Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-07-28
ron honest GOVERNMENT,

FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT.
william Allen White, editor Of the
Emporia Gazette, republican, and
author nf the famous editorial
aWbats the Matter with Kansas Y
has written iii editorial n support of
Folks candidacy for governor Of Mis-.
souri, which Ii good political gospel
and well worth reading by every be.
lever III honest government Mr.
white III il warm personal friend If
President Roosevelt and q %stannch
republican bill he declares without
hesitation that If. under similar con:
'ditlons, Mr.. Folk were the democratic
nominee for governor Of Kansas. the
Gazette would support him
Joseph w Folk. an honest demo.
crat, has been nominated for Cover.
nor of Missouri, and every good citi.
zen M that state should vote for him
irrespective Of party, II II certain
that every bad citizen ID Missouri will
vote against Folk for the reason thai
he sees Id Folks defeat the chance
to play the trade of hoodling unre.
strained. For no matter how honest
the republican nominee for governor
of Missouri may be, II he wins Folk
win he defeated because he attacked
doodle, and the republican who wins
will be careful how he fights corrnp.
tion Iii Missouri, for Folks defeat
will be spelled IN biz letters that the
majority In Missouri Is In favor Of
doodle.
The man who votes against Folk,
therefore, whether he casts that vote
as a republican. q popnlist Or q prohi-
bItionist, casts 1t In favor Of a return
Or the boodlers. Those who vote
against Folk under these cIrcum
stances will have to vote with the
hoodiers, and their victory. whether
It Is republican II what not, will be
Iii reality a victory for Doodle.
The Gazette has been q straight re
publican paper for 4 dozen years. Tn
dor its present management II has
upheld the hands Of every republican
state administration that has been
elected since the paper was started
II believes III republican principles
and tho greatness and efficient good
ness nf the republican party, Bl,
there are sometimes considerations In
politics greater than party--considera
tions OF honest government.
Because he llas been proved honest
and efficient Folk stands pre.eminent
~ the typo Of honest government II
/ Missouri. No other mans victory
no matter who he Is, would be the re
buke of booaling and corruption In
. Missouri that Folks victory will be
And no possible republican could By
his election advertise TO the world
that Missouri has determined TO stant
for clean government as Folk vii
advertise IL by his election.
Parties are means for good govern
ment and not its ends. "A either
should not belong" - q party. In tn,
sense that the party's action and or
ganIzation should bind him with i
silly prejudice to vote for what bis
good sense and his conscience tel
him Is wrong. A party or
g~anization has no charter rights, II
one may use the figure, to have and
to hold human beings In slavery
against the best interest Of the state
or nation.
The fact that every corruptionist,
whether . private citizen or q hood.
ling railroad. Is against Folk makes
II plain that the best interests Of good
government In Missouri demand
Folks election. Ii IL d question above
party, ant II q similar situation exist.
ed In Kansas, the Gazette would be
for the democratic nominee, II Ii
better to be a bolter TO a party than
il traitor 10 d state.