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The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20
THE CH|LDRENS' CONGRESSMAN

The Chicago Journal is the
leading Wilson paper in the
state OF Illinois.
Ina recent issue it had the
following editorial Of Congress-
man Edward Keating of this dis
5rict ard his national child labor
bill:
There is one congress outside
of Illinois outside Of the middle
west, even, in whom he Journal
feels q keen interest Edward
keating of Colorado.
Mr.. .keating divides with Pree.
Wilson the honor OF of putting
through tho child labor low. He
introduced the bill in the House
and against all opposition work
ed it throagh. When it was pig
con holed in the senate and the
mill owners was drinking con-
fusion to the reformers at the
new Willard hotel, Reating sum.
moned the president to the res,
cue, and the president came, sc
the honor belongs to both.
And tho child labor is a grea,
measure. 1t puts an end to the
exploitation of several hundred
Thousand children.
Edward Heating ought to be
Kept in congless as long as he
will consent to unless he !.
promoted to the senate. The re
ports from Colorado indicating
his triumphant reelection are
good rerding to eqery friend o
childeood'
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20
The WRONG KIND
OF A DRY STATUTE

The editor of the Great County
Builder has helped to vote three
states dry, so we believe we are
unbiased as to the workable ma
ture of the statutory so-called
dry Jaw in this state.
Whether Carlson is dry for po-
litical purposes-for votes, or
dry from convictions, we are not
able to say; but one thing is GER
tain, after the people OF the state
gave him a dry amendment,
Carlson through the state legis-
lature gave US a very wet law.
We would, though, rather have
the law as it is than to have the
saloon; but a law that enables ev-
erybody to get all they want and
I to drink all they can Is at best
the wrong kind of a dry law.
Nor will there be any change
with continuation Of the pres
ent administration, as what he
has given us shows that he is
lacking either in constructive
ability or in the actual desire.
What is wanted is a rationa
limitation on individual import
shipments, else the law is abort
i've in it's effects. This is now
done in Kansas. There SHOULD
be q prohibitive penalty for car
rying the stuff, either concealed
or otherwise, or having it any
where except in their homes.
| Judge Gunter believes in pro
hibition as principle. and If lac
is elected governor Of Colorado
it can he set dow that the right
kind of dry laws will displace the
wrong kind that we now have, ir
conformity with the expressed
desire of the people at the polls
two years ago.
If you believe in a dry state,
vote for Gutter. If you believe
actual prohibition will turn q
state wet, and you believe in q
wet state, again vote for Gunter,
and you will be given the test.
While we are having prohibl-
ton in name, let US also have II
in fact.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Candidly, would you trade the
rural credits low, the child la Dor
law, the federal reserve act, or
any one of a dozen progressive
measures enacted into law under
President Wilson-trade one of
of them for the "firmness" that
would plunge the United States
into the mad world war, or that
would send an army of interven-
tion or of conquest into Mexico?
Bro. Jones, what do you say
about it?
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Bro. Jones, the Herald didn't
say that Gunter is as good pro.
hibitionist as Carlson Tor if we
did we retract it,, but that he is
a consistent profiibitionist. We
don't know whether Carlson is
Or not, but we do know That
Judge Gunter was prosecuting
5ootleggers at Trinidad at tie
time Carlson was defending them
a. Ft. Collins, all of which is re-
ported to be of court record in
each of the counties. Carl
son may be sincere, but his dry
law" looks as if he were looking
ahead to this ampaign for votes
from both sides, and that he is
politically dry rather than con-
sistentl.y dry.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Hughes conversion to the
cause of woman's suffrage after
his nomination reminds us of the
conversion of Bob Ingersol to the
cause of the Sou thern Confeder-
acy. In bad wind up of a
bloody battle Bob suddenly found
himself looking into the muzzle
of musket, with an ugly rebel
at the other end of it. Hold on
there" he shouted; what do you
want to shoot me for?-I've
been wanting to recognize your
old Confederacy for the last TWO
minutes" The difference be-
tween the two conversions is the
class the jokes belong to.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

