CASS COUNTY'S POLITICAL CANDIDATES.

D. P. HOGAN

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Hon. D. P. Hogan, who is a candidate before the republican primary, has many exceptionally strong qualifications for the office he works. He is one of the most enterprising citizens of the county. Starting with no other resources except the friendships he had made and the habit of industry that he acquired on an Adams county farm, he has built up one of the strongest banking institutions in the county. While succeeding himself, he has given freely and enthusiastically of his time and money to everything in his community for the public good. He has served continually as secretary of the Great Massena Fair and has never received a cent for his services. He has the confidence of his home people as shown by the splendid vote that he received two years ago from the people among whom he has lived so many years. He received almost a unanimous vote in Victoria township both at the primary and election and almost as strong a vote in Massena and Edna townships. Although a first termer, he took a leading part in the last session of the legislature and if reelected will undoubtedly be chairman of the big appropriations committee next session. The appropriations committee next session. The appropriations committee is second in importance of the house committees. Mr. Hogan did such excellent work on that committee and showed such a grasp of the finances of the state, that the retiring chairman of that committee and practically all of the members have united in saying that he should be chairman next session. When Robert Henderson of Council Bluffs was elected state printer by the last legislature, he stated in the newspapers that D. P. Hogan, who was his manager in the House, was one of the three men to whom he most owed his election, which shows that Mr. Hogan has the energy, enthusiasm and capacity to accomplish things. The habit of getting what he goes after would be of great importance to Cass county and Atlantic if an effort is to be made to locate the proposed new Normal school at Atlantic. He has continually labored for the agricultural interests of the county and state as shown by his work for the Massena Fair, in getting better service on the Massena branch and by continually contributing and working for the Corn Belt Meat Producers Association, which has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars to the farmers and shippers of Iowa. The recent ruling preventing the proposed increase in the feeder rate was largely due to the efforts of that organization. There has never been a home institution, a worthy cause of a home man that has not received hearty and valuable support from D. F. Hogan.

From: Industrial Edition, published by Atlantic News Telegraph, Atlantic, Iowa, 1913, pg. 39. Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, January, 2015.

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