Our Representative in Congress *
Within the past ten days Cherry
county has been visited by the re
publican and democratic candi
dates for congress. They are both
so well known to the voters of this
county that it is scarcely necessasy
to discuss them or their platforms.
Judge Kinkaid , the republican
candidate , was for thirteen years
the judge of this district and for
six years he has been our repre
sentative in congress. To put it
in round numbers , he has held of
fice in this district for twenty
years. Truly he may be said tn
be the pioneer ofiice-holder of
northwest Nebraska. He came to
us a wealthy man wealthy by in
heritance and immediately he
picked out one of the best oflices
and hung on until he saw a chance
to get a better one. In all this
time he neither built a home nor
rocked a cradle. After making
two unsuccessful campaigns for
congress , he was elected in 181)2. )
He was again elected in 1904 and
re-elected in 11)00 ) , and now , after
three terms in congress , he comes
back to his people and asks for a
re-election , telling us his services
are invaluable , and points to the
homestead bill that bears his name
as the sum total of his six years
work , and the return we get for
the 835,000 in salary he has drawn
during these six years. Inasmuch
as he has seen fit to base his claims
for a re-election on this , so called ,
Kinkaid bill we are going to dis
cuss the measure and the burdens
it imposes on those who have taken
homesteads under it. In the first
place Judge Kinkaid did not con
ceive the idea of an enlarged home
stead. Judge Neville , who was his
predecessor in congress from this
district , introduced a bill to en
large the homestead. Judge Nev-
take him and misfortune befall
him but if he absent himself from
his claim before the full five year
period his rights are forfeited and
his land lost. Under the law as it
was before Judge Kinkaid went to
congress the homesteader might
build a house of pressed brick and
j put a slate roof on his barn , if he
had the money , or he might build
a cabin of sod and thatch his stable
with hay , and either one was ac
cepted as compliance with the law.
But when our bachelor- congress
man got ready to bestow his name
upon a homestead act , having no
experience as llie head of a family
and never having realized the
hardships and privations of home
stead life , he provided in his bill
that the improvements must be of
a certain definite value. Under
the terms of this act the horne-
stea er must place improvements
on his land of at least the value of
§ SOO for every section. Kesidence
and good faith can count for noth
ing , cultivation is of no avail.
What he demands , is a cash outlay
of § 800. A man born to wealth
and drawing § 7,500 per year from
the public treasury can not be ex
pected to remember that the people
ple who would avail themselves of
the benefit of this act arc poor ,
lie can not be expected to consider
that they may not have the § SOO
handy. If you cannot raise the
price when the time is up you may
move oil' and your five years resi
dence and your labor and cultiva
tion may enure to another. The
report has been ingeniously circulated -
lated that thiact ? hits been so
amended as to remove these burd
ens , but do not be fooled by these
reports. These restrictions are-
exactions and are stijl in force.
Again we repeat that these are
I W. PI. WESTOVER
ille backed up his"bill with the
argument , which every man in
Cherry county knows to be true ,
viz : that the land remaining in
this district was inferior in quality
to the land that had been taken ;
that in order to enable a family to
live upon the land still subject to
entry the size of a homestead must
be increased the homesteader
must be given more acres in order
that he might be put on equal
footing with the man who came
before him and got his choice of
the land. While Judge Neville's
bill was still before congress he
was taken seriously sick and com
pelled to give up all work arid
seek rest in a southern climate.
He was obliged to leave hn home
in Nebraska and go to Arizona
where he still retains the love of
his Nebraska constituents , altho
no longer able to fight their bat
tles and protect their interests.
