The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1916-10-25

George {. Meclellsnd.
along in the business OF the world.
comes under such head.
In the Third Congressional District
George E. McClelland is running for
Congress on the Republican ticket. He
Is the business mans candidate be
cause he has spent thirty-siX years in
the district. has built up a successful
business Of his own, is an employer
OF many men whose confidence and
friendship he holds, and has found
time to promote the general business
OF his district and to assist others
on the road toward success.
The confidence above referred to is
clearly proved by the fact that Nc
Clelland has been mayor of his home
city-Idaho Springs-and has helped
TO raise that city from a small mining
camp to a world known health resort
And this. too. without relinquishing
any OF its fame or fortune as a mining
oenter.
Through his years In the district
there has come TO him a thorough
knowledge OF its requirements, and
he has pledged himself to work hon
estly and sincerely to the filling of
his districts needs, Being a man OF
ability, as shown by his own past
deeds. the promise becomes more than
= mere arrangement of words. His
frisnds-and they are mAny-know he
will make good on the congressional
Job.
vhen Colorado called for men to de
rslop her resources and strive for her
future. He appreciates that the man
who owns an acre of ground and one
COW has interests that must be looked
after as well as the one who owns
ten thousand acres or a million-dollar
mine. He realizes that a man who car
ries a dinner bucket into a mine field
or factory. and who carries his pay
envelope home to the upbuilding OF
the modest cottage and the better
ment OF the wife and children. is Just
as much a business man and is quite
as much needed in the community as
the man who puts the money in that
pay envelope.
Through the election of George f
McClelland the Third district-a pros.
porous section of mines and farms
will all the more quickly come into
Its own and receive, at the hands OF
Congress. the things II has been strug
Cling for.
A MODERN MOSES cRUsADING1
It's a parlous time for the preda-
Post and Volplane Hoggatt on the
warpath. Cannot you Just see the
poor old baron, burdened with his
bags of in-gotten gold. hiking It out
OF the state, turning with pleading
eyes to the upright. honest, scourging.
wrong hating Hoggat. he of consider
able fame 90 in other words, and the
always right, always honest, always
the friend-of-the- people, -even though
it's owners must-dwell- in fearsome-
poyerty-the Denver Post2 My. how
he runs before their righteous wrath.
how he shrinks In the light of that
halo that scintilates about Hoggatt's
honest head
But the poor old burdened baron
need expect no quarter from the hon
est Hoggatt-not a quarter. nor a
dime. with bis scourging whip, the
Post herd law, he II drive the baron
into limbo. OF course. now, Hoggatt
can be a good fellow when he wishes,
it's only when the poor victims OF a
benightsd intelligence are being
robbed and mauled and skinned and
cheated that the ardent, honest Hog
gait must rise and be a Moses to lead
them from their dire predicamsnt
Honest Hoggatt proved he can b.
good fellow when he was register OF
the state land board. Didn't he show
he was whole-souled big hearted
sort of public savior by selling land
spectators many hundreds OF acres OF
school lands at 1895 an acre cheaper
ikAn the smsll farmer could by them?