The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1914-02-13
False Statements Made

NAClIcdu COUNTY POAAIASol NAopo.
did not think that some of the
sore-headed politicians, who have
been hanging onto the county
pay roll for years, would stoop
to such an article. They have
gotten down to putting brother
against brother.
Everyone who knows these
gentlemen knows there is abso-
lutcly nothing in it. Mr.. G. w.
McGray, before he even ANNOUNCE
ed himself, consulted his brother,
o. +. McGray of Garrison, and
he, like hundreds Of others W.
the county, urged him to become
a candidate. After e. w. Nc
Gray announced himself he was
unanimously endorsed by the
press from one end Of the county
to the other. Several efforts
have been made, by those who ar
known as the ''Washburn push,"
to form a combination with Mr..
McGray. That did not work SO
they have tried to stir up troub-
lie. There is absolutely no truth
in this brother affair.
Further along in the article in
the Tribune it is stated that r.
G. Stocker, the popular county
auditor is out working for w. G.
Hendricks for sheriff. We will
say in reference to Mr.. Stocker
that he is found at his office
every day from eight to ten hour
and is attending to no campaign
but strictly to his own business
as county auditor. This is very
much Of a disappointment to some
Of the other officers who keep
their office on the street and do
not even know what their duties
are. The people will remember
Paul Meyer, who was county
auditor before Tom Thompson,
as a man who attended strictly
to his business and was a good Of
ficer. The only trouble with him
was that he wanted some Of the
other officers to also attend to
their duties. We will let others
be the judges if other officers
did not spend their time at the
depot, postoffice and cigar stores
and went to the court house
only to draw their salaries. The
taxpayers can look at the taxes
during the last five years to see
if this is not a fact.
Now Mr.. Taxpayer do you
want to 60 back to these times
again and put in officers who
draw big salaries and do nothing
in return? Officers should not
be trotting asound on the streets
but should be in their offices at
least eight hours each day. Paul
Meyer acted in good faith but
the result was that he got beat by
a crazy hurrah, and what was
the consequence? A man was
put in who was scarcely ever seen
in the office, and one who cost
the county thousands Of dollars.
Now is the time, since they have
a good man in office, that he
should be retained. The tax pay
ers do not want to have past
history repeated.
The Bismarck Tribune dope
states that j. d. Hanson Of Tur-
tie Lake is a candidate for audi
tor, which is another falsehood.
Mr.. Hanson is a leading merchan
doing good business and is not
an office seeker. He informed us
personally yesterday that he was
not a candidate.
At the time when Mr.. Stocker
came out for auditor two years
ago it made an awful howl
amongst the "Washburn push"
as no one had any business to
come out when the ticket had
been o. KID by the push" But
in spite Of this MI. Stocker was
elected and has made good. Not
alone himself but he brought an
able assistant with him by the
name Of w. G.. Hendricks. They
have both attended to the office
duties and have not interfened
with other affairs. From the re-.
ports Of the state examiners the
auditor and his deputy are claim
ed to be the best in the stale.
They said they can sometimes
find one man in the office who
is good but they have never be-
fore found an office where they
are both experts as they found
here in Mclean county.
The same correspondent the
Wasaburn push, in the Tribune,
seems to worry over the announe,
ment Of w. e.. Hendrick' 8 candi-
dacy for sheriff. He did not con
suk them which is an outrage.
They branded him q socialist and
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