Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1910-10-15
". L. HARVEY
Republican Nominee for
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,
Elmore County, Idaho.

having the time and means TO make
an extended canvass of the coun-
ty, I take this method of telling
the voters who and what I am.
When I was seventeen years
old, and while working on a cat
tie ranch in western Kansas, l
resolved that I would become an
attorney at law, and sometime
earn the title of THE Square
Deal Lawyer.
Some of my friends tried to
dissuade me. However, I sold my
saddle and bride for thirty-five
dollars, drew what was coming to
me, and started for the Kansas
State Agricultural College, at
Manhattan, Kansas, with less than
one hundred dollars.
I did chores and odd jobs to
pay for my board through the
college year, and during vacation
I worked in the harvest field,
and with threshing machines to
earn money for books and clothe
When completed the second
year at college I skipped one
year and taught school, but again
entered college the next year,
and in two years more complet-
ed the four years general science
course, receiving the degree OF
bachelor of science, and by doing
about third of year extra
work in the last year, also Sc
cured a teacher s life certificate.
In the fall of 1902, the citizens
of Seward county elected me
county attorney for two years.
I then went to Topeka, Kan, and
took six months course in stem
ography, and from there went to
Wamego, Kan, to take a posi-
ton in the office of state senator
J. X. Codding at that place,
working for him during office
hours and studying law nights
and mornings. I did this for
about a year, then through the
kindness of Senator Codding, ]
got into the well-known law firm
of Gleed, Ware & Gleed, of To
peka, Kan, with the opportunity
of going to the Washburn Uni
versity Law School nights and
mornings. I had been in their
office about year when sue
cessfully passed the bar exami-
nation of Kansas before the SUI
preme court, and shortly
after that I was appoint
ed assistant supreme court re.
porter of the supreme court OF
Kansas, with the privilege of con
tinuing my law studies nights
and mornings,
The year after my appointment
I graduated at the Washburn u
University Law School, with the
the degree of LII. B. After com
pleting my law school work,
was employed by Crane & Co.
of Topeka, Kan, publishers Of
law books and legal blanks te
revise several law books and thei
legal blanks.
I remained in the supreme coul
reporter 8 office until August
1909, when ] resigned to move tt
Mountain Home to engage in the
practice of law, just twelve year
after leaving the cow ranch in
western Kansas. And here | am
and all that I have in this world
is here: A wife, three children
twenty acres of land, good law
1 library and the determination
that ! started out with to earn
the title Of The Square Deal
Lawyer,
l have nothing to say agains,
my opponent on the democratic
ticket, but you have given him
the office twice, and it has help.
ed him to a good law practice
Should you see fit to elect me
to the office to which | aspire
I shall appreciate your kindness
from the bottom of my heart.
Should be defeated, you will
find me still in Mountain Home
working for that title ! am after
I am in hearty accord with the
state and county republican plat
forms.
- L.. Fzx,