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Editorials
November 12, 1930 issue

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The article throws light of a well-settled principle of American jurisprudence that when a man offers himself as a candidate for public office he is to be regarded as putting his fitness for the place in evidence, and that anything which tends to show that he is not fit may freely be offered, provided only that it is true. The propriety of the criticism is for the party that utters it and the public to whom it is addressed, not for the candidate, to decide. It would be strange indeed if a principle everywhere recognized as applicable to a candidate should cease to operate once the candidate is, elected or appointed.

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CRITICISM; JURISPRUDENCE; PUBLIC administration; PUBLIC opinion; POLITICAL psychology; UNITED States
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