Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-10-19


election is approaching we wish
to call-your attention to the dem
ocratic candidates, and to solicit
your support for them, if in your
Judgment, after a careful inves-
tigation of their several records,
they are entitled to support. 1t
is we'll known that however quail
flied and competent one may be
generally speaking, there are
many things to "get on to" for
the proper management of a
county office, and it is a lament
able fact that just about the
time an officer becomes so ia
miliar with his work that he can
render the public the best ser
vice a great many people are
prone to turn him out and install
a green hand" whom it will take
a year or two to get on to his
job, and the tax payers pay for
his experience and education in
the meantime, and it is often
costly experience for the coun-
ty.
The County Commissioners
are, in many respects, the most
important officers of the county,
in that they are it's business
managers. For Commissioners
of the End District we are asking
you to support John Cordes for
a second term. Mr.. Cordes came
to Meade county in 1885, then a
young man. He was married in
Meade county and has reared a
family here, all Meade county
products. He has gone through
all that the early settlers had to
contend with, and has watched
Meade county grow and prosper,
and has been a very potent fac
tor in the development of the
county. During his more than
thirty-one years residence here
no man has ever so much as sus-
Dicioned the honesty and integri.
ty Of John Cordes, and more thar
chat he i recognized as a mar
of extraordinary Good judgment
and keen discrimination. His
record as County Commissioner
has been one Of progressive con
servativisIn. Progressive in that
he stands for all needed or de-
sirable improvements, and con-
servative in that he carefully
weighs every proposition and be-
bore consenting to an outlay OF
the peoples money he must be
shown that the public will re-
ceive one-hundred cents benefit
for every dollar expended. There
is but one line Of argument be-
ing urged against Mr.. Cordes's
reelection, and that is that he
has permitted the other two
Commissioners to grab all the
funds expended by the county
/ upon roads for their respective
districts, and has not secured
Sufficient Improvement at the
county's expense for the roads of
his own district. This talk, it
was considered, would catch the
popular ear, and cause the voters
Of the End district to forsake Mr.
Cordes for someone who might
promise to do more for them,
But this line of argument falls
fat when considered in the light
Of the truth. The facts are, as
shown by the records, that dur
ing Mr.. Cordes term of office,
there have been designated as
county roads in his district %
miles, as against 80 miles in Mr..
Roberts district and 81 miles in
Mr.. NSvinger's district. And
during the same period of time
there has been expended on
bridges in Mr.. Cordes district
the sum of nine thousand dollars
as against six thousand in Mr..
Roberts district, and none in Mr..
Novingers district. And so while
it is true that the End district
has fewer miles of county roads
than either of the other districts,
yet the amount of public money
spent in this district for the i'm
provements of highways is
greater than. in either Of the 9TH
er districts.
T. B. Novinger, our candidate
for Commissioner from the 3rd
distrinct, is also an old timer,
and is one of the most solid,
llevel-headed raen who ever
served on the board. He has
given his district no bridges be-
cause none has been needed, ex-
cept possibly one across the Cim-
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