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THE FLATHEAD COURIER C. P. Cowman Printing Co. Publishers. Published Every Thursday a t Poison, Montana. Entered as second class matter Hay IStb 1910 at tbe poatoMlce at Poison, Montana. SUBSCRIPTION BATES One Year . . . . Koo StiMeatbi • - 1,1 T b m Mootbs • In Advance . sp k ia l rates Until turtber notice' three nonttas subeerlp- tlooe will be aeeepted at GO cents, nnd els month* at ll.OO ADVERTISING BATES Itie than 10 inehea one insertion lie yer laeh Orer 10 Inches one insertion .iSVie per inch TIME CONTRACTS Let* thaa ft inches .l*Kc per Inch per week Orer 5 Inches 10 eenu per inch per weeh. BUSINESS LOCALS I cents per line per Issue. Business locals will poeUvely not be placed on first pace or la I om I news columns. Cards of Thanks. Obituary poetry. Bt solutions of Rei Church entertainments for the purpoee ol raising money, ebatfed for at regular rates REPUBLICAN TICKET S tate T icket Congressman CHARLES S . PRAY Clerk pf the Supreme Court JOHN T. ATHEY Railroad Commissioner E. A. MOBLEY C ounty T icket State Senator E. M. HUTCHINSON Representatives GEO. H. GRUBB JOHN A. LEWIS . FRANK Li GRAY County Commissioner J. E. W H ITE Sheriff GENE HODGE County Clerk and Recorder H. G. SEELEY County Treasurer E. E. DAY Assessor . JACK JOHNSON County Attorney J. H. STEVENS County Supt of Schools MISS MAY TBUMFKB County S umyor A. T. WALTER 8 Coroner J. E. WAGOENER Public Administrator HUGH 8 WANEY Is r k Frees Ths T e « l i A D a ls M Seead Hark! Do ye hear It ye Democrat* of Flathead county? Hsrkl Do ye bear It y« Republicans of Montana? Ye hear it; huhv And doggone us if tsIn’tChsrles Hartman. Yes,slim, Charles S. Hartman of Bowman lias exhumed himself. Bmbalmen In amall country towns make queer mistakes sometimes. Tliey really ought to be under tlie control of the federal authorities. 'Tls even so ye scoffers and unbelievers, ye doubters and backsliders. Montana’s brainless wonder lias accomplished resurrection Slone and unaided. Ue has beaten Gabriel to i t and Is amongst once more He has done more than that—lie has been received with open arms snd loud acclaim as the new messiah of the Democratic party of the Treasure State. A in't that agolnsomell? Who ssys the Republican party Is losing ita old time vigor? You’ve gotta ahow us. Why, even Republican junk ts by these presents worth more than mere gold, But never mind, just watch Charlie’s smoke! Watch it fade into the dim blue distance as its owner hastens into oblivion as fast as his craeker-box chariot can take him. Which fading is scheduled to occur November 8 th next. Present indlca^ tlons point to an early start and a prompt arrival at tlie oblivion end of the journey. Scarecrows along the route are requested to stand bare headed with arms at the present pre pared to salute in the usual manner the passing of a Superior Officer. been in four years, two full terms in the county clerk’s office, and the vo ters feel that a.square deal would be to give Mr. Seeley a chance. They are right, too, for in the past, it was rare when any man could feel entitled to a third term in public office, and many a genuinely capable and popu lar man, refused to be a candidate three successive times, feeling the injustice of such a course. Mr. See* ley has never held a county office, snd is doubly entitled to honor under Uw existing circumstsnces. Mr. Hartman talks learnedly of “spineliM invertebrates.’’ Tliat’s wliat he csllsaome of hia one time re* publican friends, To get a plain un derstanding of just what Mr. Hartman meant wlwn lie used the expression, is worth sny man’s time snd trouble to discover. The easiest way, how ever, Is to stand in front of Ungentle* man’s picture and gaxe earnestly upon Uie stem face confronting you. To folks of an emotional nature one awlf t, fleeting glance will be suttclent to start the sob-machine agoing. I f Wbiteskls’s earner is ao unirn- pesobsMe snd lie wanted a debate, why did hs refuse to defend i t from the ssme platform from which I t was assailed? Here sre a few figures taken from tlie public records of tlie County. Clerk's oilleei that tell tlteir own story We recommend that every voter wlio lias time enough to make s personal sxamlnstlon of these figures, does so, before casting ids ballot. No other eounty in ths Sists of