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THURSDAY , OCTOBER 1 , 1908.
Democratic National Ticket
For President :
W. J. BRYAN
of Nebraska.
For Vice President :
J. W. KERN
of Ineliana.
STATE TICKET.
Covcnior A. C. Sliullcnbcrjior
Lieutenant Governor 1C. O. t'irret
Secretary of suite John Mattes , jr
Auditor W. 11. Price
Treasurer Clarence Mackev1
Snpt. of Pub. Ins X. C. Abbott
Attorne3" general H. ] ? . Kleharty
Com. Pub. Lds. and UldgsV. . 15. Eastliam
Haihvay commissioner WKJ. H. Cowgill
Congressman. Oth Dist Wm. H. Westover
State Senator. Hth dit George M. Auanis
Representative. .VJnd ( list I. F. Carr
COUNTY TICKET
County Judge lames C. Quigley
Commissioner end Dist X. S. lUnvley
Last Thursday the demo
cratic County Central Com
mittee met at the office of
THE VALENTINE DEMOCRAT.
J. E. Lee , of JBrownlee ,
was chosen chairman of the
meeting and conducted a
very enthusiastic meeting.
Several members were pres
ent from different parts of
the county. Some others
sent their regrets for neces
sary absence. Dr. Plumer
of iiyaimis was in Canada.
( T. W. Kellar of Cascade
was also unable to be pres
ent and sent regrets.
John F. Carr of Spring-
view , candidate for repre
sentative , was present and
gave us an interesting talk.
N. S. Kowley also spoke on
the importance of the people
ple taking up the campaign
for those who expected no
reward for services suffi
cient to warrant getting out
and working for the cilice.
It was the feeling of the
committee , however , that a
man nominated for office
should make an effort to see
the people and secure his
election if possible. This
duty should not alone de
volve upon Mr.Rowleyvand
if his friends will take a
prominent interest in his
campaign , winch several
promised to do , he will feel
grateful to them ,
J. C. Quigley was present
and was called upon for a
speech in regard to his can
didacy for county judge.
He convinced his audience
that he was put to win this
campaign if the people
would permit him and made
a good earnest plea for the
loyal support of his friends
and hoped to prove himself
worthy of their support.
W. E. Searby of Crookston
introduced the following1
resolution in his behalf ,
which was adopted by the
committee :
Whereas , by the death of Judge
Laypoir , the oilicc of county
judge becjni'e vacant and this va
cancy mu > t be filled at iho irenor-
: il c.lection to beheld Nov. o , 15HJS ,
and the said vacancy occurnnjr * = elate
late that party nominations cannot
be made in the regular way.
Notv , ihurei'oie , this committee
ji3coiTiiiep in Jamcft C. Qui lcy a
od'X'ational at-
m n ol supciior -
taininuiit : * : upright 'lasacter ' and
good judgment' ) and recommends
- - - -
utma-rrrniT
| him to the voter * of Cherry coiin-
well fitted for the
| important oih'ce of county judge ,
land' assKs every clemocrntin Cher-
rv county to aid in iho election of
Mr. Quigley.
Adopted bv County Central
Committee and ordered published.
A. M. Morrisscy was chos
en chairman. I. N. liice ,
secretary and Jas.J-I. Quig
ley treasurer of the Dem.
Co. Cen. Com. for the en
suing year and the meeting
adjourned.
AN OPEN LETTER
to
CONG. KINKAID
By W. H. AKER3
The following open letter to
Congressman Ivinkaiil appeared in
The Star , a republican newspaper
published at Scottsblul'i' , Xeb. , un
der date of September i , 'OS. P. J.
Barren is the editor of the Star :
Dear Sir : I am in receipt of a
letter from James H. Hewitt of
Alliance in which he informs me
you made the assertion on the train
between here and Alliance that I
was < rein around the country elec
tioneering against ycu. Kcw this
is absolutely m.true. The fact is
that I have not been able the past
year to go around the country to
any considerable extent. 1 have
hf-en as far firm here as jNJitchell ,
Merrill acd Gering. And I be-
leive I have stated in each of these
towns that J was not goipg to vote
for you. Is that electioneering
If so , then I am guilty. Mr. Hew
itt also informs me that both Wil
cox and I were opposed to him for
reappoinment. JS'ow if you said
thafc you knew at the time it was
false , because 1 have talked to you
by the hour in his interest as clerk
and as successor to myself. The
general land office records will
show that I always supported him
for clerk , and Senator Burkctt will
tell you that I made a trip to Lin
coln to urge his appointment as
receiver to succeed me.
I did not intend to do or say any
thing in a public way against your
nomination , but intended to be
.satisfied in saying that 1 did not
intend to vote for your nomination.
But snice you have rushed in the
open and sent your tongue wagg
ing. allow me in this very unsatis
factory way to make some state
ments as to why I will not sup
port you. In the first place , I
believe your whole life has been
a bundle of deceit. I do not be
lieve you ever made an honest
statement in your whole life , or
ever fulfilled a promise unless
you saw some gain for yourself.
