The Wakefield Searchlight from Wakefield, Kansas • 16

16 THE SEARCHLIGHT. October 18, 1900. Stoty of a Crafty Young Politician frank IB. Dodds. This young man, Frank B.

Dodds, the Candidate for probate judge, has been making, perhaps, one of the best campaigns in Clay county. He came quietly before the people at an early date and expressed a wish to be nominated for this office. Since his nomination he has continued working honestly and faithfully, and surely we can reward him with our vote. He was a member of the famous Twentieth Kansas and has a soldier record untarnished. But he is not before the people on his war record, but as a young man with the ability to hold the office of probate judge.

He is before us with a record a6 a good man, a good student, and a good soldier. Let us continue this record by giving him a chance to be a good probate judge. I heard not long ago, of a brilliant and crafty young politician who was and is an earnest champion and help-er of a very successful and practical man in public life. Unfortunately he had acquired some traits of the world. He was suspicious, distrust- i ul.

He feared betrayal here, a Judas there. The caution increased his cunning but impaired his character. The man to whose fortunes he was attached called him in, in the midst of a great political battle, on which the fortunes of that man depended, and said to his young lieutenant: the world's attitude did not drive him to such a conclusion. It is the nature of young men the world over, and particularly of young Americans, to be open in life, -direct in method, lofty in purpose and fearless in action. As far as he is deflected from these, the world deflects him.

A very successful lawyer once told me the following it illustrates my point: I remember," said he that when I was a law student one of the most brilliant young men I ever met one of the most brilliant young or old men I ever met one day received a client of the firm with a luxury of at teach you how to handle them.5 "-Senator Beveridge. tention and a8sumptuousness of courtesy that deeply aroused my your district this time, aren't referring to a Democratic candidate for Congress in Ohio. I told him I thought so. Then he continued: 'I understand that Sammy is a great A LINCOLN STORY. ignorant and rural admiration.

When the consultation had been finished, Success in this fight is important to me, but it is not so important as the ruin to your character which I see going on. You are becoming permanently distrustful, suspicious. think one friend will fail us here, that that friend is untrue, that the other one may be influenced improperly. Very soon you will begin to suspect me, then you will suspect and the rich client had left the office, this young lawyer, who had bowed him out with a deft compliment that friend of mime just as warm a friend as I have. He reminds me of a hog that old Sam Brown had.

It got out and was gone for some time. Sam "In my capacity as secretary and treasurer of the Ohio State Republican Committee," said John J. Janney, of Columbus, "I went to the capital to see the president. I was admitted with about one hundred and made the client feel that he was the could see where it had been rooting point about which the universe was revolving, turned and said as he along the creed; and he said one morning to one of his sons that the boy was to go along one side of the creek and Brown himself would go along the other, 'for I said he 'that the hog is on both sides of the Indianapolis Press. W.

S. Bradbury. ALPHABET. W. S.

Bradbury, the candidate for representative, comes before us for a second term in the State Legislature. How well he performed his duty during his first term is attested to by those with whom he served on committees. He entered the legislature two years ago a perfect stranger, but his honest and straightforward course soon brought him into prominence. He was the right man in the right place and we ought to do the right thing by putting him again in that place. He is making an honest campaign and if sent again we have but shown our appreciation of his previous record.

We want such men in the legislature the farmer. He understands-the wants of the great majority. yourself, and then then you are utterly lost. Stop it. I would rather lose the fight than see you lose your character." man was right and the attitude he took in his advice to the young man was right.

jLet the world quit encouraging young men to think that guile alone succeeds, let it encourage the faith that nothing but the noble and good really succeeds in the end. Let every one jpoint out to the young man confronting the world that it is not so great a thing after all to be so smart, not 0 so great a thing after all to be capable with the little tricks of life, but that it is everything to be good and trustful and fearless and constructive. It will not do for the world to reply that it does, in words, encourage these fine qualities of youth. It does not, except in formal and meaningless utterances peachments that have not the vitality of individuality in them. Words are very little; almost less than nothing.

But attitude and action are everything. The young man would not feel that he had slick or crafty or cunning if Abundance of work. Better times. Calamity dethroned. Duty performed.

Expansion realized. Free silver exposed. Gold standard continued. Hawaii annexed. Independence to Cuba.

Justice to all. Knowledge promoted. Liberty extended. McKinley's re-election. National honor upheld.

Opportunities improved. Protection assured. Quantities of employment, Roosevelt a winner. Stability of credit. Trade extended.

Union forever. Values upheld. Wages increasad. This is my opinion of prosperity. Joe Anderson.

went to to his desk, 'There goes the shallowest fool and most stupid rascal in the fifty others. It was Lincoln's habit occasionally to admit a lot of people at the same time and hear each individual's case with all the others listening. I took a seat to one side, as I wanted to see him and hear him while he tried those cases. I shall never forget the simple and great man as he sat listening to the troubles of all kinds that were put before him. He seemed to go to the bottom of every case at once and to give simple justice all the time.

The last one of the crowd was a girl who was deaf When asked how he could say such a thing after having treated the client with such distinction, he turned with a wink of his eye and said: That is the way to work them. You don't know the world yet. Wait till you get on in the world it will The only way to make a town well-known is to keep something going on all the time. If a town becomes known as a place where there is always some sort of a big time, that town acquires a reputation for energy and push. Then on the faint and dumb.

All she wanted was to see the President. Lincoln sat there for almost half an hour and wrote George H. Fullington. This man, George H. Fullington of Idana, the candidate for State Senator from this district, needs no introduction.

He is an old time citizen of this community and is known all over Clay and Dickinson counties as a thoroughly reliable and capable business man. The same will be true of this man if sent to the state house. He has always been a good citizen as well as neighbor. He made a good county commissioner; he made a good county treasurer; and he will make a good state senator. A man who will always fight for the right because it is right, is the record of George H.

Fullington. He 'is a man of whom we should feel proud to send to the legislature. Let us not forget him on the 6th day of next month. answers on the girl's tablet and talked with her in that way. "Finally my time came, and Lincoln turned and saw me sitting to one side.

I had never met him but -the one time some years before in Columbus, but he knew me at once and said: 'Have you been here all this time? Why didn't you let me know est notice of a speech or gathering of any kind, immense crowds flock to the town. And if people come they are sure to spend their money. They can't help it. They are out for a time and they don't care what it costs. The money they spend stays right in the town in which the celebration is held and everyone within the city limits is helped thereby.

So if you want to make Wakefield a place where everybody gathers, And then he went on to talk about various things. Finally he said: 'You whoop it up. Keep something going on. are going to defeat Sammy out in.