Gate Valley Star (Gate, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1914 Page: 3 of 4
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You have dubtless received a
copy of the Beaver Herald, con-
taining an attack on me, under
the title of, "Got off on thewrong
foot." If you have not received
a copy of the Herald, get one
and read it. The issue of Oct.
22.id, the cause of this article
was that Miss Thomasv feared
that she was not going to get
the publishing of the delinquent
tax list, and when Miss Thomas
called at the office and found us
so busy in other work and at the
same time not working at the de-
linquent list, she plainly desired
me to understand that this was
a matter of "Dollars and cents
to her.
The truth of the matter is
that the Commissioners had ex
tended the payment of taxes
from time to time until October
5th and I was informed by dif-
ferent ones that the Commis-
sioners would make a further
extension. Had the oayment of
taxes been extended until Janu-
ary, th« n the man with the row
crop would have been benefited
as we.l as those with the wheat
crop. As the taxes were not de-
linquent, according to the Com-
missioners ext>;ntion until Oct.
5th. it was impossible for me to
get up the list for publication by
the 8th cf October, as required
by law. The only decision of
the Supreme Court on that mat-
ter is to the effect that there
must be a publication for three
consecutive weeks, meaning
twenty-one days, before the sale.
MissThomas, however, revised
the decision of the Supreme
cou "t and insisted that the list
be fiurnished her by the 10th of
October and undertook to mand-
amus me, declaring she had no-
thing personal against me. To
do this I had to have extra help,
some of vhrch I secured myself
at $2.00 per day and some were
hired by Commissioner Haskell,
agreeing to pay $5.00 per day.
Let us look at it another way.
Suppose the delinquent list
had been cut out this year and
the payment of taxes extended
until January, it would have
been an accommodation to
hundreds of farmers and instead
of meaning "Dollars and Cents
to Miss Thomas, one individual,
it would have meant about $1500
to the taxpayers who will have
to stand the burden and pay the
taxes. In order that one indi-
vidual may get the dollars and
cents that it means to her. pro-
babiy you are one of those who
must contribute. Miss Thomas
also complains that she was not
permitted to work in my office
when she offered her services
free. Now to show some of her
freeness to work for the county,
she was given the job of printing
the Bar Docket and presented a
bill for $f 5, but Commissioner
McLean quickly protested again-
st it and thought it ought to be
cut to $20. After having esti-
mated the work on it and after
some effort some effort succeed-
ed in persuading the other com-
missioners to cut it down to $45.
does ttiU look free?Or is it a mat-
ter of dollars and cents to her.'
Just another instance. Miss
Thomas filed a claim for a cer-
tificate of Error oil her land
south of the river, in section 2< ,
T4, R, 23. In this section only
four 80 a:re tracts of land is on
the tax roll, assessed at $600 each
and in section 35, T. 4, K 23,
three 80 acre tracts at $480 each
and one quarter section at $900.
She owns one of these «ighties
in each section and filed a claim
tor a reduction of $165 each. The
Commissioners rejected. I claim
that was right, but that was not
enough tor her, she just raised
her sights again and took an-
other "long shot" at it with her
gatling and this time she brings
'em down and gets $165 cut off
of each eighty. Another time of
"Dollars and cents" to her.
Now in regard to the write up
Miss Thomas makes against me
as to being able last year to get
out the delinquent list for 1912
when Mr. Tooker got the print-
ing, claiming that I had no more
to do and had just as much tim?
to prepare this list as 1 h^d for
that one. This is untrue, for if
you "Taxpayers'* have noticed
the additional work that has been
added to this office, you would
known that such a statement is
untrue Now since October 3rd
1913, we have had the Mortgage
Tax proposition to take care of
also, in that month we took up
the Investment proposition of
investing Sinking Funds by pur-
chasing school warrants and
taking care of them in this way
for Districts that did not have
funds to pay the same, redeem-
ing all at face value. I, at one
time had over $15,000 invested
in such warrants You may
think by the statement that my
opponent made two years ago
that this did not add much work
as he claimed that he could take
care of this with thirty minutes
of extra work per day. Mr
Fickel nor no of her person can
take care of this work in that
short a time and handle it ac-
cording to law. Then after the
first of January, as you voters
will know, the school funds of
all the Districts were thrown on
us to take care of the warrants,
to receive and make a record ot
and also to keep a record of their
piyraent. Tbis addition in the
one year is fully all one efficient
person can do. How then as to
her claims in her article of Mr.
