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a«st Tuesday in th© case of Ralph W. fctoea, who has so ably represented 'its Interests on the floors of congress «Snce the 4th of March, 1909. For if ffeithfol attention to the duties of lawtoaker for the people entitle him to a .return to congress Ralph Moss de^aervee that distinction.
High in the counsel of the leaders of th© party, prominent In all the notable legislation that has served to make tie recent session of congress one of! the most notable in many decades, a Vote for him is a rote to uphold Woodrow Wilson in the program mapped1 out for the amelioration of the deplor able conditions he found facing him when he entered on the discharge of his duties March 4, 1913. Active in
RALPH W. MOSS.
the committee 'work on which so much of the legislation of congress htngefi, Congressman Moss has also been prominent in the debates on all the mighty questions that have been met and solved by the congress that has Just adjourned. 11 A tiller of the soil himself, and a student of all the problems that face (the class from which all material ffpxigress springs, he is as well a stu[dent of the questions that relate to ', ,'the -welfare of the workingmen of the
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FOE SUPERIOR JUDGE.
FRED HfclAi,.
The same confidence the people of Vigo oounty reposed in Fred W. BeaL candidate for Judge of the Superior Court, when they elected him to the f- office of prosecuting attorney in 18 S¥ and re-elected in 1902, and still furthers manifested in 1908 when they elected him to the state senate by the largest plurality ever given a candidate Tor that office, they still retain, due to the honesty, fairness and impartiality he has always shown in the conduct ol the offices entrusted to him, and hia election next Tuesday by an overwhelming majority Is one of the certainties of the event. C- A native of Vigo county, and a grandson of "Uncle Jerry" Beal, one of the its earliest pioneers, his education was received in the county schools, the high school and the Indiana State
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NormaL After his graduation from the latter institution he spent several years teaching school before entering the law course of the University ol Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he graduated in 1893. He was admitted to the bar the year before his graduation, and later took up the practice of his profession In the office of Davis & Davis, one of the city's leading law firms. In all his public service Mr. Beal has been mindful of the interests of the common people from whom he sprang, and as a member of the state senate for four years was identi-
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vote for him 1s a vote to sus-
.-tain the president in the splendid work is he has undertaken and carried ont rv along every line thus far attempted, jM and likewise a vote against him will be a "vote against that some progress.
A recent attempt has been made to 11 cpeate the Impression that Congress-~"-A lifnazi Moss is opposed to organized ^^'iisiiabor but his refutation of those charges has been so complete that no attention will be paid to it by the inpr.— 'teDlgent men who go to make up the membership of the organizations
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[the commission sent abroad to study elected to the judgeship Mr. Redman financial, labor and farming conditions committed to the fair and equable is still continued and a vote for Ralph
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his word is as good as his bond—to administer the office with equal and exact justice to all, with an eye to economy and with that Impartiality and freedom from prejudice that has marked his whole life, which is as au open book, as a private citizen and as a public official.
FOE CIRCUIT COURT.
GU H. REDMA5.
Mindful of the dignity of the office to which he aspires, £31 H. Redman, candidate for judge of the Circuit Court, has conducted his campaign in the same spirit as he expects to administer the office when seated on the bench, with due respect to its traditions and importance. He has not descended to mudslinging or attacks on his opponents, and has maintained that high spirit of citizenship that has marked his conduct during his residence in Terre Haute, which began in 1S88.
Reared on a farm in Illinois, he graduated from Lee's seminary, and spent eight years in teaching school before taking up the study of law on which hia life's ambiton centered. Given an opportunity to enter the United States mail service he continued his law studies in the office of McDonald & Butler, at Indianapolis, the senior member of which was the late Joseph EL McDonald, United States senator from Indiana, and the junior member, John M. Butler. It was known as one of the strongest law Arms in the state, and the experience Mr. Redman gained there has been of vast benefit to him in his practice. Admitted to practice in 1888, he located in Terre Haute where he at once became identified with some of the most important litigation of the county.
