Show only five more afore days and the hectic days preceding our biannual annual bi election will have past those who will have been elected to office will be good citizens notwithstanding the fact that right now there is probably being attributed to them by their opponents or their opponents friends characters so base that it is a wonder they are allowed to live in their home communities during a long life devoted to the pubic the writer has often wondered how bow human beings could be so inconsiderate or so thoughtless as to circulate scurrilous and scandalous scan delous rumors about their political opponents not one in ten thousand of such slanders having one iota of truth in them well admit tb that at this practice is not near so common as it was in ye year ars past but it is still so bad that it sometimes does unjust damage almage all good people should compel anyone carry carrying ing such rumors to carry the proof of them aloni along or else shun the carrier as one would a leper |