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About Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1899)
to , Pabllihod CYOry TharicUy at the Countj Beat. . M , AMBUIiWIlV , lid It or 3-Offlco In Caelor IJlock , fourth Aye.-V Entered at the poptoQlco at Broken llow , Mob. , M second cUna matter , for trauimUtlou tnrough tne U. 8. mails. HUUSOHIITION PUIUKl One You , In adYituce . . THURSDAY. OUT. 20 , 1809. REPUBLICAN TICKET. Ntntc TlcUct. For Judge of tbo Supreme Court , Of Lincoln. for K.Q.itcGILTON , Of Omabn. Un. WM. 1J. KLY , Of Alniworth. ConurcHBlomil Ticket. ' For Ooogreif , ' M.P.KINKAII , , Judicial Tlcuct. ForJudgSof lath Judicial District , ' K.O. 11AMKU , Of Kearney. County Tlcltct. For County Tremtucr , " . WALTEH For Sheriff , CnptV. O.TALUOTT. For County Clerk , JAMES 011ITT10K. For Clerk of Dlst. Court , ' Lieut. II. F. KENNEDY. For County Judge , J. A. AUMOUK. For County Superintendent , J.U.TAGQAHT. For County Bnrroyor , F.E. VAHANTWKHP. For County Coroner , Dr. II. F. DAVUCS. BupcrvlHor WJcUct. For Supervisor lltrlct , , Of Guitar. Ticket. CIert' ' W. W. COWLES. Treasurer , M K1MUKUUNaj Joitlce * of the Peace , J. J. 8NYDKII. L. McOANDLKHS. Consume. , p > MiTOWBLBy > W * . DAH11ETT. Road Orsruocrs , DUt. No. 1 , 011AS. DAVIS. Dlst. No. 2 , J. 1J. KKN0YKU. Dlst. No. 3.JOI1N 110YCE. Dial. No. 4 , I. N. PBHSIIALL. Dlst. No. D , If. 11. AKTIlUIt. Dllt. No. 0. Q. IS. GAUWEUi. DUt. No. 'l , 0. T. WUIQUT. City Ticket. L. J. OANDY. ForABieMOr V.H.03DOKNBSH , ForCon.Ublet , t.K. COLE. w.n.FAUUEB. . VOTE FOB THEM. "WE HAVE NOT ONE WORD TO SAY AGAINST CLARIS TALBQt OR HORACE KEN NEDY , J 'BOTH ARE 'NICE YOUNG MEN , AND.NO DOUBT , RENDERED VALIANT SER VICES AS SOLDIERS BOTll IN THE VVAfc AGAINST 'SPAIN AND THE PHILIPPINES , " BEACON , Sept. 14 , ' 09. Vole % for Unmor , ho is the farmers fnond. Vote For Homer. He did equal ( juatio between the farmers and.tbo . loan companies. The pops bavn circulated thous ands of circulars of the trumped-up financial statement of the county , hoping totagain deceive the people. But the search light turned upon it last week , by the REPUBLICAN , has given thorn the "jim jama. " Ex-Judge Rhodes is said to have a legislative bee .in bis bonnotwhioh accounts for'his making terms with the Boat and Shinn faction , which If he helped the republicans defeat last .fall. True , politics make - nome strange bed follows. The Chief quotes nn article printed in I860 in its efforts to east a reflection on Judge Hamor. The farmers ofCus.ter county answered this article in 1891 when Hamor only lacked 5 votes of boating Holoomb for Judge in Custor oouniy and Eem received llOo maj ority in 1800. MeikelJolm at Ansloy. Hon , Goo , D. Moikoljohu will apeak on the political issue of the day at Ansloy Tuesday Oct. 31th at 7:80 o4olook. Lot every , body who wants to hear a good speaker and the national issue ably discussed by ono who knows what ho is talking about attend , Wo nndrrstand that J. D. Ream hai been exhibiting Fred Cummings in the west part of the oounty and amusing the people with his initiative Refer-end-ovor-endum. tive and - - - Verily fared needs to bo iniatiated into the Bod-over-cdum" before the fall election * , or suddenoss of the .might injure his One would think the Chief wns really interested in pop , principles to rend its ongor appeals for pop , support. However , its feeble at tempts to explain anything involv ing a political prinoiplo betrays the Chief's anxiety. It went into the pop. party to got at the public toat. It was coaxed over by Col. Jim Holland to injure the Beacon. Verily the Chief is a mighty ex ponent of its own interests. Em erson is a power in politics ( ? ) . It is known that Uoloomb ami Neville have boon in a "tie up" for several years to boost each other into oflluo Neville could never have boon nominated for congress if Holoomb had kept hid hand out of it and it is definitely know that Holoomb could never have boon nominated for suspremo judge had not Bryan used his political whip with all his foroo : The parties who wont from the rural district to the congress * ional and state conventions were helpless to represent the will of those who sent them. Mr. Farmer you know this is true. Now honestly aru you going to vote for these men who have practically made your reform rodioulous ? Can you trust such men ? The pop. candidates are carrying around that stale statement of the financial condition of Custor ooun ty and claiming all the orodit of our excellent financial condition , At Sargent ex-county supervisor , L , W. F. Cole , got disgusted with the unfairness of their claims and thoroughly exposed the matter. It is an easy matter to get moro taxes to pay fdobts when there are five or six