Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-10-31
OUR COUNTY TICKET
C. H. WALLACE.

to be interested in the welfare of the
state, and in good and salutary legis-
lation, for its people. The men who
would palate peculation in office,
who would investigate crime that they
might conceal the criminal beneath a
liberal application of whitewash, can
hardly be classed among its good citi-
zens. The state treasury has been
looted by the state binder; by the pub
lie printer by its census compiler; and
is being looted of thousands of dollars
by it's present secretary of state.
While it is notorious that these things
have been done, and are now being
done by these servants of the state,
no word of protest goes up from the
republican press of the county, or of
the state, and if they are in any man.
ner alluded to, it is in half approval.
These offenses are matters of inyesti-
CATION by the legislature which for
party interests, regardless Of the pub
lie welfare, has appointed men who
would investigate the boodlers as ten
DERBY as possible, acquitting them of
intentional wrongdoing perhaps,
but advising them mot to do so any
more" This tendency to reward
boodlers and to declare them pure and
unspotted pnblic servants, needs a leg
islature made up of men from among
the farms and workshops of the state,
and not from the law offices and drng
stores with their Tendencies to mulct
legislation, and their habit of'winking
at the otfenses named and committed.
In this county the democrats have
named @. 81. Wallace, farmer of ir-
reproachable character, man of I'M
questioned integrity, of ripe judgment
and good ability. There is no ques-
Lion OF his devotion to the interests of
his brother farmers, who are suffi-
GENTLY numerous to put him where he
can serve them and who shonld take
pride in SO doing.
A. r. McCOOK.
NO subject ought to interest the
parents OF alb intelligent community
more than that of the proper school
Draining and education of their child
rem. Their future usefulness and
their habits in life depend upon both
their home and their school training.
The pupils not only need an instructor
In the public school who is possessed
of an aptness to make the pupil studi.
Gus in school, but one who will induce
the pupil to investigate for himself,
theories facts ana principles, and a
county superintendent who will be an
inspiration to the teacher and to every
pupil with whom he comes in contact.
such person is presented to the par
ents of Howard county for county SUI.
perintendent in the person of A. r.
NcCook. A correspondent of the
d'tain Dealer a year ago, who was an in.
innate friend and acquaintance of Mr..
McCook which we quote, fully and cor.
daily endorsing what our corresponds
emit said of him, as follows:
"Besides receiving common school
education in the schools of the county
and in Biceville, he spent two years
in the high school at Lp Verne, Min.
nesota took a course of shorthand at
CurtiSs' Commercial College of Mime.
apolis and has done year of special
WORK preparatory for law course All
the university of Minnesota.
During the past six years he has
spent part Of his time as a teacher. ali
OF 1T as student. Since the age of 10
he has held first grade certificat..
has been a successful school teachej.
and taken deep int rest in teachers
meetings and Institutes.
But it is his home study work that
deserves especial mention.
Few boys Of today have that thirst
for knowledge and the determination
to appease it, that they will spend
hundreds OF dollars in the purchase of
DOCKS and hundreds of night in their
mastery. Yot he has done this. He
has library larger than those of some
OF the professional men of Cresco, law
yers included. This is saying good
deal for the reading proclivities OF
country boy. His library contains the
encyclopedia Britannica, over fifty
volumes of the best works on history,
many standard works on literature
and political science and rhetoric.
logic and ethics galore. None CT his
WORKS are for ornament all are in use.