has no voice in its deliberations. He does not even attempt to control the board, as Mr. Robertson has rather unsuc cessfully tried to do. -o Mrs. Antionette Funk, a profes sional speaker from the east coast will address the women voters at the K. C. hall Saturday evening, in the in terest of Senator Hitchcock. It seems strange that not a single woman speaker of Nebraska is speaking in behalf of Senator Hitchcock in this campaign and that he finds it neces sary to import speakers from other states to tell the women what a po litical friend he is to them. It must be that the women of Nebraska doubt the sincerity of Senator Hitchcock’s alleged conversion to suffrage. -o Another instance of Democratic re pudiation today of its policies of yes terday, is found in the fact that when the new tariff bill was being consider ed in the Senate, every Democrat but one—Senator Owen, of Oklahoma— voted for a tariff on some article or firoduct. Democrats used to be rank ree traders. They have come to sec that tariff is needed to protect Ameri can industries. They have gotten so far now as to try to protect their own. The next step will be to unite for the good of all. Democratic leaders are preparing to sacrifice several of the ircandidates in an effort to elect others. Up in the Stuart vicinity the supporters of the democratic candidate for county at torney ore offering to trade off the democratic candidate for sheriff for support for their man. The same pro position has been made to several O’Neill citizens. -o The amount of the delinquent real estate tax in Holt county for 1921 is $149,779.20. The amount of the land tax unpaid and not sold for taxes, for 1920, is $23,189.28. The amount of the city and village tax in the county pre vious to 1921, unpaid and not sold for taxes, is $14,106.45. Practically 45 per cent of these amounts is due to school districts iri the county, or in other words is school tax. More than $35,000 of the amounts is due the county. If these amounts were paid, there would be no registered warrants, although what warrants are registered in the county arc warrants drawn against the 1922 taxes, which are be ing paid in. In other words if the de linquent taxes, which were assessed during fhe period of democratic “prosperity,” were paid this year’s levies would have been far lower than they are and the county at the same time wouid have a surplus in the treasury. THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET Voters arc offered for their con sideration at the election next Tues day one of the strongest tickets ever (presented them by any party, in the group of republican candidates for leg islative and county office submitted for their approval. Every one of them enjoys the respect and esteem of the people of his community. All are men of integrity, and ability, men who will fulfill any promises made by them selves or by their party, men who will conscientiously perform the duties for which they may be selected. Brantly Sturdevant, the nominee for state senator, already has served two terms in the house of representa tives in the state legislature. He was elected to his second term by an ex ceedingly large vote as an endorse ment of his record during his first term. Mr. Sturdevant has conducted a straightforward and honest cam paign, has not attempted to befuddle the voters by. false assertions against his opponent or against any man or men and has not claimed credit for any public reforms or accomplishments with which he had nothing to do. Mr. Sturdevant in his legislative career has .never violated a pledge to the people who elected him. He will not do so now. Donald Gallagher, the candidate for state representative, needs no intro duction to the people of Holt county. He is a native son of the county, a member of a family which has had much to do with the development of its resources. He is conversant with its needs and favors an economical administration of public affairs. * As a member of the aviation branch of the service he came to the aid of his country in its hour of need. E. F. Porter, candidate for re-elect ion as county clerk, should receive a good endorsement next Tuesday of his most efficient administration of the office during his first term. He is personally known to very many of the citizens of the county, is one of its long time residents and is one of the ablest and economical and at the same time accommodating officials who has occu pied the position to which he agaii aspires. The duties of his positioi have prevented him making the per sonal calls upon all of the voters that other candidates have found time to make. He has placed his duties above his personal interests. W. E. Conklin, candidate for county treasurer, is the present deputy in the treasurer’s office and has been con nected with the office for many years. He is thoroughly familiar with its duties and all of those taxpayers who have come in contact with him in the discharge of his duties know him to be efficient, accommodating and con stantly on duty. Mr. Conklin as one of the early settlers is well known to very many. None know him but to -like and esteem him. His supporters are not confined within party lines. Robert N. Brittell is the party’s nominee for sheriff. A vote for Mr. Brittell means a vote for law enforce ment. Mr. Brittell will have no out side affairs to attract his interest. He served for seven vears as donutv under Sheriff Henry Grady and during that time the people of the county had ample opportunity to become ac quainted with Bob Brittell. Ask any one who knows him as to his char acter, his sincerity and his ability. Bob Brittell is a farmer and a family man. He is engaged in farming south of O’Neill and because of this has not found it possible to make as large