The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-10-08
subject to the lien of the Judgment under


methods quarter sections of land are
often bid in for $50, under judgment of
$500 or 81 900 and the balance of said
judgment stands against the man who
made the mortgage. We believe it to be
right that when land is sold under the
hammer, the person whose home is so
sold is entitled to have his home applied
to its full value, to the payment of his
debts and if the man whom he owes re-
fuses to bid its full value. that he will be
compelled to relinQuish it on payment to
him of what it cost him with fair inter-
est thereon. and that it shall never be
taken again for the satisfaction of that
same debt.
These matters are especially interest
ing to us now. when we think we are en-
tering upon an era of prosperity. and
when we are struggling in every way
possible to retain possession of our
homes which we believe will be means
of livelihood in the near future. The
great question among our farmers. la
bOrers and business men now is, .:how
can stem the tide until can see what
we can dO?" But they see foreclosures
and tax deeds staring them in the face,
the one without equity of redemption,
the other with a cut-throat rate of inter-
est, and no way at present to stop either.
Let us help these men. Will the laws we
demand not do so? How then can we
secure these laws?
| We must obtain these laws through
our state legislature, and the democratic
and republican party has each presented
to the people of this county a candidate
for Representative whose duty it will be
to take care of our interests in these re-
CARDS. Which one can or will do it the bet
ter? Perhaps the first point to consider
is the question of the ability of these two
men; then what their individual inter-
sons will they be surrounded in the halls
of legislation.
So far as the ability of the two men
is concerned in this line of work. there is
no criterion by which to judge. Mr..
Hoover has made success in business
matters. but in line where sobriety, in
dustry and economy alone are the requi-
sites. Mr.. Finley has exerted his effort
along line where men of greater ability
than Mr.. Hoover have failed. and he is
now a well-tO-dO farmer after meeting
with the reverses incident to three or
four years almost total failure of crops.
So far as being public speaker is con-
cerned, and being able to present his
| views in a clear and fOrcible manner. no
candid person who knows the men will
| assert for moment that Mr.. Hoover is
in any sense of the term the equal of Mr..
Finley. Sc that so far as ability is con-
cerned, and particularly that ability nee
essary in Representative, Mr.. Finley is
vastly the more able man of the two.
Now word as to their individual in
terests. We do not believe there is any
difference of opinion between these
men regarding our irrigation interests,
as both realize the importance of the
matter, and all things else being equal,
that interest is safe in the hands of either
The same remark applies to our interest
in the State Forestry Station. We now
come to our interest in the Soldiers
Home, and we simply state for the awak-
ening of thought in the careless. that we
have a republican candidate to take care
of this interest, filled with the noble
spirit of the republican party in its treat
ment of the old soldier, man who is
cOmrade of every soul who will ever rest
in the shade of the trees at our Soldiers
Home as an inmate of the institution,
whose bones ache as theirs ache. whose
frame twitches with the same pains that
rack their bodies, while opposed to him
we have man filled with the spirit of
democracy and glorying in its record.
Further comment is unnecessary. You
may say an overwhelming sense of the
financial necessities of the ease may
compel compliance with things which
in other respects are unpleasant and not
congenial but, "a man convinced against
his will is of the same opinion STILL
Better hands could hardly be imagined
in which to place our interest in an equi-
ty of redemption law, the bulwark of
our homes, than those of John l.. Finley.
our farmer candidate. Who so vitality
interested in this as the farmer, and who
SO likely to throw his whole soul into its
enactment as one who feels a possibility
of needing its protection himself: Ger
tainly not the president of a loan and
trust company who is anxious to secure
all the property they get under foreclos-
ure at as low figure as possible. The
same remarks apply to the law we de-
mand for the redemption of the rate of
interest on delinquent taxes. Who so
likely to advocate this measure as our
farmer candidate again? Do Won SIM.