People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-10-22
Our Candidates.
IVAN D. ROGERS.

Peoples candidate for County Attorney
The county attorney is one of the
most important to the people Of all
he officers provided for by our con-
stitutiOD. He make endless costs;
he can arbitrarily use perniciOus pow
er or he can do that which will
rebound to the interest OF the people,
as he wills.
The candidate Of the allied silver
forces is a young man of honor, integ.
rity and ability.
Ivan D. Rogers was born in Craw-
ford county, Pa, April s, 1863. At
the age Of ten, his parents moved to
middle Tennessee, where they lived
until the spring of 1879, when father
and sou came to Kansas in a prairie
schooner" locating in the northwest
corner of the county--Eden township.
In 1885 Ivan proved up a claim in
Clark county ard sold it during the
boom. He attended school in Fort
Scott, graduating in 1889. He at
tended law school at the state univer-
Sity one year. He came to Wellington
in June. 1879, continuing his law
studies win Judge Herrick. He was
admitted to the bar in December, 1890.
In 1893 he formed partnership with
W. W. Schwinn, with whom he con-
tinued for over a year, and then hung
out his single alone. He was mar
ried in 1894 to one Of Eden townships
gifted daughters and in the fall OF the
same year was nominated for county
attorney, Our people know him
pretty we'll from that date. He was
defeated by II. L. Woods, his present
opponent, by 343 votes, 200 less than
the average majority.
Nearly all the people Of Sumner
county know Ivan Rogers by this
time. They know his industry, his
competency and his answering integ-
rity He has not been able to make a
campaign for himself this year, be-
cause his party entrusted the detail
work Of the campaign to hi> hands.
Since the campaign opened he has
spent nearly the whole of his time to
conducting the campaign-writing
letters, making up dates for meetings,
preparing advertising matter, distrib-
uting literature and deyising ways
and means. Some have wondered
why he was not in the canvass. This
is the reason. He has done more
actual work for the cause this year
than any other man in the county.
If elected, as he is sure to be, he will
make the best county attorney the
county has ever had.
As an evidence Of his character and
ability as lawyer, We quote the fol-
lowing reference to him in the We'll
lingtOn Daily Mail of September IA,
1895:
Ivan D. Rogers is to be especially
congratulated upon the acquital of mis-
client, Jim Talbot. Mr.. Rogers is a
young practitioner and this is his irst
criminal case. And while he was as
sisted by Mr.. Crank Of Denver, yet il
is only just to Mr.. Rogers to say that
the principal burden of the defense
was upon his shoulders. Pitted
against him we're the county attorney
"a cipher comparatively it's true
but he was assisted by his father. who
is an experienced prosecutor, and by
G. E. Elliott, who is generally regard
Ell as an able and peculiarly dangerous
antagonist in criminal trial, espec-
tally before jury. Mr., Rogers man.
agement Of The case, particularly In
the last trial, was able and skillful and
his victory against such odds is one
that a much older and more exper-
fenced lawyer would have just cause
to be very proud of.