The daily gazette., 1880-09-06
THIRD EDITION
n Ws Words for Young Vo,ers.


n @e Words for Young TOters.
From a speech at Albany by the Hon. S.
. 8. Cox.
1t has been said that it is great
thing to be young man. Appeals are
made to the newly -fedged voters to
vote for the Republican party-as the
party of pure and pious policies and
purposes. Having been nearly quar-
ter of century in Congress, and hav-
ing passed untainted every ordeal and
list, have the right to say word to
the young aspirant for Legislative
honors. [ would say to him, Observe
these rules in public service First, re-
gard your office as a trust, not place
for devices and greed second, repre-
sent not public nor private corpora
tions or mercenary or other jobs third,
do not even borrow money of those
who have such schemes afoot, for their
own aggrandizenent, however guised
by the veneer ofpublic utility fourth,
do not take stock or dividends in such
schemes, for it means your prostitution
sooner or later to come out to light
fifth, when you no borrow, if you must
and do borrow in round sums, say $500
or $330-not $829-just enough for
peculiar dividend sixth, do not accept
lawyer fees, when you are not practis-
ing, in matters not legal in a profess
sional sense, and on which you are to
speak and vote seventh, do not try to
increase your salary by your own vote
much less go back to previous Con-
crosses with the increase, for plain
folk will think II little less than steal
ing. [Applause. Thus you may
save your sensibElity from haggard dis
content and rem morse. And if you do
in some moment of simplicity and
temptation,
Like a bird on d bough, whi,h tilting
swings,
Needless OF right and wrong,
forget these less pms for young legisla-
tors, do not lie about it. Simplicity
and repentance will not remove suspi-
cion; and public man must be ire
proachable. Dear old Sir Roger De
Coverly was willing to give his female
friend coal pit to keep her in clean
linen, and would have a hundred of
his dirty acres sparkle ON her fingers.
But his was a simplicity that did not
smutch, and generosity that was on
ly beautiful. Not such are the gifts
of the greedy libby to the corrupted
Congressman. Remember the words
of God from Si1ai, out of the thunder
and the quakings: Thou shalt take
no gift; for the gift blindeth the wise
and perverteth the words of the right
eousp'-Exodus, xiii, 80. Than k
God, no such suspicious or taints fall
upon our Democratic nominees
[Cheers.l They are pure gold, re-
hned in.the fir. How is it as between
the candidates for Vice President /
have already referred to Gen. Arthur.
l do not know how he got his title to
General. No blood, think, stains
. his militia record. Do we know him
as fit and houest Collector What
can we think Of him as the presiding
officer of the United States Senate, and
as a possible President? Compared
with him, regard William II. English.
[Cheers. now him well, having
served with him in critical times, when
the first speckA of war were seen on
our horizon, and when slavery in Kan
sas threatened before the great war
came to dispart the Union. 1t was by
de1eaClng the Lecompton Constitution
that he won his first honors. He show
ed in that crisis pluck and Judgment
and, by device as fair as it was sue.
cessful, gave to the people of Kansas
the squatter right, by voting TO discard
slavery, which had been fixed in the
Lecompton Constitution, to give that
new State a free Constitution. That
English bill tn rned on my vote. Ii
was given over twenty one years ago,
in April, 1858. have never seen
cause to repent it. 1t was a pathway
through manifold trouble, and by somt
concession toward union and peace
/ voted for the measure on the ground
that it would blot out slavery. This
it did. 1t led to the admission OF
Kansas afterward under its provisions
as a free State,