Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-02
LAST WORDS.

LAST WORDS.
Before another issue the election viii
have been held and the result declared.
It will then be too late to reflect. Those
whom we wish to address at this time are
the Republicans of Trego county, and we
will assume at the outset that We are all
Republicans from principle and will vote
the party ticket unless there exists some
good valid reason for doing otherwise.
A mere caprice. simple prejudice, per
sonal dislike, We think you will agree
with us, is not a sufficient reason for
refusing to support the regular nominee
of tho party. We cannot all have the
privilege of voting for candidates who
were our first choice in the convention.
We are not 80 constituted that it would
be possible for all to have the particu-
lar nominees for the several Offices that
We desired.
As we have had occasion to remark
before in these columns there were not
offices enough to 60 around. The candi-
dates were all good men and We felt that
the convention could not make serious
mistake. The convention was composed
of representative men from the different
townships, with the country town.
ships largely in the majority. Every
candidate had the same opportunity for
presenting his claims. In every instance
the country townships made the nomina-
tons. Wa-Keeney township alone was
divided upon the candidates for every
office. Other townships, as a rule, were
solid for their respective nominees. We
only mention this at this time to show
that there was no ring Of any sort in that
convention. The Democrats do not charge
that the convention was manipulated
by any ring and when they do not make
that charge in campaign like the pre-
sent one you may be satisfied that the
facts are very strong against them. In
fact that the charge is utterly and entirely
untenable. The cry OF "ring" is their
principal stock in trade and they usually
ring all the changes and variations upon
that word.
As respects location of nominees the
favors were evenly distributed. Three of
the best Offices in the county, to-wit:
register of deeds, county clerk and sheriff
we're given to Glencoe, Ogallah and Coll
yer townships respectively, Wa-Keeney
township receiving only one important
Office, that of treasurer. These facts cut
off another stale argument in common
use among Democrats in this county,
"That Wa-Keeney as usual has taken
everything" This argument will avail
nothing in this campaign. It cannot be
used and so far as We have heard it has
not even been attempted.
So for as the several Offices are con.
cerned, the Democrats, realizing that it
would be folly to make an attempt to
secure all, have concentrated their ener-
gies upon two-register of deeds and
county clerk. It is admitted by all that
the rest of the Republican nominees will
be elected. In fact a full Democratic
ticket was only nominated for the pur-
pose of trade and every candidate on their
ticket will be traded for these two Offices.
We will therefore speak more particularly
OF the nominees for these two Offices.
Geo. w. Cross is the Republican nomi-
nee for register of deeds from Glencoe
township, which, by the way, has never
had representative nor asked for one
among the officers Of Trego county. Not
word has ever been uttered against his
character nor against his ability to per-
form the duties of the Office. he is a
quiet, unassuming, gentlemanly man. He
is not politician in any sense, did not
want to become a candidate and only
yielded to the solicitations of his friends
from Glencoe and Riverside townships. He
is an excellent penman and in every way
qualified. The statement that he trades
in Ellis is SO baseless, as an argument,
that we will not sacrifice our self resrect
to the extent OF replying. When We take
into consideration the further fact that
Mr.. Cross has resided in this county for
ten years and that during that time there
has never been syllable uttered reflect
ing upon his honesty, integrity or capac-
ity We do think that if there is candi.
date on our ticket who deserves the full
and united support of the party it is Mr..
Cross. We are honest in this. We can
not think that any Republican will refuse
to vote for 30 worthy Republican with
out better reasons than any that has been
urged or can be urged. The Republican
party owes it to itself and they owe it to
Glencoe and Riverside townships to give
him the full party vote. We are work
ing now more for the benefit of the party