The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-01-24

Z POTE and GO to the show are two
Y things this appetite la going to do
so long as the good Lord permits
him to live and while it is not every
citizens duty to attend the show, it is
his bounden duty, as as free born
| American citizen, to vote. Living as
we are in Republic where our law
makers and all officers from constable
to president are elected by the people
| it certainly is each and every citizens
duty to vote every time he gets q
chance. Up in some of the Northern
states, or where the different political
parties are equally divided, thousands
| of dollars are expended election years
| to influence voters. Down here IN
| Texas, where the voters are not lnfiu'
enced by money (for very little of 1t
is used in this state for that purpose)
we ought, every man of us, lay down
his business for that day, go TO the
| polls and it you are not acquainted
| with the different candidates for Office
ask some reliable, good, honest neigh
! Dor who is acquainted with them and
vote for whomsoever you think is the
| best man for the place. / have no pa
tience with man who says he has
quit voting. Usually the man who
| complains the most at the laws and
the officers. II q man don't vote he
has no right under the sun to COM
plain at any act of any officer whatso-
ever, because he took no part in try
| ing to have good officers to preside
| over US and good conscientious officers
| to enforce the laws is great force
good government. The county ex-
ecutive committee recently met in the
court house in Waxahachie and named
| Saturday, April IL, as the day for the
primaries and we have from new till
| then to pick out our men to vote for
and it is high time we were beginning
| to make our selections. The candi
dates from now till then will be
around to zee you, but the candidates
| for state offices cannot come as do our
county candidat- and we should be-
| gin TO inquire who they are and to
make our selections before the 18th
| of April and not wait till that date to
| ask who they are. | once knew q
preacher who was a good preacher
| and O good man too, who, when elec-
| ton years rolled round, would mount
every stump in his diggings where he
could get crowd and make poitti-
cal spec ch in the interest OF his favo-
rites for the different offices and his
men in nearly every instance were
elected. Some one asked him one day
how it was that he, a preacher, took
such lively interest in politics and
his reply was: "Brother, / want good
government While live and II / can
succeed in electing good men to office
I will have good laws to obey" Ellis
county is now entitled to two repre-
sentaIives in thu next legislature and
in the April pri nary election we will
vote for two instead of one heretofore.
Josh Billings said the way to make
good friend of man was to find out
what he wanted to do, then go 20 him
and advise him to do that very thing
end josh said this would forever make
him your friend, and think from
the number of candidates we have in
the field already and more yet to come
somebody has been following josh
Billings advice and persuading them
to come out.
The grip is lowering very close to
this delicate frame of mine, in fact toe
close this bad weather to start out.
am anxious TO go abroad and the first
trip will be up and down the survey
of the new railroad which will rur
thirty miles through the western par
of our county.