Show I Unjust Criticism I DURING the primary election campaign just closed criticism was directed against certain candidates because elected or appointed to fill a position by the people or the peoples people's representatives representatives they had now aspired to occupy a higher and mor more Influential office The intimation was that these men having accepted one municipal job were or should be barred from asking the people for any other position t. t The criticism we believe to have been unjust and uncalled for In the commercial world men of ambition are given if When they cease to aspire to greater accomplishment of 1 t e el become dead wood and nd the downward path is alone open them The same ambition should mark men and women inis in is 1 public life If they have proved their fitness as a public official they should not be criticised because they seek advancement The people being the employers have the right to say whether hether the tIre advancement shall be made They are are re the sole judges r a and ad d they hey will not sanction a criticism based solely on the fact that fi f i i one one of their public servants seeks to advance himself 1 The precedent too has been so well established politically that it seems foolish to bring it forward at this late date We Ve can jJ all recall all that when Woodrow Wilson Vilson became a candidate for president president president dent of the United States he was governor of New Jersey Likewise Likewise Likewise Like Like- wise it can be cited that when Hiram Johnson sought the position of or senator from California he was governor or of f that state And Johnson now a presidential candidate still retains his place in the senate and no one thinks of asking him to resign because he has hasL L his bis eyes turned t toward ward the White House Political history is full of s such ch incidents To bring it up now as an argument against a 3 candidate is pure political buncombe 4 fi |