When Judge Kinkaid went to
Washington to succeed Judge
Neville he found this bill upon the
files , but instead of making a vig
orous fight for its passage in its
original form , he permitted the
eastern members of the committee
men who never saw the west
bank of the Missouri river , and to
whom everything west of Buffalo
isiwild and woolly" to work it
over and so change it that its auth I
or would not know it. He per
mitted these men who know noth
ing of the character of the land af
fected by it to put in one provision
after another and make one amend
ment after another until it was
loaded down with burdens arid re
strictions never seen in a home
stead act before. Under the old law
a homesteader could live on his
place 14 months and then pay
f , $200 to the government and get ,
his patent. Now a homesteader
must live live years r n the hind
though his crop ? ; fail -ml his fam
ily starve. Sickncs.s may over-
unreasonable burdens place : ! upon
the people of this district. And
we assert that if Judge Neville's
health had not failed him ; had he
j been left to serve the people of
; this district , these objectionable
features would never have been
written into that law. '
What the , people of this district
need is a man who has felt the
I hardships of frontier life ; one who ,
! like so many of us , has had to fight
| his own way : a man who was not
born with a' silver spoon in his
mouth , but rather with a scaling
j ladder in his hands. In Judge
j Westover we have just that kind
; ofa man. He came to north-
j western Nebraska and filed on a
! homestead and began life as a
I pioneer farmer , dependent on his
jown strong hands ; married a wife ,
I builded a home and commenced to
J rear a family of children about
I the same time his opponent went
I to O'Xeili and opened bachelor
quarters and a fat bank account ,
and made connection with the of
ficial pie counter. During all the
years of panic and drouth , of
; hardship and privation , he strug
gled along and kept in sympathy
with the people. Finally his
friends and neighbors elected him
district judge , and for three suc
cessive terms they have re-elected
him. Me made good as a pioneer
homesteader. lie made good as a
practicing attorney. He made
good as a district judge. For the
twenty best years of his life he has
labored for the upbuilding of
Western Nebraska. It.is here he
built hi = ; home : here his children
were born ; here they have grown
to manhood and womanhood ; this
is hi homo , their home , and if he's
sent to congress the people of this
district will have a representative
who \vill have removed the burd
ens ; , o'.v resting upon them. He
has experienced the hardships un
der which they now labor ; his
sympathies are with them , and lie
has the courage to fight for his
own people and the ability to bring
success to the'people's cause.
WHAT J STAND FOR.
Believing that the voters of the
sixth Congressional District have
aright to know where theiu.candi
date stands on the issues involved
in the election , and believing that
candidates before election should
state publicly and unequivocally
what they are in favor of , and
! what they will undertake to do if
I elected , 1 hereby pledge myself as
follows :
i 1. I will support any and all
measures which will bring about
, the election of United States sena
tors by direct vote of the people.
2. I will support a law making
it compulsory upon all political
parties to publish a full and com
plete statement of campaign con
tributions before election.
o. I will favor a law providing
that in all cases of indirect con
tempt of court , the party so ac
cused shall be tried by a jury , the
same as any other person accused
of crime.
4. I will favor a reduction of
the present tariff to an extent that
foreign competition will com
pel American manufacturers to
sell their products to American
consumers as cheaply as they sell
them to consumers in any foreign
country ; and that all agricultural
machinery , fencing , building ma
terials , and all household utensils
be placed on the free list.
5. 1 will favor an amendment
to the so called railroad rate bill ,
now in force , which will provide
that pending an appeal to the fed
eral courts , the order of the inter
state commerce commission ,
whether making a new rate , or
which is made for the purpose of
preventing an existing discrimina
tion , shall be and remain in force
pendiag the appeal in the federal 1
courts.
6. I shall favor an amendment
to the fede.ral constitution provid
ing for an inheritance and income
tax.
7. I shall favor an amendment
to the present homestead law. now
in force and applicable to this dis
trict , which will give the home
steader the same rights of com
mutation , and making final proof ,
as are enjoyed in other localitities
by homesteaders under the gener
al homestead laws of the country.
8. I shall favor a law tinder
which deposits in all national banks
will be guaranteed , as proposed in
the Denver platform.
9. 1 shall devote all of my time ,
energy , and what ability I possess ,
to attending to the business of the
people of this district , and to guard
ing their rights individually and
collectively.
10 I shall.favor an amendment
to the rules of the house of repre
sentatives , which will deprive
speaker Cannon , or any other
speaker of the house , of the power
to throttle legislation which is de
manded by the people.
If the above and foregoing propo
sitions meet with your approval , 1
respectfully and earnestly solicit
your support at the coming gen
eral election.
W. PI. WICSTOVER.
JOHN F. CARR ,
Fusion Candidate for Representative.
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John F. Carr of Springview ,
fusion candidate for Kepreseuta-
tive. is a native of Iowa , and can e
to Key Paha county twenty-five
years ago. Like many pioneers of
the west he came withall , his
earthly possessions in two wagons.
He has by his industry and keen
foresight earned a place among the
successful men of his county , j
without being charged by his
neighbors as an extortioner.
For nearly 20 years he farmed
and raised stock , but since 11)00 ) he
has been the owner of one of the
largest general merchandise estab
lishments in the county , which he
is running at this time in connec
tion with his farming and stock
business , with the assistance of
his family.
