The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-10-20
THE TREASURERSHIP.
Pallacy Of Some Of the Arguments Being
Used in Favor Of Mr.. Fleming.
I. Jones a Thoroughly Trained
Business Man.

Party politics and individual cam
paigns are not always conducted on the
highest plane, which is much to be re-
GREETED, and not always are the motives
back OF certain methods OF campaigning
half as charitable or as much in the pub
lic interest as the methods used are
made to appear. We refer particularly
to certain methods Of appeal to voters
now resorted to by the opponents Of T..
L. Jones for county treasurer. His OPP
ponent Mr.. Fleming, appeals te the old
soldiers on the strength OF his army as-
sociations of which they are all proud
and for which every old soldier in the
county would vote for Mr.. Fleming,
were he not now identified with o party
engaged In trying to destroy in great
measure the very stability and prosper
ity OF that government which they
fought to perpetuate and have handed
down 10 ns. To others, Dir. Fleming,
and more especially bis friends and sup
porters, some Of whom pretend 10 be re-
publicans, apply the sympathy racket,
claiming that Mr.. Fleming is q poor
man and has need Of the Office while Mr..
Jones 10 a banker, well fixed and has a
good position, and furthermore that IL
Mr.. Jones is elected the Office would be
used in the interests OF the banks.
Laying aside for the present the qualifi-
cations OF the two men, and consider
this sympathy racket, let as see how far
y should operate in Mr.. Fleming's favor.
II is true, there have been men elected
TO office in Lake county on the sympa-
thy dodge and perhaps they were more
deserving of it than Mr.. Flemings But
that 10 no qualification OF a candidate
for Office or else the republican county
ticket as compared with the populist
ticket would be elected throughout on
that very basis. II the comparison be
made directly between Mr.. Fleming and
MIR Jones to-day on q cash basis, It
would not be difficult to show that ME-.
Fleming is the wealthier man OF the two.
But that does not signify anything in
the premises. Mr. Jones 10 q young
man, took the first opening which OF
Tered itself after leaving school and
found . clerkship in q bank. He Inn
proved his time by industry and econo-
my and has sncceeded in buying shares
10 the extent OF q few hundred dollars
in the institution which with his home
ID all he possesses. The name OF banker
does not make j. /. Jones rich nor does
it make him dishonest IS everybody ad
mits who knows him. His little earn
ings are engaged in 8 legitimate busi-
nsss just - the earnlngs Of any other
business man In THE city Or farmer in
this county, and he has an good o right
to any Office he may see lit to seek as any
other free citizen. III only men who boast
of poverty should receive Office. OF the
treasprership, why were such men as
VIM. Tpbin or Joseph Muggli elected to
this Office, and why were several other
gentlemen elected and reelected tnner-
tain Offices for three OF four terms 10
succession when there were plenty or
poor men in Lake county whom the
places would have benefited In q much
greater degree2 We know Of lots Of
good men, well qualified, Ia Lake equity
who do NOT aspire for Office because they
are too poor TO engage 10 the struggle