The border vidette., 1918-06-08

COUNTY.
 Ladies and Gentlemen:
 The office of Judge of the Su-
 perior Court is O very important
 office, and you will be required
 to vote for an incumbent at the
 November election. I hereby
 announce myself a candidate for
 the same. In this announcement
 I desire to say that the man
 elevated to this position may be
 required to pass upon the liber-
 ties and property rights of you
 and your fellow man. The Judge
 is not bound in any penal sum
 of gold, for the performance of
 duty. he is bound by something
 greater, stronger, by something
 grander and brighter, he is
 bound alone by the oath and
 honor of man. In California at
 one time it was proposed to take
 the election of Judges out of
 politics, by holding separate
 Judicial elections, but this prov
 ed expensive, and the people failed to turn out, and I rather
 believe that they adopted law from which the Arizona Statute has been drafted. By the Ari- zona procedure, it is sought to take the office out of party or partisan politics, by placing the names of tbe candidates for Judges at the head of the ballot in single column in alphabet ical order without partisan or other designation except the title of the office. Immediately below the names of the candi- dates for Judges there shall be placed in columns the names of candidates for other offices of the several political parties. By this provision of the Code, the office of the Judge was intended and expected to be taken out of politics. President Wilson in addressing the New Jersey de- mocrats lately, said the old party slogans have lost their significance and will mean noth- ing to the voter of the future," and henceforth all true Amer jeans taking democratic prin- cipleS to their hearts will re- quire stricter and truer con- pliance with the laws of their country from now on.
 During this gigantic tragedy of a world at war, self interest should be only and by far sec ondary consideration, and all should yield only to true Amer icanism. The chief individual question now is whether a man will do or whether he will shirk, and every man must decide this question for himself, no matter what the other fellow does, he should examine his own con himself, and every true Amer ican will decide the matter about right. War changes the minds and thoughts of nations as we'll as the minds of men.
 A new order of things is being born, new services will be re- quired and had, new sacrifices must be continually made until victory comes, and in the recon struction and arrangement of the worlds affairs, where Amer jeans, regardless of party lines, have stood side by side, against the death dealing charges of the enemy hordes, giving their blood and lives in holding the lines, the black powers of fighting for the break of morning. fighting for the free dom of the world, over tyranny and unheard of cruel butcheries | of innocent women and children, over graft and over greed, and | when the boys who survive the terrible ordeal, return home, their question will not be to | those who staid behind, what party do you belong to, nor what did you do for yourself or | party, but will rather be, what | did you do for the United States in her time of need and strain, from foes without and from foes within? Did you render the proper American aid according to your means? This war is being waged for the safety and freedom of nations and mankind, true freedom can only be based and flourish on truth and justice, and this freedom will come with vic ,ory. This war means more than he bare conquering of Ger