The Missouri herald., 1922-05-05
All Good Republicans Not Dead

told in the columns the first page of this paper
refusing make contract for the county advertising
Democratic happened to be the lowest bidder
will not have the approval of the Republicans who
WILL regret to know that their leaders have placed
arsanshp above principles and above the saving of the pub
lie funds. And such Republicans should that
cias properly rebuked, for is officials they
high and low places that have brought that party into shame
full disrepue We had Republican presiding judge
the county whom the people of the county, regardless
of politics. could trust do the right thing right way
at the right time under all circumstances elected
could have kept being reelected
to longer. 1t is regreabe that such Judge
Riley Henderson do not want to hold Office, and because
sleghtohand and open crookedness makes official life
cradle for such he His domain his farm and home where
he and wheat watered by the rains and dews Of
heaven; where the animals gambo the
meadows where the hen her nesting and the birds
and butterflies flash their wings in the glmmeng
sunshne where the sunset leaves resul twilight and
te, and beast and bird and flower, sleep through the
night under the light of the silent stars where
has only for his daily deeds to the God of the Uni
verse, whose law Thou shalt steal; thou shalt
bear false witness against thy neighbour thou shalt not cove
thy neighbours house, thou shalt not covet thy neghbors wife,
his manservant his madservant his his
anything that thy neghbors his political goat
The latter five words The idea of Judge Henderson
refusing make advantageous contract for the of
the counys printing bill simply because the bid for doing
from Democratic newspaper! Perish the thought
When he member of the county court he didn't SAY
much about the of dolar and cents but the records
will show that what he DID saved much of the county funds
from waste. Yet Judge Henderson saunch Republican,
and the county, the State and the nation in control of
such he the whole country would be better off and the
Democrats would not have half the shedding they will
have when they to take the whole works. from
to President the next elections after
another those elections If Tum the rascas OUT
had meaning has it and in boxcar letters at that
Do the people of Charlottesville really want to in
their midst house result of the socaled election GU
of September 1919? Do they think that such building
would be honor to their city, and not monument of
shame behind which would forever urk
that be hidden dsregarded forgotten
long brick remains top of another? Consider past
history Remember Babylon, Sodom Nnevah
In the history of the world nothing but right has
the of time Mans laws may fall but Gods laws
eternal and nexorable. The of wrong
especially of community is fearful to contemplate
Certain members of the bar of Pemscot county bind
themselves defend any CHARGED with bootleg
ging charge sufficient for his conviction; if
bootegger steals his neighbours vote in court house
election he have all the legal aid these attorneys
then talk about there being standard right
justice At this think the devil smes and orders his
furnace heated seven times hotter.
Republican county court has had chance to
what would do and has true the history the par
ty With them Republicans first the people afterwards
there is anything left, which is generally not the
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long, long road Tipperary, still longer one
the building of court house by the of Mr. JacO
Diamonds and all his relations in the deck of cards
1t may all right to play politics. if the playing doesn't
out of the pockets of the people, But there law
whereby the be played with the peoples money
We hope the County Equalization this year has
not been board of unequalization it last year.
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Give fool sufficient and he will hang himself is
equally applicable to some county courts.
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Cole and Shade well together much of either
is worse than at ALL
This county needs sunshine and less and Shade