The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-01
JAMES MURPHY,
Republican Candidate for County Com.
missioner In the Third Commits.
si0ner's District,

siOner's District.
James Murphy is truly self-made
man. He was born in Ireland fifty
four years ago, his parents emigrating
to America when he was three months
old. They settled in Canada where Mr..
Murphy grew to manhood, and in 1873
he came to what was then Dakota,
and settled in that part of the country
where he now lives and has lived ever
since. He is large farmer, having
all the progressive ideas which have
made farming d6ubly successful, and
has given to his private affairs the
most minute and careful attention.
While his hand has ever been extended
to the deserving, and no worthy cause
has went unsatified from his door, he
has gathered around him suff1ciency
OF this worlds goods to make life not
only comfortable but luxurious. He
has done this by the careful manner
he has handled his own concerns Mr..
Murphy Is no novice in the work for
which his neighbors are insisting on
electing him. He was first elected to
the board of county commissioners
seventeen years ago, and has since
that time served thirteen years. In
addition to this, he has served for
seven years on the township board,
where his splendid business ability
has always been recognized by his
neighbors and those who know him
best. During all the years that he has
served the public in one Of the most
important positions to the tax payers
that there is, he has never attempted
to retract from position he has TAX
en- or to stultify his honor. He has
acted always for the public. just the
same as though he were acting for
himself in his own affairs. He may
have made mistakes, but II he did, they
were those of any business man. He
has carefully and thoroughly consider
ed every question which has come be-
fore him, and has acted in accordance
with his best judgment. It is no
fiattery to say that no man who has
served the public as long as Mr..
Murphy has, has made fewer mistakes.
There Is no question but that to the
tax payers Of this county the position
of county commissioner is an impor-
tant one. The board is the custodian
of the taxes, and its knowledge of
county matters is largely responsible
for the heavy or light taxation. The
man who does not know the actual
details of the work, will not only
make mistakes, but he must be the
victim of everyone who attempts to
deal with the county for profit. In
the matter of building roads and
bridges and the construction of other
public improvements new and I'M
tried man must, unless he has secured
a knowledge of these affairs in some
other manner, be at the mercy largely
of the firms who engage in such work
and which do not as a rule have any
scruples about securing unfair terms
from the public. Thirteen years. ex-
perience is worth something to the
people of this county, and the tax
payers cannot afford to allow Mr..
Murphy to retire from the board. It
is a matter similar to the unwisdom
of a business firm discharging a man
who has been for thirteen years in its
service and who knows and UNDER
stands every detail of the business,
and the placing of a new and untried
man in his place merely to make a
change. Mr.. Murphy stands upon the
manly platform that his work in the
future will be based upon his record
in the past. That is one of the fairest
things ever offered the voters, and it
is one of the safest for the candidate,
for no man can point to a single act
during all his official career that Is
not TO his credit