The Russellville Democrat., 1892-03-31


if he i elected. Let us stop for
moment and think. Let rs imagine
II we can the mental agony Of the
poor aspirant for the nomination.
Fancy him from break Of day until
the dead hours OF the night when all
nature beside him is in sweet repose,
rushing hifher and thitheF from
house to house, from plantation TO
plantation, with flashing eye d1lated
pupil and bated breath now rushing
his weary steed along the
highway. over mountains, deserted
wildernesses or perchance he espies
some tilIer Of the soil away at the
back side of his Enclosure endeav0r
ing to exterminate some of the OBJ
staeles that stand in the way Of his
next wears support. Now he must
hitch his horse and wend his way
across the field, over clods, thereby
knocking the backing of Of his low
auartered shoes, this trip he must
take to grasp the brawny hand Of
Mr. so and so. He dislikes to make
this trip understand, but he must do
it or MIR. so and so will not vote for
him. This kind of toll is kept up
for eighteen hours out Of the twenty
four. at last he stops for the remain
der Of the night. He falls into a
nervous sleep to dream Of starving
in a desert plain, struggles with
monsters, and fights with demons,
he views grim death with all its hor-
rors and awakes to find that the bed
bugs have nearly exhausted his VI
tails. Next day he must do likewise
and so on until he has visited every
township in his county, he thinks
Aall's WELL but returns home to
find that his opponent is out on his
trail telling that he is not qualified,
that he is not true democrat,
will not pay his just debts and that
he will not carry half OF his own
township that he the second man J
has been there and knows whereof
he speaks What them Why the
poor fellow must make that same
round again and clear up these false
assertions if he can. and so 1t goes
until the primary, then he who Is de-
feated feels that it was not fairly
done and in many cases will cherish
a bitter hatred against his success
full rival and his nearest friends will
scratch the ticket in general cleo
ton. Thus the party is injured.
Now. we are tired, thoroughly tired
Of it and we believe the people OF the
county are tired of it and we believe
the office seeker is tired OF 1t and we
also believe the party is tired 81 IT.
Let our candidates for the nomlna
ton announce in the papers and send
out their circulars if they wish, and
then stay at home and attend to their
business. then the peoples choice
will be nominated and the nominees
will feel that they have risen TO emf
nence through merit and those who
are defeated will feel that they have
been honorably defeated and will
have the satisfaction of knowing
that his home is not under mortgage
for the money he spent in the cam
paign. Let those who are candidates
for the legislature do likewise, only
as Rusticus says put out circulars
setting forth their views concerning
what should be done in the next
general assembly; if this be done we
will know what to depend on. We
would like to hear from other parts
of the county on this
subject, we think those who offer for
office would be glad to adopt it, OF
course one can't unless all do. We
expect to have some one from our
township in the race, we have plenty
of good material but we will keep
him at home until after the primary
if the Others will do likewise and af
ter the primary we are in favor of
q canvass to meet the demands OF
the opposite party if necessary. Now
we don't wish to leave the impression
that we are an Office seeker or ever
was candidate nor did we eyerhold
but one office, by appointment that
being chairman pro tenn OF debat-
ing society, on one occasion only, I
we rendered a decision in favor OF
the negative, this chagrinned those
of the affirmative and injured our
reputation so that we have never
held office since. But we still say
we acted on principle and we will !
stick to principle policy or no poll
cy. Yours Economically,
London, Ark, SINE DIE.