The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-05-21
Finley Campaign Literature.

to Hope to transact business and at
tend lodge and other meetings than
citizens of Hope who go to other
towns, etc.
Now in answe te this statement l
would like to call the attention of your
self and readers to our motto of FAIR.
NESS" and in doing so will refer you
to the official vote of Steele county for
November 1906.
In this statement of official votes
cast, the highest vote shown is for
governor, hence we will use that as a
basis.
There were 800 votes cast in Steele
county for the three candidates for
governor, of this number Hope City
cast 121 votes, Finley village cast 60
of which includes the whole township,
cast 68 votes, and we will presume for
sake of argument that the village of
Sharon, if it had been a seperate vOt-
ing precinct, would have cast about
one half of that vote or "a votes. This
would make the total votes cast by
these three towns, Hope, Finley and
Sharon 215, which leaves 58S or over
two thirds of the voters of Steele coun.
ty living on farms and in the country
and what is it to these 588 voters
whether Finley and Sharon citizens
go to Hope more than Hope citizens
go to these other towns or vice versa
In considering the conveniences O.
getting to our different towns let u:
not consider our individual selve:
alone, but let us be FAIR to all par.
ties concerned" and consider whethe'
or not the farmers would care to g
owns to transact business, or atten
l lodge or other meeting.
AS for improvements l will admit:
hat Hope is ahead at the present time
| ,ut I will ask you to admit that Hope
| IS IA years older than either Finley o.
| Sharon which towns were, until i
| years ago unknown, and l would Xix
o ask if these towns have not mad
more rapid growth in these past ]
ears than did Hope in the fourtee
years prior when it was the only tow
II the county, aside from Colgate anf
'herbrooke, and had all kinds @,
chances to win the good will and re
spect Of Steele county.
Again, take the population of yom
town in 1896, the year that the roa
was extended north. from Hope to Anc
ia, and note if your present population
shows as good a growth as Finley. ]
will not ask that this be estimated
upon the percentage basis, as we have
increased 100 per cent'in that time
and such an illustration would not b,
in conformity with our endeavors tt
be "FAIR."
Speaking of your Rural Route and
telephone connections with the south.
ern part of the county I would like
to say, that we have Rural mail IA
o%ilities, under the same management
rs those of Hope, with railroad con
1ecticns between the two, and as for
telephone connections we can boast of
being connected with most of the EN-.
TIRE county, and l think Hope could
boast of the same if they did not care
to confine their arguments to the south
side of the county alone, and If they
showed a willingness to be fair in their
statements.
We believe that if this we're to be
put to a jury, as you suggest, that it
would be decided in favor of Finley,
and l will tell you why.
BY careful observation it has been
noticed that the geographical center
Of Steele county, viz. Sherbrooke, has
most all of it's freight shipped here on
the same trains that pass through
Hope; the residents both at Sher-
brooke and around there haul nearly
all other loads to and from Finley: