The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-11-16
VICTORY TURNED TO DEFEAT.

We do not approve the motives tina
led large number of democrats II
this county to vote against Will Teri.
for recorder. Mr.. Terry has been
good officer, he is reputable man
he was fairly nominated at the part.
primary, his record as an officer is a
least as good as those of Collins o
Faul or Evers, he has been consist
ent democrat all his life. All thes'
were good reasons why he shoult
have received his full party vote. Thu
reason that he did not receive hi
party vote, the fact that he refused
TO sign the saloon petition, was tn
poorest possible excuse. Those VIII
demand liberty" for themselve:
should be willing to accord it to 9th
ers. If loyalty to the saloon is to be
made the test Of democratic fealty
that party is indeed in bad way ne
matter how victorious it may be at the
polls. That Mr.. Terry won in spite
of this persecution should be matter
of congratulation among honest dem
ocrats.
The reasons which should have i'm
PEELED democrats to vote for Mr.. Ter
ry were not such as should have ap
pealed to republicans. The republic
can candidate was just as good man
and would have made just as com
petent an official, his record as re-
publican was just as consistent as the
record of Mr. Terry as democrat
Mr.. Terry made his bed with the dem
ocrats and should have been allowed
to lie in it. He voted for Porter, he
voted for Downey and Grow and every
democrat on the ticket. He has been
voting for democrats all his life. He
would have cast his vote this year
against each and every sympathetic
republican who voted for him if they
had stood as candidates on the re-
publican ticket. He supposedly stood
on the democratic liquor plank tie
same as did the other democratic can.
didates.
It is difficult thing to persuade
any man to" undertake an active can
didacy on the republican ticket in this
county. One Of the chief reasons is
that whenever there is opportunity
for election, whenever the democratic
ranks are divided, there are always
enough high-prow republicans to rush
in to fill the gaps.
1t may be that Mr.. Terry is a mis-
fit in the democratic ranks. That is
his fault. The republican party is
open to him and has been in spite OF
the fact that he has been cooperating
with the democrats all his life. The
democratic party boasts that it is the
liquor party, Mr.. Terry knows it, but
he Is still democrat, the political
associate of democrats, supporting
their policies and asking their sup
port in return. He was entitled to
their support, but he was not entitled
to republican support. Many OF our
republicans feel that they have done
somathing smart in helping to pull
the democratic chestnuts out of the
fire, but they have not. Such party
treachery always reacts. At the nex'
election they will have good men
friends of theirs, whom they are strug
Cling to elect and then they will no,
be able to understand why all repub
licans do not vote for them; forget
ting tlat they set the example.
We do not think Mr.. Terry should
have been prosecuted because his con
science would not permit him to sign
saloon petition. at the same time we
see 40 possible claim that he had
upon the votes of those who claim to
be republicans and to have the in
terests of the party at heart. The
fact tslat Mr.. Terry this year and
every year voted the democratic tick
ct, sad thus gave his SANCTION ana
support to democratic doctrines; in
Guiding the democratic position on the
liquor question, should have been suf-
1icieat reason to have held the repub.
licaus in line for their own candi'
date
Mr.. Lorenzen has right to feel
thai many Denison republicans treat.
ed him badly. He was induced to be
a candidate, induced to make an eff
fort, victory was within his grasp and
the republicans Of Denison turned the
victory into defeat. 1t was poor bus
mess
OF oil the nerve; Harvey 1nghan,
actually thought the governor ought to
appoint him senator. What for? For
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