People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — Politicul Wisdom. [ARTICLE]

Politicul Wisdom.

At the Republican senatorial convention, held at Goodland, last week, through the treachery of Jasper county delegates, Captain M. F. Chilcote was defeated. Four delegates from Carpenter and one from Union voted for the Benton-county man. Had Jasper county delegates voted as a unit for their man as the, Benton delegates did for theirs, Chilcote's majority would have been four. Benton county had no claim, -whatever, to this nomination. Why Mr. Chilcote should be treated this way by Carpenter when they have two

candidates on the county ticket, is a mystery to Republicans about here. Why these delegates preferred to turn down a tried and faithful officer of long standing in their party for a recent recruit and renegade from the Democratic party is very strange. There was some slick work done at that convention, somebody had been planning and looking ahead. Chilcote’s nomination at that convention would have interfered with another gentleman’s chances at another convention. OUR FIRM must have a place on the Republican legislative ticket this year, it makes no difference who is in the way they must be slaughtered if I have to sacrifice my hired help on the farm. This principle is all right as to Spitler, but it is pretty tough on Chilcote. The superior political wisdom of the Carpenter delegates and the hired man from Union has yet to be demonstrated. They may haye been five very wise men who could not act with their thirteen fools.

There has not been a time in twenty years but what Carpenter township has had from one to three candidates on the Republican ticket and Chilcote and his friends have always seen to

it that they got there, too. If Carpenter has ever failed to be on the Republican ticket it was because she already had a man or two in the court house. OUR FIRM and Carpenter, you can hardly expect the other cheek turned, for when forbearance ceases to be a virtue it is right, it is honorable to strike back. The very men who voted against Chilcote expect him, as usual to see to it that their home candidates get there, the very men who planned his defeat expect his vote and influence to help them into places where they can advance their own personal interest.

The Pilot will say now just what it said month§ ago, and that is, Chilcote has done more for his party and received less reward than any other Republican in the county. As between Republicans we have no choice. In the state senate Chilcote, like Phares, would stand with his party, but we like to see fair play.

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