Drum being a fcood man. In
this I agrete with her, but why
did Mr. Drum come back after
the office he aspired 'o and was
elected two years ago which
would have been a second term
and should have been entitled to
ro-election. But he claimed to
every officer in the Court House
that his interests on his farm
were worth more t3 him than
the county job. Then finally
the "Ringlings" got after him to
come oui against me, but for a
long time he held out against
them and finally the tire got so
hot that Mr. Drum left for his
farm to get rid of them. But
they could not take that and they
boarded their machine and went
out and got Mr. Dram and per-
suaded him to file only two or
three days before the expiration
of time to do so in. Now if he
has allowed them to lead him
this time, is he not likely to be
persuaded at other times.
In my campaign two years ago,
I promised the tax-payers
square deal. I verily believe the
people of the county will mani-
fest that I have kept my promise.
Therefore am I not entitled to
re-election. 1 want to ask if any-
one ever wrote me a letter that
I did not answer or ever came in
to see me or pay taxes that I did
not treat you conrteously and
render every accommodation I
FOR
Better Schools
You Should Support
G. T. Ayers
Republican Nominee For
County Superintendent
He is a Thorough School Man
ET* 3EK 6W i*® OTS 331 FT*6 ■ BH IT* •
could. Now if such services undersheriff again you can ex-
meet your approval, then I ask pect the same kind of county
that you designate the same by you had two years ago and if
giving me ycur vote on Nov. 3rd. Savage gets an appointment you
Yonrs very respectfully can guess the rest.
1\ P. Frysinger^ | That bunch have tramed up
lies about me. They are saying
me.
I? yoi: have boys and girls
growing up, it is your duty to
I get in behind me. It is the duty
I >f every good man who is against
the wrong and for the right to
rally my support and clean up
the old ring of political shysters
who are tryng to suck your
blood for the next two years.
I believe in clean politics as
well as clean manhood but the
dirty bunch have been throwing
mud by the hand fulls because I
have been arresting their friends.
Stay with me as I havs stayed
with you.
Johnnie M Jones.
CLAUDE T. SMITH
Democratic Candidate
For County Attorney.
Those Schockley Fees.
It is charged that Sheriff Jones
has received money from the
couory by reporting work done
by him in my name. The facts
are that in 15 cases, where I had
done all ihe work except the
mere auction work. Kuvkendall
had given me credit for the
auction fees, which was in most
cases only fifty cents, the total
of such fees claim due the
county, will not aggregate more
than $5.00. The $30.00 item
about which there was so much
talk was a misUke of the same
nature, and all the work was
done by me, except the auction
and collection of purchase price,
and the amount which they claim
the county is entitled to is about
$10.00. I never intentionally
cheated the county out of a cent.
I am certain that Mr. Kuykendail
was innocent of any w rong and I
am sure Mr. Jones never knew
inything about it. I received all
those fees credited to me and
\lr Kuykendail or Sheriff Jones
never received a cent, nor was
there any agreement of kind in
their regard.
Frank Shocklev.
SHERIFF JONES
MAKES STATEMENT.
