The Newtown bee., 1900-10-26

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 The state of chaos that is arrived a1 in 8 good meaning and comparatively honest community is indeed deplorable
 When it becomes possible to place town In the ludicrous and lamentable con ditton that my native town has arrived al I think 1t time to call halt. It Is ttmt for the citizens to awake to their inter
 ests, when honorable men refuse to hold |C flcial positions owing tU the per fidity Of the political element that elects them There can be no fairer minded men than those elected to the highest position tha, this town affords. They refuse to act Why? If no one dares to answer wilD
 They will not countenance the meth
 ods by which they are elected. Georg. K. Barnee, who was elected as first select. man, Is a man of undoubted integrity honesty and economy and all traits o1 character that constitute an exemplary citizen. He has by his independent action shown publicly the existing epi1i; which prevails, which is, "det thee be. hind me. satan" But we have good, honorable men that are 90 sensitive that tho implied honor of any political posi- tion blinds and dulls their keen sense Of right and they become entangled In the snare that political jugglers spread for them and thus become partakers of the pottage. When . man dsres to stand firm for the right he becomes . bul var against which the corruptiI z streams 0l political naetiness bring all the forces ol destruction. Even to his personal, legiti- mate business, affairs and in . small country town like Roxbury resort to the child sh, detestable boycotting scheme. s'But when light becomes darkness how great is that darkness "
 Ia the cycle of events the political wheel has revolved to the point that representation comes next in order to hold the mass tcgether. No new material Is yet found that is elaetic enough t. stand the strain. Even the small faint breath of reform in this town shakes the political institutions to their very foun. dations. It may not overthrow them un- til enlightenment prevails. As the faint light 8 reak in the political horizon of the east appears the darkness begins to recede. It is 8 wrong assertion that might makes right. It creates. discovers and troubles. It is the wrecking of in- dividual prosperity and national honor. But by reversing the assertion the truth is attained. Right makes might in the true and godlike intention. Truth has all the advantage of deceit and hypocri- cy. It has no use for any concealment. It perpetuates itself; but it's c0ntemp0- rafie6 must continually be on guard lest they fall by their own conviction. It must indeed be allowed that he who is actuated by his desire for right, for mo1 ality and religion may rest assured that the sheer. ity of his principles will at least ensure . degree of success that false pretender with all his duplicity can never hope to opinion may appear to fashionable sOci- ety or to the professional men of the community or to the proficient In what call the insincere art of pleasing. But cannot help thinking that true man, one who thinks and acts As far as the iE- frmity of his nature will permit, COT sis tent with the principles of his religion, possesses qualities more worthy of esteem than those that are granted to the fashionable -four hundred" When these few harmless and well meant lines are read undoubtedly the author will be con- demned to re-represent the people in one abundance of material to represent us in all our state institutions without re-elec tion. think some of tho learned legal professors of adj ,ining towns would CO., operate in helping elect your servant. But will not assume the provir ce tf determining the action of one who has allowed the opportunities of age to pas. away without Improvement and vice ap- pears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after eeeip g the tonse quepces of a thousand errore, continues still to blunder and whose age has o1ly added obstinacy to stupidity, ia surely the otj j.ct of either abhoFreEce or contempt. Much more Is he to be ab. horred who, as he advances in age, re.