times as many farms taxable now as there wore when republi cans ran the county , The fact is wo ought to bo in far better shape had it not boon for such men as Woimor , Shinn , Brown , Lantermau oto. Why do those honest candi dates not Bay anything about the township defaulter ? Republicans welcome the best plans of government that oan bo divised. They welcome honest opposition and fair discussion but such tactics as Bryan and j Holoomb use to betray the pop votes IB con- tonptiblo. The pops or rather Independent party had > definite ideas of reform , whether right or wrong they made a stright and honorable fight , but sinoo Bryan and Holoomb company have taken the lines .into their hands and sot the farmers and labores aside , there is no honorable issue sot up. It is any thing to make trouble and fool the voters. Every pretext of reform is being abandoned just as fast as papers oan be fooled to vote the oo called "Now Democracy" . If the oounty is in such excellent condition financially what was the ho necessity of the pop board of supervisors collecting the taxes by distress warrants ? why did they not make Huso Brown and Shinn and Woimor pay the full amount back o the oounty of the monies they misappropriutod ? why did the pop board levy $400.00 tor a county institute which is clearly illegal and then send expensive tax { collec tors around to distress the people. These taxes could have boon collec ted without such distress by ( collec ting ono or two years of back tax each year , . What wns the necessity of insulting the jhonest farmers by collecting the tax of 1808 by dis tress warrants and a collectors extra charges. Had sheriff Leisure had his oar to the ground last Wednesday mor ning when the word become goner * ally eirulated that the blood hounds were taken off the trail of the jail braokors , on account of his protests , ho would haao hoard a roar more unpleasant ttian the bawl of the dogs. Ho was also censured for hav ing a fifteen cent look on the jail in stead of a combination look , which would have prevented the escape. But the sheriff says that he did not have any thing , to do with turusng the dogs back , but that he became disgusted and loft them and went to Chumley's , and OB learning tha , marshals Palmer aud Barber wore on the trail and twenty four hours ahead of him he also came back , Quito a number of pops , have expressed their gratitude that Judge Armour IIAH not accepted Cum mings' challenge. The people tire in no wise anxious to have such an opportunity offered to this egotist to belabor their patience. Whoever over hoard of Cummings making a spooah. It is strange how sudden some pops , become statesmen- Don't be so anxious to allliot the people , Fred. M. C. Harrington , the democratic nominee for congress , assigns as the reason for resigning in favor of Neville , the pop. nommee , is that after 1900 there will bo no pop. party and the democrats can got all of the pops by being liberal with them now. That is good policy from a democratic standpoint , butte to make Harrington's prediction como true would it not bo equally KB great a stroke of political policy for the democrats to assist the re publicans in defeating the populists by voting for the republican or democratic nominees. A vote for a populist by a domoorat is a vote to prolong the existence of the popul ist party and dolayi democratic as cendency. The pop candidates , so far as mention finance are giving us the "Fiat Money" panacea. It is the paper dollar idea. Strange is it not that no leading pop speaker in the state advocates such "Fiat Money" , say honest pop toll us just whore "Fiat paper Money" as you told about is mentioned in any of your Pop National platforms. You prate about money reform and yet outside of the free comago of silver 10 to 1 you have no fixed .plan and you have practically abandoned your Free Couiago of Silver now. Every year you have a new deal somu now issue. It is anything to make a fuss nud nothing to settle matters for public good. It is humiliating to the old time expounders of the doctrines of the "Independent party" to see all campaign settle down to moro silly1 twaddle about the Philipine war and Custor county finance. Wo have hoard many of those old timers remark about the childish squibs in tbo Chief on candidates and tbo Fred Cummings , impudence in want ing to have a joint debate ; "that ho didn't want" with Judge Armour. Reform consist in logic , straight forward ideasmanly thought. It is the confession of weakness and falshood when argument gives place for little personal tips and bravado challenges. The world follows the novemont of ideas. It little hoods bunoomb and buffoonery. The wry faoen made by Judge Sullivan at Sargent when L. W. F. Cole