Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-07-14
III End Of the Trail


Before another issue of the Herald reaches It's
subscribers. the final verdict Of another primary Ell
ection will have been written; another chapter IN
Montana and Sheridan county politics will have been
recorded. A goodly group Of andidat are going
to be elated over their success at the polls; a much
larger group is going to be sharing the bitterness of
disappointment and paying for dead horses Of un-
successful campaigns. Whatever verdict the voters
may decree with their ballots on election day. W
hope the good people of our state. and more espec-
tally those III Sheridan county may be able to accede
to the wishes OF the electorate thus expressed. There
is nothing more fruitless than political rancor. moth
ing more useless to good citizenship than mimos1,les
aroused over Disappointing political campaigns
a man who is not big enough to forget a pol
itical setback, is not big enough to run the Office he
sought. so it is well he failed,
All in all, this summers campaign In Sheridan
county has been an exceptionally clean one There
are those who would have been delighted to sit ON
the sideines and watch the Herald and Medicine
Lake Wave throw brickbats at each other In every
issue; others would have apphuded vociferousIy
while candidates called each other all the fancy
names known to the vocabulary Of political science.
while still others would have liked to have heard the
loud-mouthed exhorters calling all candidates liars
and crooks while e~xtoling the many virtues OF their
own favonte son.
Whatever effort there has been tn in;er, n~r-
sonalItles into the campaign-and be 1t remembered
that no campaign could be without its Judas Iscariots
these efforts have been most feeble I'm their effects
and have served more as a boomerang ON the inxti-
gator than a harm to his opponents.
The traitor to loyalty and decency win undoubt-
ely reap his reward of .chaff' at the polls.
Every candidate who has conducted a clean. de-
efnt campaign is deserving of credit from pcopk.
'A%nectIve OF party afhliation. The candidate who
mas stopped to dirty politics and dipped his hands
q me mlre OF filthy or malicious propaganda should
&c labeled as a citizen unworthy Of pubic trust.
Sheridan county is face to face with an econo-
mic problem which must be solved sancIy if we "
to come out OF the next two years administration
any better than when we went in. Their !. r~~J
tor united effort by every taxpayer: there Is need far
the united support of every practical suggestion r.
save money. and this support should come from
every citizen who is interested in improving condI-
tions.
Whether a man won or lost in this election will
not determine his value to the community. but the
contribution he makes in getting behind a cons,ruc-
tive program after election-that viii determine h.
real worth.
DOM be too disappointed if you fail to get the
nomination. Perhaps you are better off With all the
demands that are going to be made on county offic-
ers during the next two years. their task at best will
be no pleasant one. They will be haranpued from
every corner Their pay will be no larger than they
well deserve Perhaps after Six months you would
not change places with them. So, let's give attention
to the task ahead of us-that of improving the con-
dIItions OF our ~taxpaying people-hat OF maintaining
to the government of the United State.