, 1882-11-04
How are You Going to Vote

IL, Delepate to Congress and the different
county Offices, and the all important
question is placed at the head OF this ar
,icle Politicians are saying tha. the SIT
,,;on !. not without its element OF I'M
Perhaps that is fact We
find tha, dissfected Republicans-that Is,
no, sati,fed With their county ticket as a
whole, are saying they are net afraid to
vote for Democrat, and we ind scores
% Democrats who are not essentially
noliticisns, therefore are refeIE.ars, and
belong to a school which shlilesIh teaches that it is
not first duty to hold allegiance to
party-who will very eheerfully vote for
a good man for the place he seeks, though
he may be Republican. These are gen
tlemen who do not make politics busi-
ness or trade. And We have here in this
county three classes: the professional poll
tician; the disinterested and patriotic CIT
izen who votes for men, and the wholly
Indifferent class. Out Of this state Of
things grows the uncertainty spoken OF.
But We believe the middle class, who are
politicians for the sake Of future good ad-
ministration of county and territorial at
fairs, will be found to greatly outnumber
the politician who IS such for spoils mere
", and that the result of the election will
prove the STATESMAN to be correct in this
assertion. Political managers are learn
ing that government comes of opinion;
that the rank and file do not propose to bc
coerced into voting for nominee because
he happens to belong to certain party,
and that they do intend to carry their
thoughts into action on election day. We
have but one issue at the coming election
We have no prohibition issue, with hot
headed zealots; We have no division Of
county issue, indeed there is but one point
to which the attention of voters can be
called-ftness of the candidates. That is
the chief, in fact the only question. The
STATEsMAN's position has been and is to-
day, and it will be until the fight is over,
that, the present County Commissioners,
the Auditor, the District Attorney and
the Sheriff, are the right men in the right
place. We do not care for any party ser
vice these gentlemen may have performed,
but the manner in which each has admin
istered the duties of his office, entities him
to reelection.
But, asks one, what about the Court
House Cheat" charges, il the new publi-
cationl This: The new publication estab-
lished protectorate over a certain fac
ton for no other purpose, no higher mo-
tive, than to elect its editor, Mr.. Budd,
aDd one or two of lis clique. The first
editor belonged to a school, now etfete.
which holds allegiance to party to be the
first duty of citizen. He adopted a po-
htical syllogism like this-This policy will
win votes; whatever will win votes is
right, ergo the policy is right. How did
it work. For a week he spluttered forth
half column each day, heading 1t the
Court House Cheat" without making a
single tangiblepoint, except the one for Ii
bel. Finally, intelligent, sOber-minded
friends put stop to it. Nobody believed
a word of what was written, and they SAW
as clearly as the now ex-editOr, that 1t
was an attempt to make an issue, where
not scintilla-his word-of foundation
for it existed The most conclusive proof
of this, was its sudden abandonment. If
there had been the least truth in the
charges made, the new publication would
have produced it, and reproduced 1t. 1t
was a mere pretense, and had to be aban-
doned, because public sentiment CON
demned it as such. And We shall be much
mistaken in the temper of this people, ii
this very attack on good and reputable Of
ficials and citizens and the admission of
the falsity of the charge, does not rebound
and shelve the would-be Attorney. II
should not only do that, but exalt the
attacked in the minds of this public.
Then the new publication proposed TO
kill off Major Truax. He was gentle
man enjoying great popularity and could
command large support. The new pub
ication went at him. In day or two
the editors were called upon to eat crow
and they did it manfully in this wise