Asa farmer and stock raiser he
has been exceptionally successful ,
and , as a merchant , he has built
up a profitable business. No man
in Northwestern Nebraska better
understands the people of the 52nd
t -AT * WTO * * *
district than Mr. Carr , because
his labors "and his business have
put him in the closest touch with
the people. He is an earnest ad
vocate of a law guarantying de
posits in banks , and he insists that
such a law will so restore confi
dence as to prevent another panic.
He is in favor of a wise amend
ment of the present primary law
and everything that will make for
better government.
Mr. Carr is a true representative
of our best citizenship. He uses
neither liquor nor tobacco , and is
a member of the church. He is
true to bis convictions and , al
though he is not a lawyer , he
makes up in good sound'judgment
what he may not know of techni
cal law. lie will represent , most
faithfully , the business interests
and farmers if elected , and no
citizen will have cause to blush
for any act of his.
The Fifty-second representative
district has a constituency of farm
ers and stockraisers. These inter
ests will be more faithfully repre
sented by one of them than by a
young , inexperienced lawyer.
John F. Carr is one of nature's
noblemen. He is true to himself :
true to his family ; true to his
friends ; true to his country- true
to his convictions , and true to his
promises. A better man could
not have been named to represent
the people of the 52nd district
than he.
Hillyard , Wash. , Oct. 2 190S.
A. F. Koby ,
Springview , Nebr.
Dear Sir : I see by the Spring-
view paper that you are managing
Frank Carr's campaign. Allow
me to congratulate you on the fact
that you couldn't be manager for a
better man in Keya Paha county
and I don't think Frank could
have a better manager. If there
are any self-respecting republicans
in Keya Paha county that don't
vote for Frank well I will always
think , or know , that they are nutty
in the head. Give Frank my best
regards and tell him if he don't
beat that pusillanimous pup , 1
think I will come clear back just
to take a kick at him. But 1 think
tbereis no danger but what he will ,
for surely the people have got a
little sense left.
Respy.
W. N. Skinner.
W. N. Skinner was editor of the
Springview Herald ( rep. ) for about
10 years ; then became one of our
prominent bankers and at present
time is a resident of the state of
Washington and has no interest in
our election but he is well ac
quainted with II. M. Duval and
has known Mr. Carr for some 20
years and had many business trans
actions with him.
Back to the Tombs With
the Mummy of Rameses
the Second.
Two years ago I undertook to chase
Moses P. Kinkaid out of Congress ,
but failed to get sufficient support ,
hut ] none the less grateful to per
sonal friends over the district.
§ 5000 a year was not enough for
Moses after the law compelled him
to pay his car faro , so he and other
Congressman , put through a salary
jrab of $2500 a year arlditiojial.
Now let us see how well Mr. Km-
kaid serves his district. In June ,
1907 , there was a public lands con
vention at Denver , most of the pub
lic land in Nebraska , is in the 6th
District. Where was Kinkaid ?
Absent. In July 1908 , the Secretary
of the Interior , J. H. G'arlield visited
the North Platte Valley Government
Irrigation Project. This project is
one of the greatest , involving an ex
penditure of millions of dollars , and
irrigating 100,000 acres or more in
the Gfch district of Nehraska. The
canal system needs extension over
50.000 acres more in Nebraska. It
was logically the first additional
work of the project. Neither Kin
kaid or any other congressman or
senator from Nebraska were on
hand. However congressman Mon-
dell of Wyoming was with Secretary
Garfield , before lie arrived here ,
and he and Senator Warren were
with him for weeks after. Eesult ,
Nebraska's development stops arid
Goshen Hole , Wyoming , work taken
up.
up.Twice since that time Mr. Kinkaid
has been in this locality looking af
ter his petty political fences. That's
his size. Politics , salary grab , etc. ,
while the business interests of his
district go to . There are other
remissions and omissions but why
relate ?
Now is it not time to cut out this
blind party policy and elect a man
to represent this empire ?
I know Judge Westover , I know
he has backbone , intelligence , in
tegrity , and the interests of his dis
trict at he/irt. He posseFses
the vigor and big ideas that Kinkaid
lamentably lacks. He don't delve
i in small po'iciics and salary grabs.
He farms his homestead , and occu
pies the bench as district judge.
They cannot heat him , in his judi
cial district because they know him
as man , neighbor and judge.
Let us get out and elect Westover
and put the stamp of our disap
proval on salary grab , and Joe Can
non methods , and Piarneses. Let
us have a real live congressman
again.
G. L. FllU.MWAY.
Parties are hereby notified not
to camp on or graze their stock
on section 1-i and E | of sec. 15 , tp.
