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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXI. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA,£ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2T, 1004. NUMBER 50 THE NORTHWESTERN T ’'.RMS:—*1.00 PER TEAR. IT PAID IK ADVANCI Entered at the Loup City Postofflce for trans mission through the mails as second class matter. Office’Phone, - - - Rll Residence ’Phone, - - H12 J. W. BURLEIGH. Ed. and Pnb. Republican Standard Bearers NATIONAL. For President. ..Theodore Roosevelt For Vice President. .Charles \V. Fairbanks STATF. For Governor. .John H. Mickey of Polk For Lieutenant Governor. .E. G. McGiltcu ot Douglas For Secretary ot State. .A. Galusha of Webster For Auditor. .E. M. Seurle.Jr. of Keith For Treasurer.. .Peter Mortensen of Valley For Superintendent of School. .J. M. McBrien of Fillmore For Attorney General. ....Norris Brown of Buffalo For Land commissioner. .H. M. Eaton of Dodge CONGRESSIONAL. For Congressman—Sixth District.. .Moses P. Kinkaid of Holt STATE sex ATE. For Senator—Kith restrict. .Aaron Wall of Sherman COUNTY. For Representtative. .H. Smelser of Ashton For County Attorney.. .J. S. Pedler of Loup City The supreme court decides the Ramsey elevator law constitutional. What will Mr. Hand raDt about now? Under the iniquitous(?) new rev enue law, E. H. Kittell, populist candidate for representative is to pay a state tax of *5.00 as against *0.07 last year. That awful reve nue law! The increase in the total assessed valuation of railroad property in the state is 69 7-10 per cent. Total on all other property, 54 per cent. In crease on railroad above all other property, 15 7-10 per cent. Farm ers, dou’t let the opposition’s “jug glery” with figures fool you. They should keep history straight. The total amount of state tax lev ied for the year 1903 in this county was $8,341.14, and the total amount levied for 1904 is $8,701,11, or an increase of $359.97 over last year. The railroad tax in this county in 1903 was 11,669 71, and in 1904 is $2,093.61, making an increase of $423.90, which is $$63.93 that the railroads pay over the total increase in the whole county. So much for one of the bowls that the railroads are escaping taxation under the new revenue law. Look here! An examination of the new revenue law shows a de crease in the average valuation of cattle of 97 cents per head; of hogs 19 cents; of sheep 6£ per cent; of sewing machines 23 4 per cent; on wagons 6 per cent, etc. The small property owner seems in no danger of being “ruined” by this law. On the other hand monies, stocks, bonds, etc., the “plutocratic” c lass stuffs, so to speak, have an IN CREASE OF 317 PER CENT. Keep history straight. The opposition in Sherman coun ty is busy these days gathering up names of those who may have any increase in their assessment this year over last year, ou the hypothe sis that in touching the pocket by the assessment route you touch a vital spot and by said touch-down score a point against the republican party, by laying it to the new reve nue law. But they forget(?) to state that the increase is due to the coun ty board (populist, if you please) to raise mobey for county levy, (not state levy) and for county, town ship and school purposes, and not for state, and cannot be placed to the discredit or responsibility of the new revenue law. In fact the state levy has been reduced from mills to 6* mills, or A REDUCTION OF TWO MILLS ON THE STATE LEVY THIS YEAR. Don’t for get that. Keep hist* ry straight. The New Revenue Law. It provides for taxing all the prop erty in the state equitable among all property owneft. It provides for the collection of all the taxes. It prevents the heavy property owner from escaping his fair share of the burdens of taxation. It has made it possible to ascer tain the true value of railroad pr^p | erty. It has raised railroad assessments 71 percent throughtout the state, or j about nineteen millions of dollars. It provides a better and stronger ] system for assessing life, accident | and surety companies and all other ; corporations. Ed. Northwestern: 1 am in formed there is an erroneous idea I atioat regarding the modus operandi followed by me In making the 10 per cent raise on the taxable proper ty of this county, as ordered by the State Boaid of Equalization this year, and to correct any errors that I may exist, I would say that I mere : ly made a mathematical calculation I of the amount the state exacted from Sherman county, which was $8,698, then proceeded to ascertain the levy in mills it would require to raise this amount on the value as re turned by the assessors and equal ized. I did not raise the value of the property one penny, but raised the state levy enough in mills to get the required amount. I would like to say further, regarding the new revenue law, that it is a peach and a thorough understanding of it will convince any one. It your