The Gray County Record from Ensign, Kansas • 1

Volume G. Ensign, Kansas, Thursday, October 28, 1920. Number 47 We Print all Official County News FIGHT AMENDMENTS TAYLOR STATES HIS STAND NO BANKERS NEED APPLY SUES FOR FIFTEEN THOUSAND Dimocratic Candidate For Slate Senator Wants Fewer Laws Alleged I. W. W.

Asks Damages For False Imprisonment What They Think In Edwards County A recommendation that comes from the Democratic paper, The Kinsley Graphic of Kinsley, Kansas, and edited by Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, one of the most quoted OUR TICKET WARREN G. HARDING For President. CALVIN COOLIDGE For Vice-President.

Will be Our Next Sheriff. From Hutchinson Daily News H. A. Dykstra, formerly a farm hand near Hudson, who was alleged to be an I. W.

and to have made disloyal utterances, and who was hauled out of the community by ex-service men of Stafford county, has now brought suit in federal court to collect $15,000 damages editors in Kansas, refers to the Republican candidate for Representative in Gray County, and reads as follows: "A Republican primary really is not our affair, except when it comes to a question of honoring our home folks who have moved Every voter in Gray county will, no doubt, be interested in teaming what the local candidate fop state senator, L. L. Taylor, stands for and in fact it is the duty of everyone to know. Mr. Taylor, who is a successful and well known business man oi Dodge City, represented Ford eounty in representa-ives in 3917 and 1918, during which time he was instrumental in putting through several important measures.

Ford county has never had a representative, either Republican or Democrat, in the state Tax Payers' League is After Proposal Which Threaten Tax Increases. Every county in Kansas in fact almost every township is to have a Tax Payers' League. A state was recently formed in Lyndon, Osage county, and headquarters will be maintained in that town. The purr pose of the league is to secure defeat of proposed amendments to the state constitution in the November election and to safeguard against amendments and state legislation tending to place unwarranted tax responsibilities on the Kansas property owners. All of the three proposed amendments are declared to be sehemes to increase taxes.

Adoption of the amendments, the league declares, will result in saddling upon the state millions of dollors in extra taxes. The pur from the town of Hudson. The suit was filed in court at ToDeka vesterdav. according tc Give Us a Few Laws In Favor of the Farmer The Bankers Havs Enough. O.

H. Hatfield, the Republican candidate for Representative of GrayCounty, is a farmer living near Copeland, and he tills the soil to earn his livelihood. He has the best interests of the farmer at heart, and i is for that reason that every farmer in Gray County should vote for him next Tuesday. If we fill our legislative balls with bankers and lawyers what chance will the poor hard working farmer have to get more than $1.25 a bushel for his wheat, even though it does cost him double that amount to raise it and get it to market. Think over these things, Mr.

Farmer, before you cast your vote next Tuesday We have too many laws on our statute books now in favor of the banker and grain dealer, now let us put some men in the legislature who will see to it that there are a few laws passed to favor the farmer. Think before you vote. Do not let us nor no one else de a telegram from there. Dykstra was loaded into an automobile hv PTc-sprvire mpn. it is alleged.

and literally hauled out of the state, relays of men taking him frnm one town tn another, and Charles B. Anderson, Republican candidate for sheriff of Gray County, was in Ensign Tuesday of this week looking after his interests as candidate for that office. Mr. Anderson is well known to many of our readers. He has cried many a public sale in this part of Gray County and has always given the best of satisfaction, and if elected to the office of sheriff he will give the same service in that position.

He is a farmer living in the northwest part of the county, and not being able to secure help to look after his farming interests he has not been able to make the canvass of the county and meet all the voters, and through this medium he is asking your support, and will appreciate the same. away. Mr, Hatfield grew up in this community and he has the respect and honor of all who know him. He is in every way fitted for the office for which he is urged to be a candidate having the educational and business qualifications for it. Ora Hatfield is a brot her of our Sheriff Hatfield who has made this county an efficient officer and if we lived in his county we should feel as if politics might be forgotten by everybody who wanted to vote for a man who would be as valuable in the legislature as this young man is sure to be." adv.

finally landing in Colorado. May Sue Six Towns Suit for damages is to be brought an attorney for Dykstra states, against each town which pose of the amendments is asserted by league officers to be part of a program to create new 1 senate since the state was organized. The present incumbent, France Price of Ashlaud, who is lunningagain this year, having held the position sixteen years In a recent interview, Mr. Taylor expressed himself as standing for the following principles: "Fewer laws and more enforcement. "Punishment of profiteers.

