Show THE DEMOCRATIC CHOICE The organ of the local Republicans ls in a pucker over the approaching election and exhibits the conviction that Republican candidate will not carry his district So it attempts to injure his opponent by one of the most fatuitous arguments that could be made and which would be surprising in any ther paper but that daily specimen speci-men of j urna stic inconsistency Tho argument is that Billy Hall as It styles the unanimous choice of the Democrats of this city for the legislature is twothirds a Republican Repub-lican Now that is tantamount to an invitation to a certain class of Republicans Repub-licans to vote for him The halfhearted way in which our contemporary advocates advo-cates the cause of the Republican nominee nom-inee equivalent to damning him with faint praiseshows that it does not swallow him with any degree of good grace And this assertion as to Mr Hall is a hint to a number of Republicans Repub-licans that in the election of the Democratic Demo-cratic candidate they will not be losing much after all What Mr Hall will do when he takes his seat is perhaps premature to assert just now But we will assure our Democratic Dem-ocratic friends who do not know the gentleman who is 4o be elected next month that he is a sound Democrat and will faithfully represent his party and at the same time stand up man fullyfor the best interests of this whole territory regardless of any faction fac-tion nr 5nr > pln1 plnss No one need Vin afraid entrusting the representation of this district in the hands of W C Hall whose enemies even can find no fault with him As to the matter of his nomination every one who attended tho convention knows that it was one of the most spontaneous genuine and general selections se-lections ever made in a political party It needed no secret meeting of Democrats Demo-crats to bring it about It was in the air that W C Hall was the man for the place He was the choice of the delegates before they met and they voiced the feeling of the body of the party in all the precincts Call him what you please Democrat part Republican Re-publican favorable to this opposed to that it does not matter we believe that he will receive not only the full vote of his pattY but a big batch of ballots cast by influential and admiring admir-ing Republicans Elect W C Hall |