a personal canvas as have some. Bob Brittell is pledged to law enforcement and no one has ever known him to violate a pledge or his word. The party’s candidate for county at torney is Julius D. Cronin. He is one of the prominent young attorneys of the county in which he was born and reared. He was admitted to the bar in 1910 and at that time was the youngest attorney ever admitted to practise. He has been engaged in the practice of his profession every since with the exception of the several years he was engaged in the service of his country in the world war. Most of this service was spent overseas. He will honestly and fairly and impartially en force the law if he is elected. M. F. Norton is the candidate for county surveyor. Mr. Norton has held the office for many years and the effi cient manner in which- he has admin istei'ed it has resulted in his re-elect ion year after year. He will be elect ed again this year. Mr. Norton enjoys an exceedingly large personal ac quaintance over the county. Ask any one who knows him as to his ability. The following list of candidates for county supervisors is presented: Sup. 1st Dist.—C. F. Englehaupt. Sup. 3rd Dist.—Andrew Schmidt. Sup. 5th Dist.—C. E. Farrier. Sup. 6th Dist—C. B. Nellis. Sup. 7th Dist.—C. E. Havens. Each of these men is well and fa vorably known to his neighbors in his district. They all are men who may be trusted and who have proven by the success with which they have con ducted their private affairs that they are qualified to assist in administ ering the affairs of,Holt county. All of them favor economy and efficiency. Bear in mind that all cf the candi dates above mentioned are presented to the voters on their merits. There "is none of them for whom the requbli can pary needs to apologide. --o MR. ROBERTSON DISCREDITED. The total bridge cost for the bridges on all of the state and federal roads in Holt coutny is $28,210.07, and of this amount the sum of $18,057.76 already has been paid by the state out of the state and federal aid funds. These figures may be verified by inquiry at the office of the county clerk, or of the state department of public works at Lincoln. Some difference between these figures and the several false as sertions made by John Robertson and the local democratic newspaper. At one time they asserted that the bridges on one road alone were costing more than $70,000 and that the money all was coming out of the county bridge fund. Then they reduced the amount to $50,000 but still insisted that the money was being paid out of the county bridge fund and that as a consequence no other county bridges could be built. The publication last week in the several newspapers of the county of photographs of the state warrant pay ing for the bridges and of the letter of State Engineer Johnson accompanying the warrant caused consternation among the democratic leaders and Claced Mr. Robertson in a very em arrassing position exposing as it did the falsity of his charges. Mr. Rob ertson now comes out with the asser tion that the warrant is to pay for bridges on the Ewing road, which he knows to be untrue. He attempts to confuse the state fund number on the state warrant with the project number of the Ewing road. The Ewing pro ject is on state road No. 49. State Engineer Johnson’s letter which ac companied the warrant sent to the county board is an official communica tion directing the board as to what dis position is to be made of the warrant. It is not a political missive but a legal and non-political record in.which Mr. Johnson as a state official would not dare to' make a mis-statement as such a mis-statement would subject him to inlpeachment and criminal prosecu tion for conspiracy to misappropriate state and federal funds. The truth of the matter is that Mr.1 Robertson has been peeved every since the federal road running north from O’Neill was located. He wanted it run by his farm at Joy regardless of whether such a location would accom modate any other residents of the country or not. He seemed to think that the? state and federal government should go to a vast expense merely for his personal accommodation. When the matter of locating this road was being considered by the county board Mr. Robertson did everything in his power to compel the board to accede to his demands. He sought to play polities and to live up the demo crats for his own private road, but be it said to the credit of local demo cratic leaders, they'refused to be par ties to such a deal.. Judge J. J. Har rington, one of the democratic leaders of the county, and Charles Daly, pres ent chairman of the democratic county central committee, personally appear ed at the head of a delegation of O’Neill citizens and north country 'armors before the members of the unty board and requested that board > locate the road where it would m ve the most people. Both of these cntlemen then owned extensive farm artds along the Robertson road, which would have enhanced in value with the road located there, but they placed the public good above private gain. They also publicly berated the editor of the Independent for being the mouthpiece of Robertson in the road contraversy and caused that gentle man to take a neutral attiude in the next issue of his paper. Since that time Mr. Robertson and his newspaper have been pecking away with parrot pecks at the county board and at one time Mr. Robertson sought to get a thousand dollars from the board for a strip of right-of-way for the road out near the Eagle on land which he pre tended to own but which the record disclosed already was a part of the public road. He also attempted an other shakedown when the Liddy hill was being clayed, asking 25 cents per cubic yard for clay to be taken from a knoll on his land. These excessive