He has practiced in the Indiana ar.'i Illinois courts as well as in the United
throughout this district. States courts, and since 1913 has been The same signal confidence the I county attorney of igo county, being president reposed in him when he! elected this year by the unanimous made "Vmg rmsman Moss a member of!
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or favor, and with a Just appreciation of the economies that are demanded by the taxpayers on whom the burden of public expenditures falL If elected he will assume the office, the highest in the county in power and importance, absolutely free from any entangling alliances that might tend to interfere with the proper administration of the duties that will fall on him.
FOE SHERIFF.
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If ever a man showed his eminent qualifications for the office of sheriff of Vigo county, not alone in the exhibition of personal courage of a rare quality, aa well as in the numerous details of the conduct of the office, that man Is Dennis Shea, present incumbent of the position and a candidate for re-election. He has shown these qualities personally as well as in the selection of a corps of assistant who display the same fearless courage in the discharge of their duties as has been exhibited by their chief.
Before he had had fair time to completed familiarize himself with the duties of his office the terrible flcodo of last spring descended on the community and put to a test the capabilities of the sheriffs office in a
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former officer had ever experinced. The manner in which Dennis Shea and his ideal force handled the flood problem and the relief of the distressed sufferers of Taylorville and West Terre Haute, as well as those of the accompanying tornado, stamped him as .he ideal man for the unexpected responsibilities thrust upon him. ~HVi..4iet**PTTT3ancf» of those t/rdj?p diiwithal mean much as much to the litigants there as the affairs involving thousands in the higher courts.
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FOB STATE'S AtTOKHEY.
The tempering' of mercy with. justice has been one of the features of the administration of the office of prosecuting attorney during the past two years under Richard A, Werneke, who is a candidate for re-election. There have been more convictions under him of arimes against life and property than under any previous administration of the office in the same length of time, but at that, a man charged with a first offense for whom there was deemed a right for "another chance" has never been turned down.
In the first three months of his administration more men were convicted and sent to the penitentiary for crime than during the entire two years previous. There have been more convictions for murder and for robbery than ever before in the same period of time in the history or the office, and this without the expenditure of the money of the taxpayers' for special counsel. Since his term began the "coke fiends," including those who used the dreadful drug and those who sold it in violation of the law. have been driven out of business. The records of the office were never before in such perfect condition, and an inquirer in a second can be answered regarding any particular case or any -class of cases. This applies not only to the Circuit Court but to the City Court and the justices' courts as well.
One feature of the conduct of the office, however, has particularly commended itself to the people who believe that prosecution converted to persecution makes a criminal of many a youth and man, whose original intentions were not criminal. Every man and boy charged with an offense that was believed deserving of another chance has been given it, and many a one that with other treatment m??ht have been made a criminal has become an honest man and a useful citizen. "Dick" Werneke is a home product, and it Is natural that he should wish to see mercy and justice go hand in hand in an office that concerns those I among whom he was born and brought up. Economy has also been a watchword in his office, and perhaps never before in the history of the office has so much been accomplished at such a reasonable coste to the taxpayers.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
The rush of taxpayers to the county treasurer's office during the past week' has prevented Everett E. Messick, cashier under Treasurer Daily, and candidate for county treasurer, from: continuing his active campaign, but it has not lost him any friends or support because the voters understand that faithfulness to the discharge of one's official duties is demanded of a man holding the responsible position he holds, handling every cent that ister of the JtrVritfei, to Pifa discharge of h"s duties that mental condition th tj and
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all classes and differing policies, and, shown by the favorable reports of the perhaps, no other public official in state examiners on the conduct of the Vigo county was ever given such an offioe. enthusiastic endorsement from men of A responsible, dependable fellow is all parties as was he for the manner "Ev." Messick, too, as shown by his he handled the situation that confront- record. A candidate for the nominaed him. tion against Treasurer Dailey four
In the minds of all fair-minded men years ago he was beaten nonorably, hia conduct during that crisis merits!
