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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-11-02

OF the Republicans and DeYSd
Gratis, and those OF every OIL
party in Ward county, that
have determined and decided
place myself before the voters
the county for reelection to m
present Office.
1t is an unwritten law, but
nevertheless a law, that is generJ
ally complied with, that if a mal}
has made a good officer the fiyst,
term, he is entitled to a second. :,
There are reasons for this. For!
instance, il a man puts his whole
time as a servant OF the people,
in the office to which he is elected )
he must and does give up a LOTT
of other business. This | hnveI
done.
If, after q thorough and com
plete investigation, which think
it is your duty to make, andl
which ! request you to MAKE,
you deem my position tena) -
and correct, and l have BE-
what should as a public oficer
then | earnestly ask your khp-|
port at the polls on the eighth
of November.
Very Respectfully,
JAMES w. BRIGGS.
Register OF Deeds, Ward Co.
n. D 4
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WARD COUNTY'S RECORD
Leads in Economical Administration Of the o.
flee Of Register Of Deeds Among the Sever
Great Counties, V

To the Voters OF Ward County:
In 1902 | became the Regular
Republican nominee for Register
OF Deeds, and was elected, re-
ceiving 277 votes more than
both OF my competitors COM
bined. At the time ] entered
upon the discharge of my duties,
| found the records and indexes
in a deplorable condition. To-
day | challenge any man in
Ward county to find anything
wrong, irregular or out OF place
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-11-02

ships are almost without exception
formed among the business class: they,
as rule, represent the man or corpora
ton who puts up the greatest Doodle.
Working men cannot reasonably expect
lawyers to make laws against their own
class in favor of the laboring class.
working men, cast your ballots for the
men OF your class and vote for your
selves. Look at this from your own
point of view, not from some one else's.
Protect your own interests with your
ballots this fall by voting the Socialist
ticket.
Every office in our nation should be
filled by working man and then our
government would be for US instead of
the trusts. The Socialist party is the
only party which puts up none but
working men for Office and in which
there is no room for grafters and there
fore it is the only party that can look
you squarely in the eye and ask you for
your vote.
Our second great principle is that all
public utilities-evsrything upon which
the lives of all the people depend-of
right belongs to the people and should
be owned and controlled by the people
and operated for the benefit of them all
instead of for the sole benefit of com
paratively few private owners as at
present.
If you Republican and Democratic
working men knew today what kind Of
people you are supporting in idle luxury
by the dividends charged up to you on
every manufactured article you buy you
would vote to put stop to this program
of toiling for wealth only to pour it into
the great and increasing stream Of
millions which now flows to the pluto
Gratis of our cities, who are as able
bodied as you are but never do stroke
of work. Do you like our public postal
system? Or would you prefer to have
it privately owned and managed and pay
q cts to send letter from one place to
another? Our postal system is in all
good and worthy features Socialistic
system. Does the idea of public roads
suit you? Or would you prefer toll
roads privately owned and controlled?
The public roads principle is pure
and simple Socialism? Don't yeu think
the city fire department grand and
successful scheme? That's Socialism
the peoples fire department all of the
apparatus owned by the people and the
entire department under full control OF
the peoples officers for the benefit of all
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-11-02

served for months past were noosed andI
gunned or forced to resign and Citizens
Alliance men were placed in their Of
fees to rule for the plutes and against
the people. Industrious working men
and highly esteemed business men who
sympathized with our class and against
whom no charge was preferred except
that they were members Of the Miners
Union and advocated the election Of
working men to public offices, we're
dragged from their homes and beds in
the night. prodded into box cars, locked
in like dumb brutes and shipped out
upon barren and shelterless prairies OF
distant states where the seals were brok
en- and they were unloaded and ordered
never to return to the towns of their
homes, their wives and children and
sweethearts and their property and
business interests. Wives and children
have been insulted and beaten ands star
we'd by the thugs in the militia and some
law abiding citizens have been slaughterA,
ed like wild beasts and all this in t6e
land of the free and the home of the
brave and under the stars and stripes.
Is that the safety and protection and
freedom that our long loved Old Glory
guarantees us?
If the miners and their sympathizers
can be slaughtered and deported this
year in Colorado, the farmers of North
Dakota can be treated similarly next
year, provided our governor belongs to
the plutocratic class but it would be a
far more difficult matter with arthur
Bassett, our Socialist candidate for gov.
ernor, in the Office, and il yeu are a
working man it lisa matter of greatest
Importance to you to have for governor
ofNorth Dakota, a man of your class who
will protect you from injustice.
Many Of you are not Socialists now and
you ridicule our ideas that is DC.
cause you are ignorant ofsthe real mean
ing of them and of the extent to which
capitalism is robbng you, but if you are
working men, you will soon be good
Socialists, because force of circumstances
will soon drive you to a recognition Of
the need of different system. Socialism
is surely coming, 1903 spells Socialism
victory through the nation and then the
cooperative commonwealth will be es.
tablished and built upon the crumbling
ruins Of our false civilization of today.
Right will triumph. ''Truth crushed to
earth will rise again. Justice for the
first time in the history of the world will
reign supreme and, oh, for tho privilege
Of birth thousand years hence when
men shall have fully learned to live %
brothers and to love peace and hate VS.
Remember Socialism means class
conscious working men elected to our
offices. Collective ownership of alTZf the
greatest public utilities, the means Of !.
producing the means Of life, Democratic
management Of the means of producing
the means oflife, equal opportunities to
the use and benefits of these collectively
owned and democratically managed
means ofproducing the means of life, and
that means liberty and that's what q.
means. r. W. Dalziel.
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IN the office.
The duties OF the office haveI
been onerous and exactlng. II
have put in my time, and over-a
time. As to the condition of thes
office. in comparison with othera
Offices, | give you herewith a list
OF the other large counties OF the
State, their receipts, expendi-I
lures, (for salary ard CLERK hire)
and per cent OF revenue delivered
by them to the county in the
wear 1903:
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not obey the orders of the s,l
preme court, ordered a third set
of ballots to be printed, which
however will not be used. Mr..
Larson has had no intention OF
disobeying a single order OF the
supreme court. He has done
what he supposed was right all
the way thro-and there are
hundreds who still think that
the supreme court has made a
mistake.
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The Crows Please.