Montana show expense so totslly out of socord wlUi the business transacted. I t Is up to tlie tsxpsyen to see t in t such useless extravsgsnee is stopped forthwith. Bsvslll County, wltii an average bust ness of 910,000 per year employs ONE DEPUTY. Under tlw Young—Perry regime, wiUi tlie business lees than • 8,000 per year a force of four and sometimes five deputies Iiave been kept constantly on Uie pay roll Tlie table below shows such sn In* credible ststs of reckless extravagance that we prsssot without further comment. Previous Administration, 21 montlis to Oct. 1st, Total Business 814,199.48, Total Expense, 112 , 77500 . , Present Administration 21 montlis, to October 1 s t Total Business 813, 480.06, Total Expense 115126.62. Da- Tlie figures presented above relat ing to tbe previone administration, sre reproduced from s circular letter issued by Mr. Young and sent through out tlio eounty In the campaign of 1908. Tlie latter figures are exactly appesis on the County Clerk's records of receipts and warrants to ld, which are public records open to examination by any ons Interested. Whiteside, saan Issue In tlie present campaign, Is of little Importance. W liat he stands for is worthy of com ment, however* especially wben we atop to consider tliat lie haa accomp lished nothing for the county, nothing for tlie state, but a great deal for him self. Tlie things begins to look a Ittle different. His record Is plain, and i t ’s best endorsement a t tlie hands of his electorate can best be admlnls* tered on that part of Mr. Whiteside that liis mother used to. stroke with lier slipper. Remember that you must-register If you would vote at the coming election. Tlie last cluuice will b| Friday and Saturday o f this week. We cannot. -We will nrt permit our selves to be labled by a God-fearing public as a Megolophanous Necropoll- tanite like Hartman. But, oh, say I Watch we’uns put a cactus under that fellow’s coat tails next November. Senate Bill 59 as it bfecame a law and was so assisted In becoming by Mr. Hutchinson, does not legalize the tim ber land sales of recent memory. Even the infamous legalizing bill, which Whiteside himself tried hard to have introduced at the last session, would have failed to legalize anything. In trying to beemirk the character of Mr. Hutchinson, In this connection Mr. Whitealde cast a beautiful light on tlie motives of his own particular breed ot cats. His duplicity towards friend and foe alike Is so manifest in this Instance tliat even his farmer friends are asliamed of him. The Umber land sales alluded to were pat* ented in violation, not of tlie state law slone, but were a flagrant contra* ventlon of tlie terms of the Enabling Act. Uncle Sam himself has liere to be reckoned with. All tlie Whiteside legalising bills and senate bills would avail nothing to render valid Uie titles granted In defiance of tlie Enabl Ing Act. Whiteside In seeking mater 1 s! to use ss campaign smmunltlon, bit off m o n than heoould chew. Mr. Whiteside la no friend of tlie Amalgamated Copper Company. We havt only bla word for that, b ut tlien lie might come in lisndy ssa kind Of an animated door mat. Beteher we're right too.\ ed. Hartman spent twice as much time in congress and during ^ * introduced a total of ninety seven bills, but, queer as it may seem, on (our were passed. If he was cmly able to secure the passage of one bill. for each two sessions when he was In before what more could ne Whsn tlie votes are counted on November 8 tb, X . K. Stout will dis cover thst Uw people of Flstlwad eounty do not consider t in county attorney’s ofllce s kindergarten in which fledgling lawyera can play and sse wlietlieror not tliey are really lawyers. Tlie rtsurrectlon of Hartman Is aa otlier reminder of tlie old saying that “Fools jump fearlessly wlwre sngels fear to tresd.