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his re-election to the office. Not alone that had defeated him. When the latin that situation was he able to rise
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to the occasion, but all the numerous which he had held under Treasurer Bolemergenclos that have occurred dur-: *on l*e accepted It and has been aa true ing his first term have been met with!
offered him the position of cashier
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the same spirit of determination and 1 former chief. courage. If the voters of Vigo county' Six years he has held the position desire to have the office of Vigo sheriff cashier, handling millions of dollars administered as faithfully and cou-! th® taxpayers' money, and the rerageously the next two yars as they I Por* °f th© office shows that it has have been during the past two, they! been faithfully accounted for to the will triumphantly re-elect Dennis Shea,
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an event that is universally expected i35 Principal •where he has heretofore by the fair-minded men of all parties. keen faithful subordinate, and the voters of Vigo county are not likely to forget that fact next Tuesday, when they select a man to guard their fundi during the coming two years.
Such a man is worthy of trust
It isn't in the Messick program to "hunt ducks with a brass band." but it Is Quite certain that there are few voters in Vigo county that haven't been made acquainted with the fact that he is a candidate for county treasurer, and appreciation of past faithful service isn't likely to be overlooked,
securing the greatest benefits for them! ting him in charge of the work, which at the least possible expense in the way was done at the expense of the county of taxes. And the auditor of an im- rather than by contract, with a conportant county like Vigo can do much sequent
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If an unfailing courtesy and accommodation, a genial spirit of good counter. iH3cx Si-cua!u
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assigned him, performed In a capable, efficient manner, qualify a man for public office, then John T. Grace, candidate for county recorder, is eminently qualified for the office to which he aspires, for he possesses these attributes in the highest degree.
He has occupied the position ot deputy recorder during the incumbency of the recorder's office of Frank Hoermann, and the training he has received under that more than ordinarily competent official will be of vast benefit to him in the discharge of the duties of the place. He has the same running qualities possessed by his father, the late James Grace, who la a city election years ago was the only democrat to be elected, whence originated that well known local expression as applied to politics, "Saved by Grace."
He has made a most thorough canvass of the oounty, and not a highway or a byway that has not found him'] traversing it In the effort to extend his already extensive circle of friends and acquaintances, and if he does not ran up an enormous plurality it will be a surprise to those familiar with the situation. Mr. Grace's candidacy commends itself especially to friends of organized labor, for he was actively identified with its cause as a union telegrapher prior to assuming the
Should he be elected treasurer he will! position of deputy recorder. He was
devote his personal time and attention to the conduct of the office, where his long experience makes him invaluable to the taxpayers, whose interests he is certain to protect at all hazards.
FOE COUNTY AUDITOE.
THOMAS FERGCSON.
"In seeking this high office I have! no motive except to make good as a public official and to faithfully discharge the duties of the trust reposed in me by the people."
On that high platform Thomas Ferguson, candidate for aiiditor, asked the support of the people last spring, on that platform he was nominated, on the same platform he has conducted his race, and by it he proposes to stand If elected, to the position to which he aspires. Born In Pierson township he has been a laboring man all his life, is familiar with their trials, ajid as auditor of Vigo county will exert his all important Influence towards
one of the organizers of the local union, and still carries with him the card that shows his belief in the principles of unionism.
