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Our Exchanges Everyone who loves fair play will rejoice that the old fashioned mud-slinging campaign is pretty much a thing of the past. There are still a few however, who cannot refrain from mixing personalities and politics and all these should read and carefully ponder the following editorial written by Congressman Edgar Howard and printed in his paper, the Columbus Telegram: For many years there has been a cry for a presidential campaign free from mud-slinging. The opportunity for such a campaign is right here at the very doors of the American people. The private and public records of the three presidential nominees are so clean and free from the taint of graft as to call for an utter absence of vituperation during the campaign. And since it is admitted on all sides that the private and public records of the three presidential nominees are free from even the suspicion of corruption, then why should this not be a mudless campaign? Why should any advocate of the cause of either of the three nominees throw a morsel of mud at another of the other nominees? Then rather let us fight this campaign along the lines of principles, rather than along the lines of personalities. Let those who oppose the public policies advocated by President Coolidge train their guns against those policies, rather than against the clean man who advocates those policies. Let those who oppose the policies advocated by John W. Davis, and who possibly oppose him because he hails from a land once a part of Virginia, train their guns against his policies, and if they desire to display a sectional spirit, then let them also attack his policies and his Southern place of abode, rather than to attack the personality of a nominee upon whose record there is no manner of uncleanness. Let those attack those policies hammer and tong, always remembering that his private and public life has been wholly free from the flaw of corruption. It is time for the curtain to go down upon personal, mud-slinging political campaigns. The time has arrived for the conduct of political campaigns with reference alone to the value of the governmental policies advocated by contending candidates. With three clean presidential nominees contending for the favor of the American people the day of the mudless campaign ought to be here. The McCook Tribune observes that there is a good deal of opposite to to hell these days but what everybody knows who has lived long enough is that if there isn't a hell there to be. Editor Merwin of the Beaver City Times-Tribune broadcasts fact that a Beaver City merchant is going to start a new lodge and give some of his customers the C. O. D. degree. W. C. Norton of the Humboldt Standard in the course of his study of human nature has discovered that a cultured man is one who can trim you so courteously that you are ashamed to get mad. Many residents of Island Precinct in this county transact business with the Bank of Hamburg, at Hamburg, Iowa, and so news of the fact that this bank had been closed created considerable interest here. It was reported that the bank was in such condition that the depositors would be likely to lose heavily. That such was not the case is shown by the following from the Hamburg Republican: On Tuesday of this week it was decided among the stockholders of the Bank of Hamburg, which was a co-partnership, that it could no longer run as a private bank, and as a result the same has gone into voluntary liquidation and a receiver applied for. The petition for a receiver was filed Tuesday in the office of the district court at Sidney. The hearing for the appointment for receiver will be heard at Clarinda on Thursday of this week, before Judge Earl Peters, who will determine that question and if the application is upheld, he will select a competent person to wind up the affairs of the bank. The bank under the present management has been in operation since August 1920, and the members of the institution are Chas. Butterfield, Horace Noble, J. E. Morgan, John Lingo, and G. J. Liljedahl. The national bank examiner was in Hamburg Wednesday morning for the purpose of passing upon the application for a national bank charter to take over the affairs of the partnership, the capital of which will be $50,000 and is fully subscribed. John Lingo, of Essex, Iowa, was the petitioner for a receiver, he had notices posted on the door announcing the closing of the bank. He is also guaranteeing the depositors payment in full. As we understand, Mr. Lingo is one of the wealthiest men in either Fremont or Page counties, and it is considered that his guarantee is perfectly good and the public is taking it very calmly, relying on him to make good his promise. Editor Brott of the Johnson News has lived long enough, and edited a newspaper long enough to justify his statement last week to the effect that you don't need a license to hunt trouble nor dogs to scare it up. Fred H. Hill of the Hamburg Reporter must have just about run out of things to keep him guessing otherwise he would not have remarked last week that "sometimes we wonder how the recording angel keeps a record of the fish stories."