was giving him some true Jand wholesome lessens on history were very amusing. Somebody ought to give the Judge a tow lessens on international obligations and also have him road up e little about those followers of Aguinaldo. It is almost the 'expression of danger ous ignorance when men will com pare Aguinaldo and his usurpni's with Washington and the men of Revolution. It.is such intelligent men as Li W. F. Cole who are now growing disgusted with the politi cal hash andj inorhorenoy candid , atos are giving the voters of the oounty. Sullivan is a great vrabbler. The financial issue of the pops is almost abandoned this fall. J. B. Osborn has some kind of an idea ho dimly caught from the speech of "Cyclone Davis" which he is trying to give the people in many disconnected and inooherant words. Wo hate been wondering if J. B. Osborn knows just what the pops idea of fiinanoo is. It would seem that every pop has his own plat form this year. Wo suggest that the Pop County Central Committee write up a short digest of pop doc trine and give it to their candidates. J. R. Rhodes has not much to do in his head quarters , why oouldont he got out a short speech for each candidate. The people got confused on this reform warbling , Some of them are even taking up a tirade against the adminstration for allow ing the sultan of the Zulu Islands to take unto.himself to many wives. A , B , Smith , Charley Boal's Law partner , has returned from a trip ever the county serving distress warrants upon the follows at three dollars a day ami is now out stump * ing the county for the pop candida tes who The Blister County Chief and Beacon has nbamlonnd the search for records enough to ulcut and is now endeavoring to run ' .hem in on their faces. If Emerson and Elgin undertakes to run an art studio for the pop office seekers in Custer county they will have n job on their hands. Mark Schner- ingors pictures ought ito have boon kept standing in all tbo republican and pop papers in the county for tbo past fifteen years , If all that array of whiskers and Jim Corbit pompodors of any ether qualifica tions it will bo the first time , with few exceptions in the history of Custor county populbim that whis kers aud inoompotonoy didn't pluck the porsimona. In the address of Chaplain Mailey the only answer the populist at tempt to make is that the Chaplain at some ether time had taken a different view of the situation from from tbo one ho now advocates and they proceeded to pass circulars to every ono showing what Mailey had said in a letter to Stark written from Manila. Suppose the repub licans should resort to the same tactics and pnntand distribute extracts - tracts of Sulhvans remarks before ho joined the pops and the office of district judge got to chasing him around. Would it 'prove anything or answer any pop argument today ? No , yet Sullivan has said moro mean and contomptablo things about the pops than any other man. But he is a hero now because ho repudiates his former utterances and stands for Aguinaldo. And the Beacon and jChief swallow the hard things thoysaid about Sullivan before he popod and say now what a great man , he is because ho has cause to see things as these two great pop paperb do. "If the Republican in its explana tion of Judge Armour's refusal to moot Fred Cummings desired to bo fair and give the people all the in formation it would have published Cumming's challenge , as well as Armours reply. The Chief was not afraid to lay the wbolo matter before its readers. " Chief. The REPUBLICAN was not given an opportunity to publish the challenge of Fred Cummiugs. The ring of which the Chief editor is one of the principal members was afraid to furnish the REPUBLICAN with a copy of the challenge and never oamo near the office with a copy. It was different with Judge Armour. He presented the Chief with a copy of his reply the same week bo did the REPUBLICAN. A sample of the Chief's fairness was displayed in the Ilamer matter. After publish ing lengthy complaints against Judge Ilamer in 1889 made by the REPUBLICAN it has positively de clined to publish Judge Hauler's answer to complaints of the same dates. In this case the Chief had no excuse as a copy of the letter was offered to the Chief before it was brought to the REPUBLICAN aud the Junior editor declined to pub lish it at all. The Chief preyed that it did not want to ba"fair , " and it was "afraid to lay the wliole matter before its readers.1 Republicans do your duty. The day of election is drawing close. You may bo very busy as every body is under the present adminis tratiou. Prosperity is with us. But it will not stay with us if you stay at homo on election day and allow the opposition to triumph at the polls.Under a republican