\ And it Is always thus Tlw cat came back, but tlie neighbors took It In. Hartman lias gone over to to the Democrats. We liope tlwy will be kind to It; It Is getting old now. I t used to be clesn in tlw house t ill Uw boys got to laughing at It, Yes, dear. Uwy will certainly put It out nights after Novembers. Whltealdo’s bluff on tlw debate question was called; snd now Freddie Is Iwllering “ foul.” In the midst of his Kalispell speech Mr. Hartman referred to certain re publican legislators as— \Those spine* ess invertebrates.” Whatdyouknow* aboutthat, eh? Them’s awful words, ain’t tliey? An invertebrate has no spine to begin witli. See? A spine less invertebrate, therefore, according to Mr. Hartman, is an animal without spine, that ain’t got no spine at all! Do you get that? Tlw expense of conducting tlw assessor’s ofllce during tlw year 1008 wlwn C. II. Moody was In charge of Uw office was 85,744.38. Tliat year tlw assessed valuation, exclusive of railroads, for tlw county was 10,325,803. Tlw cost of conducting Uw ofllce during Uw fln t eight montlis of tlw present year lias been 88,357.68 and tlw assessed valuation ia only 87,500,973. Mr. Tlwrrlault makes no explsnatlon of this sudden increase in Uw cost of running this branch of tlw county government And yet lw Is aaklng tlw voters to re tain him in tlw ofllce. What llw county wants Is a man who will do good work for a fair salary, but such expenses as Tlwrrlault haa Imposed on the county are entirely uncalled for. If he has managed In less than two years to almost double the ex* penses of the ofllce, a t the same time cutting down the assessed valuation, wliat would Iw do in another two years? The only argument so far advanced In favor of •Teck\ Forcum as a can didate for representative le that lw is s good engineer. Just why this la sny resson that he would make a good representative is rather hard to see. expected of him now? Mr. Stout admits that he has liad no experience as a lawyer but thinks he to about the smartest one in Flathead County. He may be. But it he has such confidence In himself, why doesn’t he get out and hustle on his own hook and show .people what he can do. If he to half as brilliant as he pretends to think he to, his light will quickly be recognized and he wont need any county attorney’s office. _________ __ Mr. Whiteside is making much In effectual and hysterical noise In his eagerness to pose as the friend of the farmers; but the farmers are getting onto his nibs and Its a cinch that Fred die’s political aspirations are going to receive a severe Jolt from hto once staunch supporteis. Tlw farmer hard to fool all tlw time. Whitealde snd his melodramatic diarlty In re fraining from competition with hto nelghbora te at last being understood, Tlw farmera are beginning to detect in tlw gentleman a friend wlio, while extending tlw glad hand on one side ia stringing them to the queen’s taste wltb tlw otlwr. I t you would vote, later. you must reg< Mr. Voter, are you interested in Poison? Do you think the deepening of Poison .harbor will be of any bene fit to tiie town? Do you know who secured the appropriation that made it possible to have the harbor deep ened? It was Congressman Pray. He Tlwre Is a persistent rumor that F. S. Perry, the democratic candidate’ for county clerk, is swapping Therrt suit votes for Perry votes, and that while here recently he accompllslwd considerable for himself by that means. _ ______ Tliat’s going to work all right for Jack Johnson, but wliat will Tlwrrt suit snd tlw reat of ’em think of Uiat. Ia It possible that Young, wlio to reported to Iiave threatened Tlwrrlault with defeat, to directing this game for a double purpoeef Whiteside ia no cheapskate. What then does lw lobby for? Whstdoeslw spend so much vslusble time beck of Uw spesker ’8 cliair for at every legis lative session in Helena? For fun? For sport? It ’s a dead Immortal elncli that lw cannot be working for hto farmer friends In tlw capacity mentioned. Wlio tlwn and wliat can It be tliat he Is so anxious about? For whom and what Interest* Is tlw gentleman willing to Invite suspicion snd calomny to fall on hto neck and overwhelm him, and that witiiout pay? Tlw devil only knowa and lw won’t tell. But tlw farmen are beglnnlnng to suspect that Uwre to a refinement ot grafting that Fred haln’t learned 'em yet. W ill tlw democratic candidate for Clerk and Recorder explain why that ofllce Is running tlw county in debt every month. Up, until twenty-one months ago tlw office had paid ex penses and put a nice aum into tlie treasuary.' since tliat, time It has cost the county over three thousand dollars beside the fees, and the fees have been twelve thousand dollan. And this expense comes wlwn the work of tlw office had been lightened by the witlidrawal of Lincoln county. In caae Uw unexpected should