"Amending industrial court law, judges to be elected instead of appointed by the governor. 1 believe more good can be accomplished with labor through reason and common sense than through hgured the relayed transportation of Dykstra, including St John, Garden City, Cimarron, Lakin and Syracuse, six towns in ceive you. Where to Vote. all making aggregate damages of $90,000 if the same sum is sought from each. Dykstra claims in his petition that cn June 17, shortly after an "egging party" at Ellinwood, he went to Hudson looking for a Mask Social Postponed Owing to conditions over which we had no control it has been decided to postpone the masquerade social to be given by the Ensign Relief Association until a later date, of which mention will be made in The Gray County Record and postal cards sent to farmer for whom he was working.

He said a crowd had gathered The voting place for the Ensign precinst at the election next Tuesday will be in the Farmers Hall. This was made necessary to avoid having to dismiss the graded schools for two days- Do not forget the place. Come early and vote the Republican ticket as often as possible. The elect ion of Chas.B. Anderson next Tuesday means that Gray County will have one of the bestsheriffs in Kansas.

Adv. and that certain of its members To the Voters of Gray County. The support of my family depends on my daily labor as I have no other income, therefore I wish to offer my services to the people of Gray County as their Register of Deeds for another term. If you approve of my work and feel that you would care to hire me again, don't forget to make a cross in the square after my name on the ballot next Tuesday, Nov began to question him. In reply to their questions, he each member.

savs he told them he was for Mrs. C. M. Bratton, Pres. the right of assemblage, iree; R.

Smith for speech and a free press and that Vote for Joe sheriff. Adv. the ones who rotten-eggea me farmers at Ellinwood and cover offices and commissions for party workers who desire to live in Topeka at state expense. The farm tenantry amendment is declared to be a plan to force the state to" engage in the real estate business and permit dealing in land business with the tax payers money to bo spent by a political board of appraisers. The taxation amendment is declared to be for politics only.

The league asserts it would remove the present provision for equalization of assessment and put the tax problem entirely within the realm of politics and subject to manipulation by clever politicans and their interests. The hard surface road amendment is denounced a part of the scheme to add new tax burdens and create more soft jobs. Emphasis is given the fight on the amendments by the fact that both the Democrats and Republicans refused to endorse the amendments in their state platforms. In addition to its fisjht on tlu amendments, the lfasue will work for general legislation favorable to farming and business interests of the state and to safeguard against tax disturbances for political benefits. County ar, well ai township organizations are to be formed thuout the ed the American flag with rotten ember 2nd.

Your support will be appreciated, and I assure you that if I am eggs were guilty of mob violence re-elected I will take care of the office to the best of my ability. Respectfully, B. F. Clem. and violated the law." Then He Wat Mobbed At this" juncture," "Dykstra asserts, the mob seized him, beat, bruised and kicked him, placed force and intimidation.

"Prohibit the governor from! appointing members of the regis-1 lature to state offices during the term for which they are elected, i "Voters who pay the should say by their ballots i whether or not they want hard) roads. I am opposed to taking control of the construction of roads from the counties and giv-1 ing it to a bunch of state politicians. "Proper recognition and reward for all soldiers and sailors. "Reduction in taxes, making the reduction on the masses first. "'Opposed to compulsory military training in times of peace.

"Commission to thoroughly study the farm problem and recommend such measures as will aid in advancing the interests of those who till the soil. "Further extension of farm land bank laws, or measures that will extend proper credit to pro-' ducem of farm products. "Laws favorable to municipal markets. "One hundred per cent eff-ciency in our state government Unless we check the existing sys- tem of waste and extravagance him in an automobile and took him out of town. He stated in his written complaint that the Hudson mob disrobed him and' took him to St.

