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i - W VOLUME XXXVII. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. THURSDAY, APRIL 4.1912. NUMBER 42. 1*̂ 1 V.;£ SHALL IT BE -OLSON OR THE WW FROM RE ARE BUT TWO CANDIDATES FROM VIICH TO C1MSE. Ill BUSINESS MEN WANT OLSON. !H1 FACTORY MEN WANT OLSON. . Ill IJBfilG MEN WANT OLSON. n® SHOr MEN WANT OLSON, WE ALL WANT OLSON FOR STATE SENATOR RE­ GARDLESS OF NEWSPAPER DOPE. One More Message to The Voters of flcHenry County Candidate For Re-Election 'As County Surveyor In announcing myself as a candidate for re-election as county surveyor, I am following the precedent of my predecessor in that office. My service during the term of my office and as deputy during Captain Tryon's entire term of office has given me a familiarity with the county records, which is an essential quali­ fication. With the permission of Captain Tryon I am reprinting his compliment of four years ago: "The office of county surveyor requires a man who pos­ sesses, not only a technical knowledge of mathematics and engin- eering, but he should also be endowed with a liberal amount of good common sense, as well as a certain amount of experience. We have in our county a man who fills all the requirements I have enumerated. He is possessed of the necessary skill, a fair amount of experience and an abundant supply of good common sense. 1 r$fer to Lester Barber of Marengo and I cheerfully recommend him to the people of this county for the office of surveyor. (Signed) CHAS. H. TRYON." The closing days of the primary campaign are now close at hand and I ask the voters to consider this point: When you find a man with practical, definite ideas who knows how to survey--a luan In which you believe as thoroughly as he himself--can't you afford to get out at the primaries and vote for him? If my record is such that I am entitled to another term, I appreciate your support and if elected I shall endeavor to you aa in the past--faithfully, conscientiously and honestly. Respectfully yours, LESTER BARBER. For Village of McHenry, III. ELECTION, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1912 THE PEOPLE ARE WITH H in TRUSTEES TRUSTEES • • • WERPR WM. A. FISHER NICK E. BARBIAN • J. • WILLIAM STOFFEL • PETER J. FREUND CI.KKK CLERK • H. E. PRICE • I hereby certify that the above is a true specimen of the Official Ballot to be voted at the Annual Village Election, in the Village of McHenry, McHenry County, Illinois, on Tuesday, the 16th day of April, 1912. Village Clerk. ASK YOUR GROCER FOR M N C V FAMILY FLOUR • t m m s m # J m m " • J . S P E W G E R * • ILL®- .THE FLOUR. that never goes wrong WEST M'HENRI FLOUR AND FEED MILLS FALSE In many of the newspapers thruout this dis t r ic t my enemies have caused to be printed a Bill No. 175, claiming that I voted for the same as published. THIS WAS FALSE, and in proof there­ of I caused the Bill No. 175, which I did vote for, to be published in several of the papers last week. NO SUCH BILL AS WAS PUBLISHED BY MR. SHURTLEFF WAS EVER VOTED ON BY ME OR ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. I am also charged with having voted for Bill No. 267, and therefore against Local Self Government. There is just as much truth in the latter charge as in the first. Bill No. 267 was a meas ure in the right direction to cause all large corporations to pay their just portion of the taxes of this State and to create a record so any citizen could find out just what any corporation paid as tax, and I am still in favor of making corporations pay a tax that is >qual to the tax of a private citizen in proportion to the value of taxable property owned by each. 1 ain still in favor of good roads and I am in favor of the State aiding in road building and I have no apology to make for voting on either of the above measures as I know they are both in the in terest of my district and affect every member thereof. I have been accused of trickery in regard to Bill No. 540, which was never reported out of my committee. I was sent to rr EXCELLENT LOAVES AND Delicious Pastries is the Inevitable result II you use White Swan ...Flour... srfjmriEi^ FOR SALE BY WILBUR LUMBER CO. WEST McHENRY. N.P.STEILEN & SON, M'HENRY JOHN RICHARDSON, V0L0 HUCK'S, GROCERY, M'HENRY WILLIAM ALTHOFF JOHNSBURGH. NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT. Those knowing themselves to be in­ debted to me will kindly call at the West McHenry State bank and have their accounts adjusted. I have author­ ized C. W. Steng-er to collect and give receipts for all outstanding accounts. 25-tf ALBERT ETTEN. Wm. Simes, representing the Victor Oil company of Cleveland, O., can save you money on lubricating oils, greases and prepared ^paipt#- gee him. 31 the Senate as I supposed to look after the interest of this district and not Chicago. When this Bill reached my committee I sum moned nearly sixty farmers to appear before my committee, not stock shippers as I have been accused, but men like John Hallisey of Hartland, J. D. Hurley, Hartland; Joseph Peacock, Woodstock; John Dwelly, Woodstock; E. E. Gerry, Woodstock; Albert Abbott, Cary; Eugene Ilovey, Boone county, and a like number from var­ ious sections of my district of each county therein, and at their unanimous request, and being satisfied that the bill as drawn would place in the hands of the Board of Live Stock Commissioners un limited power and discretion, I recommended that the bill be laid upon the table. It is true that such men as James Ladd, C. E Small, Simon Stoffel and V. S. Lumley were among those present at the hearing on said bill and it is also true that I consulted many farmers outside of my district, who live in the great dairy district, the Fox River Valley, in regard to the matter and in every instance tiiey were opposed to the bill, and I say now that if I am ever called to decide upon a like measure I shall act as my constituents direct even tho I may not just agree with every member thereof. I did what seemed to me to be my duty and so far only one man of my district has raised any objection to my action, and he assumes to make objection for Chicago or a place called the great stock raising district of Illinois, a place 1 am unfamiliar with. I consid er Bill No. 540 a bill more in the interest of the Board of Live Stock Commissioners than in the interests of public health, or the farmer who owns the cattle, that these men would like but the legal right to say should be tested. I have no apology to make for my effort to have the House pass Bill No. 47*. This Bill passed the Senate and should have been passed by the Lower House, and no man should be allowed to put oleomargarine or butterine on the table at hotels and charge butter prices for it under the guise that it is butter and thus indi rectly lower the price of the farmer's milk. It seems that there are some people who think if any big corporation is going to be affected why tli kill the bill and make the best excuse possible, but when the fanner has some one to block the corporate greed then the crape hungers howl that it is trickery. I have tried during my first term in office to serve my district as best I could. 