The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-04
FOR PROBATE JUDGE.

IL one would sit down for whole day
and engage in the deepest study in an eff
fort to find who in this county is best
fitted in every respect for the important
office of probate judge he could not 90 be-
yond l.. S. NaftZger the candidate Oh the
Republican ticket for that Office There
are five elements of human character nee
essary to make a good probate Judge and
they are honor, honesty, good Judgment.
conservatism, and above ali a sympathy
that will reach out to the widow and Or
phan. All these are very well known
traits of Judge Naftzger's personality.
The office OF probate judge, as stated, is a
decidedly important one ard strictly
speaking is not political Office. To him
is entrusted, by the dying husband and
father. the care of his loved wife and chill
dren and it requires something more than
a political adventurer to fill this trust In
other words no man should vote for a can
didate for probate judge unless he would
be willing at the same time to
make him the administrator of his estate
in case of his death. If the voters Of Setig-
wick county will act upon the logic OF this
thought on election day Judge Naftzger
will be elected almost unanimously. And
they should act upon it. for before two
years have passed away no man OF fam
lily and property knows but what his wife
and children and estate may have to enter
the probate court of this county to secure
the protection of our laws and to have JUS
tice done to all. All voters, to be sure,
have neither family nor property and con-
sequently are not directly interested in
the election of the best man, but they
should believe enough in the brotherhood
of man and the interests of their more for
tunate fellow beings to vote for a man in
whose hands the interests of the widow
and orphan will be absolutely safe; in
other words, for a man whose life and
good citizenship is guatantee of respon-
sbility. Such man is l.. S. Naftz-
ger. Mr.. Naftzger WAS born in
Wayne county, Ohio. in 1854, and
is consequently SO years of age although
his wisdom and the steady and settled
condition of his life would indicate him to
be much older Like all those whom the
Republican party usually love to choose
as their standard bearers his youth was
beset with all the hardships and trials of
life and what he is, is the result of contact
with the hard knocks of the world. He
was born on a farm and when he was IA
years old he found himself alone out in
the mid ocean Of life to be bufTered around
by all tho waves of adversely, but
with his mottos, honesty is the best
policy" and she who wins must work."
he overcome the difficulties of youth
and never yet has gone back Il step on that
golden ladder. which has carried so many
of his kind to better condition. He
worked on a farm in the summer months,
and at II he had obtained enough learning
through his own efforts, to be competent
to teach country schools While following
this honorable occupation his frugality
enabled him to save enough money to en-
ter the Iowa state university. from the law
school of which he graduated in 1873;
having before this time moved from Ohio
to Illinois and from that state to Iowa.
After graduating he went to Missouri and
entered into the practice of law, leaving
and coming here in 1887. He saw that
Wichita was destined to he a great city,
aud invested accordingly, but the boom
Came along and wiped him out. so to
speak. Notwithstanding he lost all, he
never for n moment lost faith in Wichita
and the Arkansas valley. and today he
believes as strongly in the city's ultimate
rs he did the first day his eyes
,eheld the resources Of the Peerless Priu-
,ess.