People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Make No Mistake. [ARTICLE]

Make No Mistake.

In selecting your candidates for office, do not be afraid of offending even our own people. All reformers are not not qualified for positions. Put in the best men, and the more radical the better. Do not nominate a milk-and-water reformer. Such, should they be elected, will injure the cause. Never mind the howls of the monopoly about anarchists. The reform movement is under obligations to no man. Whenever a man thinks he is entitled to a mountain it is proof sufficient that he should be shelved. Don’t expect your candidates to “put up.” If a man will sacrifice his time he should not be allowed to spend money. No victory is worth much until the people are educated to know what will benefit them. Defeat for a principle is better than a victory by compromise and fusion. It is not the right spirit for candidates to make getting elected the object—educating the people is the object.—Coming Nation.