Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-08
YOUNG VOTERS.

True Words for Them to IhlnI: About.
From q Speech at Albany by the Hon. s. S
Cox.
1t has been said that it is 4 great thing
to be young man. Appeals are made t.
che newly -tledgcd voters to vote for the
Republican party-:,s the party of pure
and pious policies and purposes. Having
been nearly a quarter of a century in Con.
grcss, and having passed untaintcd every
ordeal and test, have the right to say a
word to the young aspirant for Legislative
honOrs. l would say to him. Observe
these rules in public service : First, regard
your Office as a trust, not 4 place for de-
vices and greed; second, represent not
public nor private corporations or mcr-
cenary or other jobs third, do not even
borrow money of those who have such
schemes afOOt, for their own aSgrandize-
ment, however guiscd by the veneer OF
public utility; fourth, do not take stock OF
dividends in such schemes, for it means
your prostitution, sooner or later to come
out to the light fifth, when you do bor-
row, if you must and do borrow in round
sums, say $500 or $330-not $329-just
enough for peculiar dividend: sixth, do
not accept law fees, when you arc not
practising, in matters not legal in a pro-
fessiOnal sense and on which your are to
speak and vote; seventh, do not try to
increase your salary by your own vote,
much less 60 back to previous Congresses
with the increase, for plain folk will think
it little less than stealing. [Applause. ]
Thus You may save your scnsibility from
hagSard discomfort and rcmorse. And if
you do in some moment of simplicity and
temptation,
Like bird or q bougl, which fitting swings.
Needless of right anu wrong,
forget these lessons for young legislators,
do not lie about it. Simplicity and re-
pentance will not remove suspicion; and a
public man must be irreprOachable. Dear
old Sir Roger Coverly was willing to give
his female friend u coal pit to keep her in
clean linen, and would have hundred of
his dirty acres sparkle on her fingers. But
his was simplicity that did not smutch,
and 4 generosity that was only beautiful.
Not such are the gifts of the greedy lobby
to the corrupt congressman. Remember
the words of God from Sinai, out of the
thunder and the quakings: ''Thou shalt
take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise
and preventeth the words of the righteousv'
Exodus, xiii, so. Thank God, no such
suspicious or taints fall upon our Demo-
cratic nominees. fCheers. They are pure
gold, refined in the fire. How is it as be-
tween the candidates for vice president?
have already referred to General Arthur.
l do not know how he got his title to Gen.
eral. No blood, think, stains his militia
record. Do we know him as fit and
honest collector? What can VIC think OF
him as the presiding officer of the United
States Senate, and as possible president?
Compared with him. regard William H.
English. [Checrs.] know him well, hav-
ing served with him in critical times, when
the first spccks of war were seen on our
horizon, and when slavery in Kansas
before the great war came to
dispart the Union. It was by defeating the
Lecompton constitution that he won his
first honors. He showed n that crisis