Show V VOTES OTES RECEIVED ARE ABE NO CRITERION SAYS persons who go down to defeat in the battle of ballots should find some consolation in a recent utterance N hayes 0 of of judge henry richfield as published in the last issue of the richfield reaper heaper the J judge U dge says alter after more than thirty five fite years experience in politics I 1 am brought brough t to conclude that the really worthwhile things t that hat one does tor for the community are belittled or forgotten when he asks tor for a favor from the electorate while the little insignificant things he has done or has tailed failed to do are magnified at such times by those who do not agree with him but such Is life and I 1 presume that the world will remain as it Is until there is a different kind of people in it I 1 am not at all predicting anything as to the result of the coming election but I 1 merely wanted to say that in my opinion the results shown by the ballot box are no criterion by which to judge how a man is esteemed by the community in which he lives |