Colony Courier (Colony, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1912 Page: 1 of 10
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SPECIAL NON-PARTISAN POLITICAL PRIMARY EDITION
COLONY COURIER
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Educator, Farmer, Law-
yer and Democratic Can-
didate for Clerk of District
Court of Washita County,
Oklahoma.
A vote for Thos. Hudgens
is a vote for efficiency,
economy and a business ad-
ministration of the District
Clerk's Office.
THOS. HUDGENS, A WINNER
The Logical Candidate for Clerk of the District Court
With Seven Candidates in the Reid for the High Office of Clerk of the Kdrict Court, the
Voters are pretty hard put to it to Decide which it is really Best to Vote for
The people of Washita County want THE BEST
man in the race to win because they want the best
service possible in every county office. They want
efficiency. The people want extravagance cut ou
and wise business methods employed in the conduct
of the county business. The large salary which is
provided for by law is such that the people have a
right to expect some of the best men in the county
to strive for the office—and the same also induces men
who are not just the best in every way to try to Uk I
THE MONEY. , . .
A man who asks for a county office should e in
sympathy with the best citizenship of the county, he
should be a man of the highest moral character, a
man of lofty ideals of the duties of a public servant,
and he should be possessed of a certain a™oant
education and training to fit him to perform the duties
he must assume with the office; simply wanting the
salary should not be deemed sufficient qualifications
for earning it. , ,
Thos. Hudgens is a student of civil govern-
ment. He has taught civil government for years in
the past. He understands systems of conducting the
business of counties, states, and the nation. He under-
stands how taxes are made high by extravagance in
office, and how jobs are made to reward friends at
the people's expense, and he knows how to 51 Ur
USELESS ITEMS OF EXPENSE and how to per-
form real labor himself instead of drawing his salary
to watch others do the work at additional expense.
Thos. Hudgens believes in economy in every
office in the state and in not only abolishing deputies
everywhere possible and compelling the man who
draws the big salary to do the work, but he believes
that when the work of an office does not keep the
officer busy that such office might be combined with
another office similar to it so that the two offices
may be run at lower expense. He believes it is not
more than right to ask each county officer to work as
hard for the people as he would be required to work
to earn his salary if he worked for a private business
manThos. Hudgens has the qualification of a knowl-
edge of law which is an especially valuable part of his
preparation for the office of Clerk of th^ Distrut
Court, and will save many costly mistakes that a man
without such knowledge would be liable to make. He
is a graduate of the Iowa State Normal and so by
education is thoroughly competent.
The people around his home want to see Mr.
for Clerk of the District Court.
Thos. Hudgens is running on his merits, He
is no doubt the best qualified man in the race. He
has a thorough education. He is a student of such
things as the business of running governmental
affairs. He has a knowledge of law that is needed
in the office he is asking for.
Thos. Hudgens has been talking and working
for economy for years. He favors the things that the
people want now and has favored them for years.
Now when the public sentiment is awakened and the
time is ripe to put these sensible economies into prac-
tice he has asked for one of the offices for the first
time, that he may assist in carrying out the will of
thosewho ejjJjgeng has helped to mould this public
demand for fewer offices and less expense in the con-
duct of county and state and even national business.
Mr Hudgens comes from a part of the county
that has not had anyone in a county office nor has
nslpd for one before for several years. The people
over in his part of the county feel like asking the rest
of the county to grant them thl» Kcogmtlon thlj y«r
by electing Thos. Hudgens clerk of the District
People where Hudgens is known are going to
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vote for him, regardless of party politics in many in-
stances. . ^ TT .
Thos. Hudgens is a staunch Democrat. He is a
progressive, alert, pushing Democrat of the pure and
simple kind who believe that the Democratic party is
now the hope of the nation and the common people
of the country.
No one can go wrong if they support and vote
for Thos. Hudgens for Clerk of the District Court.
He is a man who represents the farming and laboring
classes of voters. . ...
Thos. Hudgens was raised on a farm and dia not
get the big head and commence to look for soft snaps
when he had acquired a college education, but re-
turned to the farm and has been farming most of
the time since. , , . .
He has farmed all the time since he came to
Washita County nine years ago, and he has spent
the money he made farming in the county, improving
his farm and paying taxes like his neighbors.
He won't get stuck up and acquire extravagant
ideas just because he has a county office. He wants
to see how much good he can do for this county wlu.c
he is one of the occupants of our fine Court House.
He believes that a common laborer and mere
voter in this county has as much right to enjoy visit-
ing the Court House, which belongs to the people, as
a high-salaried county officer has and it is the duty
of the county officer to show every courtesy to the
citizens who happen to be at the county seat and in
the Court House on any business.
When you go to the polls on August 6th vote for
Thos. Hudgens for Clerk of the District Court and
you will have a man in that office who is in every way
fitted to perform the duties of the office in the most
acceptable manner and who will save the county
every cent he possibly can while he is in office.
Phone or write to the banker, the editor or any
merchant in Colony and ask them what about Thos.
Hudgens for Clerk of the District Court.
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Seger, Neatha H. Colony Courier (Colony, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1912, newspaper, July 25, 1912; Colony, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc941888/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.