taxes are higher than last year, it is not | the fault of that law,; there is some ! other reason which can be assigned, and herore the new revenue law is condemned, let us find the real rea I son and be convinced. Geo. H. Gibson. _ _ This editor has had an acquaint | ance with the governor ever since I he was a boy of eighteen We served I our country in the same regiment during the civil war. We liyed in Polk county for over fifteen years, all of which time we had a close friendship with our old comrade and we are emphatic in our declaration : that in all these many years of our i acquaintance with the soldier,citizen, ! business man,church man and gover i nor, we have never known one single act of his that would wariant any one in denouncing him as a hypo crite. The statement is malicious, contemptible and mean, and the dem-pop papers that are taking up this vile stuff and rolling it under their tongue as precious morsal of political rot, then giving it out to their readers wit., hellish partisan glee are not adding any strength to their cause and only breed contempt for themselves and their papers.— Bradshaw Republican. The unfair, unwarranted and un i gentlemanly attacks upon J. S. Ped | ler, accusing him of being responsi I ble for increase of taxation in Ash ton and Oak Creek townships, does not meet with the approval of the | people of those townships, and the party making such unwarranted as sertions was pertinently asked if he thought the people were fools and I didn’t know the county attorney did not have anything to do v.ith the plan of equalization. The supervis ors have certified that no legal ques tion was involved and J. S. Pedler was not asked, neither did he give j nor offer any advice as to plan or ! otherwise. What is the matter with the opposition? Why not keep history straight? A friend handed us a circular, just before going to press, gotten out by the opposition, one paragraph being in part as follows: •The populist party has always re duced taxes in state and county,’’ etc. Considering the fact that they have in this eounty raised ihe coun ty levy this year from 24 mills to 24£ mills, thereby raising the taxes some eight or nine thousand dollars, the statement is pretty good. Won der why the circular picked oat a tax showing from a certain few townships only? Why this par tiality? Today is what may be termed fine* Republican weather. TRUTH VS. FICTION. In answer to a challenge to de bate with Mr. Merge, Gov. Mickey has written a letter which refutes many of the fusion slanders against the Republican administrations It would be impossible for the govern or to answer all of the wild charges which have been circulated of late by fusion candidates, speakers and writers^ but he has found time to show how carelessly Mr. Berge and others act when they are delving in what they are pleased to call statis tics with regard to the state debt, appropriations, the revenue law and other important topics. Governor Mickey makes but one argument, the argument of figures taken from the official records, prop erly substantiated by the official in charge of those records. The govern or very properly points out that these figures are either true or un true and that therefore there is no room lor debate. If fusionists wish to prove their good faith and actual ly believe a tenth of the wild state ments they have made, let them go to the records and show wherein Governor Mickey is wrong when he says that the “enormous increase” in the state debt uuder Republican rule is just $151,666.99, that a goodly portion of this has gone to pay fusion deficiencies, and that many times the increase has been unavoidably expended in rebuilding the state buildings which burned, enlarging institutions which had become over-crowded, and repairing the damaged buildings which had been allowed to go to ruin under the fusionists, in order that they might be able to make a fake show ing of “economy.” Gov. Mickey backs his word with a sworn statement from the audit or's office, which is in part as fol low’s: Complying with your request of Oct. 17,1904. I transmit herewith a certified copy of the conditions of the floating debt of the state on Jan. 2, 1901, and on Sept. 1, l9o4. Amount of floating debt Jan. 2.1901.$1,748,892 70 To this debt should be added the amount of II, It 437. being the miscel laneous deficiency bill, and II. R. 478. being the miscellaneous claims bill, these boing debts incur >ed by the former admin istration, amounting to .. 182,735 97 Making a total of.$1,931,028 07 Amount of floating debt on Sept. 1,1904.