The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-10-29
WILLIAM M. RUFFCORN, L. l.. D.

VI W. CO1SAN, L.. II. -.
In the Observation-Disclosures pag-
cant is William M. Ruffcorn, L L. D.,
Yale, admitted to practice law in five
states, candidate for county attorney.
For a good many years Mr.. Ruffcorn
was salesman for the law book trust
and grew very wealthy out of their
profiteering schemes. Out of the pro-
ceeds he purchased ranches in Idaho,
Washington, Montana and elsewhere.
During the past four years Bill's
l. l.. d., has not been working. Bill
was supervising some of his large in
t%erests, piling up more wealth, trying
to forget his two years as Brother
Georges deputy in the county attor-
ney's office. William opines that in
four years the taxpayers and voters
have forgotten what the News said
about that office when he was in it.
If we had the space to waste we would
run some of the interesting articles,
but what's the use? Bill tells you in
the last weeks News what he will do
as county attorney. First, he says,
and stops to repeat it, 81 will be an
honest equity attorney" We got you
the first time, William. But tell us,
what are you going to do if you get
a lawsuit on your hands? You know
the county attorney ought to be a law
yer. Secondly, he says he will run the
office for the general good of all the
people of the county. Well, according
to the News propaganda, the most of
this county's population are gamblers,
booze-artists and bootleggers, what of
them are not h~orsethieves. Aren't you
and the organ of your gang of office
seekers getting your wires crossed in
places? If the News charges are cor
rect, you will probably do nothing as
industriously as when you were Bro
Their Georges deputy. Third, economy,
1t will surely be fine to have you post
up in the court house corridor, a state
ment of your expenditures right along
side of hundreds of papers of various
kinds posted there which nobody reads
orscares to read. When you sign your
name to it, don't overlook the L l.. D.
Fourth he says he will stamp out
bootlegging, blind pigs and houses of
prostitution. The law requires every
citizen who has knowledge of the vio-
lation of any law to make complaint
before a magistrate and have a war
rant issued. If Mr.. Ruffcorn knows
OF sue violations of the law and has
not made such complaints he ought
not now to say anything about his good
citizenship. At no time has he ever
made any complaint to any officer.
Nobody ever heard of Williams try
ing to enforce the law when he was
IN office. 1t is only when he is trying
to get in that he is "rarin to go" on
the law enforcement. This old issue
a served many a demagogue long
before Yale passed William his L L. D.
Fifth, Bill is for good schools. Every
body is with you William, but say, we
need an experienced lawyer in the
county attorneys office. Did you ever
AXE time Billyum, to look up the law
and n out that road bonds or no
road bonds, land classification or no
land classification, the school monies
would be just what they are? Aren't
you of the craftsmanship lingo yet?
VIII has hauled wheat to Glasgow
from Baylor, 40 miles, when it was
cold, and knows what the farmer is
up against. Well, how do you propose
10 change that when you get the coun-
ty attorneys job? Will you get out an
injunction against cold weather, give
tne farmers a heated wagon, or move
Baylor nearer Glasgow?
AS we have repeatedly said, the Re-
publican candidates, in every instance
are better qualified for the office than
are their opponents. Lincoln Working
Toes not have an L L. D., but he is a
lawyer with years and years of exper-