The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-05-17
POLITICS IS BACKWARD.
GOSSIP IN MADISON COUNTY
SLOW TO START.
NOMINATIONS WILL COME SOON
Within Three Months Primary Candl'
dates Must All BE Announced
What's What In offices That Are to
be EllIed This Year

Madison. Ncb. May 10,-From n |
stan correspondent. Madison county
politics are backward and political
gossip has only begun to filter through
the halls OF the county court house
Where In many counties over the
state the new primary law Is serving
10 bring county politics early to the
surface and candidates are openly an
uouncing themselves In Madison poll
tics are as backward as the spring
itself
The county officers whose terms eX'
pire this fall are Judge William Bates,
county Judge, j. j. Clements, sheriff
chris Schavlaud, county treasurer;
George IT, Richardson, county clerk
w. H. Field clerk of the district
court. John l.. Rynearson, county AS
SCISSOR; Or. II. l.. Kindred, coroner;
Frank S Pcrdue, superintendent, John
II. Harding county commissioner; a.
j. Thatch county surveyor. or the
officials at the court house whose
terms expire this fall Judge Bates is
the only adheront to the democratic
party.
OF the officials at Madison two
County Treasurer Schavland ana
County Assessor Rynearson, are by
law rendered ineligible for an add
tional term, On the other hand men
like Superintendent Frank S. Perdue,
who are serving their first term and
are backed by good record, natural
H.. lao rItlp
carry something of its convention
force to the primary. County Clerk
George IL. Richardson Is first term
man. SO is Commissioner Harding of
Meadow Grove; SO Is Clerk w. ii.
Field of the district court
In Madison 1t is considered that the
name of =. w. Ruth of Newman
Grove. at present Office deputy in the
assessors Office, will appear on the
primary ballot as candidate for the
republican nomination for county as
SCISSOR, His friends will urge, it Is
said, his thirty years residence in the
county, his two years experience as
Office deputy and his geographical To-
cation as representative of south
western Madison. AS II possible con
testant for the democratic nomination
]. Manning of Battle Creek is men
toned.
Touching the sheriff's Office re-
cent editorial in the Madison Chron
icle said:
Under the law passed by the last
isl IN al nf CHI i'm
counties having from 10000 to 10000
population is fixed at $1,000 Madison
county comes under this class. The
sheriff heretofore has been one of the
poorest paid officers in the county al
though the position carries with it
greater responsibility than many of
the other county offices. We wish to
so on record as favoring the renomi-
nation of Sheriff Clements for this
Office as he has held it during the past
few terms when the fees barely yield
ed sufficient amount to support a
family. This statement is not made
with the intention of opening the cam
paign but we believe that the senti-
ment in the republican party will be
almost unanimous for the renomina-
ton of Mr., Clements
Pot Must Boil Soon.
This year under the new primary
law nomination papers must be filed
at least thirty days before September
,, primary day. In less than three
months nominations under the pri.
mary system will be closed.
This primary law as published In
the state papers has been character
lied by former United States Senator
Allen of Madison as vicious. II an
waiting to receive an official copy Of
the new law" says Senator Allen il
his new law Office in Madison, "wher
receive this copy | am going to eX
anime it thoroughly, | will have sew
eral months in which to do So
have read a report of the law in tn,
Omaha Bee and sections of the Law
as published seem vicious"
Aliens New Building.
Senator Aliens new office home
probably the finest private Office builC
ing in the state, is not yet complete
although Mr., Allen has had his otiic
moved in the new quarters for severe
weeks A one story building {
pressed brick and stone, it provide
an Office suite of four rooms with
large fire proof vault and special to
let rooms.
To be heated with hot water, vent
lated by interior windows through II
several rooms and lighted for II
most part with prism glass window
Senator Aliens Office is of near
model design. The same methodic
spirit that dictated the arrangemel
of the building is evidenced in Il
disposition of the law library and fu
nishings within, The senator's la
library of several thousand volum,
lines the wall of the rooms, accomp
MED by digests and indexes. perfect
accessible. Seated in his private {
flee before big fiat desk, the senat
finds at either side a revolving boo
stand, each stand holding some 81