$2,083,295 G6 Being a net increase of. 151,660 99 Reference is then made to the $19,000 of wolf bounty claims al lowed to accumulate by the fusion ists under a law which they had passed, and the auditor shows, too, that $605,063 was expended by the Republicans in permanent improve ments, a considerable portion of which were imperatively necessary and ought to have been attended to by the fusion is ts. Had these in vestments (not expenditures) not been necessary, the stale debt would have been largely decreased in the past four years, and today there is not the slightest doubt that should existing conditions be maintained the debt will melt away rapidly and within a few years will be a thing of the past. Continuing, Gov Mick ey quotes Auditor Cornell (fusion) with regard to the growth of the state debt under the rule of tlie op position, and says: ‘•The only mistake made by Mr Cor nell was that lie did not estimate his ‘deficiencies’ large enough. The figures us showed by the anditor’s statement herein given, should have been $182. 7:15.07, instead of §125.000, increasing the total indebtedness at that time to $1,965,221.08. In this connection it is also proper to state that both Gov. Hol comb and Gov. Poynter called the at tention of the legislature, in their bien nial messages to the growth of the floating debt during their respective terms, and urged a revision of the reve nue law to the end that the income of ehe state might be made adequate to its expenditures. You must agree with me that the state’s floating debt has re ceived very considerable impetus dur ing fusion administrations and that the showing made by republicans during the three and three-fourths years since their advent to power in limiting the increase to $151,000,despite the provis ion for over $600,000 of permanent im provements, is a record which we mar be permitted to view with reasonable satisfaction ” Gov. Mickey then explains that the republican saving has been ef fected by a careful administration of the affairs of every public insti tution, and refers doubters to the records, promising to assist them in the work of verification. He also inserts a thorn n the side of the fu sion combination hv explaining that their opposition to the new revenue law is bnilt up because of the mis takes or deliberate misdoings of lo cal assessment boards. All in all, the letter is a clearing up of the rumors, musty charges, half truths and deliberate and inexj cusahle falsehoods circulated by the opposition for months past, and every statement, every criticism, every contradiction made by the governor is backed up by the rec ords and the opposition must either accept them or show wherein they are incorrect. It is dj> to Mr. Berge. \ SHOE SALE 81.00 Shoes at 8 .75 1.50 Shoes at 1.10 2.00 Shoes at 1.40 2.50 Shoes at 1.85 3.00 Shoes at 2.25 And everything else at same rate till my en tire stock of shoes is CLOSED OUT! as I have decided to aUIT HANDLING SHOES COME EARLY Refore your size is all cone. A. E. Chase Loup City, Neb. A. P. CULLEY, President. W. F. MASON, Cashier. FIRST rak Ml of Loup CITY General Banking Business Transacted. PAID UP CAPITAL STOCK, $25,000.00. CORRESPONDENTS: Seaboard National Bank, New York City, N. Y. Omaha National Bank, Omaha, Nebraska. DRAPER SADDLERY COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF LIGHT and HEAVY HARNESS SADDLES and BRIDLES BLAXKHTS, ROBES, WHIPS, FLY NET8, Blil’SHES, CUREY COMB9. Repairing Neatly Executed. All Work Warranted. HAND MADE HARNESS A SPECIALTY. Bargains in Baggies and Spring Wagons LOUP CITY - NEBRASKA Loup Gity, Nebraska, —for— LUMBER Of all kinds. Also Posts, Shingles, Lime and Cement Hard and Soft Coal Always on Hand. Orders Taken for Storm Sash. DRAPER’S STUDIO. I am going to move my photo car away during the winter but before I go I want everybody to have at least one dozen of my photos Because I am coming back. I will be back next spring or early summer and put in a permanent studio here, and am making this special run on prices purely for advertising purposes. Come early and avoid the rush. These prices will not last long, as I am going to move soon. Do not wait a day, but come in right awray. EDGAR DRAPER SELLS BOUGHT AT THE B. & M. Elevators MCALPINE, LOUP CITY, SCHAUPP SIDING, ASHTON AND FARWELL. Coal for Sale at Loup City and Asia. Will Bay HOGS AT SCHAUPP SIDING AND FARWELL Call and see our coal and get prices on grain. E. G. TAYLOR. John Solmes <DEALER IN»* HARD WARE Steel Ranges, Cook Stoves, Tinware, Screen Doors, Hammocks, Lawn Mowers Guns and Ammunition. Carry a full line of guaranteed Paints, Linseed and Machine Oils. PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR BIDING fWJNE f)OW W .T. CHASE —THE— Popular Druggist FOR THE PUREST AND BEST Drugs, Paipts, Oils, CIGARS, FRUITS IN SEASON, ETC. LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA •^J. I. DEPEWS* Blacksmith >9 Wagon Maker; . . shop la aha largest and best equipped north of the Piatta nv». I have a four horse engine and a complete line of the latest improved in a chlnety> also a force of experienced men who know how to operate it* and turn out a Job with neatness and dispatch. operate it and MY PRICES ARE REASONABLE AND PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL CUSTOMERS.