1t isn't any further from your
house to my house than it is
from my house to your house
Do you know why the district
normal has never been held in
Baca county? Because of the
auful expense to them, the
teachers of those other counties
wouldn't come here. Doesn' t
the thing look like a fraud on
the face of it. Insteadof throw
ing his influence with those 9TH
er counties, Prof. Jent, if elect
ed, will throw his influence with
the teachers of Baca county-and
a legal county normal; and so
will the other democratic candi-
dates if elected.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

The Sentinel last week, taking
it's clew from republican head
quarters, gees into detail to show
that the president was coerced
into passing the eight-hour law.
Coerced fiddle sticks. When
Jones calls up two of his boys
(this is figurative), finds out their
contentious, and then makes the
big boy give up the marbles to
the smaller one was he coerced
by the smaller boy?
Whether it is an eight-hour
law or wage law isn't material.
But one thing is certain-n one
is going 20 cOsrce the railroads
against taking the law at its face
value, and it won't cost them a
cent more t. do it. So if it does
NJ prove 10 ne an eight-hour law
the railroads can't have any
growl coming about it.
Jones has followed the 6. o. p.
bears into this coercion-wage
argument-wili he go just a lit
tie farther than they by telling
us how he could have settled the
dispute without tying up the
commerce uf the United States?
Or would it have been better
to have tied up the commerce
than 10 have settled the dispute?
We will give Jones years
subscription to the Herald if Re
will tell Us just how it shoulI
have been done.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Hughes has directly or indi-
rectly cricitised every act of the
Wilson administration. If that
means anything it means he
would have everyone of them re-
pealed. Would you give the ru-
raj credits act alone for all the
Wall Street candidates and
standpatters you could get into
the White House?
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Teachers of Baca county, if
Prof. Jent and the other demo-
Gratis are elected they will Gght
teeth and nail for a legal county
normal. It's shame you have
MT had it, and that you lave had
to support your normal out OF
your owr pockets. Remember
that q vote for .Jent is Il vote for
d legal county normal.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

When q scheme was talked for
raiding the treasury, when Mac
was on the board, it got to be a
common saying, cts no use
Mac won't stand for it," 1t has
been the same way under Barr,
and it will be the same way un-
der Baker. Elect these men and
keep your taxes down.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

An important news item that
has been handed to US Is that
$500 in cash for their this
years crops has made happy the
hearts of the good people living
within radius of ten miles of
Stonington; and this the dryest
year the west has known.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

The woman of Colorado are not
going to hurt themselves voting
for man who was converted
when he thought there was a
chance to capture some fat votes;
but may be some of them would
consent toact as pallbearcrs when
he gets his Knockout drops in
NOyem ber.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

a great deal of expense and
cost in state cases can be saved
by having deputy district at
torney in Springfield, and if
Lambright is elected it will be
that way. If the other man is
elected the deputy will remain
in Lamar. Vote to keep pour
taxes down and your money at
home.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

We don't believe in party big
otry, and we want the best man.
If there is a democratic candi-
date that won't do, and the other
feller is O. K, vote for the other
feller; but this year you will find
every democratic candidate an
AL.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

The democrats of the county
are to be Congratulated on hav-
ing an exceptionally meritorious
ticket in the county, and in hav-
ing it buttressed by an excep-
tionally strong ticket in both the
state and the nation,
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

If the district normal were al
ways held at Lamar it wouldn't t
be so bad. Twenty Baca county
teachers attended the normal up
there last year. Our attendance
at other points in the district
has been from nothing to as high
as seven. And all the time our
normal money is being converted
into this foreign school.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20
Geo. A. Baker
The Cc:,c-rissioners..ip
and Couny Take

