The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-08-28
Usefulness" the Pleasure.

Usefulness" the Measure
1t was President Garfield who said
shat The sweetest. flowers that bloom
Chamber over the walls of party pol
tics. The time was when party lines
We're drawn closely IN United States
senatorial and Congressional contests.
N recent years the voters out on the
farms have come to regard govern
nent as the most important business in
his country, and men who seek mem
9ership in Congress are measured by
heir record for useful service in the
community where they live and are
)est known.
Decatur county is a community that
will, in the election next year, set a
'tandard for efficiency. Its voters
Without much regard to party will sup
sort man for Congress whose useful
ife and services to his fellow men in
developing this fine community, are
Known far beyond the borders of Kan
5as. 1t is splendid tribute to a man s
business genius, and to his public spirit
md helpfulness as citizen, to be as
'ured of the support of men and women
IF all shades of politics.
Otis L. Benton, who, next year. will
'e-elected as the member of Congress
from the Sixth District, is, and always
las ben Republican without prefix
or afix, and without the shadow of
turning, has been assured by many of
lis Democratic friends in Decatur
ounty, of their loyal support.
This is because the voters out here
Decatur county-men and women
at public spirit and community service
lbove the sordid ties of partisanship.
For this is community where the vo-
Eers weigh men by the scales of human
kindness, public service, and usefulness
n the development of new country.
The cordial and active support of
dr. Benton for Congress by his Deca-
zur county home folks, is due to several
causes. These all may be summed up
his countless services and helpful
llndnesses to his neighbors, who
through a period of more than thirty
Tears, successfully fought the battle of
life on the prairies, at last winning q
victory that is emphasized in Decatur
;ounty's improved farms and comforta-
Die homes These farmers and their
wives and children who have passed
through all the trying ordeals incident
RI q ,f
will tell you, if you ask them, that
Otis l.. Benton has been to Decatur
county and to northwestern Kansas, its
most useful citizen. When crop fail
Tres came and the settlers saw little
hope ahead, Mr.. Benton was the one
man to offer them not only words OF
encouragement, but substantial aid
For three years he bought and furnish
I'd the settlers seed wheat, and while
1oing this, loaned them money to tide
year to year until they could pay them
from the products grown on the farms
Mr.. Benton's life story could be writ
ten IN many chapters, and every one OF
them would tell OF his countless bene-
factions to the splendid men anc
women who came with him a third of e
| century ago, to transform this prairie
| wilderness into a garden of beauty.
In his helpfulness and usefulness tt
the courageous people who came here
to conquer and to develop this regior
into community of happy homes, Mr.
Benton has been foremost in every
public enterprise. He has given freely
to churches of all denominations and ht
has demaned always the best In public
schools, regarding these institutions a:
the very foundation of Kansas higl
civilization.
And that is not all that can be sale
for Otis L. Benton When others fal
tered, he stood resolutely for the en-
forcement of the prohibitory liquor law
A teetotaler; his record on that ques
ton is one that must appeal to tn.
heart-side and heme-side of every MAJ
and woman in the Sixth District wis
believes in sobriety and right-Iving
Too, through all the years Mr.. Benton
has fought for the right OF women t,
vote in Kansas and the nation. If hi
splendid record as citizen was known
to the other counties of the district a
it is known by his neighbors here, hi
election to Congress would be by>al
overwhelming majority THE Oberlr
Times, Aug. 18th 1915.
Msdera Living.
According to q New York physical
expert. modern living is destroying
the human body. That is eae ef the