The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1918-09-06
Friday. September s. 1918.
70 THE VOTERS OF MONTE.
YUMA COUNTY.

Asssh SSSANA
Az q Designated candidate for the
Office Of County Assessor Of Monte
yuma county. II might be appropriate
at this time for me to tell the voters
just why am in the race for the NOM
nation of this important Office, which
race or contest II to be decided by your
votes at the primary election next
Tuesday.
Ny name was presented to the county
assembly July the 18th as . candidate
for county assessor without any solicit
tation on my part. In fact, ! was
practically unknown to most Of the
delegates in the assembly but, even at
that, received twenty-one votes to
my competitors twenty-three, which
handsome endorsement was pretty good
evidence to me and my friends that the
representatives of the voters of Monte
yuma county in that assembly were not
unanimous in the opinion that the
present incumbent whould have tn
whole field with no opposition, even if
he had held the Office for two terms
or four years and was Just getting
used to his STALL, as was intimated in
a recent communication published in all
the county papers. After seeing that
q large number of the people wanted
me to enter the contest, accepted and
did SO with none but the best of
intentions. l have no axe to grind,
have made no promises to any man or
clique Of men, am bound to no faction,
but will, If elected, perform the duties
Of my Office without fear Of criticism
and without favor to any, but with the
sole aim of using ALL ALIKE and in
compliance with the law applicable
to ALL assessors in Colorado. Don't
forget that this is ''in black and
white
/ cannot point to the fact that I have
been professional or perpetual poll
tician for a quarter of a century or
more as one of the qualifications for
my election to this Office. l am not
one of these by any means. In fact. l
would have you know that I have
always been pretty thoroughly imbuded
with the idea that professional politi-
clans are best fitted to look after their
own Pecuniary interests to the detri-
ment of those they professed to serve.
OF course there may be rare exceptions
to this rule. However, for this mex
perience l have no regrets to offer to
the people of Montezuma county.
My training has been of such .prac-
teal character that ought to be a
pretty fair judge of property valua-
tons, while my clerical education prep
aration has consisted of several years
of practical training along the line of
just such work as one would necessarily
have to preform in the Office of assessor.
For five years l have been resident of
the Montezuma valley and for that
number of years owned a farm near
Lebanon. Shortly after locating here
I met with a misfortune resulting in .
fractured ankle which kept me in a
hospital most of the time during my
first years in the county Il am not stat
ing this fact for the purpose of solicit
ing your sympathies, but to show why
lam not betterknown). Yetthe success
with which have managed my farm
and other affairs speak of themselves.
If elected, shall certainly be able to
call on all the tax payers of the county
and make a fair assessment of their
property. .... r..
enter this race to win on my merits
and l have conducted fair, honest and
pretty thorough canvass of the county,
and everywhere have found the peo-
pie to be courteous and agreeable and,
above all, interested in the future well
fare of our county. am glad to have
had this opportunity of meeting and
becoming acquainted with them.
While l am not camaufaging my
patriotism for political effect by adver-
Using the fact that l am the owner of
Liberty Bonds or War Savings Stamps,
l, too, can answer in the affirmative.
This is nothing more than the duty of
every patriotic American citizen who
is able, whether he is running for Office
or whether he is just following the
ordinary pursuits of everyday life.
This is a time when All are expected
to do their bit to make the world safe
for democracy, not only in loaning
money to the Government, which some
day will come back with interest, but
in blood offering as well as money
investment, and and mine are of the
opinion that all able bodied men within
the draft age, married or single, should
NOW answer their country's call if
possible.
believe have made myself clear
on a number Of things, which, up to
this time, had not intended to mem