and Couny Taxes
The fact that Baker in a few
years from "a small beginning
built up ore of the beS stores in
The county speaks volumes for
his ability and the economic
management of his busines, af-
| fairs
What is waute:, in IL commits
sioner is n uian who will bring to
the county's affairs the same
economic management and bust.
ness ability that made the Baker
store one OF the most popular
and successful in the county.
Geo. A. Baker is for progress
and prosperity-in connection
with economy and frugality and
careful management.
In a great county enterprise
he would favor the count'ys as
sistance, as in the building of
roads and bridges and the coun-
ty fair, or any other ecomical en-
terprise.
Purely AS d business PROPOSE
! ton, and AS d matter of business
economy, MIR Baker, if elected,
will dc ali he can officially to Sc
cure to the county it's greatly
needed legal county normal.
For three years the commits
sioner> have donated money to
help keep Up this great Baca
county summer school for her
teachers, while the cOunty's
noruai school fund was going to
support a school outside of the
county
Thi, is why Baker, as busi'
ness proposition, favors a legal
normal fhao the county's- nor
mai money rlaJ go To support
me teucnsra uurmal school of
Baca county -Jhat our normal
money may De kept at home ~
stead OF beng sent abroad.
! BY hls quick dl>cernment and
business judgment, Mr.. Baker
will know at once whether a bib
should be allowed or disallowed,
and will say So without hesita-
ton.
If Il man has Il just account
against the county he will get
his money. and If hi. bill is eX-
norbitant, shady, without merit,
or pure graft, he will find him
self butting up against stone
wali-with Baker on the board;
and the same III case of the man
vino tries 60 dodge h;. taxes.
One more thing Bakers SYM
pathies are with the homestead
er and the new man, and what
ever he can do to help them he
will do. He was farmer before
he went into the store business,
, is farmer now. and knows the
, hardsbips the farmer has to run
up against in frontier life.
Go to the polls and vote to
keep YOUR taxes down.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

If Judge McChesney is elected
ju dge of this district, there won't
be any adjournment of court in
Baca county from 2 p. m. to 9
the next day. Vote to keep your
taxes down.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

From the prohi law he foisted
on Colorado, we can't tell wheth-
er Carlson is dry or wet. Facts
are, it looks like law carefully
planned to get the votes on both
sides in this present election.
Read our editorial on the law
else where.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

To elect the democratic candi-
date for district attorney is the
only way to get a deputy district
attorney in Springfield. Vote to
keep your taxes down.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Elect Lambright for district
attorney, and a deputy will be in
Springfield. Elect the other
man, and the deputy will remain
in Lamar-at a cost of hundreds
of dollars to Baca county.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Keating has done more for the
homesteaders of the west than
cry other man in congress.
Whether he gets them or not, he
ought to have every vote in Baca
county.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

With it's normal funds, Baca
county can take care of
its own teachers normal-let the
other five counties in this dis
trict take care Of theirs.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

If Neutrality-suspicious. can.
didate for congress, isn't worth
5 cents line, as his managers
have decided, he isn't worth vot-
ing for; hence every republican
in Baca county should vote for
Keating.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

If Hughes is not the Wall
Street candidate, then Mark
Hanna was populist. New
York World. Andif Mr.. Hughes
Is in fact progressive. then
Mark Hanna was an apostle il;
the Church of Later Day Saints.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

We have carried the enemy's S
first and second line of trenches,
and our amy of democratic in
vincibles is now being assembled
for the final grand charge.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

We are wondering what Roose-
welt did with that great progress
sive platform he promulgated
four years ago.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

England, France and Russia
has each lost close to one million
meE. If you are sorry America
hasn't lost her million, then go
and cast your vLte for the Old
Guard candidate for president,
and his. mouth-piece Roosevelt
for sec retary of state.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

The man who has two stores
isn't the man you want for a
county office. If he thinks he
can attend to more business, he
should put in another store.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

AS Commander IN chief of his
now Old-Guard army, Roosevelt
ought to opeE his skin-'em-alive
meetings with his progressive
campaign song of l9l2"~"On-
ward Christian Soldiers" point
ing the way at the same time to
the spolls ahead of them.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Do you know-Wall Street is
using Mexico to get another foot
hold in the halls of congress!
Avaunt, you Weaselly varmints!
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Don't forget that it would save
money, both to the county and
lit dividuals, to have the coroner
il the county seat.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