He is in every sense of the wort a "native son" of Hoosierdom, and he can be depended on to perform the, duties of the important office of recorder with the same attention to detail and the same accommodation and regard for others that he has displayed as a deputy in that office
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HERBERT C. A"DERSO\ When Geo. H. Wolbrecht, of the oorps of engineers^ United States of America, inspected the repairs to the piers under the Wabash avenue river bridge that had been done by Herbert C. Anderson, county surveyor, a former subordinate of his, he passed a high compliment on him that repaid the county commissioners for the confidence they had placed in him by put-
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towards securing an economical ad-! over $5,000. ministration of public affairs. Anderson, who is a candidate for As trustee of Ixet Creek township election to the office he now holds by for more than five ears he has made a. appointment, has made a most creditrecord for efficiency and economy that able record in the conduct of the ofwon for him the highest approval of
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the state board of accounts, as shown the office he constructed $135,000 gravby their examination of his books and
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accounts since that important work bridges, all of which received the apbegan. The same efficiency and econ- proval of the commissioners as well omv he has snown in that capacity he as of the taxpayers who are called will continue as county auditor, and
the affairs of that office, one of the ments. During the present year $250,most important in the count}", can be 000 has been spent in gravel road consafely entrusted to him. A tried and struction with $30,000 for concrete true democrat, and one of the kind bridges, all expended economically and ever willing to promote the best in- for the best interests of the taxpayterests of the party, believing Its ad- I ers. ministration of public affairs is for! Among the county roads he has oullt he eiterment of the whole people, he according to plans prepared bv himhas always been to the forefront In itsj
battles. from Xorth Terre Haute to Markle's ."„C^°^nTno^dating to tm» extreme he mill, where reinforced concrete has will bring to the conduct of the office been employed. It is one of the first I a npe experience and a knowledge of jn the state according to the particular I public affairs that will ensure an ad- specifications, and it has been proministration that will reflect honors nounced by experts as one of the very and credit, not only on himself, but, best roads ever built A committee of
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if not the best in the entire state. Before assuming the office of county surveyor Mr. Anderson spent a year and a half with the government engineering work on the Wabash, the same length of time with the government work on the Des Moines river in Iowa, and two years with the Twin Falls Land and Power Co., in Idaho, the largest private irrigation project ever undertaken.
Service and economy have combined to make Herbert C. Anderson one of the most efficient officials Vigo county has ever had.
FOE COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
The finest asparagus that goes out of Terre Haute to foreign markets is shipped by Henry A. Cullen, who has acquired the title of the "Asparagus King," and his product brings the fancy prices in the eastern markets that are not attained by that from any other section of the country.
The combined Industry and application that made it possible to attain this result have been employed by Mr. Cullen in his attention to the affairs of Vigo county as county commissioner from the second district, for. which he is a candidate for re-election. "When I offered myself aa a candidate for the office of county commissioner in 1912," said Mr. (Mullen Saturday, discussing his c^^idacy for f»d the taxpayers
my devotion to the causa of good roads and lower faxes, and I Mlleve my record shows that have kept my promise. We have built miles and miles of gravel roads in the past two years, all of the best construction and all satisfactory to the taxpayers who are finally called on to foot the bills. If re-elected I shall continue the same faithful work In the interests of good roads and lower taxes. The people are certainly entitled to good roads, and
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the commissioners owe it to themselves and to the people to see that they have lower taxes."
Mr. Cullen has devoted himself to the conduct of the affairs of the commissioners office as faithfully as he devotes himself to his asparagus beds, which have gained for him such a creditable reputation. He is a firm believer in the idea that a public official should devote himself to public affairs with the same ardor that he gives to bis own private business, and he has endeavored to carry out this program In his public career.
The county commissioner is one of the most important offices in the gift of the people and it is well that the people of Vigo county have as a public official a man like Henry A. Cullen, who realizes his responsibility and is willing to assume it with the best interests of the taxpayers in view.
FOE COUHTY C0MMISSI0UEE.
JAMES M. GOSSAJI.
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"If I shculd be elected county com-misionc-r from the First district, as I expect to be," said James Gossam, Saturday afternoon, "I want the people to hold me personally responsible for my official acts, and no political boss or corporation, for I am beholden to neither. I make my appeal for election especially to the laboring classes, for I have been a laboring man all my life, and know what the laboring classes have to put up with. "As far as it is in my power as a public official to lessen their burdens you can depend on it that It shall be done."
