El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-08

offered for the high office. It
follows, therefore, that worse
man, in some instances the worst
man, has won the honors of the nation.
So it as been many times in the selec-
ton of INSCRIPTIONS gangsters to gov
yoralty elections the most vicious
ringsters have become mayors of some
of the cities. The assertion OF the
Washington Post to the contrary Is
ridiculous. It is not necessary to deny
facts as a means of maintaining ones
democracy.
IT. sovereign, high commissioner
or even the church had selected for US
our presidents, governors and mayors,
the worst men would have crept in Oc-
casinally just the same. In fact, it is
quite probable that If our rulers had
been named for us without
our approval or consent we
would have had the worst
man over US not less often and
much longer than we have permitted
him to use US under our republican
plan of turning rascals in and out.
The confession of our faults and fail
ures Is not an argument against popu-
lar government or in favor of any other
method of control. No method has
been devised so far by which an enter
| prising rascal can be absolutely kept
| down and out.
The Chicago Record believes that
the people of Illinois now have as their
governor the worst man to be found in
the state. 1t says:
| "John r. Tanner was nominated for
governor over others more ut
than himself largely for the reason
that the street railway interests, the
gas interests and other predatory cor
porate interests wanted in the COVER
/ IL ~-ip toll nh
would further their plans. In placing
in the governors chair man who
would brutality disregard public in
| terests in order to serve certain I'M
scrupulous corporate interests they
placed great power in the hands OF q
man likely on occasion to prove dan
gerous to society in other ways than
the most demagogical appeals TO labor
was placed in Office by the very in
terests that are sleast willing to con-
cede to labor its just rights
The governor of Illinois owes his first
election to manipulators for corpora
tions who knew him to be an unscrup-
ulous and disable fellow. Realizing that
his old hackers have lost strength and
heart, he has put on his. Other face and
sets in to deceive the weak-minded
voter by condemniug the coal com
panies, slspping in their faces sister
states, walking over the constitution
of the union. He promises to have the
Legislature pass a law forbiddipg the
importation of labor from other states,
the federal constitution to the contrary
notwithstanding. He pretends to be
hard at work on plan to have wages
fixed by the state and is promising to
labor that which he THINKS will gain
him favor without regard to what is
possible, and unmindful of the effect
upon long established institutions.
Governor Tanner began as the law
less champion OF INSCRIPTIONS wealth.
He will now pose as q lawless dema.
gogue, Offering to miners advantages
which no man has the power or right
to give. In other instances men have
sailed into high offices by panderiDg &c
the ailments and ignorance of the
people and have given themselves over
to corporations and capitalists after
ward. The difference in the
use of means is not important. The
"worst man" will do whatever be
deems it necessary to do in order to gel
the Office, and he is not infrequently q
foxy fellow who knows just how to de
ceive the people and win the race. The
: reformer who sets out to hang hin
.. wants to look sharp for his own rubber
neck