1 may not have accomplished fill I would have desired; and perhaps a more capable man might have done better, but I have honestly tried to keep my name from any scandal or combination that would discredit me or my district, and have so tried to do my duty that I could face my constituents and feel I could make a report of my stewardship without fear of reprimand and w ithout a feeling of reproach for my actions as a public ser vant. 1 do not know what next will be printed that I did, but I am a candidate for renomination to the State Senate and if my service in the Sedate merits the approval of my constituents I solicit their votes and no matter what otlKmay think, I will do the bidding of a majority, regardless-of whut Chicago may think of me. A. J. OLSON. Congressman Ira C. Copley of Aurora will be renominated next Tuesday. If there is any such a change of sentiment toward Col. Copley in the other counties, as there is in this, he will re­ ceive an overwhelming majority. Hundreds of Republican voters in this county will this time vote for Col. Copley, because everyone admits his record in Con­ gress is perfect. Others will this time give Copley their vote, in approval of a long established custom, that a Congressman is always conceded a Second term. Many doubt if Conn has a legal residence in this state, but, whether he has or not, many will refuse to nominate a man for an office in Illinois that is now residing with his family at Manhattan, Kansas, and there holding a state job. Hundreds of Conn's former supporters openly deserted him early in the tight, feeling that Conn had no chance to win, on account of his eleventh hour entry into the race. Conn will lose many votes in this county because he utterly ignored a large number of his former supporters with reference to the advisability of his again entering the Congressional race. Conn's campaign manager for this county is distasteful to many of Conn's former supporters and they refuse to follow his leadership, as they doubt its sincerity. If Conn breaks even with Copley in this county, Conn can return to his Kansas home and his Kansas job, feeling proud of the vote given him as a non-resident of this state. The average voter cares little about the political feuds that have kept this county iu a political turmoil for years. He wants honest and capable men in public office. Unless a voter is con­ trolled by politicians, the public official that has faithfully and conscientiously discharged the duties of his office during a first term is entirely acceptable to him for a renomination, and is very apt to receive his vote. He votes for candidates and principles, and not to gratify the malice or whim of a few politicians, who forget that it is up to the people to make their own nomination. Congressman Copley is not a politician in the sense that word is used in this community. He is a successful business man of the Marshall Field type. He started at the bottom of the lad­ der, and by the strict application of business methods and honesty lias built up an extensive and prosperous business that gives employment and good wages to hundreds or people. Two years ago he was nominated by the progressive Repub­ licans of this district, on a strong progressive platform, when Mr. Conn went down to defeat as an avowed stand-patter, a follower of Cannon and Aldrich, and backed by the entire support of the Hopkins Snapp machine of this district. Col. Copley is just becoming useful at Washington. Pro­ gressive Republicans, business men and business methods are now badly needed in Congress. More men of the Copley type are needed in our public offices. Would that more of his kind would consent to sacrifice their time and business interests to serve the public. The people of this- Congressional district need no better recommendation of our present Congressman than that the old Hopkins Snapp machine are fighting desperately to dislodge him. A candidate opposed by politicians is always a good man for the people to tie to. If the Hopkins Snapp politicians of this Congressional dis­ trict should withdraw their present opposition to the renomina­ tion of Congressman Copley, it would be unanimous. Politicians alone oppose him. The people are with him. He has been tested and found right. It is a case of a few politicians endeavoring to thwart the will, the wish and the desire of a large majority of the Repub­ lican voters of this district, which is that Copley be renominated. Every progressive Republican in this district should rally to the support of the Copley banner. When voters come to realize that they are fully capable of making all their nominations, without the assistance or advice of politicians of the Snapp kind, public offices will then be tilled by honest, efficient men who are not tied, hand and foot, to any political ring. The Plahidealer e a rn e s t l y u r ge s upon every Republican voter that he attend the primaries on Tuesday next. It is a duty you have no right to shirk. You voted to lia\e a primary law so you would have a voice in making nominations. The privilege is now yours. Use it. and use it right. \Tote y o u r ow n personal choice, for e\ery office, from pres­ ident to coroner, and when you come to the Congressional candi­ dates you will make no mistake by placing a cross in the square opposite the name of our present Congressman, and that progres­ sive Republican, Ira C. Copley of AQiora. IN olden times a baby often made the mother 's life a drudgery because it kept her at home. Now as she watches her child she visits with friends or neighbors- -over the telephone. There are no long, lonesome days for the modern mother. Any woman who baa cfciidrea ahoald dcuMil that her husband order a telepboae. He wo«U uvet mlaa the few cents a day that It CMta. GMCA80 TELEPHONE C0RP1RY