The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-07-20
THE
Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter,
Edgenon, Wisconsin.
FRIDAY, JULY Is, 1900.

AS the memory Of most politicians is
short and the promises OF today are for
gotten tomorrow, it will not be out of
place at this time for the Reporter to
call attention to the fact that Edgerton's
claim to one of the county offices should
be recognized at the county convention
on August 1st next. That claim is for a
candidate to the office of sheriff, and
Royal j. Maltpress should be the unanl-
NOUS nominee. Just glance backward,
if you please, and make note of the
distribution of the county offices IN the
past forty-three years. They have fall
len to the lap Of some man in almost
every voting precinct in Rock county ex-
cept Edgerton and one or two of her SIS
ter towns And yet E6gertOn has al
ways come to the polls in solid phalanx
and loyal to every candidate nominated
by the republican party in convention.
She has always put forth every energy
and given her full strength to make
Rock county what she is today, the ban
ner republican county of the best repub
lican state in the union. And for this
reason we come on the platform to ask
every voter of every precinct in the
county to reciprocate and give US our
Just claim-a candidate for sheriff of
Rock county. Again, it is not alone for
lack of patronage that this end of the
county lays claim to one of the county
offices at the coming convention, but
they have the right kind of material to
supply the office of sheriff with as good,
practical and experienced an officer as it
ever had. Mr.. Maltpress is a thorough
going, painstaking and hustling business
man with a varied experience in all the
walks of business life. AS an officer
broken record for thoroughness and eff
cheney in this line of work For ten
years the office of deputy sheriff has
been filled by him in manner creditable
to himself and highly satisfactory to the
superiors who appointed him to the
Office. For over five years he held the
go long ways to fit any man for the
line of work to be taken up by sheriff.
Traverse Rock county and it is safe to
predict that you will not find dissent
ing faction, where the point of ability is
raised, in regard to Royal J. Maltpress
holding the Office of sheriff. Politically
and socially he not only stands high in
the estimation of the members of the re-
publican party, but scattered in the va
rious towns you will find many demo
Gratis who, if he were nominated, would
support him with their vote at the polls
next November, and it is safe to say
that Edgerton, where he is most in
timately known, would make it as near
unanimous as possible. Again, let it be
said that Mr.. Maltpress has been in the
race for the nomination to the office of
sheriff for four terms, but as the senti-
ment of his party has tended toward the
nomination of another, he has always
gracefully submitted to what the party
convention deemed best to do. In the
meantime numerous promises have been
made which have stimulated he and his
friends to enter the field again. All in
all gentlemen and voters of Rock county,
it is just and fair claim that at the
caucuses, at the convention and at the
election you support Royal J. Malt
press for the next sheriff of Rock county