demands for chunks of the taxpayers money are not at all complimentary to Mr. Rob ertson’s role as the taxpayers friend and have proven very embarrassing to Mr. Robertson’s mouthpiece. In fact one time last summer when Robert son was pecking away at the county board through the Independent the editor of that newspaper personally apologized to several members of the board and said that he was seriously considering requesting Mr. Robertson to stop writing for his newspaper. The falsity of the charges of Mr. Robertson and his mouthpiece that the county board is paying for state and federal aid road bridges out of the county bridge fund is incontrovertible’ proven by the fact that the state al ready has paid for the bridges, as the photographs show. The falsity of his charges being proven, a doubt is necessarily cast upon the sincerity of any promises or pledges that Mr. Robertson is making or may make in his campaign for the state senate. DEMOCRATIC DEMAGOGY. It is a trick of the Democratic party to invent some catch phrase or idea to use as a bait to deceive unthinking people. It has been somewhat success ful in the past, but is growing less so all the time, as the people are becom ing more intelligent on public ques tions. With an up-to-the-minute •press, we learn fast these days. “Ho kept up out of war,” “The League of Nations will prevent future wars,” “Make the world safe for De mocracy,” “Do-Nothing Congress,”and the scare-head about the tariff increas ing the cost of living—these decoys are now “taken with a grain of salt” by a wise and wary public. Of course, they will fool some people, but one hundred and ten million is a good many—and the majority of them have j too good sense to be easily buncoed. ANTONE F. SAUSER. Antone F. Sauser, one of O’Neill's best known and esteemed citizens, died at his residence in the city Tuesday morning at 11:30 o’clock afttr an ill ness of but a few days duration. His death came as a shock and was en tirely unexpected, as late as last Thursday Mr. Sauser having been upon the streets and at his office at the Far mers Union elevator, of which he was manager. Mr. Sauser came to Holt county with his family in 1911 and until several years ago was actively engaged in farming north of town. Antone F. Sauser was born at Cas cade, Iowa, Janiu ry 12, 1864, and was 58 years, 9 months and 19 days old at the time of his death. He was the son of John Sauser and Elizabeth Knapp Sauser. Mr. Sauser was married to Miss Anna Turnis at Cascade, Iowa, Februry 12, 1890. His widow and the following children survive: Aloysius Sauser, of Walton, Wyom ing, and Clarence, Cyril, Gerald and Mary of this city. A daughter, Mar garet, died twenty-one years ago. Funeral services will be held from St. Patrick s church Friday morning and the body will be taken to the old family home at Cascade, Iowa, for burial. The Frontier joins with the many friends in extending condolences to the sorrowing widow1 and children in their hour of bereavement. MORE LOCAL MATTERS. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sands, residing eight miles south of O’Neill, October 19th. W. P. Curtis has taken over the busi ness of the Farm Bureau cream and poultry station, effective the first of this month. Frank Lancaster is attending a state convenion of county agents in Lincoln which will be in session November 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Frank Straka and Miss Mary Sch mit, -both of Atkinson, were issued a marriage license by County Judge Malone, Wednesday. Mrs. A. L. Cowperthwaite enter-1 .tained the Tuesday club at her home this week. She also entertained the Presbyterian Ladies Aid Thursday afernoon. William Boedicker, of Omaha, who has been looking over his Holt county interests for several\ days, 'returned home Sunday. He has rented his farm to Marsh Graham for the following yeyr. The members of Mrs. R. M. Sauers Sunday school class closed a member ship campaign with a Hallowe’en party at the home of Mrs. Sauers Wednesday evening. The losing side entertained the winners. John Boshart and wife have re turned from an extended visit to Mr. Boshart’s birthplace, Wellesleytown, Waterloo county, Ontario. They were there for one month, which Mr. Bosh art declares was enough for him. The country is not to be compared with Nebraska, he says, and he would not accdpt the old homestead as a gift if living there was one of the condi tions. YANTZI & SON Pays ths Highest Cash Prices -for POULTRY, EGGS & CREAM Call and get prices before selling your produce. Office No. 131. Residence No. 298 We solicit your patronage. L. G. Gillespie [ Solicits Yovir Vote For Police Magistrate I of O'Neill, Nebraska e At the November Election | Don’t fait-to see the Big American Legion Carnival November 11. Help the boys by attending the American Legion Carnival November 11th. Dollar Bills will be given away at the American Legion Carnival No vember 11th. United States Marshal D. H. Cronin came up from Omaha Thursday night for a short visit at home. The Dolly Sisters and their troup of Dancing Girls. Don't miss seeing them at the American Legion Carnival November 11. John Linehart returned home last Thursday after making a five month trip to the western coast. He visited relatives at Woodburn, Oregon, Sa lem and many other points. A union temperance meeting will be held in the M. E. church Sunday evert ing at the service hour. Mrs. Josie Havens, of Atkinson, county president of W. C. T. U. will give a reading. Everybody invited. LOST—ONE SAND’S ALUMINUM carpenter’s level, on the streets of O’Neill. Finder please return to The Frontier office. 22-2 (Political Advertising.) Vote for John M. Matzen for State Superintendent. 22-1 A vote for John A. 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