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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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