hap pen and Mr. Perry be elected it is an admitted fact, that tlwre would be no change In tlw office except Uutt Perry and Uie present clerk Young would diange titles. This would mean a continuation of tlw same extravagant policies that have made what has always beeu a paying office for the county another burden on the tax payers. I is a candidate for re-election and It is hardly fair to shoulder poor us every voter should vote for him. with the work of rendering into plain! has demonstrated that he can do Speaking about extravagance tiie assessor's office under candidate Tlier- rlault has gone behind about five thousand dollars in two years. Under Moody the assessor’s oillce in 1007 umi 1908 cost the county 811,257. Under ‘™ j Therriault for 1909 and 1910 the cost was *15,867. Will Mr. Therriault s h o e : r e p a i r s | A ll kinds of shoe repsir work neatly and promptly I O l e N y l i n | On C aireei betw e en 3rd and Oldest Established Bank on the Flathead Re F I R S T N A T I O N A L B A N K l POLSON, MONTANA. DEPOSITORY FOR STATE OF MONTANA 0. B. HABBIS, Pres. J J j . M c I n t y b e , Vicefc* A . W. F ir e s , Gsshler J . M. G obdon , Ass’t. Cuh£ A b u n d a n t Security Prompt Ser SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT , . O lr s s tsrs and Shsreholders Wm. Irvine J. L. Mclntlre. W. E. Wells, wo.* j . Ober, W. N. NoffMnger, p. B. Harris, H. Mllbank a ,I.] C R A M E R B R O i L U M B E R C O M P A N Y W h o l e s a l e (■ ■ ) ” : = ■ = U p r e p a r e d t o f u r n i s h a l l k i n d s B u i l d i n g M a t e r i a l Our new machines will turn oat as fine Uakrj can be made anywhere, so we can furnish s k ing from bottcm to top, just as wanted! If you with an esti mate for » build ing of any size, got It from us Consult your «rt Interest and p* ronize Hoim' dustry. OFFICE ON THIRD A V E TELEPHONE NECTION WITH YARD. PROMPT DEU.V D r s M a c d o n a l d a n d S m i t h 117 MaiaStraet Kalispell • • - Mont A. O. MACDONALD, U D ,C M . rin llM U s M to I m m aad Diseases W Weawa C.S.SMTH.M.D. G ssi oral P n d e a Specie! AtteaMea to Dieeasaa e l Eye, Ear, Naso wed Tkeel M r s . C h a s . Carries A F s I U h O ^ A rt Goods, Doft*( ter Pieces, PiDow( Embroidery Sfls CottoM LeeMtad forth* p a a S i i dance opposite U L C M l There Is Nothing Experimental About Our Optical Examinations E a c h E y e ' Is Examiaed separately and fitted with the lease it reqaiMe. TUeie on* advantue tlw t wa l i r a orer Rcwljr mad* Glasses which arc ■ada to sail aad n o t to coatract errors of visioa. Don’t b« reckless with ja a r a n s . They 'Certainly deserve the bast cara that can I We Teff You How To Care For Them C a r l B . T a y l o r \ - Mont Poison SEWING—Mrs. George Harrel will do sewing at her home two blocks south of square. The “Third Term\ medicine is rather hard to swallow, even for the friends of Fred Perry. Mr. Perry has I'OR SALE—Cheap a new second hand bjciclc. Inquire at this office. . ......... liave a- few hundred genuine English these long E y e t a 1 I 0 n things. On the ot her hand his oppo-1 P.6aSe expla,tl tllis sudden increase in j !v-nCef 111, 6,106 1>08te to dispose of. expression; but when Mr. Hartman nent spent eight sessions in congress * W C0St °* maintaini,'g liis oillce. Of v o n l l i e j r wiH last for starts in to scourge friends of our’n and during that time proved' that he C0Urse tlieie 1,as 1)66,1 added assess- with his own infirmity we gotta do' could not do things. Mr. Pray has' ments 1,1 tllis end of the county, but the withdrawal of Lincoln somethin. Spineless invert—no, no, j been in congress four sessions and we will not repeat that sesquipedalian during that time has introduced forty philological brauntosaurlan again. I eight bills, twenty of which were pass- more than offsets that. Have you registered? countv tfon!?' TSrC T bef0re tll(* ar« all gone l . L. Marsh, Mgr. Dewey Lum ber Company. If bonds .vou need surety or contract see Chas. E. Redeker. Tho • • M c D o n a l d H 29, 3d Arewet Kalispell, Naw, Splendid! Strictly Nona but Gradaete N®* Employed. MISS B. M. RYAN, I B O O M S T O f Nice, new furw *1 rooms at very r e * ^ rates b y or we*M month. C e n t r a l H o t e l South Security Bank W A N T E D To Buy A RelinquiihB'*\1 Real Estate Man Need Aff'f Address, , L. H. OATNE» Polion, Mf* General Delivery.