10000 Candidates have fallen in
the war in Europe. If you are
sorry that the United States
hasn't lost its balance and gore
into the war, then go to the polls
and vote for a man strong
enough and firm enough to get
America into it.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Farmers of Baca county; if you
think Wilson'S Mexican policy
has done YOU more harm than G
per cent money will do You good,
then cast your vote for Hughes
and 24 per cent money
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Judge Gunter will be elected
by 10000 to Is, 900 majority, and
he ought to have a legislature in
harmony. SO to the polls and
vote for the Prowers-Baca demo-
cratic candidate for representa-
tive-Dr. Davis of Wiley.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

What is worth having is worth
fighting for. II you want legal
normal, go and fight for it with
your ballots at the Dolls.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

When McAdam had served one
term, the grafters and tax dodg-
ers bent heaven and earth to de-
feat him for a second term; but
he was reelected by big ma
jority. 1t should be the same
way in the case of T. E. Barr.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Go to the poles and vote for a
woman to succeed a woman in
the treasury office-make it at
least 500 majority.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

There is only one way to get a
deputy district attorney in
Spring Geld-that's to elect the
democratic nominee.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

We are this week moving on
the enemy's third line of trench
es. Well get 'em if we have to
undermine 'em and then blow
'om nm
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

If you are tax dodger, or
want to raid the county treasury,
YOU don't want 10 vote for either
Barr or Baker-for it won't go.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Over 100 A Americans were kill
III Mexico during Taft's admins
tration, and yet Hughes and all
the rest th-t are nov condemn
ing Wilson, wanted to get Taft
back in again. If Hughes was
sincere then how about him now?
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

The deputy district attorney
at Lamar instead of at Spring
fiold means cost of hundreds of
dollars to Baca county.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

The republicans are conceding
the democrats two or three. We
are sorry we can't reciprocate,
but we don't intend to let them
have anything.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Tax payers of the county, vote
for your own interests by voting
for your teachers interests and
the childrens' interests. A le-
gal normal is to the interest of
all.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

A vote for a legal normal is
Vote for better teachers and bet
ter schools-hence, for the child
rem of Baca county.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

There's no use, Barr won't
stand for it"-tax payers, that
ought to elect him by 500 major
ity.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

The man you want for assessor
is the man who will go out and
get what he goes atter-and that
man is r. H. Dickey.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Did you kno~-service in the
army is ccrnted AS residence on
your homestead: Uncle Sam
wants more yonng men in the
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Judging Hughes by hi.
'deeds"-he wouldn't receive /;
suffrage delegation, and h,
wouldn't vote for woman.
suffrage when he had ;
chance to.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

While Roosevelt is making
his skin-in-alive speeches for
Hughes, and vouching for him,
it will be remem bered he did the
aene ching for Tart.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

A vote for the democratic
county nominees is a vote to
keep your money at home and
your taxes down. Don't forget
it
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20
NORMAL EDITORIALS

Go to the polls and vote to
keep your money at home and
your taxes down.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

For sheriff you want a man
who will stay inside of his du-
ties, and who will let no guilty
man that's Clifton.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

There have been times in Ba-
Ca county when the treasury
could be ralded at will, and tax
dodgers were in the heyday of
then glory. To their disgust
McAdam blocked their game for
eight years, and again to their
disgust they have found Barr in
their way during the last four.
Tax payers, stand by the man
who has stood by you.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Baca county is in a class to its
self-away from the railroad. 1t
cost too much for teachers of this
county to attend normal in one
of the other five counties in this
district. And all the time oul
normal funds are going to sup
port those schools.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Mothers Of Bacn county, u vote
for legal normal is a vote for
your children,-as it means bet
er teachers. Vote for those
who will v ork for q legal normal.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Parents of Baca county, those
teachers who do not attend teach
ers' normals are antiquated num-
bers, and your children are the
sufferers. A legal normal will
make it possible for them to at
tend. Prof. Jent and the other
democratic nominees if elected
will use their powerful influe nee
for legal county normal. Go
to the polls and do your duty.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Every woman in the county
should vote for Miss Wanda Nc
Adam.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Go to the polls and saw by
your vote that if the man who
has two stores thinks he can
handle more business he should
start another store, and thus
help to make Miss Wanda's ma
jority not less than 500.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Tax payers OF the county, the
normal funds of the county must
either he kept in the county to
support the county's normal, or
such normal must be sup ported
in other ways. Which do you
think it should be?
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

