Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-30

pop JlCRet TILL TWO years ago. | found
1t was no use. 1t couldn't do any
good. voted for Bryan the first time
and would have stayed with the pops,
but they couldn't do anything. The
pop business don't amount to any
thing. I'm for Mickey now, and you
will find a lot of us in line for him
election day."
A. b. Headbloom, merchant: 81 have
been here twenty-five years. Yes, I
know Mr.. Mickey His reputation is
frst-class. He will get many fusion
votes"
G.. w. Presson, merchant: 81 have
known John Mickey ever since | came
here. He stands high in this town
and community. There are four votes
in this store. Mickey will get them
ALL"
70. G. Gold, merchant: 81 never met
Mr.. Mickey, but have heard of him.
He stands we'll l hope he will be
elected"
E. Haas, dry goods: 81 know Mr..
Mickey well. Used to live in Osceola
and did business with him Parties
who gave out interviews to the World
Herald don't stand well. Mickey is a
good, broad-minded man and he will
make good executive"
M. T. Barber, old soldier and old
settler: II settled here in the fall of
70, and still live on the same farm.
Mickey has been stanch friend to the
old soldiers. I'm one of them myself,
and | know what his record is here in
that line. He is a helper. He is a
practical man. He always gets right
at the practical point and wants to do
the thing that will do the most good.
Pop commissioners paid out $500 to
have his record examined as county
treasurer and they couldn't find thing
against him. The people who gave out
interviews against Mr.. Mickey to the
World-Herald are ashamed of it now
and they ought to be. They are claim
ing now that what they said to the
World-Herald reported was exagger-
ated, but they ought to be ashamed
to be talking at all against a man like
John Mickey. If he amt a good man,
then there are no good men in this
county,
At Shelby, small town in the east
ern part of Polk county, Mr. Isaac
Paisley, an old soldier, said: Eyes, |
settled here thirty years ago and /
have got the homestead yet. | came
from the same county in Iowa that
Mickey came from. l didn't know him
there, but knew his folks. They were
well-to-do people Of high standing
John Mickey is a strong and forceful
man in any place where there's work
to do that requires judgment and ac-
curacy. l never knew of his honesty
being questioned until they got out
something in the paper against him. /
don't think anyone around here be-
lieves a word of that stuff. | haven't
seen man who believed word of it"
John Fox, old settler and old soldier,
talked of his long acquaintance with
Mr. Mickey: 81 settled on a home
stead just mile from Mickeys home
stead, in II. Mickey got the con-
fidence of the people right from the
start because he seemed to know how
to do everything, and he has held their
confidence ever since. always worked
for him in every election when he was
running for county treasurer, and
have never regretted it, Well stay by
him in this county. Don't worry about
that. Maybe they can beat him for
governor, but he has done more good
deeds than any other man in the coun-
ty and they can't beat him out of that"
George M. Mcmillan farmer, from
blackberry precinct, was in Shelby on
business. Mr.. Mcmillan owns two
hundred acre farm adjoining the
Mickey homestead. Speaking of Mr..
Mickey, he said:
81 have been dealing with John
Mickey more or less for seventeen
years will vote for him with a good
deal of satisfaction. He will get near
ly all the votes in blackberry precinct
this year"
Peter Wise, old settler and and old
soldier: II knew John Mickey in
Louisa county, Iowa, when he was a
boy and have known him ever since. |
homesteaded near him in I'll. | drove
through from Iowa by team. When |
got here Mickey was the first man |
met. He was mighty poor then-used
to work in the field bare-footed. /
have done lots of business with him
since that time. Some of the men he
helped when they couldn't get money
anywhere else came out in the papers
against him, but they have done him
more good than they intended to-"
Levi Cunningham, old settler: Il
came here in II. John Mickey was a
ROOQ ITlSuu W JlO oCItiCis hOiO IA shS |
early times and he has never changed
a bit. | was laid up and my folks
sent me a box from home. l wasn't
asking for aid. My folks were helping
me. that was all. When the box came
there was SIT freight. didn't have
no SIT. and | went to Mr. Mickey |
didn't have anything hardly and could
not give security, but he just handed
me a twenty-dollar bill. told him |
couldn't make the change, for | didn't |
have a cent That's all right said |
Mickey. You Just take it with you
and hand it to me when you get it.
He didn't charge me any interest then.
I have borrowed money of him since
and paid him interest. He was the
one who cut the interest down in this
county to 10 per cent when it had been
2 per cent month. Everybody In this
county knows that, and it meant a
good deal to the people in those times
when they were borrowers | guess
We'll take care of Mickey all right
here when election day comes"
d. E. Smith, formerly banker here
in Shelhy hut now somewhat of a |