Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-30
Candidate for Nomination on the Re.
publican Ticket at the Primary
June for Representative
In the Legislature From
Wapello County.

w. W. Epps, who for more than a
quarter of century has been one OF
the active lawyers at the Wapello
county bar, is this year candidate
tor one Of our representatives In the
state legislature as Wapello county
Is entitled to two members IN the
legislature this year.
Mr. Epps is q native born Buckeye.
Icing born and reared upon the farm.
and was accustomed to farm work In
his younger days; and the greater part
of the time that he has lived in Wa
pello county and Oregon he has owned
managed and worked upon farm.
He taught school In his younger
days and studied law mornings. nights
and Saturdays and vacations while not
in school and working on the farm.
He was admitted to the bar to prac-
lice as a lawyer at Columbus, O., In
1880 In politics he has always been
republican Was in the convention and
assisted In nominating and electdng
Alfonso Taft, father of the present
president, governor of Ohio. Among
others be voted for Charles Foster, ].
B. Foraker and R. B. Hayes, for Cover
nors of Ohio.
He came to Ottumwa, Iowa, in the
year 1884, entered upon the general
practice Of law He served five terms
rs city solicitor Of the city OF Ottum-
var. Iowa; and two terms as Mayor
If said city. During the administrations
ae drafted many ordinances OF vital
Importance to the city, and tested the
validity Of many in the supreme court
It Is said that during his admlnistra-
ions no ordinance that was drafted
lnder his supervision has ever been
declared void or illegal. and in mis-
practice as lawyer he has never
been demurred out Of court or any OF
his cases stricken out on motion.
During his time as city attorney he
assisted in drafting and putting
through the legislature bills Of i'm.
portance to municipal corporations
and it was through his efforts that he
got the law passed requiring street
paving contractors to give guaran-
tee bond securing their work for
seven years instead Of one as provided
by the old law.
He has served on the county central
committee as chairman and secretary,
and the judicial district as chairman
He served the sixth congressional dis
trict three consecutive campaigns as
district committeeman on the state
central committee, and while 80 act
ing was one of the leading forces In
said committee; and in all his cam
paigns he put up clean, square fair
fight, both for himself as candidate
and his associates on the ticket. He
has always had a large following at
the polls from other parties than his
own.
I. He has been assistant sergeant at
arms in the last two republican con-
ventions at Chicago, III. He is mem
Der OF several Of the benevolent orders
of the city, holding prominent posi-
ton in said orders.
In whatever capacity, either private
or public, he Is in the labors with zeal
and enthusiasm. II elected to the legis'
'laIure Wapello county will have in
him a trusty, energetic worker for the
introduction and passage OF such laws
as will be benefit to the people. he
has always taken a special interest,"
lin such measures and laws as espe
cially benefit the laboring classes.