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Show I DEMOCRATIC TICKET Taking the Democratic county ticket as a AND PLATFORM. whole it is a good one and will win in No- ' vember. While Home of the nominees are young, meu this is not againat the ticket. Young nun usually make the . 1 ,mot ambitious oflicers. The people of the county who arc in favor of lioueat government will sustain the Democratic ticket. The platform adopted by the Democrats ia one that will be noticed Is., by nil voters. It is not a loug, wordy and meaningless epistle like the v unu adopted by the ltcpublicnus the other day. It is brief and comes (jtjjarely to the point. The local option olailse mils' for the actiou of the legislature allowing the people of oaoh ooduty to express whether or not they favor the liquor tralllc. The representative from this County are pledged to tiso their best endeavors in tin's respect. Comment Is made in tho platform concerning the removing from politics; the ollico of county superintendent of schools. This is a worthy J cause and will be appreciated by tho peoplo of this county. The manner man-ner iu which the llepubliuana handled this matter at their recent convention conven-tion deplorable. A talk was made by sjmo delegate suggesting that " the office be taken out of politics. A number of delegates actpjieced but the actiou of the convention which followed Is an eye sora to the peoplo of tiio county. Through oilicu trading the convention placed a man on tho ticket who is considered weak in the extreme for the posi- tlou. If this uiati is elected the school children of tho county will be those who will be Bucriliccd because of the actions of a political machine, p The Democrats aro to be ccuiinendcd for tndtavoring to cull this ollico f out of politics, f Other clauses iu the platform are worthy ot comment, uud when the B platform is presented to the people tlioy will no doubt see that the Dem- fll ocratio party is tho party of tho people, and not tho party of a political Bf ; ' machine. |