Show 16 SS lr A ideas from other editors N EDITORIAL that will make athe AN the reader think appeared recently in the tribune Pr meville neville oregon here it Is back in a little town in eastern oregon theres an old farmer now retired chos establishing a great local reputation for being a very shrewd man it if you were to watch him as he goes around the town talking to this person and the other or at a public meeting you could say theres Ri eres a smart man but it if you studied the man his life and what hes done discover yourself wondering it if he be actually Is so smart hes always against anything new hes against it many of the things he has opposed should have been opposed As a town leader he was opposed to lavish spending of town funds he was opposed to all forms of federal control but his weakness was and Is the tact fact that he never suggested anything positive to form a course of action by opposing and only opposing he never led his townspeople into progressive activity it Is common knowledge that if you oppose without offering another line of action the opposition is i meaningless thinking and speaking for defini niti ft beliefs takes lakes courage it alto also takes faith faila we have bave been losing ground against confusion and bitterness because of the me lack of at faith faila end and the lack of courage to beli believe esir in a definite pi for the me future 0 0 rho safest lafert side for a man to take in an argument between two friends Is the outside D dothan otha n eagle dothan ala 0 0 0 an old fashion election from the bulletin free press a weekly newspaper published at denver col what we need in anis country is an old fashioned election campaign such as we had in the days of mckinley and bryan in 1896 many readers can recall the excitement of the torchlight pro cessions sessions ces at night and the campaign oratory of william jennings bryan who was an artist in making campaign speeches he made speeches to enormous crowds in all three of his campaigns for or president he could talk for three hours and when he be stopped his voice was as good and clear as when he began he was a good loser and never worried over his defeats it seems that much of the glamour and excitement has gone out of present day elections while there are battles of words name calling and sundry epithets flying around we dont have the excitement the oratory the heartfelt vocal fireworks that used to accompany political campaigns people seem to be counting personal gains to be homing their way through gh legislation rather than feeling a personal interest in the candidates and saddest of all where are the old time campaign songs that made political campaigns really worthwhile in those old fashioned elections |