03 , r. 28. ELWOODD. HETII. - °
Farmers Institute , Valentine , Friday , Nov. 13 , 1908.
AFTKH XOOX SESSION.
IrSO. Soil Tillage Mr. O. Hull , Alma , Nebr.
2:30. : Prevention of Winter Shrink in Cattle Prof. E. W. Hunt.
8:30. : : Judging Demonstration With Beef Cattle Mr. Hull.
Suggestions to Cooks About Cooking : . . .Miss Gertrude Eowan
KV KXIXG S ESS IOX.
7:15. : The Val uc of Studying Domestic Science Miss Eowan
7:45 : , Alfalfa , Its Cultivation and Products Mr. Huli
8:30. : The Improvement of Live Stock on the Farm Prof. Hunt
These meetings are held under the auspices of the University of
Nebraska and the Valentine Farmers' Institute Association and are
free to all. O. W. Halm , Sec.
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The dull monotony of the housewife's daily
routine is wearing on both body and mind. She
will find in Digesto Malt Extract a splendid
tonic , whose mildly stimulating effect drives
away that feeling of apathy and listlcssness and
gives life renewed interest.
Palatable and Efficient
At ell Drug Stores
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PAIAJ
BKCU'ERS OF THE BCCR THAT
"Leads Them Air
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Joa.
+ * t Valentine. NI I
nrara river four
miles e Hi f Ft.
Nlobmr
Hordes aud
cattle uraudwd
B connected on
left hip or side as
shown In cut
R $1 Faddis & Co.
? osu > fflce adWesa-Valentlne or Kennedy.
Some branded
on left
thigh.
llorses branded
, on left
shoulder
or thigh.
Some Some branded
t.rsiiuled on right tliiyh
on left IP or shoulder.
shoulder or I
. Young.
Simeon. Nebr.
Cattle branded
as cut on lef c side
SomeQ.yon left
side.
on left Jaw of
V horses.
Range on Gordoa Creek north of Simeon ,
Albert Wrupple & Sons
Rosebud 8 , D.
Cattle branded
SOS on left side
OSO - n riehtsida
Some cattle also
have a - Ion neck
Some with A on
left shonlder and
some ' . .branded
svith'-Hwo bars
across hind qnar-
cers. Some Texas
s O on left side and somej
on left side.
Horses branded SOS on left hip. Some cattle
branded AW bar connected on both sides ana
fr hin nf
N. S. Rowley
Kennedy , - Nebraska.
Same as cut on left ,
jide and hip , and on
left shoulder of her
ses. AlsoBSBJP on
left side ff | and
hip.
V 4on ieft "ide
Some < * at-
tl" brand
ed husk- peg ( either side up ) on
leftside or hip. on left Jaw and left shoulder
or norse.1. UJ
ron left hip of horses ,
on loft jaw of horses
C. P. Jordan.
Rosebud , SD
Horses and cattle
same as cut ; also
CJ BE JJ on right
hip.
Range on Oak and
Butte creeks.
A liberal reward'
for information
leading to detection
of rustlers of stock
i ) * ariiitaiiy of these bninds.
KOHL & TEUKILL.
Ilrownlee , Neb.
Cattle branded as
in cut on left
side. Some
branilPd K. T Y
on left hip. Ranee
on North Loup
river , two miles
west of Brewnlee
J. A. ' YARYAN
Pullman , Nebr
Cattle branded JY
on rightside
Horses branded JY
on right shoulder
Reasonable reward
for any information
leading to the re
covery of cattle
strayed from my
range.
Pat Peiper
Slmeen Nebr.
D. M. Sears.
Kennedy , Nebr.
Cattle branded
as on cut.lef t side
Some on left nip.
Horses same on
left shoulder.
Range Square
Lake.
lloan'Brothers
Woodlake Neb
Range on L' > Hg
L'tk.and Crook
ed Lake.
JOHN KILL , * PLENTY
-t Frai cis Mis
sion , Rosebud.
S. D.
Cattle branded
asm cut ; hores
flame on les
thigh. Range l > e-
t\\ven Sprin-f f'k
and Little White
river.
Metzger Bros. ,
Rolfe Nebr
Cattle branded
anywhere on left
side.
Earmark , square
crop right ear.
Horses have
same brand on
eft thigh.
Range on Gordon and Snake CreeksT
A Reward of $250 will be paid to any person for
information leading to the arrest and final
conviction of any person or persons stealing-
cuttle with above brand. *