Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-08-01
sHERMAN's STRANGE ATTACK
sherif Insults People OF Enterprise
VIII lie Bolt Again?

j. II. sherman, candidate for the
Republican nomination for sherin
but not subject TO the primary.
in an article in the Democratic pa
pers this week makes bitter al
tack on the good people Of Enter
prise, saying that they are support
ing Roy Williams. one OF their best
citizens, because arrests have been
made there, intimating that Enter
prise is against law and order. This
is gratuitious insult to that town
which II will resent next Tuesday
When did Mr.. sherman obtain the
right to say, an Enterprise man
should not be a candidate for Re
publican nomination?
Mr. sherman knows very well h1
all arrests in Enterprise were AIDE
on complaint of Enterprise citizens
and he did nothing but his regular
duties as a nofficer
incidentally MIR. sherman grows
wrathy at the Reflector. accusing it
of bringing out Roy Williams. which
he of course knows has no basis
OF fact Mr. Williams is running for
himself and so far as the Reflector
is concerned it did not know Of his
candidacy until he announced, How
me- mil 80 IA Inn, Ia,
a mighty fine man and If nominated
will make a model sheriff for he will
be elected If he is not nominated
he will not bolt the party which he
is asking to honor him ana run as
an Independent candidate as Mr.
Sherman two years ago.
Mr. Williams had canyassed the
entire county before the Reflector
knew he was a candidate
Probably the most ridiculous
in Mr. Sherman's article
is that he lost the nomination be-
cause Reflector reporter used the
hours Of city elections instead OF
those Of state primary in the paper
a day before the primary two years
ago. The primary hours had been
correctly advertised in the Reflector
for weeks and the correction of the
reporters error was on the street
two hours before the primary closed
Mr.. Sherman was beaten because he
did not have votes enough and if
the polls had been closed an hour
later he would have been beaten
worse than he was. He ran as an in
dependent candidate because that
was his idea of politics and he has
not denied, that we have learned,
hat he will do the same thing again
If defeated.
The Reflector supported no local
before the primary and
Ices not do that-it would have
Mr. Sherman Loyalty had
he been nominated as he very well
Knows.
Mr.. Sherman says he failed to get
yotes at Sand Springs because OF
he primary item. What? Sand
springs cast 81 Republican" votes
It the primary; at the election the F.,
highest Republican candidate got /
&c. Was it more Democratic votes
le expected? In Abilene he received !
"a votes, his opponents $50. The 1
onger the polls were open the worse
IF he was. :
The Reflector has refrained from
my criticism Of Mr.. Sherman's /
TRANCE idea Of politics in this cam
,aign and would not refer to it now !
nut for his jumping into print. If
here is such thing in politics as
lonest methods every candidate owes J
t to the people to observe it. If I
ar. Sherman's idea is right that 3
hrewd politics is to run for nom /
nation and then if defeated, bolt \
he ticket, is right, it is a most re- !
marketable position for a candidate !
o take and has never been taken i
efore in Dickinson county. ;
Mr.. Sherman should know it's al
rays a sign of weakness to wait un- y
il the last days before an election 9
n making charges, too late to be I
answered generally. 1t always is re- I
ented by people who like fairness. g
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