The Crows especially pleased
the large crowd at the opera
house Wednesday night, the fire
scene being one of the best pieces
of work which has been seen on
the stage for a long time. The
Crows will be here all week. Fri
day night the great French play,
Trilby, will be presented. This
will be one OF the best nights of
the week.
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p. III. Baukol, a prominent re-
organizer, who has had his eyes
opened by undetermined methods,
handed the following article to
the Independent, with special re-
quest to publish it this week.
Altho it will make us a little late
in getting to press, we consider
the article of SO much import
ance that we decided to overlook
the lateness of the hour in it's ar
rival, and publish it. This
should be read by every voter in
the county. Mr.. Baukol is a
man OF unquestioned honesty,
and he wrote the article Of his
own free will. Mr.. Baukol is
vice-president of the Scandina-
Wan league Of Ward county:
'Iwish to take a few exceptions
to the Optics comment on the
candidacy of Peter Bertelson.
MIR. Zimmerman, no doubt, is in
spired by good motives. and
wishes to do Bertelson Justice.
He would not wilfully tell a lie
about any man.
To begin with, Berte]son isnot
a Democrat and the Optic does
not say so, but is very careful to
state that he was placed on the
Democratic ticket, in place OF a
Democrat, thereby prejudicing
all good Republicans against
him. The Optic has nothing to
say about the personal charac-
ter Of Mr.. Bertelson because
Zimmerman has been inquiring
about him, and can find nothing
but the best to say about him.
The Optic does know thathe was
identified with the Murphy fac
ton. The fact of the matter is:
Bertelson came to Minot as q,
delegate unpledged and unbias-
ed. The re-organizers leaders
tried to get him into their camp.
but it was upon such conditions
that Mr.. Bertelson could not do
it.
Bertelson went into the Con-
vention hall where it was called
by the Central committee. He
found that the Murphy conven-
ton did not have the majority
of the delegates, and was honest
enough to state so before the
Central committee at Fargo.
The Optic says: "Hehas arrayed
himself on the side of Bossism.
The fact of it is, that Bertelson
refused to come into the ranks of
the re-organizers because some
of the leaders of that movement
requested that he sign away GER
tain rights, which he did not
wish to do.
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(Notlling!)

l have not yet received a reply.
We have a right to believe from
this that Steele intends to do
nothing in this respect.
[ also wrote Mr.. Bertelson, and
received a reply, dated Oct. q,
which says in part: ~ am glad
to reply to your favor Of the
10Th for the reason that it gives
me great pleasure in assuring
you that | am in favor of and
shall work untiringly, if elected,
for a Primary Electionlaw Such
a law as will effectively eliminate
bossism before there is any cleo.
ton at all, whatever have been
my views on the matter before
coming to Ward county, not
withstanding."
Compare that with the answer
that Steele sent. which says
Nothing y
Steele does not deem the SUBJ
ject worthy of an answer, and /
do not blame him. because it is
bossism of the rankest kind,
that gave Steele his nomination
and l know what | am talking
about, because was there. Who
is most inconsistent, Steele or
Bertelson?
In regards to Bertelson's sup
port Of the "blind pig element
of the northern part Of this coun-
ty, it may be OF interest to read
the following from the Mohall
News:
INCONSISTENCY.
sour friend Peter Bertelson is
a rank prohibitionist-we glory
in him for that: that is a we'll
known fact among people who
have associated to any extent
with him. We believe he prides
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-11-02

