The Newark journal., 1908-02-07

sherlff, even announcing long before the Democratic primary was held, that he would be an Independent candidate regardless of who the Democrats might nominate, and urged the people to stay out of the primary and With hold their judgment until the general election. Tobe Walker is dead, but Jacksyn county never had better citizen than he was, OF one who, as an officer, was more efficient, painstaklng and courteous, or was more faithful to the trust reposed in him by people,
 In 1900 Lippman made the race for representative on the Independent ticket against John Keel, the Democratic nominee, and was again defeated.
 After this succession of defeats the Judges political ardor cooled off somewhat; he went into political exile and nothing was heard of him until few weeks ago, when he emerged in full bloom, a candidate for state sena- tor, and a good Democrat As proof of his undying love for the Democratic party he submits an ar ticle to the Democrat for publication in which he claims that he has not voted the Republican ticket since 1892 so long ago that he has perhaps @ actually forgotten how itmakes man feel to vote his honest sentiments; and he furthur cites the fact that he spent nearly three whole weeks campaigning in Indiana and Illinois in lS96 in sup port of Democracy. good Democrats having had sufficient confidence in him to trust him with $150 which they made up to pay his expenses.
 We wonder if the Judge is foolish enough to think the people of Jackson county have no memory. and that they will swallow such Aimsy bait, hook, line, cork and all?
 Why, the Judge own evidence con- victs him of being the very worst sort of political traitor He says he went to Indiana and Illinois campaigning for the Democrats in 1896, his expenses being paid by the Democrats That was just before the Presidential elec- tion Of November. 1896. and the judge had just come out of one of the hardest fought political battles in the history of Jackson county. in which he had fought the Democratic party with all the power and venom that he could command. Is it any wonder then that the portions of Illinois and Indiana where the judge spoke, went over- whelmingly Republican? No wonder the people up there gave him the horse laugh, knowing that he was Republi- can and was up there delivering speeches merely for the money there was in t. Then, in the light of past events, how do we know but what he would just as readily have gone cam paigning for the Republicans if they had made up just little more money than the Democrats paid him? And | how does the judge know but what those Democrats who clipped in to [ that fund did so thinking perhaps the judge would get off up there among | his old Republican friends and stay? | Maybe they thought that was a good | way to get rid of him. At any rate, his own actions prove that he was not sincere, and that he was political traitor, for be came home and in the very next campaign took up his old fight against the Democratic party with as much venom as ever: ran on the Independent ticket for sheriff against Tobe Walker, the Democratic and advised the people to stay out of the Democratic primary.
 Consistency, oh, indeed, thou art a jewel.
 But what does the judge care about He wants an office. Con- sisteney be alarmed
 But of course the judge will claim that any man has right to come into the party and be a Democrat. To be sure. But has any sort of political the right to come into the party and claim the highest office within the gift of the party in his coun- ty, afteR having spent the better part ot his life Tn merciless persecution of the party? Ought he not come in further down the line and begin as a sort of roustabout or helper, and work himself up to d position of trust, instead of comming over and demand i rn th hat tkA..n ...la1, knr-. .-.,o.,+ l; c.