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state. Expenses of the fight are being met thru a membership fund of 25c by each leaguer. Officers of the league include: J. Lane, President; William Lyons, Secretary; and- V. C.

Bryson, chairman of the executive committee. with the Gray County Bank at; Cimarron. Mr. Farmer, be care- ful how you vote. Saturday Night, Oct.

30th. tn stite affairs and the appoint-1 ments' of political favorites to useless office we shall run head on into disaster." Adv. County Superintendent 1 Miss Earna HiMebrand. who is Vnorpnt nr Pnnnl fnm. Adv.

mtssioner. ifiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiniiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis A Scheme to Increase TAXES TO THE VOTERS OF KANSAS the present County Superinten-' dnt of Gray County, has made a very efficient officer. She has had the interests of the schools of the county at heart all of the time, and has left nothing undone to advance their inter-j ests. She is a pioneer in the! work of Consolidation, and hesj done so much along that linej that Gray County has become known all over the state as being one of the pioneer counties of the state in Consolidation, and peo- pie are coming from long distan- i ces to learn of its success. I She is soliciting the support of the voters of Gray County on her i record as an officer, and if re- elected she will continue the Three amendments to the Constitution of Kansas will come before the people November 2 for their approval or rejection, in substance as follows: 1 To saddle on the public an additional burden of debt for hard surface roads.

2 To enable the State to engage in the real estate business by purchasing a large area of land for cash and selling it on the installment plan. 3 To provide for a re-classification of property which would bring the question of taxation wholly within the realm of politics, thus affording the best politicians opportunity to give advantages to the interests they especially represent. Both Parties Turned It Down The bankers of this three-way proposition to boost taxes urged the Republican and Democratic party councils to endorse it in their platforms, but after giving the subject careful consideration both councils declined to do so. The Kansas Taxpayers made up of citizens in every part of the State, who actually pay taxes, earnestly recommend to their fellow taxpayers that they rote against the three amendments proposed, which, if adopted, would mean the expenditure of millions upon millions of dollars on visionary projects put forth by men who expect to obtain profitable employment on the innumerable boards, or in other offices which would be created. The-Kansas Taxpayers League Lyndon, Kansas Do you approve of the government of Kansas being turned over to radical and unscrupulous leaders? Do you want the Nonpartisan League, under the cloak of the Farmer-Labor Party, to join hands with the Kansas Democratic leadership and get control of Kansas politics? That! exactly what is being attempted at this time by a coalition of Democratic state political leaders and radical labor leaders of the Howat-Freeman-Willett-Stovic type.

An alliance Las been made by leaders of those two groups without the knowledge cr consent of the conservative, thoughtful rank and file cf either the Democratic party or the labor organizations. These radicaf labor leaders have captured the Democratic state organization and are using funds collected from the pay envelopes of organized labor to put speakers, pail workers and Nonpartisan League propo-ganda before the voters of Kansas. Radical labor leaders, the Nonpartisan League and the Democratic organization are fighting Governor Allen, the Industrial Court Law, and every candidate favoring this law comes in on their blacklist. Kansas voter, do you want to, be delivered ever lo this unholy alliance? If not, repudiate this coalition by voting the REPUBLICAN TICKET work she has so a blV started ofj building up the of the county. I She has done a great deal for 1 the schools in Ensign, and therr i is no doubt but what the people i 'of Ensign and vicinity will show! their appreciation of her work-j for them at the polls on Novem-; I ber2.

Adv. -j i Far ReprueoUtiTt I I am a candidate for Represent tative from Gray County on the 1 Republican ticket, at the general i election on November 2, 1920. a H. HATFIELD, Copeland, Kansas. lUx Social it Juab There will be a box supper and program at Jumbo, Saturday night, October 30th.

AH the girls are expected to bring boxes and boys with filled pocketbocls. I GOV. HENRY A. ALLEN. The Republican State Committee.

J. S. LANE, V.C.BRYSON, Chairman Exwrtrre Citi- WM. LYONS, Secretary miaiitf itf.