himself upon the fact that he has
never voted any other ticket. +.
+. Davidson, in the last issue OF
the Independent, declines the
democratic nomination and says;
In Mr.. Peter Bertelson, in whose
favor | decline, the people will
find an able and conscientious
legislator who will faithfully
serve their interests This leaves
Peter Bertelson, a prohibition
list, running on Il democratic
ticket, depending on republican
votes for an election.
In reply to this Bertelson says:
"When it gets to the point where
| have to apologize for the fact
that | do not drink, or think
that others should, | will have to
be more blinded and want office
worse than | do at this writing"
Any further comments on Mr..
l'ertelson are unnecessary, be.
cause he is man of undisputed
character, and the worst thing
they can say about him, is that
he was in the Murphy combina-
ton, because he was forced there,
by the bossism of some of the
re-organizers. The Optic now
tries to make out that Steele is
not satisfactory to the railroad
company. | cannot say, but l
have been assured by leading
Republicans thatSteele is strictly
all right for Senator, because
Aleck Mckenzie and Jud La
Moure said so at the State Con-
vention at Grand Forks.
1t is disgusting when partisan
politics get to a point where in
dependent American citizens
shall be forced to go to the polls
and vote the ticket straight,
whatever the result may be. The
only way that the people have
OF registering their vote against
bossism at this election is to cast
a vote for Peter Bertelson for
Senator. He cannot be handled
by any clique or combination.
Bertleson did not seek to be
placed on the Democratic ticket,
but consented to be placed there
upon the urgent request of his
many Republican friends, and
will remain a candidate iii order
that liberty loving people can
have a chance to cast a vote and
protest against bossism.
Yours for principle,
p. Fl. BAUKOL.
n. B:-1'he above article was
handed to the Optic, but space
was refused. One can readily see
the unfairness of Editor thinner
County Independ-
ent.
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n. B:-The above article was
handed to the Optic, but space
was refused. One can readily see
the unfairness of Editor thinner
man-Ward County Independ-
ent.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1904-11-02

employ all of the men and women at
living wages. Labor saving machines
are constantly increasing the army of
our unemployed. we believe that labor
saving institutions should serve to cut
down the hours of labor but never cut
down the number Of people employed
and thus serve a cause to the majority
while increasing the wealth of the
private owners of our public utilities.
Every man who votes a Republican or
Democratic ticket this fall will be
personally responsible for every crime
and all of the suffering and misery d.
rectly or indirectly caused by poverty
during the next four years, and ig-
norance OF these things will not excuse
q single man. we believe in the initia.
tive and referendum. Right of recall
that the people should always have the
power to force, by petition, any act Of
legislators to be submitted to vote of
the whole people and that they should
be able to force, by petition, their legis-
lators to submit to vote of the people
whether or not any certain law shall be
passed and that it should he possible
for any public servant to be recalled
from Office at any time when a certain
percentage of the electors Of his district
or industry shall so petition and another
placed in his Office. If you want the
public officials to be public servants,
vote the Socialist ticket, If you want
them to be the masters and the people
slaves vote for private ownership
parties it don't matter which one. Did
you ever hear that Socialism would take
your farm away from you? That's
lie. Socialism alone will guarantee you
your farm and all of its products. In
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-10-19
"a Trip Around the World"

The Ladies OF the Baptist Aid Society
solicit the patronage of the citizens Of
Reynoldsville in general in their "Trip
Around the World" Tuesday Oct. %.
The points of interest to be visited will
be San Francisco, at the residence Of
DR.. J. G. King Germany, at the resi-
dence of d. r. Cochran China, Japan,
at the residence OF DR.. A. H. Bowser ;
Scotland, at the residence Of Rev.
Meek England, at the residence of
Homer Phillips ; Washington, d. c.,
at the residence OF Mrs, Prudence
Sprague. At the latter place ice cream
and cake or sandwiches and coffee will
be served for 10 cents extra. The trip
will cost 25c and refreshments and
entertainment will be served at all
points. The first train will leave New
York City a. 100 o'clock at Baptist
church station and every 10 minutes
after.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-10-19
Lecture Course.

