Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-10-28
INDUCED IN by WILLIAM Arp.


Dauicl Wooster remarked there were but
two classes Of people who loved ty 90
fishing, gentlemen and vagabonds. Its not
exactly chat way about tire Radicals at the
North, Sutit's made up Of the dependents
mmi the independents The rich and the poor
The middle classes, who are just toIcrably
well off and make II comfortable living by
Industry aud economy, com pose the Demo
cratic party. The rich men have got most
OF the bonds and tho money aud they arc
afraid The Democrats would tax 'em or pay
us for our ngsers, or do something, and as
ihoy own nearva!l the railroads and facto
ries and workshops, they make the opera
tivcs vote just as they want 'cm. If thew
don't vote to suit 'cm they turn 'em off
Besides this they send money to other
States to help carry the election and it
looks like Sc poor Democrats never will
get showing ugain. We haven't got
enough money to buy votes with, and I'm
. afraid we never will have, for wo haven't
got any public treasury to steal from. If
we could only get in power once mo,c
there wonld be no difficulty in keeping in,
for we know exactly how the thing is done.
believe in four years time our party
could be educated up to their Standard
with iiitlc help. don't mean to say
we would steal all the time, like they do,
bns then We would carry the keys, and
ev,ry four years we could draw On the
treasury ia pinch and put the money
back after there election. Now, the is Wm.
II. Dodge 4 Co., sending money down here
to carry congressional district, and enough
money wlil 90 it, reckon. They sent
over money to Indiana from Boston, and
New York, and philadelphia, and beat US,
foE they had ten dollars to our one. Mon
ey is very insinuatipg thing I've known
men to be bribed when they didn't know il
Sometimes it just slips in on moor fellow
SO gontly he don't perceive it--some ap-
prchens'on OF evil or some hope of good
and the times aFc SO hard ond tho family
50 poor. Maybe he can get contract. or
situation, or little Office, or something
~ always sorry for them kind, but | have
cront contempt for these half pint or half
dollar brides that ncg,o takes for his
vote II man feels constrained to sell
himself, | want him to get something for
himsef---somchng that will do somo GOOD:
It's curious how we all get reoonc;led to
corruption. Every State has cot laws
against getting votes by bribery, getting
otlicc by corruption, such as repeating and
authorization, but it's done everywhere, and
it looks like man can't get elected with.
out some kind of trickcry or deception.
The highest men in tho nation furnish
money to buy votes, and they call it inhu..
enciug an election, just like thoy coll steal
ing emhczzlemcnt | think it would be
better to abolish the laws and license the
tasiuess. Lets fcIer put up his sign oyo,
his door, and say 'licenscd vote broker
Then no could work round and find on,
how many he could sell to candidate at .
dollar apiece, and how many at two dollars
and five dollars, and ten dollars, and hav,
their names all in book, and get his com
missions like cotton broker, and have
aw passed topunish votorif ho went bacl
n his contract.