Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-08-16
CANDID IF NOT COURTEOUS.
One who Makes no Bones About his
Methods Tells how to
Win.
Short cut to Political Success---Some
Fresh" Advice,

MR.. EDITOR:-I amt no writer
worth speaking of and like as not
l aint near as smart as you. But
sure as you live 1 can show you a
wrinkle or two about running a
newspaper. You don't know how.
Leastwise not here in Salem. Per-
haps you are young and green and
haven't travelled and got experience
like older men.
I'm talking about a campaign
paper, you understand. What
you've got to do is to make your
side win. The main thing is to
beat them other fellows. Well,
you're not half rabid enough to do
that. Take an old stager's advice
and keep your eye solely onto the
party and the postoflices. Don't
waste too much time a reasoning.
Call the other fellows donkeys,
fools and ignorant, and lay it on
thick. Don't you ever allow that
your political enemies has got a lick
of sense. And the worst thing you
could do is to admit that any party
but yourn ever had a spark of
patriotism.
If | was in your shoes I'd make
people believe that everybody as
differed with me on protection
wanted to shut up every mill and
workshop in the country and sell
the United States to Great Britain
for so much lump sum. I'd keep
hammering away on that string till
people would believe that the other
side wasn't American citizens and
didn't mean to let their own flesh
and blood have a chance to earn a
crust of bread nor a colored shirt nor
a calico dress.
If that didn't do you bet I'd pile
it on so thick it would soon appear
they wasn't hardly human beings.
/ mean them democrats and prohis
and labor fellows and American
party. Why don't you give Belva
Lockwood jess and then make be-
heve all the other parties is just as
cranky? The trouble with you is
you kind of allow that there's some
thing might be said on the other
side. That won't never do. That
is if your bound to win, anyhow.
And I see you sometimes give the
news about the other parties as if
they had any standing or rights.
Take my word for it you'll never
win on that layout.
Club'em, whack'em over the
head, bully rag'em, sneer at 'em.
Don't give 'em any show, keep the
dust flying all the time so they
can't see clear. Even suppOsing
there is anything to be said on the
other side, don't you ever admit it.
Keep only your own side before the
public and yell's loud as you can.
If the other chaps has got anyvirtues
or sense its time enough to admit it
afterwards if they should happen to
get elected. But they won't if you'll
be guided by me.
Don't give away a single thing
under the idea of being candid and
fair. ALPS fair in war and politics.
Nobody in his own party expects
you to be fair nor over particular
about truth in a red hot campaign
like this where we've got to win or
be busted. Independence does very
well between elections. Then l
admire it myself but there's no
time nor use for it now.
suppose you've got all shades
of politics among your readers but
they've got no right to expect you'll
give more than one kind Of news or
argument. And if they can't
stand it to be abused and called a
lot of asses and deadly enemies to
the masses, that sounds like poetry,
why what do they take your paper
for? So no more from yours for
victory at the polls,
JACK BLUNT.
pIrrKINvIILE- Anpnst 18th.