Of fighting Kentucky blood is Candidate Gossam, for his father was elected for two terms to the Kentucky legislature from Warren county, that state, was judge of the county court of Barren county, which adjoins Warren, was chairman of the democratic caucus of the Kentucky legislature that cast 253 ballots of the J. C. S. Blackburn for U- S. Senator In 18M in the vain effort to defeat the republican candidate. De Boe.
Mr. Gossam has made a thorough canvass of the county, and at no time has he hesitated to express his belief In the theory of good roads and lower taxes, and if elected commissioner he says his best efforts will be devoted to securing his" platform pledges. As county commissioner, he sayB, he will act on the theory of equality to all, and special privileges to none. One theory of county government to which he is committed is that of a purchasing agent for' all county supplies, believing that the Interests of the tax payers can beet be subserved in that manner and economy enforced in all departments of the county government-
Mr. Gossam makes no pretence to oratorical ability, but his speeches have been a feature of the democratic county campaign, his earnestness and sincerity commending him to his hearers, while the rich Kentucky twang that came to him from hie anoestors was appealing to his hearers.
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR.
One of the most important offices to be voted for next Tuesday Is that of county assessor, although perhaps a great majority of, ttfie people are not aware of thla Tt# duty of tracing
down tax evaders and secorlnff equitable returns for taxation official, and no man that ever occupied the position here or elsewhere brought to the discharge of its duties a ifrlder knowledge or a mora valuable experience than Louis P. tlMhwigur, candidate for the position. ..
A lifelong resident of the county, familiar since his early manhood with public affairs, his familiarity with the numerous duties of the office are j) haps not equalled by any other ri dent of the county. His mature ment, his pre-eminent knowledge of' men and property in every portion otA the county, his zeal and his reputation, justly deserved, for preserving and m*' remitting work on whatever he vendor* takes, equip him for the perforata of the duties of the position aa perhaps no other candidate for the position ever equipped.
At the same time his sense ot firir* ness would prevent his zeal'and en-' thusiasm from exceeding the Drn|t»tlons laid on hhn by the law. tip** created this important office. FeriMfp
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no other man In Vigo county has larger circle of warm, personal than Louis Seeburger, and In all Important public duties he has called on to perform, his honesty fearlessness have been proverbial.
As sheriff of the county ha per formed his duties With the same regard for the importance of that as he displayed as a member of the board of connty commissioner*, under whom many of the most Important improvements of the connty were undertaken. These same commendable qualities in a public official he will bring to the discharge of the duties of) county assessor, to which, from- «vwy Indication, the voters of Vigo propose t© elect hhn next Tuesday.
FOE TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR.
4 J. HARRT MIIXEat
Succeeding to the office of asse of Harrison township by choice of county commissioners at the death his father, the late J. T. H. Millef J. Harry Miller has maintained th) high state of efficiency displayed bj his father, who was one of the competent public officials as well a| one of the most respected dtizehp^ the county where the greater portiol of his life had been spent. It isn't a! ways possible for a successor to male* good when chosen where sentljnen plays a part In the selection, aa in thl case, but the younger man sbowi in every respect that he is well quail fled to follow the footsteps of the fath er. A Terre Haute product In ever sense of the word, Mr. Miller Is actively Identified with every movement under taken by the younger class of citi sens to promote the best interests the city. As a member of the Unite Commercial Travellers, of the Taira, the Knights of Pythias, of Terre Hauti Co. So. 3 and of the musicians' unioi he is active in all these organlsatio whose public enterprises always for the upbuilding of the city and best interests. His exprience in office under his father gave him insight into its affairs that enable] him to take charge with a promptn and zeal that accomplished much the Interests of the taxpayers, appraisement of real estate of the and county is to be made next year the best interests of the taxpayers A mand that a man who Is familiar the work incident to his important dertaklng in the city should 1 charge of it for In his selectioi competent men and his own wor connection with its supervision dev the character of the results. Su man Is J. Harry Miller, and the of Harrison township can mak mistake in selecting him for the His uprightness of character, hi votlon .to the duties of his offi his accommodating manners him to the suffrage of the
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