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Our Candidates.I VAX I). ROGERS.r*op]t lt;**ndM iir ior County AttnrMyThe county attorney is mienf the most important fo Jhe people of all lie officer* provided I- *r by oltr constitution. Jleemi make end! i-ss costa: lie can arbitrarily u*c pernicious power or lie can d that which will redound in the imprest or the people. a he will**.The candidate of the silled silver forces Is .1 young man of honor, integrity and ability.Iv.t i. Roger* was born in Cranford county. Pa., April 8. 1863, At the age of ten, ill* parents moved toi middle Tennessee, where They lived until the spring nf ifffii, when father and sou came to Kau-a- in a ’‘prairie schooner,” locating in the northwest corner of the auunty—Eden township In 1335 Ivnn proved up a claim In Clark county ai.1 *Md it during the! booni. Hr attended -choid in Kort| ScoM. graduating in He ;it tended Inw school at tint At ole university unc year. Ii -came to Wellington io .Turn*. 1 *. continuing Hi law?tndir* wliu Judge Rcrrk-h. He was admitted to the bar in It-'tv'tnbor,In 1893 he formed a partnership with IV. W Hvbwipo, with \-!iuU! lie con-tinned f*ir tfver a year, and then hung out his slunjtlc alone, lie was m r-1 ricd in HfW to urn? I Rocn township's \ gifted daughter* and lu the fall of the | same year wa nominated for muoty attorney. Our |*et»pto know him. pretty wdl from date. Hew;., defeated by II L. WimmIs, his present opponent, by 3W3 votelt;. 200 I !h n the nrenige majority.Xcarly ill the people of Sumner’ county know Ivr.ti Rogers by this! time. They xouiv ht« industry, his competency and his unswerving into:-r*ty. He has not been nblt* lu make a: campaign for himself this year, be-causa hlt;» puny entrusted the deull work of the campalgu to hi.- hands. [ Since the campaign opened lu- lias spent imariy tltt* whole of Ills time to conduct lug the campaign-writing ; letter*, luakir.'updau-* form rot lo^,prep.irtng advertising mutter, distributing litera* re and deviling ways and tneaus. Some have wondered vliv he was ool in the canvass. Till* I- the rtuton. lie ha- dime more uctu.il work for the naiii» ill!.* year than a»/ other man in the county. If elected, as he is sure to lie. he will make the hirst couut;. attorney thecounty has ever had.As an evideoco of his character andability .-» a lawyer, wt quote the following reference to him In the Wellington Daily Mall of September il.1885:Ivan D. Rogers is to be especially congratulated upon the acquits! of dD client, Jim Talbott. Mr. Rogers Da young practitioner and ihD is his ilrst criminal case. AoJ while lie was assisted by Mr. Crank of Denver, yet It is only Just to Mr. Rogers to say that the principal burden of the defen**- i was upon Ids shoulders. Pitt* d against him were the county atn*rnlt;,. —a cipher comparatively it’d true— but iie wa* assisted by Ins father, who is in experienced prosecutor, and by 0. E. Elliott, who Is generally regarded as an able and peculiarly fiangerous antagonist ;n ;i criminal trial, especially before w jury. Mr. Rogers' management of the c.i-e, particularly in thlt; last trial, was able and skillful and hD victory against -JkjIi odcD D out* that i much older in«i more experienced lawyer would have Just cause to be very proud of.
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Peoples Voice
Wellington, Kansas, US
Thu, Oct 22, 1896
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