The tickets for the lecture course
will be sold at one dollar for the five
numbers. Course tickets for students
will be fifty cents as usual. Reserved
seats will be secured at the rate OF ten
cents extra for each number or fifty
cents for the entire course. Arrange
ments for reserved seats for all the
numbers may be made when the plot Of
the Assembly hall is put up for the first
attraction. hr. Alexander Stoke at
his drug store will have charge of the
reserving of the seats. Admission TO
single numbers will be fifty cents for
reserved seats and thirty-fve cents for
general admission.
At such minimum prices no one can
afford to miss the attractions all Of
which will be first class in every respect.
BY patronizing the course you will not
only receive pleasure and profit for
yourselves but you will help the public
schools for which the proceeds OF the
course are employed
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-10-19
ANNUAL REUNION TOMORROW.
Survivors of the wildcat" Regiment
Will be Here--Town Should
he Decnfoted

The seventeenth annual reunion Of
the 105th Regiment of the Pennsylvania
Volunteers, the Wildcat" Regiment,
will be held at Reynoldsville tomorrow,
October 90 and every loyal citizen
should give the old veterans hearty
welcome to our town. We should feel
IL an honor to have the brave old
soldiers hold reunion In our town.
The town should be nicely decorated In
honor of the reunion. A free dinner
win be served in the Reynolds Park by
the Womens Relief Corps to all old
soldiers and their wives, whether mem
bors of the 105th or some other regi-
mont. There will be parade of old
soldiers and Sons Of Veterans at 200 p.
M, headed by the Keystone band.
After the parade business meeting
will be held in Centennial hall.
Camp fire in Centennial hall at 500
p. m. Addresses will be delivered by
Col. Levi Bird Duff, of Pittsburg, Hon.
s. A. Craig, of Brookville, VIM. Fair
man, Esq, of ofPunxsutawney, and others.
The Keystone band will furnish music
in the afternoon and evening.
The old veterans will register at G.
G. Gibson's store on arrival in town and
receive their badges.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-10-19
II Rained Shot.

While n number OF persons were
crossing the upper iron bridge, which
spans Mahoning creek, yesterday at
about 1l.30 o'clock a. m, they were
pelted with a shower Of shot, which
rained down from the sky for period
of more than ten minutes. Those who
witnessed the strange phenomenon
were at first inclined to the belief that
hail storm was in progress, but on
picking up the missiles they were found
to be No. bird shot. DR.. McTaggart,
who was one OF the witnesses, brought
some OF the shot to the Spirit office.
He declared that for several minutes
he was In the midst OF the shower and
that he had been pelted with shot that
came straight down from the clonds,
some of the leaden missiles having
struck between his neck and collar and
passed down inside OF his clothing
Whether this leadenlike visitation was
Of meteoric origin or whether passing
balloonlst, hidden from view by the
clouds, dumped over part OF his ballast
at point directly over the iron bridge,
is yet a mystery which DR.. McTaggart
and several others, whom he did not
know, are anxious to have solved
Punxsutawney Spirit.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-10-19
Recommended a New Bridge.

Ex-Sheriff d. G. Gourley, Sylvester
Truman and County Surveyor James b.
Caldwell, all OF Brookville, who were
appointed to view the bridge across
Sandy Lick creek, at foot of Fifth
street, in this borough, were here Mon
day morning to perform their duty.
They will report that new bridge is
needed and that it should be built by
the county, according TO law. The
bridge will be 80 feet long wide enough
for two teams to pass on it and have a
foot bridge at one side.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-10-19
Three Serenades.

DR.. b. E. Hoover and wife returned
on the ten o'clock trolley car last night
from three weeks wedding trip and
were given three serenades. The first
was by small boys, second was the
Daughters OF Rebekah and the third
serenade was given by number of
young people. 1t was about 200 a. m.
.when the last gang Of serenaders, who
were invited in the house and served
with lunch, took their departure.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-10-19

town boys have been running after the
cars, jumping on and off, and acting as
II they had never seen a trolley car
until the cars began to run on Main
street, notwithstanding the fact that
trolley cars have been running down
jackson street almost two years.
The Jefferson Traction Co. will begin
work on the new car barn at this place
within the next two weeks. II 1t is
built on present plan it will be large
building.
The Company will build car barn
at Sykesville next spring.
A new trolley car has arrived to run
between Reynoldsville and Sykesville.
1t is the finest car owned by the JEFF
ferson Traction Co. Has an automatic
break aud all the latest improvements.
It has four 80 horsepower motors,
making it li0 horsepower car
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-10-19
Filling Road.

James V. Young, who has the con-
tract for four foot fill on the public
road from bridge at foot of Fifth street
to railroad siding near silk mill, Is
getting well along with the work.
There is only one opening in the Gil and
that is near the silk mill end of road
and it is our opinion that this Is mis-
take. There should be at least two
openings. However, the first big flood
we have will show whether one opening
is sufficient or not.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-10-19
Carrier Appointed.

Walter b. Reynolds has been APP
pointed carrier for the rural free de-
livery route to be inaugurated from the
Reynoldsville postoillce the first Of
November. The route is % miles long,
out the pike to Levi Schuger's resi-
dence, north through Washington town
ship and return by Sandy Valley. The
carrier will leave Reynoldsville at $50
a. m. and return at 300 p. m. Salary
$702 90 per year. A. NJ. Woodward has
been appointed as substitute,