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Show I' VliLIC CA XVI DA TEH. When a man accepts a nomination nomina-tion for office, he makes a political tirget of himself. Keen and unrelenting are the shafts that vrill be hurled at him most mercilessly. Every past act, whether good or bad,- is held up to the light for public inspection. , A nominee .whose record has not been an exemplary one, morally and otherwise, treads on dangerous ground by running for oflice. The corrupt, the dishonest, the immoral candidate will receive dreadful scourges at the hands of his wide-awake enemies. They will scrape up every obtainable misdeed of his career and parade the filthy mess before the critical public gaze. They will heap indisputable in-disputable proofs of past corruption upon his head that will sting like snake bites. Publics, to the bad candidate, is no more nor 'less than a taste of the judgment day that awaits him. In this respect it may prove his good angel, even though it stept out of the great mouth -of the lion that would fain devour him body, soul, character and reputation. Such an appalling exhibition of bis own evil deeds thrown up before be-fore his own eyes may tend to soften his stony heart and turn him into cleaner paths. In this way, together with the beneficial effects such vivid pictures and startling disclosures may have upon the mind of a cautious, good-reputation-loving public, is politics a missionary for good. Bold and even severe criticism of all past public acts is unavoidable in politics, but we hope that private affairs and filth-slinging will not enter the struggle now on in our -county, that when the storm is over the havoc may be the more easily remedied. |