The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-09-29

can Desert blossom rs the rose. His
career has been .checkered one and
speaks volumns for lbs courage, pluck
and perseverance. He has picked up
bones, foraged for game. slept under
the wagon when the cold rigorous
blasts danced all about him as if with
6endish determination resolved to
drive him from his defenseless position
into the maddehed storm without. He
has seen his field of corn, which meant
everything to him, as it waved its
lofty head as If in recognition of his
hearty good cheer, as he was applying
his industrious hand for the last time,
to Staying it by, suddenly
wilt away beneath a scorching sun and
destructive hot winds. He has twice
been burnt out since living in this
county, losing nearly everything he
had. Once by u prairie fire, and but
a few years ego he lost his house by
fire. notwithstanding all these hard
knocks Lie is still holding the fort, and
las well demOnstra ted that he is capa-
BILE of holding anything he undertakes,
flOm bucking bronco to u train rob-
Der. He has several times been trus-
tee of his township, aud has had much
experience as deputy sheriff. To dis.
cuss his qualifications would simply
be idle talk. Everybody comedies
that. lie is strictly honest and moral,
and attached to good government, and
when elected, will he Il credit to the
sheriff's Office and compliment to the
voters of Edwards county.
8. G. CLARK,
nominee for county treasurer, was
born and raised in Iowa, living in
VanBuren and jefferson counties. He
was the son of a successful farmer
who took All interest in making men
of his sons. After fair district
school education, at the age Of sixteen,
young Clark aspired to higher honors,
and spent bis winters at the Birming-
ham Academy, while his summer
months were spent on his fathers
farm. After teaching school some
he commenced college course, which,
however, he never fully completed,
owing to financial reverses. After
that Mr.. Clark spent much of his time
in the school room. In the mean time
acquiring a farm and family AID
settled down to farming III his native
state. In 1854 he traded his Iowa
farm for the one he now occupied near
Belpre, where he has lived since that
time. MIR. Clark is a man of sterling
worth, firm supporter of every cause
that tends to elevate mankind, and
merits the unqualified support of his
party AS we'll as all good citizens. His
nomination was an ideal one, where
the Office sought the man, as he did
not mistrust anything Of the trick that
was to be played upon him, and, OF
course, it took him by surprise. His
election to the treasurer's Office will
he wise and fitting one.
| FRED ECKEeT.
For the Office of county surveyor the
nomination came TO Fred Eckert un
solicited and unsought. DR.. Ecker,
has before been elected to this offics
in this county and filed it with marked
ability. 1t is universally conceded
that as surveyor and civil engineer
he has few equals anywhere. 1t would
I've superfuous to give the Doctor a,
Iextended notice, as he has monument
and highly complimentary records il
many corner stones and section line
all over this county. No man ha
more friends and less enemies thar
DIR. Eckert.
II. g. KIRK,
canOlOaCo Tor cOrO0er, Is also one o
the Oldest settlers of Edwards county
Since 1877 he has been one of Gu
respected citizens. lie was the frs
postmaster Of the Klrkfeld postofice
which WAS established in his house
aud as fitting compliment adopte
his name. This farm he opened, ex
perienced all the privations inciden
to frontier life OH the prairies, an
continued to make it his home unit
recent years, xhen. owing to tie effect
of his active army life, his disabilitie
disqualified him for the hard wor
necessary for successful farming. II
was for some time III tie regular army
{ from which he went into active Sc
vice. and stood by his guns unit
mustered out of service shortly befOl
the close Of the war, OIL account {
disabilities. Mr.. Kirk will DOUBLE.
I. be elected, as no should be, and hol
. his inst inquest over the remains
, the political party that dares to oppOs
z him.
; J. g. ROENDAU0H.
/. For commissioner of the First di
r trict, J. G. R0enbaugh Was, of co,,rs