administra tion confidence has boon restored times are good and bussinoss activity is phenomenal throughout the nation. Do not bo deceived. The present conditions are not a mere matter of chance. They have boon brought about by a conserva tive , wise and able administration and the enactment of a law of pro tection to American workmen and Amorioan products. But this con dition of affairs will not continue if Bryanism prevails this fall. It is not a local question as some would have you belivo that wo are to settle. The opposition has com bined for "Bryan's sake. " The ques tion is whether MoKinley's policy shall bo endorsed at the polls or Bryan's. Should the latter prevail , distrust will again enter business and the repetition of ' 93 to ' 97 , can bo expected. See to it thnt you get to the polls and that your neighbor goes. One vote may turn the tide in Ouster countv. Vote for every man on the republican ticket , otherwise you may dot cat your party and its principles. As an illistratiou of the contract in conditions generally and especi ally the price of farm products now as compared with a few years ago wo will just relate .1 trannaction that accurrod between Eli Arrne- trong candidate for county sheriff on the pop ticket and Mr. D. S. Kopp an old gray headed man living dowti in ROSB valley , "an honest old farmer. " It appears that a few years ago Eli , the farmers friend contracted with Mr. Kopp to put down a well for $100 00. Mr. Kopp paid him $ -10.00 and gave his notu for the balance and interest also a mortage on five head of cowrf and there increase as security with the understanding that Mr. Armstrong was not to crowd him in case there should bo a failure of crops. The crops were a failure however that year (1894) ( ) but Eli wanted the money just the same and sent an otlioer after the cattle which had increased to seven instead of five head. Mr. Kopp was pursuaded to wave the legal twenty days published notice and allowed Armstrong to soli the cows at private sale which was done. Eli getting one or two of thorn aud the balance distributed among his neighbors. The price relized for the seven bead of cattle lacked twenty or twenty five dollars of being enough to pay the $80.00 note and interest Voters of Custor county , let us ask you what would those 7 head of cattle bring now. At a very low figure for cattle at this timo. Tbo ilvo cows should brlug $30.00 a piece. $150.00 Two calres should bring S1S.OO a pleco. . . 30.00 Total $1SO.UO Amount Bold for under democratic ndmlustra- tlnnof five COWB and two calves $ -10.03 difloronce In favor of republican admins tration In price $1-10.00 Wo will ask our populists friends if they can see any difference be tween a popaoratio panic ant MoKinley prosperity. In which oan you see the widest diverson from the facts from that which was promised you by the Republican in 189G if McKiuloy was electee or that which Mr. Bryan and his followers told you would happen il MoKiuloy was elected. Just stop and consider those matters for a moment before casting your vote thia fall and see if you havout been misled by advocates of most any old thing to catch your vote toando into office and ridu all ever the country on Rail-road-passes. The Chief's Attack ou Judge Haiuei Aiibworal. Last week thu Chief published an article in which it endeavored to east a reflection on Judge liamer but as is the custom with populist journals , it failed to present thi entire case. The article in ques tion was printed in Nov. , 1889. A that time Chas. A. Cook was editor of the Republican and was imposoc upon by those who later became attorneys for loan companies , am who today are opposing Judge'Ha mor's election on the ground tha ho did not permit mortgages to be foreclosed fast enough to suit th loan companies when he was judg of the district. Judge Hamor answered sworod the article at the time , bu the Chief did not , have the fairnes to publish it. The answer , however over , must have boon pretty satis factory to the farmers of Custo oounty , when we consider that al though Kera received a majorit ; of 1100 ever his opponent in 1890 Judge Ilamer lacked only five vote of carrying Ouster county fo judge , over Holoomb , in 1891 At the time the article was priutoc the judicial district was much larger or than it is to-day. To-day it in eludes only D.iwson , Buffalo , Slier man and Custer counties. At tha time it included Buffalo , Dawion Custer , Lincoln , Logan , tihormai Keith , and Chuyouuo counties am the unorganized territory west o Logan. The buiness had grown to such proportions that no one juduge could do the work and a short tim before the artiolo was printed Judg Church of North Platte had been ap jointed and his duties in tlio district