Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-24
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER "a. 1910
SHOULD REVISE HIS FIGURES.

SHOULD REVISE HIS FIGURES.
Tom McNeal Of the Mail an
Breeze says that he Is an admirer o
old Bill White. Bill knows how t
write and, generally speaking, agre
with him, but Bill ought to be NOR,
careful about his figures.
For instance, the other day III
made the statement that the Frs
and Third districts Of Kansas Eat
given a majority of 20 900 agains'
Governor Stubs. II Bill had looked
up the figures from the published re.
turns he would have found that Gov
unor Stubs got a majority OF
thousand In the Third congressional
district, and that the majority against
him In the First congress- 0nal dis
trict was less than a tho IsAnd, SO
that, taking the two districts together,
he had a small majority.
The returns also show that Stubs
majority in the Third district is as
large as the majority of Phil Camp
bell, which seems to show that ine
standpatters stood as Locally TOR the
governor as the Insurgents stood for
Campbell.
1t Is also probable that IL Wagstaff
had been nominated instead Of the
governor, he would have lost as many
insurgent Republican votes as Stubbs
lost of the standpat votes.
An editor ought to be fair, whether
he is standpat or insurgent, but, as
a matter of fact, 1t is hard for most
Of us to be entirely fair. furthermore,
! have no criticism to offer of the
standpat Republican who voted
against Stubs, provided he was hon
est in his vote. II he really believed |
that the governor was wrong and
that his election would be a menace
TO the prosperity of the state, why
shouldn't he vote against him?
Likewise, II Wagstaff had been
nominated and the insurgent citizen
honestly believed that his election
would be bad thing for the state,
why should he have voted for him?
The fact is that he wouldn't have
voted for him II that was the way
he felt about it, and no beautiful
talk about party loyalty could have
made him vote for him.
The average citizen these days will
stay by the party nominee, even If
the nominee is not his personal choice
provided he doesn't think It will make
a great deal of difference whether c
his choice or the other fellow gets
there, but II he really gets worked I
up about the matter and feels that t
he is dead right and the other crowd O
is dead wrong, you can't hold him I
in line when he is beat.
Now, there are good, honest Re- I
publlcans in Kansas who really be- u
lieye that this insurgency business G
Is all wrong, that II Is Just prylng up +
the foundations of the G.. o. p. and II
that Stubs is the head and front a
and embodiment OF insurgency, The p
man who feels that way is not to be Ii
blamed for scratching his ticket.
On the other hand, there are thou ID
sands of good Republicans who look a
on the insurgent movement as the N
best hope OF good government, and n
Inc only way OF saving the party from N
defeat. They look on Governor n
stubbs as the greatest exponent of n
progressive politics in Kansas aud on a,
MS opposition as utterly and hope ~
essly wrong. Feeling that way they :,
roaid have scratched Wagstaff II :,
,e had been nominated. :,
No doubt both the extrenitIes :,
ave mentioned are wrong. Neither ;,
me of them is in a frame Of mind >.
o give fair, unbiased Judgment. =,
imply state the fact. which is TINT :.
he standpatters stayed as nearly in
me as the insurgents would have
one IL the nominations had b'en - :.
'fferent. ,
So let us not call names nor cast y
Possibly 10 two years
rom now we may be able to see al
Aings more. nearly alike. OF
Watch Lost. pr
Gold filled. hunting style watch, III