Santa Fe gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1859-1864, 1863-04-18
l4 n From the Missouri Republican
Representative sygtems.

spcy and corruption rule supreme in our elections
and that bribery Is the most potent inAuasse in
the advancement vf our public men. THAT SAt,
lea is free from the evils olunserupuous ambition
or That the politicians Of our day afe eegcraly
cAaacterzedb BY lusotted honesty aud probity,
we ca6nOt assert. Ii ifpainnl to reflect that
while within the last score aud ahalf of wears lhe
morality Of British leaders has gradually improved
under the foruo Of stringent laws and d he.l.ller
popularsentlmat, bnl men ID the United slotc.
have driled to means for ,hs lurthemnee of their
schemes once almost entirely UNEMPLOYED in dis
counny. Whalsor progress has heen made in
this wrong direction however twill take l5ug
Time, going at thesuniefate toaHve OF that stute
Of genara political dishonesty which Distinguish \
Great Britain within the mslnory Of millions Of
people now living,
Fer decades upon decades, tho appalling vice.
of the constitutional representative system Of
Great Blitam were The scolf Of tho resi- of ile
world. Populous manufacturing cities like Leeds,
and NIanchesyor and SheHell and Brmiusham,
were without Voices Ia paflianent, willis the Re.
stlicted and unequa franchise fllsl the electoral
hodv with lhe toals of ipttlonin, nollsnan and
0o6lnot unistss sent Go,s rotlen horon5Ia II
was not until 10 that raiofm was proposed or
drpcty bintod nj ana this wan dana theb hi mi
Chatham, IN 60 mild naBper TINT weAre astoun
ded at this tmidlty Chatham failed butreform
was brought up again six y9qrs later Again IL
Gned f7go 4 Mn ,gas 'b5asentad fot ANIMAL
nnrl;,mabts pnlypraol .olTssa md ecnaI elaclc,aI
districts Th. was reiected witbDnt a division
Fyen tba Kim warmed tho nponla ocoinet ,be
tba1,ri ofinnoyotionsu Tva ypora orfer ronrn,
VIVA royiyad by NJ pilA on,T a;,in in Iisg otd
osoin in. l7eS bnt villont snrra.s ION ,ho Ltt
occasion Mr IN sacriGnad nrneinla IN eynad,oncv
Nv oh,rng ia INV ior tba smte tbe borongls
Hbcb woSe tlwsyi IA ma msrket. bnt cven tbis
dld not saye bia sehono por Gge vsora brthrm,
was scarcely oInded IA in Parliament In I7qa
n I'M wsa m ,ycl M odd ono bpndred manbe,s ta
'lhe Honse of lIo,6mona no bo eoclad ~ tbo b,n.s
Iboilors n ecerv coabtS bst tlis wsi roiectol
Xot N 40 tnrt6nrintn tha Intermediate 6ista,5 ol
tha Attemnt In nurifv the sbamagnlnnd hjgb handeA
cogrnnlion dsvrlonnl n ibs renrason,o,;So sve,em
Aof Eugland. a was oblg in ls33 hht any ms3sn,o
was paassel l6bkinn To tba conee,ieo Of lho
olariag abuses we hpro uomed--n,ore ,,bon siyty
wears om the dale Of ths lr.t real aaItatoaor M
subject in Parliament lis passage even al that
nte div pr0iucea one IL the tdnneero1s erlsp,
tbe BlIush Gesernmcpt ever knew 'Tbs ll5ast
of To,ds onlv submitted nusn tbe direct ihroa, a
aDe existing ministry TO create q sufficient nambo
Of nav peeTs to oyelsla1gb their opDosition. Yel
thouah the reform oct vas 6pally missed, IN, frs
really practical measa,e for The spppression o
btibery was broupht forward in l84l Tint dl,
not prove olIectual, aud another was introduced Il
lls55 But whether from the actnal looseoess
thouQh pretended btrlnpeDey Of thelaTs Or ron
the Settled dishonesty Of Tie politicians in spite 0
them, corruption in elections IS not yet suppressed
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