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Li1 L!«Ii (I.!)inr, ! 1JEFF FARR OF HUERFANO GO,Phys! ally, !11i :'ly. politicalI v, Jof fe r‘ *n i i .; i i * I luorfano j I ’•» »i • ( i«i) t y i * «* 11 * (•! tin* i 11 g iiii’ii i'' 11the slut* »ii ('oloraco. I joulv al I ^ liim sqt: tr !.\ or at any angle, | !n from La iou . i noni abo\o lt;i’ behiml, a i-l.w ran^v or al a distance will* a pa i rot strong binoculars ami .loll !/ar of Wal-sonbtirg looks b ' g. lb- is a big man in southern t olorado \v!io|( has boon doing big things. liewill ke: p on lt;!oin^‘ 'iig things and being a i epublie m.Las Animas county points wit h pride to it^. record, tic- banner Republican countyot tin- slate, but. how about Huerfano? fan anyone remember when lirefano county faillt;*(l t land in tin* republicann coin mu w hen tin • \ ntos were counted': f a n any one remember when Jefferson lb was anything else t han n big. smiling, good natured. hard working Republican:- We trow not.The Hit me* oJ Jeff F'n rr lias I teen linked with I ’lt;•]■ublir'au victory for more than fifteen years. When the state was Democraticas it is now. Huerfano county.%thanks to the iiidefmigil.de efforts of Jeff Karr kept on being * Republican county. And JeffKarris the acknowledged loaderof the Republican party in Finer fano county a man of parts, as the time-honored biographer is in the habit of saying.Jefferson B. Karr is sheriff of Huerfano county. Flo lias been sheriff term after term since about IvSOH. Some J thal timelie lias been Republican countychairman. Some of the time hehas been.u state committeeman, but he has always been activeand loyal in the ranks, a standard bearer of the G. O. P. His unceasing efforts and fidelity have kept Huerfano county in the Republican column where it belongs.Aside from being sheriff Jeff Farr has never sought political preferment in the state. Time and again his name has been suggested as state chairman but lie always declined the honor. Time and again his friends have boosted him as a candidate on thestate ticket, hut he has always refused to have Ids name presented to the convention. For the first time, after serving the Republican party faithfully andwell for two decades, I’arr seeks the first recognition lie has ever aspired to. He wants to go as a delegate from this district to the national Republican convention to be held at Chicago next JunoAside from his political aetivi ty Farr has been a factor in the np-building of Huerfano county and the southern part of the state. He has varied business interests. Flo is a director of the First National batik of WaJsen-burg, stockholder in numerous mercantile concerns and a stockman.He has been identified with a number of large and successful irrigation projects which have materially aided in the development of the community.Certainly if t his dist rict of the state is to name one of the delegates from Colorado to the na t ional convention. no man is more entitled to the honor than Jefferson ! ». Farr of Huerfano Co.A man who has never failed to deliver the goods for the party, who lias a wide acquaintance and a large following and who has always Peon a Republican, is the kind of man that would honor the party and this state at the convention that nominates a national standard bearer for 1012. Chronicle News.
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The Springfield Herald
Springfield, Colorado, US
Fri, Mar 08, 1912
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