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Show legitimate claim to a public office, of-fice, if he seeks a public office that in itself is not descreditable he may be performing a public duty by so doing, he may do so at the point of sacrifice, but he who would not pluck the thistle and plant the rose is an American Ameri-can in name only. Politics have in times made as many enemies as religion. Why should men or women who have been intimate inti-mate friends through life, become be-come so imbued with hatred at each other through politics that words fall from their lips they would gladly and willingly take back after they had been spoken. In our every day life we find men arguing the point of each otheds politics as if their lives depended on the election of either candidate, but would either of the candidates do as much for these men if elected to office? Yet at every election we still find the same state of affairs and enemies made on each side. Should not the point be looked at from a different aspect. Why cannot two or three parties work harmoniously together to-gether without the continuous mud-slinging which occur at every election. Harmony and Unity must be observed by each party betfore any real success can be attained in the political field. THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN We would have a much finer, cleaner and more noble class of public officials if deeds, as well as words, were considered when the ballot is cast, and of the two deeds would be preferable. The campaigner who does nothing better than flay every person and every force that does not agree with his politics should be let alone. The campaigner who really has a message, sound convictions, and the courage to express them without fear or favor, and leaves alone the mud-elinging, mud-elinging, deserves more consideration consid-eration than he whose campaign is entirely negative. J A good many office seekers make rash promises before election which they would often like to take back. They know they are promising the unreasonable if not the impossible when they make such promises. Politicians too often have others serve them instead of their serving others. Any campaigner may have a |