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The Independent, Goldendale, WA., August 27, 1914, page 1

F.P. VINCENT IS PIONEER RESIDENT

Frank P. Vincent, candidate for the office of County Assessor on the Republican ticket, is a native of Ohio. He received an academic education in the public schools of Beverly, Washington County, Ohio. Mr. Vincent is a pioneer of the Northwest and has lived in Klickitat county for 28 years. He came to the Walla Walla Valley in 1882 and located at Milton where he engaged in the furniture business for four years. In 1886 he came to Eastern Klickitat and took up a homestead near Dot, afterwards engaging in the stock business which he followed successfully together with farming for 21 years. In 1907 he retired from active participation in the stock industry and purchased a home in Goldendale, but still retains his wheat farming in Eastern Klickitat.
He is one of the principal stockholders in the Farmers Union Warehouse at Goldendale and is a director of the concern he has taken an active part in the business policy of the Company. The Farmers Union went into the grain business in the Klickitat Valley in 1908 and two-thirds of the grain marketed at Goldendale is handled through the Farmers Union.
Mr. Vincent has endured the hardships and vicissitudes attendant upon the opening up of a new country which has given that the pioneers of the Pacific Northwest the reputation of being the cleanest class of people in the country. He has always taken an active interest in the development of Klickitat county along all lines and seen the county advance from frontier settlement to one of the most prosperous counties in the Evergreen state with a rating in the 15th, class, an assessed valuation of over $11,000,000.00 and a population of over 10,000 people.
Having extensive realty holdings of his own he has kept throughly posted on land values in Klickitat county and if elected proposes to make an assessment based on bonified values. Owing to topographical conditions the character of the land is more diversified in Klickitat county then perhaps any other county in the State of Washington. Plainly speaking the Assessor of Klickitat county has to place evaluations on more different lands than any other Assessor in the state and to do this it is absolutely necessary that the Assessor be a man of sound judgment with a practical knowledge of present day conditions.
Mr. Vincent does not believe that people investing capital in the actual development of lands in Klickitat county should be "taxed to death" or assessed on inflated values, but should have an even break with the old timer.
If elected to the office Mr. Vincent promises to take hold of the work in the office and make a hand himself at all times, thus eliminating the item of deputy hire except when it is absolutely necessary to employee extra help to facilitate the work of the office. In other respects Mr. Vincent promises to keep the expense of conducting the office as low as possible in keeping with the present slogan of the taxpayers for economy. He has made no pledges for deputy hire but will employ a a skillful deputy to work in the office if elected and his deputy will not be a member of his family.
In politics Mr. Vincent has always been a republican and has taken an active part in the local republican organization in Klickitat county. He has never before sought an office. Mr. Vincent got his first tax receipt in Klickitat county in 1897 amounting to six bits for taxes on a cow and homestead improvements and two dollars for poll tax. His taxes before he sold out the stock business in 1907 agreegated $250.00 a year and his taxes on property that he now owns are $84.00 as per the current tax rolls in addition to taxes paid indirectly as a stockholder in the Farmers Union company.
The record of Frank P. Vincent as citizen, farmer, stockmen and businessman stands as his best endorsement before the taxpayers of Klickitat county for the office which he is seeking.