Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-10
FRIDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 10. 1886

The Sunday News y. VIM. n Whiteley'
We suppose that everything Is fair IN
politics. as in war. Where the sole obJect
is victory. the passions Of the c"ntendlng
narties must be wrought up. by whatever
indictments. to SIay the enemy. And the
enemy must be painted in the blackesI
cninrS. however false, 50 As TO seem 10 de-
serve Staying.
Hence We are not surprised To find The
!Springfcld Sunday NGIrS. which Is pos
sesSed of some smart editing, engaged IN
the attempt to identify the republican party
i'm this district with the perSonaflniereStS
Of Mr.. William Y. Whiteley. We are not
surprised 10 find it attempting TO show that
this Mr.. Whiteley is the republican party i'll
Clark county. and that a republican victory
in the congressional election of the eighth
district would he his victory.
But the logic with which the Nc,rS goes
about this attempt marches on cruicheS The
district is confesSedly republican by large
majority. The republican candidate was
nominated by acclamation- Why, then,
should he not be elected? There Is no pre-
tense that the nominating convention was
made for anything else than To reflect the
party's will. There is no pretenSe that any
man or set Of men had anything 10 do with
running il in his or their own Interests. II
nominated Kennedy because his was the
only name before it, and because II wanted
him. Why, then, should not the party vote
for him?
The Illogical answer is that one William
Whiteley. of Springfield. Clark county, is
believed Ia be also going 10 vote for him.
We hope and believe that William will do
50. Williams vote will count for as much
a. any other mans. Ii would seem 10 be
better that William should vote
right than that he should vote wrong.
Though William may have acted wrong III
some instances. that would be no reason
why he should vote wrong. We trust he
will vote for Kennedy. And we hope every
other republican in the district will do like
wise We see no shadow of a reason why
any republican should permit his own voting
10 be- determined or influenced by that OF
some other man. William Whiteley may
be good authority on what he tondly and
proudly calls Champion Reapers;" but
we do not learn that he is accepted aS the
final authority on voting. We do not know
that he sets himself up for that.
On the contrary, a the NeWS
cracks its own logic on the head
by admitting, Mr.. WhIteley is 10 modest of
his merits as an authority on voting that, in
the language of the Neir~. his personal
organ dares not favOrably mention the name
of single republican candidate " for fear
of - defeating him in a strong republican
county and district"
What greater mOdesty does the NcwS ask
of Mr.. Whiteley than that? According to
the NeinS, he is going to content himself
with simply exercising his right as
an American citizen and voting the
ticket of his preference. Surely, Mr.
Whiteey has done nothing that could dis
franchise him; and surely no American cit
izen will be 80 absurd a. To refuse 10 vote
for the candidate of his choice because he
finds some fellow he doesn't like, alongside
of him, voting the same way.
But, pipes in the Nc'rs. Kennedy is
Whiteley's candidate. How? The conven-
ton that nominated Kennedy was not
Whiteley's convention, was it? Ii was the
republican party'S convention. II was a
very spontaneous and popular sort of con-
ventiOn and the NerS does not and can not
charge that Mr.. Whiteley had anything
whatever to do with its proceedings. Nay.
the NCIcS admits that he has kept himself
80 much in the background with regard TO
that convention that his own personal news
paper ''dares not favOrahly mention the
name" of its nominee.
But did the convention espouse Mr..
Whitrley'S private quarrel with his work
men, No, it gave no sign or intimation that
il cared any more for Mr. William White
ley than for any other voter in the party.
What has Mr. William Whiteley's private
business to do with the politics of the
eighth district anyway?
Neither has General Kennedy ever init
mated by word or act that he cared any
thing more about William Whiteley than
about any one of the thousands of other
republican voters in Clark county. He is
Whiteley's candidate just as he is the can
didate of every republican in the district,
and no more. Who is this William White
ley that he should be credited with having
candidate for congress all TO himself?
it's ridiculous. This assumption that