wore tbo same ai Hamor's. In the REPUBLICAN of Doc. B 1889 Judge lamer awsnored the artiolo quoted n the Chief which answer is in part as follows : November 27 , 1889. iurroH REPUBLICAN : "Tliu statute authorizes the judgui to exchange with caoli other and it s a common practice to do so. All he Judges exohaiigu. Judge Harrison risen is an able judge , and at my equcbt ho oamo to relieve mu two lays. Judge Church is my colloa- uo and by right entitled and by luty bound to hold court in Custor county at least half the time required .o do that county's legal business , Phis brings the sole question in the case down to whether I had a right to cause an adjournment from Frl- lay night until Tuesday morning. Trains do not run out of Broken w or into ou Sunday. Ou Fri day it was for me to determine whether I should have it adjourned in til Judge Church should come From North PJnlte , where ho was tioldiug a term which ho could not finish because disqualified to try many cases on account of having appeared as uuuusul m thorn. I bad agreed to go to North Platte and Judge Church had agreed to go to Broken How. If 1 should go to Broken Bow ou Friday aud hold court Saturday I would have to leave on Monday to get to North Platte , and Church would bo all day Mon day coming from North PlatVe , so ou Sunday aud Monday there Avould bo a. lot of jurors doing uotUiug , I concluded to adjourn tha court aud let-the jnrors spoud Sun day at home with their families and save one .day's expense Mon'day to the county. I uiay bo mistaken , but I think I saved thu county $100 by the adjournment. The murder cases woru all tried and defendants found guilty and setenced. Those murder case alone would have oc cupied a court conducted in the us. ual way six weeks. I did the work in about nno-third of that timu by working 10 or7 hours a day. It was absolutely my duty to bold court at North Plattewhioh if a part of the district. Judge Church could not remain there , and try the oases ana wo were forced to change places , as an obligation to one lo cality is as strong as it is to another Wo could not exchange ) without losing Monday because no train runs to or from Broken Bow on , . Sunday. I was petitioned by a large * TT majority of the lawyers of Custer county to wholly adjourn the Au gust term. I refused to do it on thu ground that the county should be relieved from keeping any pris oners in jail that might bo tried and suut to tiie peniteuitary , and that the persons who wanted to be nat uralized should have a chance so as to euablu them to prove up on their homesteads. I bold ono week and week and then adjourned at the request , of all parties , and al lowed the jurors to go homo to their harvest aud their fields. I staid at Broken Bow until 3'oolock in the afternoon of the last day , Saturday , " so as to do all the business possible. I worked right along all summer aud tried murder cases at Broken Bow aud elsewhere when my brethren - ron of the bench are enjoying their well earned vacations. When an overflow of crime crowds out civil business I call adjourned or special terms at additional expense to my selff aud labor hard to do the whole business. In conclusion I want to aay that I am doing a large amount of judicial work ab well as I know how ; that i am careful , laborious and persistent in the discharge of my duties aa I understand tueni that I work moro hours in a day , according to the besst information 1 I can obtain , than any judge in the stale , tixcept Judge Gaslin and my colleague ; that I have bad eight I murder trials , 111 the last year , moro 1 think than have been tried in all the other districts of the state com bined ; that IhavetavodCuBter county thousands of dollars in the expiili- tiousand economical manner of her criminal trials alone : that if Cusstor county , through thu request of her lawyers and needs of her fanner jurymen , had not naked and obtained an adjournment at the expiration of the first week in August sessto i , the judicial work of Custor county would have been completed in Uiu months ot August and Saptombfr. Ono word moro. This letter is writ ten for the puople of Custnr no iity , for those who , like the writ- u vo boon raised ou farma , and aru not ashamed of it , but who may seine tunes bo temporarily deceived by dust and no'uo , but who always in tend to bu fair aud know what is right when thuy oan get at the facts. To you I want to say that I have done my best to servo you faithfully and well , to make the court efficient in protecting your rights , and in punshing those who violate the law. Thanks to honest jurors , wo have to gether succeeded in making crime odious in Cnster oounty , and mur der there receives its just deserts. " F. Q , HAMEU ,