The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-22
CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG
'Farmer Bud' Tells the Underwood People Through
tie Columns of The Miner That the Present
Owners of Town Property in Underwood
Will Not Be Asked to Sell Or Give
Site For the Court House.
MEANS A NEW TOWNSHIP
The Good People of Underwood In Event of the
rifce Their Property Holdings and ''Buy
In' at the New Town Where The
Court House Will Be Located.

I busy selling rattlcsllakc cure and talk
ing county seat for his own interests
that we wrote down to the county
treasurer the other day to see how much
of a taxpayer he was and how much he
is interested in the county. We found
that his total tax is set down at $293,
of which one ST is for school poll tax,
and $1.50 for road poll tax, leaving 43
cents that he pays in taxes-tl1at is, -
cents that he ought to pay, as his taxes
have not been paid yet. This man
proved to be 43 cent reformer, like
Harris. who is thirty cent reformer
tle carries his property around on his
back, and i'll his patent medicine case,
and although he talks loud about reform
and the interests of the taxpayers he
pays only forty-three cents in taxes and
is delinquent taxpayer at that. am
sick and tired of following that kind of
a leader.
have been looking over the so-called
Shaker Harris independent ticket
find no resemblance to either of the
tickets that was first nominated I find
such men as Shaker for clerk of court
a man not even qualified by education
for the position, seller OF rattlesl1ake
medicine, windbag who pays only
forty-three cents in taxes and is delin-
quent at that! This is the man who
has been going around bowling for
county seat removal. He talks differ
emily to every rla1l-witll one he favors
division and with another he is against
it. And he talks reform and still the
forty-three cents in taxes remains TIL
paid. Our cause has been killed by
such representatives as Shaker and Har-
ris, and the quicker we get rid of them
the better. Everybody realizes that they
have killed us off as candidates for the
county seat and the people here have
quit fooling and are taking care of the
big trade. When the road is extended,
some of us may follow to the best town
and maybe we may catch the county
seat there. But we will get rid of Shaker
and Harris, the thirty-cert twins, before
we go.
They are now insulting the jurymen
who they found they could not bribe at
the recent term of court. Such men
would kill any cause. This man Shaker
has no interests in Underwood what
ever. He is running on a ticket that
has been changed so often that not
much is known about it, but judged
by the company they keep the other can
didates must be in hard luck and the
ticket must be poor one that bears
such name as Slaker's.
Talking with an old timer the other
day he suggested that these reformers
reminded him of those who were here
back i'll 1886. They were the same kind
of taxpayers as Shaker. They made a
big howl for reform and the peopl..
elected them to Office, only to run the
county $l6,G00 i'll debt He says if there
is any more such reform i'll the air as
that he does not want any of it.
l have always been a democrat, but
this year l am a Roosevelt democrat.
and after looking over the county tick
cts, am going to vote the republican
county ticket straight. don't want
any Harris and Shaker in mine.
ROOSEVELT DEMOCRAT.