You deny any responsibility every
failure on the part of securing any
appointment or securing any other
benefit in Washington. You claim
all the credit for every favor which
any one receives in Washington ,
you claim credit for every pensioner
or increase of pension or increase
of. pension of every old soldier in
the country , notwithstanding they
had their attorneys and you knew
nothing of the case until it had
been allowed , then you rush in and
notify the soldier that you secured
it. I wonder how many old soldiers
you think you have hoodwinked in
this manner ?
You state in your announcement
that "several years after his legisla
tive experience Mr. Kinkaid became
District Judge , why did you make
that statement ? Did you want to
deceive some one : * Is it not a fact
that you as senator introduced and
passed the bill which formed nnd
established the loth judicial district
in the si ate of Nebraska ? What
was the district doing all these
years without a judge ? Why did
you Bay several years after , if not to
convey tiie idea that you had not
always been in public office since ,
you came into manhood ? Now
Judge , if I am mistaken in this mat :
ter , I am ready to acknowledge the
corn when the proof is forthcoming.
And again I ask you if you have not
been in public office ever since , ex
cept at the most four years ? And
were you not a candidate every elec
tion after that until you were final ,
ly elected ? If not 1 stand corrected ,
when the proof is shown. { |
I may be mistaken as to the year '
1800. But I believe you thought i j
you would make an excellent su
preme judge , and of course you '
could not be a cauidate for supreme '
judge and congress at the same time. [
While you were judge you rendered
your decisions as a grandstand play
to jibe litigant and bystanders , and
!
that you had the faculty of making
the fellow upon whom you sat down ;
think 3011 had rendered him a great | j
favor. You have the faculty of de
ceiving the unsophisticated and
'
making them believe that you re
member find hold them in high es |
teem , when in fact you do not know ;
them at. all or remember their names
How many hundred times have you
approached men when you did not
know them at all or remember their 1
names. How many hundred times '
have you approached men whom |
you did not know and point out
some IV. low on the other side of the
street and ask " \\lio is ihat fellow"
and ns soon as informed rnaLe a
rush with extended hand and exclaim
Hello Jim or Charley , or whatever
his name might be. W hat did you
do that for , judge , if not to deceive
someone ? You never deceived any
in this way but the unsophisticated.
I understand , or at least am inform j
ed that when 3011 finally wuit off |
the district bench you left cases
u Inch you had under consideration
and advisement and were afraid to
decide for fear of making enemies
in politics , which had to be retried ,
enough to cost the litigants several
thou sand dollars to retry. Do you
think that a record to be proud of ?
Why then when you were mak
ing up your record , did you not tell
us that you left.a number of cases
undecided because they smacked of
politics and would have injured 3 our
chances ? Why did you write this
record as if the editor wrote it ?
Did you think that the dear people
never saw but one paper or did you
think we were so thick headed that
we would not notice that the lang
uage was the same in each paper ?
How does this sound for an article
written by the candidate himself :
"The Congressman's greatest legis
lative achievement is his one section
homestead act , generally known as
the Kinkaid act. That sounds much
like something which happened a
long time since in this country.
Christopher Columbus discovered
America , so acknowledged by every
historian , but Americus Vespucciug
stole the name. Hon. William Ne
ville , Democra ; congressman , con
ceived the idea of the enlargement
of homestead bill , introduced it into
congress , but because he was off
color with the congress politically ,
he was not able to pass it. When
you came into his shoes 3011 inher
ited the bill and I have been inform
ed that you and Jtid e Norris , took
this matter up and prepare 1 this
bill together , and it was to be intro
duced jointly by you , and it would be
known as the Kinkaid-Norns bitl ,
or Norris-Kinkaid bill. How is this ,
ju ige , have I been misinformed ? i
await to bo shown.
While you actually got the csedit
for the passage of this bill , it would
seem better if it should have receiv
ed the name of the "Neville Bill. "
because Bill Neville wrote the bill
and tried to pass it- , and would have
done so only for the rr-ason a demo
crat must no1 ; be allowed to jet any
credit. Why ive lioosevelt any
credit ? Did not you , Judge and
Congressman Kinkaid , pass the bill
youtFelf ? Did none of the other
congressmen from Nebraska have
anything to do with its passage ?
Did you get over into the senate a'nd
pass it there alone ? Oh , come now
Judge just be fair and say that you
and Norris dug up Bill Neville's bill
out of the liles and remodeled it and
then you took advantage of Nonis
and passed it without his assistance
and got the name. I want you to
say if that is true , and if not , don't
say that it is not true.
I have a few questions which I de
sire to ask you and 1 want vou to
answer them through some news
paper in this district. Did you not
lead Henry Reynolds to believe that
you intended to support him for
the position of Receiver of the U. S.
Land Office at Alliance on my re
tirement ? Did you not say to Hen
ry Reynolds in Washington , when he
and Charles Cornell of Valentine ,
were sent down there by the Wes
tern Nebraska cattle association to
assist you ( and at 30111 request , ) in
passing a lease bill , that "now you
lire bore we will have that laud office
matter lixed up. " And did 3011 not
pretend to him that you were alone
for him , and that 3011 might have
difficulty to get the senators to agree
ivith you ? Did not Henry Reynolds
come back to you the same day and
tell you that both senators have in
formed him that they have agreed
that you should settle the matter
alone ? And did not you say , "Oh.
they are lying to you ? And did \
you not , before he left you in Wash
ington , jidinit to him the senators
had agreed that you should make
that appointment ? But you stated
that you must give it to Ellis. Is |
this true or not ? I believe the
storyIf I am wrongly "informed ,
I am from Missouri. Show me.
