Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-07-20
Be Careful How You Vote.

central committee and the fall cam
paign may he said to be commenced, a
campaign that means much to Dlckin-
son county.
AS the time for the selection Of a
county ticket approaches, the Republi-
cans are casting about for the most suit
able persons to lead them to victory in
November. The personnel Of the Re-
publican ticket is a matter Of supreme
importance TO its success. The Popu-
lists can nominate any kind Of a
ticket with the assurance that 1t will
receive the unanimous support of that
organization, irrespective Of the in.
diyidual character Of those who COM
pose 1t. Not so with the Republicans.
The people have always demanded
from the Republicans q clean, pure,
honest ticket. And when we have
been so injudicious as to place men Of
questionable repute upon our ticket we
have invariably met with deserved
defeat. Our past experience ought to
be to us a profitable lesson. There is
only one royal road to success for the
Republicans. Nominate pure, clean
ticket, against no individual member
Of which word can be uttered aud
there is no question about our triumph
in November.
The Intelligent and better classes Of
voters are to apt to be Indifferent as to
the result Of the primary election,
which selects the ticket. There is only
one place where the Republican voters
select their candidates, and that is at
the primaries. And the man who
neglects or refrains from taking part
in the primaries, deprives himself of
all part In determining who shall be
the Republican nominees. lie must
either vote for such persons as those
who attend the primaries place upon
the ticket, or he must bolt the
ticket"
Let every Republican in Dickinson
county resolve that he will use bis best
endeavors to place before the voters In
November ticket in which there ia no
guile, ticket on which there are no
political schemers, a ticket on which
there are no political mendicants, a
ticket on which there are no profes.
sional oilice.seekers.
It will not do for us to select a man
simply because he wants the Office and
has the cheek and the unscrupulousness
to manipulate the wires so as TO secure
the nomination, irrespective of the
wishes Of majority Of the Republican
voters. Such n course but invites
certain defeat for such q candidate and
is fraught with imminent danger tC
the entire ticket.
We cannot afford to place upon our
ticket any shining marks for our polit.
ical opponents to shoot at. We cannot
afford to place upon our ticket any
man who Is not In sympathy with tn,
principles which have always charac
terized the Republican party when 4
has been successful. Obedience I,
law, temperance and morality ar,
indispensable qualifications in
Republican candidate for Office il
Dickinson county. IL would be wors
than suicide to place upon our ticket
man who SCOTS at and has no respec
for the Christian religion.
1t is worse than folly to place upol
our ticket man who winks at o
O )nnives with the lawless element O
the community. 1t would invit
certain defeat to place upon our tickle
frequenter of joints, dives an
gambling holes. 1t would hazard tn
success of the entire ticket TO plac
upon 1t mar who would be suspecte
of compromising with the criminI
classes in order to obtain their vote
1t would be ruinous to place upon on
ticket man who either from incapal
ity or dissemination cannot enforC
the criminal and police laws of Il
State,
! We would far better face these In
= portant truths before than after Il
primaries, If We ignore them in Il
selection OF our candidates We will
I defeated in November, as we shou
i be.
But there is no reason for any slC
;. blunders to be- made. We have with