Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1906-11-01

~ have inGOyEeO the record OI MI
1 Jones by giving him one of the big
gest ma jOrities ever obtained By
candidate in Emmons county
Asa NJ. Britts, of Linton. is the re-
publican candidate for clerk OF the
| district court. His home is in Lin
/ ton. He is loyal republican. a
good neighbor and an honest and In
dustrious man. This is his first en-
trance into the political arena. and
he is making fair and manly fight
for the position. II elected. he has
given his promise publicly and pri-
yately, that he will lease his barber
business and attend strictly to the
duties Of the Office, which pays about
q thousand dollars year-an ample
salary TO secure the services of man
who will attend to the work Of the
Office and TO nothing else.
Against him is Peter Rocks, who
has been continuously for eight years
| in pnssessionof paying county Office.
The Record has nothing 10 say
! against Mr.. Rocks personally. The
writer defeated him for clerk OF
court in 'M, and Peter paid us back
| in the same coin in 'O2. In both con-
tests the campaign was a fair and
square battle, and left no hard feel.
ings on the part OF the loser. But.
| II the people Of this county are to
apply the rule of which MIR. Rocks
was an ardent advocate in the years
above named that he had that Of
flee long enough" then, it would
seem 10 u.s. Mr. Rocks should, to be
consistent. gracefully retire and al
low some one else TO have smell at
the clerk Of-cOurt trough. That the
democratic candidate had an idea
along these lines is shown by the fact
that two years ago he repeatedly
gave his solemn promise that ii the
people would elect him that year he
wouldn't ask for the Office this year.
The fact is that during the past
two years the Office of clerk OF the
district has been much neglected. 1t
was "A matter of almost everyday
occurrence for people who had bust
ness or wanted TO have business
with the clerk, to go to the county
building only 10 find that gentleman
There was "A time when the small
income for most Of the county officers
made 1t impossible for any one to live
on the salary or fees and ,dO nothing
else. But those days have gone. The
population and wealth of the county
have greatly increased in the last few
years, and the taxpayers Of this county
are entitled to the services Of com
pctcnt man all the time, land not
occasionally
MIR. Rocks is no SLOUGH of politi.
: clan. however He was political
, pupil OF Joe Horton, both in South
Dakota and in This county, and he
I owes his success principally to those
E iiortonian methods by which bott
democrats and republicans could BIZ
g combined and used for pulling
j .Ioseph's political chcstnuts from tht
fire. To the republican voter Peter
Will say, What's the difference
about a mans politics for a county
Office Vote for the best man" But
when the foxy gentleman gets down
in the German democratic settle
ments he waves the banner OF democ-
facy. pounds the political hcwgas Of
. EoIrbnnism and strikes the loud
! cynti,al Of party loyalty He tells
them. Stick by the party. Vote your
ticket straight II you do that, all Oi
! rs, including he German candidates.
viii be elected But, somehow OF
other, after The eleclion-day wreck
has been cleared away, the only
democrat nninjured liz our bold
Peter And the Germans haven't re-
e. we'd the votes that Peter was going
10 lei for them where he used to live
! AID none Of them has been elected
~ other words. the rest OF the demo
cratic candidates find that the whole
show has been run in the interest OF
Mr. Rocks 'ioncyfugglcd" is the
Term they us;. In Missouri for results
brought about IN his way
50, voters Of cmnions county, II
YOU believe that the democratic can
didaic for clerk OF the district court
s',Duld be measured by the standard
sci ZIP by himself in ~; and W
i.a, bis opponent had had that Office
long enough. that Mr. Rocks should
be held 10 his promise made two
ears ago, to dozens III voters, that
/ he would be satisfied IL they elected
i him IN 1894, ii you believe that Mr.
Rocks. Il democrat. has no reason Ia
! tuinplain of the way county witt
e fomr hundred republican maiori,,
1 has used him; II you are convinced
e that the clerk OF court Office need
7 man who will give his whole attcn
! tiOn to II, and not sacrifice ii To nj
2 farm machinery business III Won he
q lieve these things. go to the polls AN,