The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-06-27

emy l have got in the county; but
l hope I have got none in the county
If | have, | don't know it,
| don't think there is anyone in the
| county who believes l am afraid to
do my duty l don't promise to be
any bulldozer or to be overbearing
in any way; but l don't think there
is anyone in the county who believes
| am any coward, or that I will
shrink from discharging my duty re-
gardless of danger to myself
AS to my business and qualifications
to fill the Office, of course it is not
for me to speak, because l don't think
it looks well for man to recommend
or praise himself; but l may say this,
that | nave been deputy sheriff at
Brownville, in Brown county, Texas,
under two different sheriffs, and it
is plain truth to say as any respon-
sible citizen of Brownville will Ger
tify that l gave full satisfaction while
deputy sheriff in Brown county and
had the good will and friendship of
all the law-abiding people of that
county.
1 lived in Brown county Is years,
and if among any of the good people
of that county | have a single enc
my | don't know it, and l do not
think [ have one. My mothers family
still lives in Brown county, and my
brother was marshal at Brownwood
and is now well known and respon-
sible business man of that place.
Anybody that wants to find out how
stand in Brown county and how
my people stand there, can do so by
writing any public official or any
other citizen in good standing in
that county, or he may telegraph and
will pay the expenses of the te1e-
gram.
/ was born in Burnet county, Tex
as, and when l was Il years old my
father moved to Llano county where
we lived until l was % years old,
and then moved to Brown county,
and | lived there until l came to Ros-
we'll: so it is easy to find out all
about me-whetner l am square and
styaight or not. What education l have
l received in the public schools of
Burnet and Llano counties, and l do
not claim to have anything but an
ordinary common school education |
don't think anybody will question
| that my education is sufficient to run
the sheriff's Office all right, and
| hope | do not claim too much when
| say to the voters of Chaves county
| that l believe that 1 am both capa-
| BILE and honest and well qualified to
| fill the office.
If I am elected I expect to run the
| sheriff's office just as clean and on
| the same business principles as any
well-respected business man in Ros-
| well runs his store or his shop; and
| l do not expect to have any deputies
around me who are not square and
straight and honest, and l expect to
| have only sober men under me, and
men who nave the; respect of the en-
| tire county. Nobody else shall have
| a position under me, if l know it, and
am going to be very careful whom
| l appoint; and l don't expect to have
any pistol-deputies, either.
There is no clique, ring or combina-
tion running me. and there is no pol
itician telling me or advising me
what to do, or how to do; and if |
am elected l will go into the Office
without single pledge as TO what
I am going to do, except to try to
make a faithful, honest sheriff.
l have nothing TO say against Mr.
j Higgins, who is running against me.
would rather lose the Office than to
throw dirt l have not done anything
of the kind. Mr.. Higgins has lived
!. here a long time, and nearly every
body knows him, and 1 have no doubt
that he wants TO run on his own mer
| its, just the same as / want to run
on my merits.
And l can say the same thing as
to Mr.. Ballard. Whether l am nomi
mated or not, and whether | am elec
ted or not, L want to have the good
will and friendship of both of then
; and of everybody in the county thai
| knows me, so far as that is concern
ed Mr. Ballard has lived here a lons
: time and everybody knows him, an6
) I feel sure he wants to run on his
merits, and not on the demerits o.
/ anybody else.
II I have no organized campaign, anC
/ have no organization, but a few
t friends in each precinct have volun
[ tarily promised to be at the polls ane
I help me, and this is all the help ex
( pect to get. except the voters wht
t are good enough to come to the poll:
} and vote for me. l have lived hers
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