Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-03-31
CITY ELECTION.

The city election to be held next
Monday promises to be a warm and
exciting contest. The campaign is
being waged with earnestness by both
sides, but it is pleasing to note that
bitterness and personalities are being
strictly avoided by the candidates and
their respective supporters 1t is a
contest among neighbors and II is
pelhs conducted in a neighborly way
rms is as 1t should be- The worst
fate that can befall a town is for ifs
citizens to divide into factions and
indulge in petty squabbles over ques-
tions of public importance. Such a
course invariably hurts town worse
than II could possibly hurt any indf-
Vidual. Energy needed for the I'M
building Of the town is expended bv
individuals in fighting one another.
win the result that all the effort is
wasted, and the town, not the indi-
Vidual, is the real loser
Men who have helped to bear the
burden of the work know what it
means to lift town out of the cross
roads village class and give it a start q
on the highroad leading to CONNER I
clai Importance and financial pros I
perity. They know it means hard V
work, and lots of it, 1t means sacri- n
flee of time and money-both to the c
Individual and to the community. II a
means long pull, a strong pull, and D
pull all together. True, men may n
honestly differ in their opinions as ca
TO the best method of ACCOMPLISHING ID
desired results; but this difference Ia
VIII not seriously affect the success of pl
the eHort so long as there is behind cl
IT, IN each mans heart, an earnest al
ueslre to promote the prosperity of co
the community he calls his home. II in
Is only when men band together in
cilques or factions to promote their IN
'ellsh ends or through jealousy or we
spite attempt to discredit the efforts tn
u their neighbors, that the good of ne
ne community suffers. The town ag
weller and especially the resident of cal
ne small town, must place the well an
are of his community above All ties
eliish or personal considerations. IL all
e would see his town grow and pros i'm
er. for
Dallas has long enjoyed among IFS Z
eighbor towns of the willamette Ion
alley the reputation of being a COM mas
unity where the people stand to- and
sther as the members of one large TWO
mily In every important business or its
cial movement looking to the bet pop
rment of existing conditions. Petty lish
and factional differences dusi
we been frowned down, and those and
10 would divide the neighborhood offic
20 cllques or factions have been to
lght that such methods wouId NOT that
tolerated. City officers who have Valu
iar forgotten their duty to their into
immunity as to attempt to use their any
Ner for selfish purposes, or to BEN II is
a few intimate friends bo,,a .oo,, ask
m made to know that their SER w
es We're no longer desired by the spen
pie 1t is this spirit that lifted mon,
shire town of Polk County out of Whc
village class and gave Il such a iO-m
missing start as business and
lmerclal center. Having made
n bright start I'm the race for NM,
remacy a few years ago. II is ,ba,,
dly necessary to add that every horo..
Il citizen of the town desires that ar ~
work. so well begun, be contln- or mn