The Ordway new era., 1916-11-03
5000 $1,000 or any other amount as
Probation Officer? 90

TToDatlOn Ohicer?
Ihere have been thirteen iuyeniIe
cases filed by the Probation Oficer
tried by the Court and sent to the
diiferent penal or correction institu-
.lons, ana more than twice that many
corrections made without trial or cost.
~ there are any such cases-and
tIere VIII be In the next four years
please tell us in what way their trials
VIII be disposed of without cost?
And II you too will assume the re-
sponsibility for the article in the New
sra, headed "An application of the
business Principles versus Politics"
we VIII accept the invitation to look
at the qualifications of the respective
Dldders In this business proposition,
ana we challenge you to produce the
Endorsement of single lawyer or
judge in this County or State. for
your candidate. We challenge YOU to
point out one single qualification bas-
ed upon his record as a jurist for
this place. We go even further, and
challenge you to produce an indorse-
ment OF single client from the Hon.
John 7. Hester, in the East end of the
County, to Judge Conard in the West
end of the County. We challenge
you, Sir, to come out in specific terms
ana not deal in generalities and tell
us what you have in the SUPREME
COURT REPORTS, or in the District
or any other Court, that shows any
judicial experience on which you base
your statements of superiority. EX-
CEPT HIS PROMISES.
Again. Mr. Mast, are you willing to
come out over your own signature and
say in the event of your death, YOU
would prefer your estate wound up
by c. c. Woodbridge, rather than by
the Democratic candidate? And /
wish to put this question alike to
every voter, regardless of politics, for
the reason that the estates of the
widows and Orphants have to be
ground out thru this court. Put your
candidates unsupported promises
against the Democratic candidates
record as a Judge.
The records of the County Clerk
and Recorders Office will show that
the amount earned and collected by
the Judge for 1912 was $9O2.O4, 1913
S137G.OO, 1914 $143S.36, 1915 Sl4-
1913 making sum total of $5156.1S
earned and received by the Judge.
For the same period the Probation
Officer and Clerk received $21SO.O9,
making total of $7336.26. or, only
S126.36 more than the Judge alone
will receive in the next four years.
Are you willing to pledge your candi-
date that the expenses to the taXpay-
ers in the next four years will not ex-
ceed $34 OF year over the Judges
salary? Or S136.26 for the four
years? Which is the amount, as
shown by the records, that the Judge,
Probation Officer, Clerk, Deputy Clerk
etc. have received for the past four
years in excess of the $1,000 the
Judge gets as salary the next four
years. Do you pledge your candidate
to be Judge, Clerk, Probation Officer,
etc? And that he will do all the work
for the $1,000 received in four years.
Now, Mr.. Mast, l will put the Dem
ocratic candidate on record as to his
course and tell you exactly what he
will do as he holds, and as every 9TH
er judge in the state would hold The
section above quoted on page 226 in
the last section, absolutely prohibits
any Judge from using a clerk thru
the Probation officer channel. He
will put sqquarely up to the Board of
County Commissioners as to whether
they want to employ Probation Of
ficer, or do the work themselves, or
have it done thru the more expensive
channel of the District Attorneys
office. And we say to you, without
fear of contradiction, that this is ex-
actly what your candidate, if elected,
will have to do under the law.
Will you deny that the County
Judges office, including the Probation
Officer. is the only county officer that
has failed to make his office pay the
full salary allowed by law? And that
the Judge alone, if he could earn it in
fees, was entitled to S210O year, or
$S4OO for the four years? And that
by deducting $7336.26 from the $S4-
90 leaves the County Judges office
$1063.74 less than what he could
have taken in fees, if earned? And
as a lawyer, familiar with this court,
are you willing to deny that it would
not have been an easy matter tor
the Judge to have brought his fees up
to the limit, had he tried all of the
cases that he investigated without
cost?
Now, Mr. Mast. if your candidate
is a man of such SUPERIOR AB1L-
ITY and such GREAT ECONOMIST,
will you please tell us if it is not
fact that within the last few weeks,
he has willingly consented to the
town of Ordway employing Hon. Fred
A. Sabin to defend the City against
certain suit for fee of $500? Let
the people ask the City Council why
they deemed it necessary to employ
Mr.. Sabin. They will tell you, go
look at the contract on file at the City
Hall. Will he make better Judge
than he does CITY ATTORNEY?
John McElroy,