Sharp County record., 1888-04-19
ARE YOU THERE MORAIRITY?

Ed Rec RID: Spring time has come, the
political pot HAS begun to simmer and the
election draws on hpaae, The contest
bds falr to be the hardest fought battle
which he's occurred in Vears. Can the
democrats wiz? Most certainly tn y can,
Viii they wiz? That depends entirely
npon thens Ives We are in favor OF a
county convention The success OF the
demo ratic parry in Sharp county will de-
pc. upon proper and thorough urganl-
cation and upon the wisdom and absolute
fairness Of the nominations to be made
for the several 0tfi ;es to be filled at the
coming election. The thing to do is TO
nominate the best men inside the party
ines. Private ambitions should lie
tram pied under iooG when found" to- run
counter to the public desire. Be use a
man was candidate once and defeated is
no good reason why he should be can
didate again; and if the people want him
his former candidacy should be no bar to
second race, but we don't think it gives
him any claim upon a second trial.
There are men who seem impressed with
the belief t. at hav ng once been houorcd
with flee the pc pc are under obligations
TO carry them during their natural lives
and see that thev are deoently buried
when they die This ID all wrong, A
man is not deceutlv fit for an office who
can't make living out of Offi1e. True,
long service in off ice is honorable and cred
ta Bile to man when he has held it with
the hearty Endorsement of his conslituen-
cg; but repeated attempts to thrust himself
upon the people when they have notified
him in some emphatic way that they have
had enough is reprehensible. Loyalty
to party principles and intelligent advoca-
cy of them when coupled with personal
honesty and fitness for the position to
which he aspires are good and valid claims
to party preferment;' but these are not so
scarce as to give any one man a monopoly
of them. A man may be good man aud
a good democrat and yet for good and
Sufficient reasons not be good candidate.
The man whom the party wants is the
one for whom they will vote. It some-
times happens that the people will call
very loudly for particular candidate one
year and not him at all the next. This
is matter the people control and he who
who would undertake to control it for
them either in his own behalf or for an
other is certain TO meet with political
shipwreck. In conclusion we want to say
that if we have democratic ticket let 1t
he a nure democratic ticket. The demo-
cratic party in Arkansas owes nothing to
the ''gcozle greaser," aud the man who,
conscious of his own political weakness,
wants a nomination this year hoping to
float in on the tide, must be killed OF
early in the season. Give US men OF ster-
ling qualities, both political and personal.
Men who have been weighed in the bal
arce and not found wanting Men who
have never wondered eff after strange
gods. Men who have always been found
inside the democratic pasture, xho when
the picking" was good were there, and
when it was poor were still browsing
around content, never once attempting to
push eff the top rail or get ION the tence" "
and when strange cattle came believing
arou nd twisting saplings, paving up the
dirt and trying to throw sand in their
eyes, they needed them not, but peace
fully continued to chew the cud of democ,
racy. Aspiring candidate, are you such
democrat? Say, are you there Morairi-
ty? DEM 0. Graf.
Dusock, Apr. 10th. 1888.