The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-06-04
VANDEN0EvER WRITES
ABOUT SHERIFF FIGHT
THINKS WARD COUNTY HAS
BEEN GOOD TO HER SHERIFFS
IN THE PAST-SEVEN CANDI-
DATES FOR SHERIFF IN WARD
COUNTY.
To the Editor Of the Independent:

To the Editor of the independent:
In reading your paper I notice thai
politics is getting somewhat warn
now days and mostly so on the sher'
if. I believe there are seven candi
dates for that office. see our frienc
John Wallin comes to John Lees aic
and takes on himself that he claims
was charged against Lee on the sher.
iff bill but who ever it was must have
thought that one person could travel
for half the expense than another as
the sheriff gets ten cents per mile and
livery where the county commission
ers only get five cents per mile and
understand Mr.. Wallin had something
to do with both of those bills. He
also states in his article of last week
that he preferred the Office of treas
urer or auditor instead of sheriff,
now this might all be so but as for
the pay part would think him very
poor chooser as there is three times
more money in the sheriff's office than
in either of the other two mentioned.
l think Ward county has been very
good to their sheriffs in the past, bet
ter than two-thirds of the counties
in the state don't furnish free house,
lights, water, heat and telephone for
their sheriff and some counties pay
45c per day for boarding prisoners
and Ward county is paying 75c per
day and the Jail is so full that part of
the time there is scarcely standing
room in the Ward county Jail. Now
l am not plugging for any particular
man for sheriff and have voted for
John Lee and he had the fat office of
sheriff for four long years and when
Ward county had 1853 townships and
now only has 60 We read about his
eleven hundred acre farm and no
doubt John done we'll while sheriff of
Imperial Ward but see what he is ask
ing for another whack at that fat Of
flee but is that the way he did with his
own countryman, S. A Sorenson when
he was sheriff? Oh, no, John was the
man to take good swat at Sorenson
at the end of his first term in office
and put him out with only one term
and now John asks the good people
to give him the third term. Now,
personally, have no fault to find
with any of the candidates for sheriff
as we are not lacking of good mater
ial for the Office of sheriff. But in
reading over the agreement signed by
John J. Lee and Ex-sheriff Carroll
for no other purpose than to land the
Office to Lee and the way he did to get
S. A. Sorenson out after the first term
he held sheriff I would think the peo-
pie would say such man should hold
no Office, as that is not clean politics
and such work as that only creates
more I. w. WIS and the Lord knows
we don't want any more of them at
present. Now it seems to me when
the voter gets in his booth on June
"a he will consider these matters as
all fair voters will and he will say to
himself not for Johnny this time.
went to the county commissioners
meeting of the state at Jamestown
and Devils Lake and could hear a
great deal of comments on Ward
county politics. Now we should not
deserve any such and let us improve
these lines and be more as man should
be to man and lay aside those acts
which only leads to bad government
and don't give a life job on the best
paying Offices in the county to one man
as Ward county has plenty Of good
material to fill all offices.
Respectfully yours,
(Pol. Adv.) P. VANDENOEVER