, 1922-10-10
Would Be Helpless

TT is NOT a question of the comparative wealth
L of Frank Mondell and John kendrick. 1t is
of no consequence 10 the people of Wyoming vheth-
er the one has a million dollars and the other only
six bits. As we understand the matter, we are not
selling our senatorship at auction, and the poss-
ession of money to make good any bid offered is
not the game at ali.
The thing Of first Importance is qualification
and fitness for the office, and ability to render
the best service to the people represented.
n the. first place John Kendrick has spent a
lifetime devoted 10 his own interests, save and
except the six years he has served as United States
senator from this state. In that time he divided his
efforts between his own business and the peoples
business. During four of the years he served in the
senate the country was in the hands of Senator
In the record of those years that the senator is the
father of any valuable legislation, constructive or
otherwise. rhe record, it is true, exhibits several
attempts, but nothing really accomplished. And
newspaper headlines and campaign claims cannot
alter the facts.
On the other hand Frank Mondeu has spent a
lifetime in the exclusive service of the people of
Wyoming. He had no other business to engac e any
portion of his time. There is a long list of land,
irrigation and other laws of direct value to wyo.
ming, aside from the general laws for the coun-
try's benefit to his credit as a legislator. All of
which are SO wellknown to the people of the state
and the nation as to need no further mention.
1t-is not the intention TO belittle or magnify
either candidates work on behalf OF the people.
Those records are already written history and can
not be changed at this or any other time.
hr. Mondelfs record shows twenty-five years OF
AVN hh0 q 4OhStI 4lhb VI ACTUALLY accomplished
acts of beneficial character than any member who
ever served in the lower house. No doubt Sena-
tor Kendrick did the best he could, but his senator
ia1 record discloses nothing that could not have
been accomplished by thousands of other Wyoming
men.
The prospects for the future and the opportu-
nifty ahead for each candidate is a matter for the
consideration of the voters next month. The ma
tional administration is wholly Republican, both
IN the legislative and executive branches. The pros.
poets are that it will remain so for a number of
years. Mr.. Mondell is n part of the Republican
party, high in its councils and close to the execu-
tive. Senator Kendrick is a Democrat, his party
went out of power discredited in 1921. Holding his
views, and being devoted TO Democratic policies
which have just been buried under an unfavorable
majority of seven million votes, it is not in the
nature of things, even if he were elected senator.
that he could be of the slightest value TO Wyoming
or 10 the nation as a member of q minority party
and that party under a cloud and in disfavor with
the people.
There has been no time in the sountry's history
that called louder for action than the present. Wvo.
ming wants and needs a senator who can and will
get action.
One who is in full sympathy and accord with the
powers that now govern and will govern for many
years to come. Wyoming cannot afford to tie up
TO a representative who will be helpless, as a mem
Der OF the minority party and wholly out of line
with the administration. Senator Kendrick as a
member of the senate for the next six years would
be in the same situstion as the bound boy at the
husking bee.