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Show LAST MINUTE SENSATIONS The campaign is closed. For twenty-five years this paper has cautioned the voters to place no faith in those who, in the last hours of the election, attempt to bring new issues before them. Fair deal-, deal-, ': ing demands that when an accusation is made, those involved be given ample opportunity to reply. This inference invariably is that those who resort to roorbacks are unable to meet their opponents in open debate and are trying to put over that which will not bear analysis. Each election, for twenty-five years, this paper has warned the ipeople against accepting the last minute sensation, and during all that period this paper rigidly has adhered to this rule of conduct, and those who have been constant readers will substantiate this statement. state-ment. It is the only way to shut out the bearer of false tales or at least cause the circulator of political canards to be ineffective What is a roorback? It is an American coined word In 1844, when James K. Polk was aspiring to the presidency, a falsehood was j (published intended to injure Polk. It purported to be an extract rfrom the "Travels of Baron Roorback." It proved to be a deflama-, deflama-, ' ' tory forgery circulated too late to be answered. The people, however, how-ever, were not fooled. They said that any serious reflection should be subjected to close scrutiny in open forum and not deferred to the 'last minute, and there came a resentment which heaped upon those "who started the forgery public condemnation. Polk, instead of being , defeated by the dodge, was elected, and since then astute pobticians j Jiave kept free from what has Tjeen known as the roorback. Any new material, bearing directly on the issues, which could rhave been presented on or prior to Saturday, must be classed as a roorback and treated as unworthy of credence. The Standard-Examiner, in holding to a long established practice j fand following a policy which has helped to protect the voters from imposition, once more contributes to the safeguarding of the voters against last minute deceptions, however cunningly they may be de-' vised, invitingly presented or cleverly clothed. |