Show WRONG IDEA OF POI POLITICS TICS After ACter all maybe maybo it was a good thing thinK Eugene W. W Chafin prohibition candidate candidate candi candi- date for tal President was not elected last November Mr r has such a wrong idea of politics that It would havo have been dangerous to give him the freedom of oC tho the White House In Iii his Sunday Sunda address in Salt Sail Lako Lake Mr 11 Chafin Is quoted as having said What is the tIme practical politics of oC to toda today today to- to da day Do any mean thing on earth that will make mako your party part win That ThatIs Is ill the only practical politics that will stand Wherein Mr Ir Chafin Is wrong It might be Just t as ns well to advise him before ho he goes an any farther that It t doesn't pay In politics to do the tho mean thing Politics Is approaching a n. science about as rapidly as Is the law or business ln ss or an any other activity that engages the tho thou thought ht and tho the effort of men It doesn't pa pay to do mean things timings In n law even If It winning a single case ma may be the result And nd it doesn't pa pay to do the the mean thing in business Neither does oes it pa pay to do 10 the mean thing to win a political battle A nan man who can make e a living lI practicing law should see the reasonableness s of ot that stat statement cm eat The same men are engaged In politics polities as In business and In the pro pro- I es long Indeed lawyers Jawers provide pro more active politicians than does any n other class of ot men Will Ill the they tr try to I Iwin win by wrong methods In one field I y while carefully avol avoiding dishonesty meanness an and Indirection in another The man who wins political battles battless I Is s an honest hone t man man and and ho lie Is tho the only one who does win Abraham Lincoln was tas probably the best politician our country countr has yet et known And there ther a mean hair In his head Grover Gro Cleveland eland was a good good politician and he 10 played fair So does every man who wins in politics Time The They dont don't promise anything the they I shouldn't promise anti and when the they do io they hey keep their words wont I. I They Ther dont don't work for an- an end that Is against the permanent final good o of the people In n the honest belief bellor of the politician I And they try to get et It b by anything any any- thing but decent deG honorable and manly I Tho The political conflict Is cr very ery bitter r because It Is compressed sed Into a few months Feeling Is more Intense because bc- bc cause ause of or that If It politicians were mean If it their wa ways R were dishonorable the they hey might win In on one battle but battle but that be e the cn end of or them An And political organization rests on the continued continued con- con presence of the same men mon menh through rough h man many campaigns Thoy couldn't last I If their methods were what the sincere but misinformed Mr Ir ChafIn believes them to be This public speaker working In a cause which he believes to be right and ind wise and for foi the best interests of oC the he people simp simply Is wrong And his is party part will win more battles b by fair tall politics than b by nn an any other One Ono of ot the weaknesses of his system is that the theman theman theman man who accepts tho the notion that politics poll poll- tics Ics Is dirt dirty selects that as a method And he falls fails Clean politics will win battles An Anno and no other kind will And when clean politics wins the people are always well served |