The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-24
JUDGE AFFORD TEL1o
 SOME PLAIN TRUTHS.
To the People About the Office of
 County and Probate Judge.

To the Voters of Garland County:
 have not deemed it necessary to keep myself constantly before you in the public prints, as have some of my opponents, because l have confidence in your intelligence, judgment and powers of discrimination have suf- ficiently outlined my platform and pol icies in connection with the office of county and probate judge to make you fully acquainted with them
 l have plead guilty to the soft i'm peachment that I have hobby" an assertion which has been more than once hurled into the teeth of the ru- ral electors of the county by one or two of my opponents. I am proud of this hobby" gentlemen, because it is one which, if intelligently prose. cuted, will rebound to the great ad- vantage Of the citizenship of Garland county. This hobby, gentlemen. is good roads, constructed by experts in the business, provided with requisite machinery. In fact, a candidate for OAnN6 NilO lldN lih ufnlAAG IldllOIDi anu nothing in particular which he prom. ises and expects to accomplish for the people, If elected is man whose re quests for your suffrage. are entitled 10 but little consideration He has nothing definite in view before the election except the emouments of the office, and he may be depended upon to do nothing after he gets it but draw his salary. The office of county and probate judge has been burdened with just such matereial, with rare eXcep- tions. for many years and the tax payers are getting awfully tired of it.
 Among my opponents there is one man, who, if gall and conceit were qualifications for office, should win easily, because he possesses them in a much larger degree than any othe. man in the race. and this individual is s. A. Buchanan. If his talents and special qualifications for any office for which he announces, could be bought for what they are worth and sold for what he thinks they should bring. the purchaser would become a Croesus. Mir Buchanan, according to himself, is the only candidate for the office of county and probate judge who is capa- ble of filling it. but he will discover on election day that the voters Of the county think differently, for he will be showed under so deeply that it will be many moons before he will again ask the people for office.
 Mir. Buchanan would have the people believe that it is a special condescen- sion on his part to accept public of fee and that in doing so he is entitled to all of the eneomiums at the hands of the people that should be bestowed upon philanthroplst He dwells upon his ability as an accountant and tries to ride into office upon the theory that only expert bookkeepers should 1 serve the people in public capacities TIC office needs him. he says and for that reason alone. he would have the people believe he Is a candidate for it. Mir Buchanan may think he is fooling the people, but they regard him as a chronic office seeker and out strictly for what there is ill it, in dol lars and cents, like the balance of us who are honest enough to say so Un- like Buchanan, ] desire to tell the people frankly that fl tAere was no salary attached to the office, l would not be a candidate for it. I am not posing as a phianthropist in any sense of the word, but if am elected, | pro pose to give the taxpayers of this coun- ty efficient and satisfactory service for what they pay men and make them in every respect an acceptable county judge
 l have nothing in particular to say against Judge Iakeaan, except that he has been tried out as your county judge and if while holding that office, he did anything to entitle him to your suffrage at this election, am not aware of 1t.
 Now, my friends. stand by me and give me chance, and if don't make good and do what l promise, ] will resign.
 RespectinN.
 (Aavt) J. W AlFoRD