The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-28

LETTER FROM DAVID w. SIARh.
Dmocratic Candidate for state Senator Outlines His Principles.
To the Democratic Voters Of the Seventeenth Senatorial Dis
trict:
am doing my very best to get to see you all, but | realize
in the short time that now remains before the primary election
on Tuesday, August ], it will be impossible for me to do so in
such a large district, made up Of the three counties OF Cass'
Johnson and Lafayette.
desire to state my Declaration Of Principles which l
have on cards l have handed among you, so those ! have not
met, and may not meet, may know how l stand. My principles
follow:
am a farmer, born and reared in Cass County Missouri.
I have served two terms in the State Legislature as representa-
tive, and have a record there in "black and white" Of which am
proud.
believe an agricultural district should be represented by
one actually engaged in that profession.
1 stand for better schools and better roads.
am for any kind of better roads that the majority Of the
people desire.
think the time of our assessment for taxes should be
changed from June l to March !, and the taxes paid the same
year; it would be a great saving to our state.
l believe a few good laws, written in good, common
horse sense" and well enforced far better for us than so many
that even our lawyers and Judges do not understand and are
not enforced.
If am elected, I will do my very best to make old Missouri
a better place in which to live.
am in favor of Rural Credits, with a reasonable rate Of
interest, on real estate.
lam opposed to the present fish and game laws of Missouri.
Look up my past record in the House Of Representatives,
and if it meets your approval, l will greatly appreciate your
support. If it does not, then vote for some other man who will
try to make Missouri a better state. Show your hand. and we
will be friends.
am not ashamed of my record of two terms in the House
Of Representatives, and honestly believe my every vote was for
a better Cass County and a better state of Missouri. If elected
to this important position, l will follow the same line in the Sem
ate that / followed in the House.
| have several reasons for wishing to fill this important
office. ! have been asked to make this race by MANY of nv
best friends (men who are men among men), and with them
behind me ] feel there is a chance for my nomination.
Then, again, when the old state capitol building burned.
was a member of the House, and when the bill for a new capitol
was presented 1--WE had three of them), it came before a COM
mittee, OF which was a member, and we studied hard and long
before finally deciding upon the one we recommended as the
proper procedure to take in erecting a building that Missouri
would be proud OF. The appropriation was to build and furnish
1t, and the amount we placed before them was ample to do
what we wanted done, but / fear that another appropriation win
be asked for in the next Legislature to finish it, and / would
like to be there to fight it.
Again, | would like to sit in the State Senate. where NV
vote would count four times as much as it did in the House
! would have four times as much power in the Senate and fool
that could do more effective work.
Again, want it, because | want it. do not ask NV friends
to vote for me, simply because they are NV friends t. ur
think some other man could come nearer getting wbat yon
want, you owe him your vote. All / ask of Won Is to vote frr
someone, and that one person you believe in, and tbink oorId
best represent the common people of Missourf. who aarr tha;r
bread by the sweat Of their brow. ~" eSa
assure you that you viii never have cause ~ raoro4 Ia,
ing voted for me, forl will DO my very best to satisfy the wishes
Of the people. ~S'' ~ WISHES
Adv Yours very truly,