The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1907-10-24
A Little Political.
Il KEMpER HERALD:

alter deilnquents, not long since,
and he bought a brush and some
white paint with which he wrote
on the sidewalks where they
would often pass, "What about
that tax" mentioning the names
ofthose who hadenot paid. where
upon they got themselves togeth
err and called for his immediate
resignation. They might not
have been very much troubled
about owing the tax, but they
didn't want the fact just staring
them in the face every time they
ventured out
An old bachelor saaBachelor
Maid" Gas for that, who might
have been pretty good looking
some twenty years before, has
many a time "strutted" up to a
looking-giass with wonted van
ity, but when he or she has been
reminded again that the good
looks were all gone, has walked
away with a grudge against the
glass.
One OF the strongest character
istics OF a good many people is
that which causes them to be dis
pleased at the criticisms OF others
of their actions or their ideas in
regard to certain things: even ii
by the force of argument they
are half convinced that they are
in error, they don't like to have
to get up the moral courage to
&C knowledg that they are
wrong.
There are people also who love
to find fault, who are always rub
bling things the wrong way just
to have something to do, and tor
fear of being claesed as one OF
these we would like to say that
it is to be hoped that nothing
said in this communication will
have a tendency to cause anyone
to think that it was said in a
spirit of mere fault finding.
1t is on account of the fact that
the writer, in going through the
recent county canvass, as a can>
didate, has had experience OF
things which he thinks are detri
mental to the moral and political
welfare of the county.
1t is on the strength of the be
lief that there is a large number
of people who will take them in
their proper spirit that the pres
ent comments are ventured upon.
1t is a great misfortune that
these very people, who generally
look at things from the proper
standpoint, and who could be OF
great aid in preventing certain
things from being done, remain
an inactivity and disgust, while
those who are less scrupulous are
Oh the alert and busy fixing
things for their ~tavorites. 1t is
through the connivance of this
class with the "little politician"
that often makes it almost inn
possible Tor a candidate to be
elected to a county office If he
holds himself aloot and acts. as a
strictly honest man should.
One oil the candidates for rep
resentative in the recent election
mentioned the fact in some of his
speeches that candidates for the
Legislature were generally consid
cred as common Grading stock,
and that when he was a student
at a certain school they called
him "Kemper', and while it is
not an established fact that Ken
per County is worse than the
average in tricks OF this kind, or
any other wrong doing, we do
know that the trading business
is one OF the besetting sins of our
county politics.
The main cause of the contin-
nance of such methods is the fail
ure OF the voter to debate the
question of whether it is an in
justice to some one.
Is it not as criminal to rob a
man of the honest privileges
which he has gained by the act
nal expenditure of money aud
his time in making a canvass,
and thereby wrest from him the
schance of gaining honor and ad-
vancement, as it is to take from
him something that is considered
OF money value alone?
If a candidate, on the other
hand, ehould connive with a Ger
tain number of voters to do some
thing that he would not let the
public know that he would do,
is it not to be presumed that, it
he got the Office, he would do
something that he would not let
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