The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-29

WIN shall De the next Representa-
from the SD District?
While this question will be decided
by the voters at the polls, yet it is well
enough to look briefly into the consid-
eratiOns which will control the average
voter in the exercise of his power.
Principal among the influences al
ready at work ard which Of themselves
will undoubtedly settle the questions,
1st. The party politics of the candi-
date and the candidates party"
I'd. Their views upon he~temper-
ance question.
Sd. The personal claims, past con-
duct, campaign statements, pledges,
promises, ETC., of the candidates.
1t is hardly necessary to further re-
fer to the first of these. Nor is it rea-
sonable to suppose that person who
is one thing to-day and another to-
morrOw-who assures the party that
makes him its candidate of the genu-
ineness of his Democracy by signing
an agreement to vote for its ticket
from Hancock down to constable,
while he promises another party that
he will vote as he has in the past for
none but temperance men without re-
gard to party-who insists to his Dem
ocratic supporters that he is as sound
in the faith as even the leaders who
compelled him to sign and endorse
their platform and their ticket, and
the same day assures members Of the
opposing party that their principles
are as "1edr to Ills heart as eUer," and
that he is still good and true Repub-
licau, and then to pacify friend, in
formed him that he signed and said
all these things with certain mental
reservations OF which he told the "boys
at the Time" but desired to have kept
a profound secret from the general
PUBLICAN at the best, command the
party vote, as none but already disaf-
fected Republicans will care to support
a man with such record. If decided
upon this issue certain and overwhelm-
ing defeat awaits the mighty doctor,
and stalwart Republican whom the
party and the people both can trust.
will be our next Representative.
Secondly, Our State at this time is
making mighty effort to incorporate
a temperance plank into it's organic
law, an effort which has already prov
en- popular with the people. The doc
tor at once mounts the popular wave
and hopes to ride thereon into the leg
islative chamber. He filings the tenn
perance flag to the breeze, shrieks lus-
tily for the amendment early and late,
and then sneaks into Democratic head
quarters, and after "pledging himself
anew to the traditions of the party"
boldly asserts that he in common
with his party, is and always has been
opposed to sumptuary temperance
laws. The fact that every enemy of
of the temperance cause in the Demo-
cratic camp is giving him a hearty
support will hardly draw honest tenn
perance Republicans to his assistance.
While on the other hand the straight
forward manly course pursued by Mr..
Stevenson will command the respect
of all without regard to party. Though
he has never made this question a
hobby nor does he expect to ride into
office upon the popular wave" which
it has excited, yet he has been recOg-
niZed from the first as an earnest sup
porter of the amendment and the people
can safely entrust him with the legis-
latiOn needed upon that subject. On
this issue, too, Mr.. Stevenson will be
triumphantly elected.
In regard to the third class of con-
siderations, we have intended from
the first to say nothing. Unnecessary
personal attacks upon a candidate does
more harm than good even in a politi-
cal campaign and is never resorted to
in respectable journalism. Nor will
we change our course in this respect
now, yet we feel that comparison of
the two men, as men would be unjust
to neither. When the hand of charity
is extended, or when the business in
terests or prosperity of the city and
county are at issue, where do these
men stand? The broad liberality of
one is marked and certain, but the
cold and chilling penuriOusness of
Mr.. Hendricks has always stood in the
way to retard and dwarf every enter
prise undertaken by our people. BY
his peculiar conduct towards those
with whom he has been associating,
by his grasping disposition and unfeel-
ing selfishness, he has compelled al
most every association Of which he has
been a member to suspend or expel
him, while Mr.. Stevenson remains an
honored member Of every society with
which he has been connected. Mr..
Hendricks comes before the people OF
this district with this record as man
and a citizen just ut time when he
had been ostracised and Stunned by
the Republicans, Of which he was "Off
and on" a member. And with what a
political record?. First an Abolitionist
of the old school, a radical Republican,
a Liberal, Greenbacker, or a Fusion
ist, he comes before US to-day the
standard bearer of Democracy in this
district, the only party which gave