Now you told Hewitt , that you
could not control that appointment.
Did you not make it alone , without
the intervention of any man on
earth , and with the consent of both
senators ? If not , show the proof.
You presumed to tell Hewitt why I
opposed you , but you only told him
apart. You will know why I oppose -
pose you without anyone in Mitchell
telling you. Do you remember a
locg talk I had with you at my own
desk in which I told you of the
trouble with the register of this office
about the appointment of Eoderic
Willinrns as clerk in the land office ?
And do you remember that I told
yon that I believed that the object
in getting him into the land office
was to edunate him to take the place
'of Jim Hewitt ? And do you remember -
member that you voluntarily said
that you did not think Hewitt
should be interfered with ? Did } ou
not know that Wilcox and I disa
greed about the appointment of
\ \ illkms ? And did you not know
that Williams could not be appoint
ed over my protest without congres
sional interference ? And did you
not as congressman from the Oth
district in obedience to the command
of a democratic boss , your democratic -
cratic boss , go up to the general
hind oillce and interfere and secure
the appointment of the said Eoderic
Williams ? Answer this. I see ,
Judge , that this letter is already
much longer than I intended , and
yet I am not near done telling you
the reason why I do not support
you for this nomination. I do not
know why you should take umbrage.
I always supposed I had a right to
choose between candidates who were
asking the suffrages of my party. I
was-fool enough over ut Crawford
to turn do > vn Judge Grimes , who I
now consider a much bettor man
than you , and voted something like
a hundred times for you , for which
I have been trying for the last four
years to hire some cheap guy to
kick my pants. W. K. AKERS.
You Need to Know More.
About uptodate Sunday school
methods and the count.v conven
tion of all the Sunday schools of
Cherry county is the place to get
this knowledge. Oct. l-ith is the
date at Valentine. ICvery up-to-
date school in the county will be
represented at this convention.
Session begins at 2:30 : p. m.
J. llor.EUT BKALE , Co. Pres.
St. Nicholas Church.
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Services will be held as follows :
In Crookston on Sunday , Oct. 4-
at 10 a. m. sharp.
In Arabia , on Saturday , Oct. 10
at lOa. m.
In Valentine on Sunday , Oct.ll.
At 10 a. m. high mass and ser
mon. Benediction with Blessed
Sacrament after mass. At i ] p.m.
instruction fo * I he children.
LEO M. BLAERE , Rector.
A. C. ShaHenberger ,
TJiK XKXT COVEKXUU OF NEU
A. C , Shallenberger ,
democratic candidate for
governor of Nebraska , will
be in Valentine , Saturday ,
October 10 , 1908 , and ad =
dress the people , on the
political situation. Come
and hear him.
Hon. George M. Adams of
Crawford , democratic can
didate for state senator of
this district , was in town
Monday getting acquainted.
Mr. Adams is at present
state representative and was
in the legislature with Hon.
A. H.
Metzger a year ago
last winter and was one of
the faithful members.
Let's give him our hearty
support for the senate this
year.
The man who went up in
the balloon last Wednesday
evening , cut loose too soon
and his parachute failed to
protect him and he was se
verely hurt in the fall. It
was said to be his first as
cension.
Most people with whom
we have talked would pre
fer to have a county fail-
next year to a carnival.
1
Gr. A. Chapman is ir ;
Omaha this week on busi
ness.
Cards are out announcing
the marriage of Rev. Edgar
D. Clark of Gordon , form
erly of Valentine to Miss
Carrie Weldon of Wood
River.
"Wesley Holsclaw was visiting
his family Sunday.
The baseball game last Friday
was declared off after tire third
inningby the carnival manage
ment on account of two of the
prominent players being a little
unsteady.
II. S. Weather Ifnreau Report
for week Ending Sept. 29.
Daily mean temperature 5tt ° .
Normal 58 ° .
Highest 92 ° ; lowest 25 ° .
Precipitation 0. 09 of an inch.
Total precipitation from March
1st ( the crop season ) to date was
0,32 inches and the average for
same period for 20 years is
Valentine's Pure Liquor Center
ublic opinion is unerring , public confidence sel
dom misplaced. The true worth of every business
concern to the community in which it operates is
fixed by its clientele , the value-giving power of ev
ery commercial institution may be determined by
the amount of patronage it receives. The people
have unmistakably proclaimed their confidence in
The Stock Exchange ,
and its methods , by bestowing upon it a far greater
patronage than that accorded any other place in
Valentine. Where the major portion of the fair ,
the impartial , discriminating public buys its Liquor
and Beer , must be a good place for You , the in
dividual , to trade. Arisit The Stock Excliange when
you need anything in our line.
W. F. A. MBLTENDORFF
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