The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-09-24
County Politics.

We have never known time when candidates
were so cautious about making 1t known that
they were candidates. They all seem to be afraid,
and waiting for something to turn up. Both
County Conventions are now called, and yet no
candidates are TO be found. To be sure, we hear,
in q roundabout way, that it is probable this or
that man will be q candidate; but so far as this
or that man is concerned, he keeps remarkably
silent. Perhaps it is better 80. With less seram-
BILE, better officers may be secured.
We are free TO confess, that as we creep up in
years, and feel oarself growing old, we are not so
cranky we used to be political issues IN lit
tie local Offices, that have no connection with
politics. We are even willing to admit that we
have found many good and honest men among
the Democrats, who were estimsble citizens, and
Trustworthy in every respect. We used to SIT mp
of nights, studying out hard things to say against
Democrats; and yet, aside from their politics,
which we do not believe in, we have found them
to be pretty much like other people-if no better,
certainly no worse. In State, Congressional and
Legislative elections, where party principles are
at issue, we want to see Republicans elected; but
in little County Office having political signi-
icance, we cannot see any great calamity in a
Democrat filing one occasionally.
For instance, now, there is our friend Wilkinson,
in the Probate Judges Office. He is not Dem
ocrat to hurt much, for he voted for Lincoln; but
we believe he calls himself sort of Democrat.
Well, we have tried to impress it upon the minds
| of leading and working Republicans, that the
very wisest thing they could do, would be to
make no nomination for Probate Judge but let
Wilkinson have q free race for it. We know this
will be distasteful TO some of our friends, who
want the Office, but we believe We are on the
| right track. 1t is patent fact, (althOugh we
may give offence in asserting it,) that Wilkinson
is the only man who ever held that Office in this
County, that was fit to hold it. He is a lawyer,
and his penmanship is excellent-and in consider
alton of the fact that the Probate Judge must be
his own clerk, these two qualifications are The
main points. He understands his own records,
and others understand them; and he has done a
predecessors ineligible.
We think that Judge Wilkinson deserves the
tribute of having no opposition, upon his merits
alone. But there are other considerations Had
Judge Price been nominated for Congress, he
would have expected to receive a very large
Democratic vote in this County-and he would
have received it. Let us show them that we
can give as well as ask, for the time is coming
when we shall want just such favor. Indeed,
since we think of it, the Democrats are already
ahead of us. For years, they have refrained from
nominating man against Frank Brown, when
he was each time the Republican nominee, be-
cause he had filled the Office faithfully and ac-
ceptably.
We repeat, we believe there is good doctrine
in what we have said above; and we kHop we
have expressed the sentiments of great many
Republican voters.