The Springfield herald., 1913-09-26

principle of democracy Tor the
private individual, upon what he
believes to be just grounds, to
work for or against II candidate,
at his discretion.
The editor of the Herald was
/ then private citizen, and eX-
ercised the same, privilege that
William Jennings Bryan eXer-
cised in opposing Dahlman for
governor of Nebraska, and that
| Woodrow Wilson exercised in op-
posing Smith for the u S. sen
ate.
Any private individual who OPP
poses a candidate may .be right
or wrong in the use of his pre-
rogative There were those who
said that both Bryan and Wilson
were wrong, but the state Of Ne
braska stayed with Bryan, and
the state OF New Jersey stayed
with Wilson; and no one at this
time questions their right as
democrats to follow the dictates
of their better Judgment.
But as in the case Of Bryan
and Wilson, S. M. konlSel stopped
his fight when the poles closed
ON election day, and didn't con
tinue it day after day and year
after year thereafter withou t
cessation, even unto the third
and fourth generation, as in the
case of Knight, in attaching citi-
zens in private life attending to
their own business
AS TO the quotations from let
tiers of S. NJ. Konkel in former
issues of the Democrat, ii is
hoped that they will quote all
those letters. 1t would give
the dozens of your paid-up sub
scribers something clean and
wholesome to read during that
time anyway.
What Was said in those letters
of two way republicans and two
way democrats and one-way
democrats and one-way repubIi-
cans was to turn Knights seri-
Gus charge of democrats facing
both ways, as per quotations
elsewhere, into IL humorous vein,
and was as often two-way re-
publicans and one-way demo
Gratis" as otherwise. AS to say
ing good words for the Demo-
crat, if that was not consistent
the Democrat shouldn't have
published it.
The whole object Of those let
ters was to overcome the bitter
feelings against Knights paper,
regardless of party affiliations,
] that had been aroused at StOn-
ington. The Halls and others
/ tried to do the same thing, but
no man can make water run up
| hill, or rise above it's level.
AS to the last election, the re-
suit was in spite of the Demc-
crat handicap and the Knight
mill stone about the neck of the
party; as evidence, at the Ston-
ington end of the county where
knight put himself in bad odor,
the democrats got their over
whelming majority; while in the
Springfield end of the county.
where the Democrat is published
and is in deep" in the affections
of the people, the republicans
got their overwhelming majority.
Why kee, telling the people
YOU voted 'steen times for Jack
son, Bryan, and Wilson, or that
i when you were Il boy YOU cut a
chuncb OF green cEeese out OF
the moon? There are 40 records
to show that you did or you
didn't
/ AS to buying the Herald, the
Democrat says it doesn't blame
the present editor-see quota
tion elsewhere. And as to start
ing a fight on Knight, in the 4th
of July issue Of the Democrat,
/ before there was Il suspicion
that S. NJ. Kondel was trying to
get hold of the Herald, tue Dem
ocrat started in to repay him for
the good words he had said for
| it, by turning loose on him the
vile and slanderous Boston