Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-03
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A Political Melange.

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will bring with it anxiety to the
candidates and concern to the
people. These are the days in
which the candidates will seek
for position and in which will be
set aAoat the innumerable and
inevitable "compaign lie." The
dirty linen" of the candidates
will be aired, and fortunate will
be the Office seeker whose reputa-
ton is not blackened. 1t is a
time when the people will have to
sit tight and winnow the wheat
from the chaff and vote for the
best men for all the offices.
Another thing that is being
talked of is the appointment of
the election officers. 1t is as i'm
portant to the democrats that
republican election officers be
men Of good character as the
the democratic officers. In fact
there would be a greater incen-
tive for them to be crooked than
for the democrats, if crooked
ness were contemplated, This is
a democratic county and the re-
publicans would naturally desire
the weakest democrats nominat-
ed. But all good citizens, demo-
Gratis and republicans alike, want
only a square deal for everybody.
The personnel of the election Off
GERS should be such that there
can be no question made as to
the fairness of the count.
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So much for that. After to-
day the last day for filing petit
tions-we will know who are run
ming in earnest, and for the first
time the voters can decide def
sNitely just who they are for. 1t
Mthe duty of every democrat to
select the man for each office
who is best fitted for the place
and vote for him. Duty to your
country is superior to your ale
gience to friends. Good citizen
ship demands that you vote for
the best men for the various Of
fees regardless of personal feel
ing. You can't be patriotic and
vote for a man who is not nearly
SO we'll qualified, mentally and
morally, as his opponent, just be-
cause he is your friend, relative
or neighbor:
If the next officers of Morgan
county are not good ones you will
be to blame, and you will be es-
topped frtm kicking about it af-
forwards. The time to register
your kick against incompetents
and bad officials is at the polls
When you vote for and elect men
who are not qualified, or if quail
/ fed not moral, you have for
feited the right to criticize their
acts, provided you have not been
honestly mistaken in your esti-
mate of them. Good citizenship
carries with it grave duties, and
one of the most important of
these duties is to vote for the
best men. How many of the
voters Of Morgan will vote patri-
otto votes on August 2?
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Speaking of politics, my old
friend Il don't mean that Sam is
old, but that our friendship is)
S. S. Classify, of Morehead, was
in to see us last week. The po-
I, litical part of this is that Sam is
"a candidate for County Court
Clerk of Rowan county, and OF
course every newspaper man in
Kentucky wants to see him sue
coed. Sam is one of the mos
gifted writer's in Eastern Ken
lucky, though not now in the ed
itorial harness. Of late years h,
has been following the more lu
crative calling of a civilengineer
and it is needless to say that ;
man who is first a good newspa
per man and next a good civil en-
gineer will make a first-clas'
county clerk, for as matter OF
course Sam will win.
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Just when political matters ar,
sizzling hot here l had my mem
DRY called back fourteen years t,
another hot time by the presenc,
of Gen. p. Watt Hardilin town
All of us remember the famou