South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-28

To me 1t is a source OF unbounded
satisfaction that I can look back TO
that campaign without remorse or
humiliation in respect to having at
least In that instance been guided By
the sublime sentiments uttered BIZ
Abraham Lincoln when he said that
ne had never knowingly thrust a
thorn IN the side OF any of his fellow
men No unscrupulous and deceptive
newspaper publications We're made of
the experience of Mr. Miller in that
drama though the material for such
use was hundredfOld more weighty
than that trumped up against Mr..
Joyce in the present campaign
L presume that Mr.. Campbell has
read more than once, Lincoln's IA
Vorite poem, Why Should the Spirit
OF Mortal Be Proud? Nav / DE per
mitted TO suggest 10 him that. before
he starts out 10 make any more
speeches in derogation of Mr.. Joyce's
career and candidacy he read that
mastery poem and ponder over the
sublime philosophy that so thrilled the
soul OF Abraham Lincoln? To me 1t
is comforting that though l opposed
II. 3. Miller'S mayoralty candidacy
with earnestness and vigOr, /. was able
to resist the temptation OF thruSting
a thorn in his side 1t is equally com
forting 10 realize that he appreciated
my refusal TO heap burning Goals upon
his head, for after it was all over he
became a frequent visitor at my Of
flee. Well do | remember the JUNCTION
with which he dwelt on his newspaper
ventures in Michigan and later on in
Buffalo. II got lots OF glory out of
the newspaper business" he was wont
10 say in his uniquely brusk manner,
but in due course OF time / discovered
I i IL
TO provide for mems bellies instead of
their brains: and you bet | made it. +"
You see. Brother Campbell, the spirit
of the times was impregnated with the
desire To make money by the fastest
possible route. That spirit become in
tensified in later years and finally de-
veloped into frenzied mania for pill
ing up colossal fortunes in whatever
manner greed and avarice might sug-
gest. Pres. Wilson is engaged in a
terrific struggle 70 lead the nation
back into the paths Of rectitude. and
some of us here in this fertile and
beautiful St. Joseph valley are actual
cd by an earnest desire to uphold and
encourage him in his great, .laudable
effort TO re-establish civic righteous
ness on a solid basis. For this reason
we have not felt inclined to diSband
our organization, and pOin in twisting
a rope of sand euphoniously denomi-
mated citizens movement. We are
making a determined flight TO elect as
mayor OF this city man belonging
to what Lincoln fondly called the plain
people; a man Of valued experience in
municipal affairs and of unquestion-
able honesty, integrity and ability; a
man whose sterling worth Is best
known TO those who know him most
intimately; a man in whose Official
record not a single flaw can be de-
tected: a man who is a firm believer
in the doctrine that public office is a
public trust, and who is absolutely Tree
from any entangling alliances with
syndicates and combines of any sort
or description. We feel confident or
his triumphant election. despite the
mean warfare waged against him, be-
ing assured that a sense OF Jusucr
permeates the electorate and that this
sense of justice will asert itself ne@t
Tuesday with such force as TO serve IN
future campaigns as a lesson that q
man of sterling integrity and conceded
ability cannot be killed off by being
made the target Of venom. falsehood'
malice and vile abuse