El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-09

ono SET Of cases where prosecutions
uould lie In those case, turned
tho matter over to the department OF
Justice. In addition there was the
larger class of cases where there was
not sufficient ground for prosecution
but where it was evident that tne man
was an unfit and improper public ser
van+ And there l turned him out;
and when now and then the man bach
of him. occasionally belonging to Co
ordinate branch of the government
would come up and say, oh. there IS
NO conviction against him. 1 said no,
I dare say that he has practiced law
honestly but he is crook ana out
he goes
Now | could do that with the ap-
pointive officers, who held office un-
der me: with the elective office, there
is but one body that can do that, and
that is the people. 1t depends upon
YOU. upon the people of America,
whether you will permit a man to rep
resent YOU because he has been acquit-
ted in a court of law, or because there
has been a mistrial, so that enough Ju-
rors have believed in him to get him
off: whether you will permit mat man
TO represent you Or whether you VIII
take the stand that where you have
evidence of a kind which may not be
legal but which cOnvinces every hon
est man Of intelligence. whether you
will submit to the pollution of Amer
lean life by such a man in high Of
fetal position
The FIatterer.
I'm every form of government there
are base flatterers. The same individ-
ual who in monarchy would be a
! courtier and flatter the king, in a
republic turns denaSog and fat
| ters those whom he thinks will cast the
most votes. He is Just the same man.
the one just as bad as the other. only
that they are functioning under diff
! ferent conditions
! TT is a favOrite-I won't say ar
! gument-but favorite assertion OF
that type of man when some public
! servant has been found guilty Of con-
duct that should disgrace him to say
We will go tot the people for his vindi-
cation; we win see if we can't secure
him an election
Sometimes they succeed. A grea'
many good people. thoroughly good
citizens have no special means of in
formation, are ignorant of what really
has happened and may on occasion:
like that. be misled; but aif they arr
misled and if they do. so far as in then
lies attempt to vindicate a diShones
and unfaithfuI public servant by re
> ! eleCtlng MIN, IneN don NlnOlCdIe MIN
they disgrace themselves and us
, The Stream and It's Source.
I'm other forms OF government thai
ours there may be a certain kind o
) progress-if the average man is no
what he should be. but in our govern
ment, in a great democracy like ours
5 the stream cannot rise higher than it
source You cannot have honestly i
3 public life unless the aver age citize
= demands honesty in public life.
my friends, I ask you men Of I'LL
nois. that YOU purify your politics. tina
:, YOU hold accountable the scOundre
h great or small. who has been guilty c
[ corruption. that YOU insist on cleanli
s ness in your public life; and I ask
in your name and for your sakes;
e ask ii for the sake of the America
people and I ask it for the sake {
V all the nations of the world. that the
e hope may not be made dim and tbs
d they may continue to cherish the ide;
of the possibility of having a govern
" ment. Of by and for the people ths
y shall mean also the government
N Justice and the government OF hoI
Hesty."