You know that the Beaver
"Bunch" tried to get me out of
office and defeat me for re-eletion
but I am still in the office and am
stilfin the race.
that I have stolen the county
money, yet if I was guilty the
planned frame-up behind the
locked doors of John Savages
office would have been carried
out, only too quickly. The two
commissioners, who are republic-
an", are a majority of the Board
and could have found me guilty,
but they did not dc so. It is true
that book keeping mistakes were
made, but every dollar of the
county money was in the bank,
as will appear by th • following
affidavit:
James H. Crabtree, being duly
sworn on his oath says: lam now
and was at all the times herein-
after mentiond, Cashier of the
Bank ot Beaver City; that Johnnie
M. Jones, in addition to his per-
sonal account, in the 'name of
Johnnie M. Jones, carried a
separate account in the name of
Johnnie M. Jones, Sheriff, shows
the following balances, towit:
August 1st 1914, the sum of
$946.87.
September 1st 1914, the sum
of $609.89.
October 1st 1914, the sum of
$532.50.
(Signed) James H. Crabtree.
Subscribed and sworn to be-
fore me, this 24th day of October
1914. (sical) (Signed) Lynn
Moore, Notary Public.
My commissisn expires April
8, 1918.
Does that look like I was crook-
ed. Does that look like I have
stolen money. I wo.ild not throw
Those who started this are
Elmer Fickel, Tom Bra,4wood, in -.th the "nog" .ad tbey ar«
John Savage and Ed. Peckham.: fighting me and trying to destroy
Fickel was the undersheriff of ~ " ~~~~~
Hiram Peckham, when boot-1
leggers over-ran the county and !
gambling wide open. Fickel ran
for County Treasurer and was
the worst beat man on the ticket.
Tom Braidford ran for rep-
resentative on the Republican|
ticket in this ar.d Harper County
and was also beaten, although
both counties went Republican
by good majorities. Kd. Peck-
ham is a brother of Hiram Peck-
ham and Hiram did not run for
re-election for sheriff and Hiram
is also one of the securities on
the forfeited bond of Lon Ford,
the notorious gambler. Every-
one knows John Savage, that's
enough. Both Fickel and Savage
have been office-holders "by
appointment" and have never
been ejected, so you see what a
victory for their candidates
means. If Fickel gets to be
1. He is a bona fide resident
of Beaver County; three of his
four children have been born
here and he has paid taxes
here for five years.
lie has redeemed every
campaign promise made two
yeats ago and has not permitt-
ed any "gang" or ^'clique" to
run his office for him'
3 He has stood for the en-
forcement of all laws and made
possible the suppression of
boot-legging, gambling and kind-
red crimes. r
4. He has broken up two
gangs of cattle thieves and not
only secured such convictions
in this county, but has gone to
Harper and Texas counties
and helped in convictions there.
5 His policy of "fewer cases
and more convictions" has re-
sulted in eight convictions out
of eleven cases going to the
jurv and 11 pleas of guilty, in
the" District and County Courts.
6. lie has made the prosecut-
ion of misdemeanors a source
of revenue to the county; with
an expense of approximately
$250.00 he has added over $1,000
to the credit of the school and
Court Funds.
7. In neighborhood quarrels
he has insisted on cost bonds,
where guilt was of any doubt, so
that those wrong rather than
the tax payers should bear the
burden of court expense.
8 He has not made hisoffice
a collection agency nor will he
do so if elected to a second
term
9. He has attempted to earn
his salary by performing such
services as the tax payarswen*
entitled and promises to con-
tinue a policy of equal treat-
ment to all people of all sections
of this connty.
10 He has been endorsed by
temperance and other moral
organizations and has the active
opposition of the boot-legging,
gambling and cattle stealing
element.
11. Ever)' information filed in
every court of record has stood
up and not a demurrer has been
sustained to <«ny of his papers.
REMEMBER
Day Humiston
Of KNOWLES For
Court Clerk
Of Beaver County
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE
But Candidate of every voter in Beaver county who wants
straight, efficient man to fill this office.
Five Years a Teacher in the Public Schools
Help East Beaver County to be Represented
at the County Seat.
The Right Man For The Position
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Halworth, E. I. Gate Valley Star (Gate, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1914, newspaper, October 29, 1914; Gate, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc167843/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.