, 1880-10-09
Political Trading.
EDITOR STATESMAN:

EDITOR STATESMAN:
An honest and intelligent voter dislikeS
to put into a ballot box a ticket which lie
SUSPECTS WIS "cut ami dried before the
primaries and likes still less, with such
a ticket III his hand to hear the party lash
cracking over his head he is justly sus-
picious Of the lyon tickle ME and tickle
you" process of packing conventions and
making tickets-in o;her words he shuns
and abhors everything which looks like
r,n. rule
Every voter seeks To know how and
why each name "ccupi.s the place 1t does
on q ticket why this ar that convention
acted as it did - Straws show VIII ch
way the ulnd blows So trifrs indicate
the motive which animated this or that
convention.
The lat democratic convention held
IN this county MAS sinsularly distinguish
ell forits desire t" put the man best fitted
fer an Office as !, candidate for an otilce-
We hardly think as much can be SAID If
The X. publican c'invrn'ion held Just be
fore 1t, and we think some reason for IFS
defect III this can he found in the MANNER
Of is constitution.
Very early in the presen. campaign, it
was sad by f.icnas Of one Of the prssenr
nominees for uei, gate: If the people
vIsh It he will again he candidate y
When other candidates for this moan m
tinn We're mentioned, those friends kHOur-
ing The eople wanted ihe:r man feared
the peppl, knew 1t not, and so preceded
in d,vers ways to teach his srspe 10 the
people. A Young Mems Christian Asso-
ciatlon, a. league "f a similar nature,
WIS or.an.zed at rhr >us.esrion If "drl-
e.ate from OH :" Excluding from mem
hership the tue and ri d old settlc,,
they proceed ii to acrively spread tn
glad tidings the Brents KINGDOM is COM
,n:." ..t--.
A pilgrimage WAS m,de TO Columbia
c.,un'v by 9 misSi. mares t. cnnvert the
heathen # that land. We presume they
de ivered short but effective discourses
from text Ia be fNnd in she fiis chap
ter Of - the lessons ON the Balcony, y
- He dad no harm therefore he must Rave
| done some good' The missionaries re
turned from III ir good work /; the Walla
WaIla primaries were held the young
men We're active, exceedingly 81, and IA
ticket head d BY ''OMo' became delegates
Ia the Republican convention. Thiscon-
venti'n lHe', put forth a ticke. ami ad
journcd Ii was what it was through tlIr
''wre workings" f the young men and
the missionaries" This convention,
thus constituted, wanted nominee for
delrgate "becau e he did no wrong a
missionary for andiror, his deputy as
Prosecuting attorney, his hrother-in-law
for .nnciiman, and as q candidate for
sheriff a man who, TIVE years agn was a
candidate for nnmipa,r'u as auditor, and
members Of thu Young Mems Association
for representative and assess T. This
about eIhausrs II this ticket the Iucra-
tive and honorable Offices usually sought
after.
Now We ask in all sincerity does not
this look ike the work OF clique, does
~ ip"h ds tuS WI VI q dCUiiNcitfDn SllbuiG!
These may be good men, this ticket
may be acceptable to the voters, but 1t
made up by irrrigues and comb.narions it
cannot be elected In Walla Wal.a county.
The ''wire working delegate" the '.mls-
S Onary and the ''Ohi, man Will, on the
morning after the elecrion learn that all
they lacked was votes enou IN" N.i'h-
er the nest integrity Or sbi ity of any
candidate on the democratic :lchet can be
called IN question, rhey aIe men shn have
seen this country grow. and helped t.
make IT what II Is They ali pay taxes in
Walla Walls County which is more than
ean he ssid III a number of candidates on
the republican ticket. They are, not seek
ing Office a, the hands OF the people,
whose government they do not help T..
support; more than this they are selected
by party, not a clique. and people not
faction ~eg Gsct d=m - Ei :. l.