The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-10-31

We don't give a darn whom yor
vote for-as long as the Huns gel
trimming.
"Vote her straight, sounds
like 25 years ago, before election,
and yet no doubt next Tuesday
some voters will do that sort, Of
thing.
What in tarnation do the people
Of german blood who were born
here or came here so years ago
from germany know of the people
in germany now. They don't
know any more about them than
the man in the moon. If they
knew them, they would not stick
up for them, but disown them.
politics is adjourned, to use
the popular phrase, which sounds
like th'symphony of the spheres to
the average democratic ear, partly
due to the war, and right before e.
lection, the German Flu" insert
ed its germ laden proboscis into
political affairs and the long suf-
fering public has been relieved
from the efforts of Office seekers in
corralling their votes. Heretofore
the slogan was "let the candidates
fight it out", but in this year of
1918 the voters are going to fight
it out in the confines of their
homes, since public meetings are
tabu-thanks to the Flu. From
all indications, we are going to
have a very quiet election this
year. If that be a criterion, we
are going to get quiet men into Of
fee who will do things rather than
say things. The talketive candi-
date of yesteryear who always had
one eye firmly fixed on the Office
while the other was promiscuously
flirting with the galleries, and pan
dering to his constituents, may not
have a chance this year. The idea
of a politician telling the "peepuP'
that they are an intelligent bunch,
that they know what they want
and are going to get what they
want in electing him, and after
warming them up in this wise,
proceeded to tell them what they
want, is like unto a camoufage
shot full of notes.-the public can
see thru it. We will none Of that
The American public has some
thing more important on its mild
than prediction soapbox oratory.
When we win this war and make
the world safe for democracy, then
let the orators crate and the candi
hates candidate, as in the good old
times before the Huns got bug
in their ear. Politics and war do
not mix nationally any more than
oil and water chemically.
There is now no question as to
germany being beaten. And ger
many knows this too we'll. When
germany started the war and wns
certain that it could lick the world
and then enslave it, you heard
nothing from the german people
that they have committed a crime
against humanity, because that
whole outfit was poisoned by the i
dea that the german is a super.
man and ordained by God to rule
over others. In 1914 and up to
this time the Kaiser, the Junker,
the militarist and the common peo,
pie of germany had the same idea;
there was absolutely no difference.
But now things have changed.
The legions of the Kaiser are be.
ing decisively beaten fairly and
squarely at every point, and we
are now hearing the squeal from
germany that it will become a de.
mocracy where the people will
rule. True The Kaiser has been
the autocrat, the absolute ruler OF
of the germans, but every single
german deified the Kaiser and was
willing to shed his blood for him.
Surely the Allies will not fall fo,
any more German tricks, but when
they compel that barharOus natio,
TO surrender uneonditionalIy, they
will mete out just what is coming