When court at the last session
adjourned one day at 2::3O to 900
the next day, there were a num-
Der Of republicans who express
ed their disapprobation in very
emphatic terms. 1t didn't hap
pen under McHendrie, and it
won't happen under McChesney.
Vote to keep your taxes down.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20
DR. Culp for Coroner

In this case it won't take a
long article to tell the story.
1t can be put in these fe W
words that DR.. Verify is a good
doctor and good fellow. but
he's located at the wrong place.
and he's haG it long enough
Dr. Culp is also good doctor
and a good fellow, and he's locat-
ed where the coroner ought to
be-in the county se;,t of the
county.
With the coroner in Spring
field, it will be a saving to both
the county and individuals.
Go to the polls and vote ac-
cordingly.
Judge Gunter is one of the
ablest men in the state, is con-
sistently dry, and if he is elect
ed there won't be any p laying
politics at the state house.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

TO get legal normal in this
county bill will have to be pass
ed by the legislature to that ef-
feet. Two years ago DR.. Hasty
promised 10 help in this matter,
and straightway went and for
got both Baca county and his
promise-for which Baca county
is preparing to clay him when
he sticks mp his head for another
election two years hence. This
winter the powerful influence of
the superintendent, commission
ers, and other county officers
should be brought TO bear on the
legislature, and a promise should
be rung from both prowers- Baca
candidates that they will fight tc
55ae last ditch to &c: a Ricaconn.
ty legal normal bill through the
Legislature. The democratic can.
didates have given their promise
to help. Will you go and help al
the polls?
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

We believe that a lobby fund
should be raised. and the right
person one who can pres ent ev-
cry argument Pre- sen able in the
case-Sent to Denv. this win
ter to work for a legal normal in
Baca county. Snch representa-
tive should be there at least one
or two weeks at the crucial time
The second judgeship in this
district was created to make a
place for Judge aillyer. Anoth-
er judge was needed just the
same as car needs two cranks.
McChesney is an able and scru-
pulous man, and to properly
bring the joke home to them we
believe McChesney should be
elected to the place.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

We have now had three teach
ers' normals in the county. At,
tendance at the first was
around twenty. AT the second
something above thirty, At the
third, fifty-one. With legal
normal, there ought to be some
.h'ng like eighty in attendance
next year. And all the time our
normal money is being sent away
from home.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

It's no further for the teachers
in the other five Counties in this
normal district to come down
here, and would cost no more,
than for our teachers to go up
there. Doesn't it look like all
turkey on one side? A vote for
the democratic candidates is a
vote 10 keep your norma! money
at home.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

When MoAdam was on the
board of commissioners there
wasn't any foolishness about
throwing away public money; and
it will be the same way under
Baker
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

A vote for Prof. Jent and the
other democratic candidates is a
vote for legal normal, a vote
for the teachers of the county, a
vote for the schouls of the corn-
ty and the children in them-and
a vote to keep your money at
home. Please don't forget.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Every teacher and would-be
teacher should be compelled to
attend the teachers normal; but
if you were to compel them to al :
tend normal way off in kingdom
come you would simply have to
go without teachers. Go to the
polls and vote for a legal county
normal-and then your teachers
will attend without compelling.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

Geo. A. Baker is the partic-
ular friend of the new settler.
He believes in greater Bacd
county, and knows that the only
way to get a greater Baca coun-
ty is through the new settlers
who have come into our midst
to make their homes.
The Springfield herald., 1916-10-20

The Herald began it's fight
three years ago for a county
normal, and was largely instru-
mental in securing it. 1t has
been fighting ever since for a
legal normal, and it will keep up
the fight until It is also secured.
You can help US in this matter
with your vote this fall.