Dodge City times., 1889-10-31
From One OF Our Farm
eYS.

are lne. HOt TdtHti tdi lStSASs, dS iSVv
miles is quite distance to 90 for a rec
ord. And desire 10 say few words for
his opponent, Mr. Ii. B. Bell, our present
sheriff. who does not need to send back
TO his native state to get a record, but
has been a resident of Dodge City and
Ford County for about seventeen years.
What he has he made right here, and in
vested every dollar that he owns in lands
and city property, and | can safely say
that he has paid thousands of dollars in
to our county treasury in the shape of
taxes His beautiful buildings and the
immense Elephant Stables are the
pride Of the citizens of Dodge City. Ncv-
er has the farmer had Il better friend than
H. T. Bell, who yearly buys from three
hundred to three hundred and fifty tons
of hay, which he used ~ his stables, and
always paid the highest market price for
it. No farmer had to haul a load Of hay
back if he could not sell il on the market.
Ham would surely always have or make
room for it. The settler never had a bet
| ter friend. During the drouth of 1878 10
| 1882, he always gave employment to those
in want, and always had dozen men
around his place paying them wages
when he had no more use for them than
he had for Il keeper for the elephant on
| his sign. | well remember a time that |
was in Dodge City, when poor grang-
er from Hodgeman county came to him
and asked him for work. Ham told him
| that he had dozen men in his employ
that he could dispense with, but kept
them merely to give them employment.
| The man told him that his wife and three
children were at home without 4 mouth
| full to cat He put his hand in his pock
ct and handed me five dollars and told
me to give il TO Robbins, the grocer, and
tell him to give the man groceries for the
money, and then told MIN to take the
groceries home Immediately, and not TO
stay there until the groceries were all
eaten up but to see him and he would see
that he had job when he returned. \
| few days aflerward saw the man at
work for Ham. could cite dozens of
such cases. but space viii not permit.
Never was there sheriff in Ford coun.
ty who received the praises for the eii
cheney and manner in which the sherilf's
business has been conducted that III. Il.
Bell received from both judges, also the
bar and all those who have business at
court Farmers and all others, can you
afford to vote for man who is compara
| lively IA stranger TO you, of whose busi-
ness capacity IN the Office he seeks you
know nothing, and who ! doubt very
much would be a citizen OF your state to-
day had he not been recalled from Okla
homa to finish the college, and who is
not a free holder nor taxpayer. No;
we cannot afford such a sacrifice, and |
therefore ask you to cast your vote for
II. b. Bell for sheriff.
fear that | am intruding on your
er candidates as whole. 1t would be
useless for me to enumerate the good
qualities of our candidates, besides il
would require too much of your valuable
space to 90 into details. | wish merely
| to call the attention of the voters to the
| fitness of the candidates placed before
them You all know Uncle Geo. b. Cox.
our present county treasurer. He also
| has lived in Dodge City seventeen years;
and all the wealth he has he made here.
and every cent of II is invested in city and
county property, and all his taxes go TO
Ford county instead of Meade county.
He is an able and polite business man and
fully capable of caring for our county
funds two years longer, and who never
attached a circus wagon for Il deadhead
ticket. Why should you vote for Mr.
Sims whose bulk of property lies in
taxes.
Judge Beverley. candidate for register
of deeds Geo. NJ. Hoover, for commiss
ioner, and Geo. Potter, candidate for
county clerk, are all old timers in Dodge
City and Ford county; they have their
all invested in city and country proper
ty, and will make good and efficient Off
GERS for the offices 10 which they aspire
and if elected will give entire satisfaction
to all.
DR.. Wade, candidate for coroner, is of
more recent importation, yet he knows
dead man when he sees one. and if
elected will be fully able to hold an in
quest over Your remains. If yon doubt
it, help to elect him, then give him tri-
al
1t behooves US as citizens 10 throw all
party ties aside, and vote for the best
men regardless of party. | wish to say
a word TO the voters of the third com
missioner's district. 1t is high time that
the people of Ford county awake to the
fact that the Office of county commission
er is one of the most important Offices in
the county. and should not be filled with
beardless boys, who only think of plum
der, and have not cents worth of in
terest in the county outside of a home
stead right 1t is a shame and disgrace
the way our county affairs have been run
tine past two years. The citizens have
petitioned for an examination of the
books, but that is all it amounts to. Mr..
Pratt may be well qualified for the posi-
|, ton of county commissioner, yet Mr..
, Hoover large business interests in the
!. county are identical with our own. He
J being one of the heaviest taxpayers in
the county he will surely look to his OWL
and our interests. He has once before
filled the position with credit TO himself