The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-03
West Virginia Candidate for Cir
cult Clerk Applies Modern
Methods to Politics.
GENEROUS OFFER TO PEOPLE.
VIII Give Away $1,400 if Elected
to an Office Which Pays Only
$4G0 q Year-Fees VIII Pull
Him Out of the Hole.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL

Parkersburg. W Va, Aug. a-The appli-
cation Of modern business principles to poll
tics has been undertaken by L. NJ. Davis,
one OF the twelve aspirants for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Clerk Of the Circuit
Court of Wayne County His methods are
unique and AVE attracted a great deal Of
attention.
Mr.. Davis is running upon the prodt-shar-
ing plan. That there may be no mistake
and that the people of his county may know
all about his platform, his candidacy and
his principles, he Is patronizing the ad-
vertising columns Of his county papers
literally. In the current issue OF one OF the
leading papers Of that county he has half
a page. announcing under flaming headlines
the plan he has adopted to bring about his
nomination and election, and explaining his
profit-sharing methods. His advertisement
IS in part as follows:
'One thousand four hundred dollars given
away to the people OF Wayne County by L.
NJ. Davis. the peoples candidate for Cir
cult Clerk.
office sharing is my platform. Quail
f~ication, experience and true Democracy is
my recommendation.
IF 1 am elected to the office Of Circuit
Clerk of Wayne County l will give to the
people of Wayne County the sum of four
teen hundred dollars $4,000 O as follows:
ITO the churches 800. Believing hat the
ClluICItS - lit ptAlLte ldClOsS v sOOut
and in order that some public good may be
accomplished. II elected to the office of Cir
cult Clerk of this county. 1 will give to the
churches thereof 500, a sum equal to one
half a years salary Of said office. Each
and every church organization of all de-
nominations will receive an equal amount
among all sending in their names.
T the people 5000. To the persons max
ing the closest estimate OF the total vote
that will be cast for CIRCUIT Clerk of Wayne
County In the coming November election. I
will give the sum of $500 as follows: First
nearest, 500; second nearest, $50; third near
$40; next fifty nearest, 81 each. 800: next
100 nearest. 81 each. sl0o; Total prizes, los;
total amount of prizes. 5000.
ITO the taxpayers 500. And TO tn. tax
payers l will give the sum of 5000. That il
to say. if 1 am elected. 1 hereby authorize
and direct the County Court Of Wayne
year from my public salary for six years,
amounting to $500, and place the same to
the credit Of the county: Thu you see
instead OF 800 as is now paid as the public
salary of the Circuit Clerk. This saves TO
the taxpayers the sum of 800 for six years,
The Women Can ~Guess-Every voter in
the primary election. to be held on the
tw~entgothiT Td day yyot 8f Witt Wiil h. 1882 90 matter
vote in the above contest. Every lady in
Wayne County over the age of Is years.
fe oPe sues 81 p Remsmb %ai w sisa S you sn tit I'd
vote that a vote for me is a vote in your
own interest"
A certificate of a Huntington bank that
he has deposited the $500 to be used as ne
proposes follows. Mr. Davis adds:
Some may advance the argument that IL
I have $500 in the bank do not need the
office as bad as some Of the other candi-
dates. This would be a very plausible argu-
ment. but when you inquire at the bank
cent of this money. that will put a different
phase on the argument. Who ever before