Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1902 — WISE WORDS, THESE. [ARTICLE]

WISE WORDS, THESE.

Exchange: All law abiding people are interested in the conduct of political parties, not only at the polls but in the selection of candidates at the primaries and in the various conventions. Often the unworthy, who have more cunning than ability, by some trick deceives a majority of his party or controls by chicanery the representatives of the party and secures the nomination for an office for which he is wholly unsuited. This is a wrong to his party and its members, and as a rule in counties where that party is in power it is a wrong to the entire people. In such cases men do their party and the entire community an inestimable service by casting off party ties and voting to rebuke such trickery. Party bossism is one of the dangers to the perpetuity of free government. The independent voter who votes to rebuke wrong methods and establish the standard of merit above party success is his country’s benefactor. Consider well the man, his character, his ability and his integrity, and then, if you find no difference, vote for your party candidate, but let party be the last consideration. If one or more local candidates should go down in defeat the party would live on.