Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-01

tics in many of our cities have got very
low, and are controlled by men no more
in want OF good men than bath.tub.
1t is high time that our best citizens
band together TO snatch the ballot box
out OF the possession OF those who have
dlshonored it. Where is the David
with courage enough to bring back the
ark Of the covenant from kirjath.iear-
ism.
We all see that the
Ballot Box Needs Reformation.
1t must have been out OF order when, in
our day, it sent Tweed to the New York
legislature and Morrissey to Congress.
The ballot box needs to be washed and
lifted on higher pedestal. Some pro-
pose for its reformation property quail.
ification. They say: A man must have
real estate in order that he may have q
financial interest in good government.
They say his possession ofproperty will
make him cautious and conservative.
Why, sirs, property qualification
would shut out from the ballot box most
Of the best brain OF the country. The
most literary men are poor. the pen is
a powerful implement for mending the
world, but poor one for gaining live.
lihood. could call the long roll OF the
literary men who never owned foot ct
ground,
And Never Will Own One.
Professors OF colleges, editors OF news.
papers, and book makers living on scant
and uncertain royalty paid by the pub.
lishers. Property qualification would
bar them from the right OF suffrage. On
the other hand there are many
who by accidents OF fortune have vast es-
tate, accompanied with profound stupid.
ity. AS on shipboard, heard a New
York millionaire say ne was going TO
see the dykes OF Scotland, and another,
when asked if she had seen Mount
Blanc, said: "No; is that in Europe"
There is no more complete ignorance
than you will sometimes find getting out
OF $4,000 equipage at the door OF a
Madison avenue mansion. The pre-
posed property qualification would be a
gigantic I'M justice. The only two things
that can be done to better matters are
to throw around the ballot box more le.
gal safe itguards, and more thoroughly TO
educate and elevate the people. What
We want is a Christianized electorate.
! have sometimes thought that
Women Will Have to Help Us
in the reformation Of the baliot.box.
You know how her presence clcanscs
and beautitics everything. Look at the
side Of the ierryboit where there are
only gentlemen, and compare it with
the side where woman is admitted.
Look at the smoking car, only for gentle
men, on the railroad train, and compare
it with the cars where women ride.
Man without woman ia a least. When
she comes to the ballot box, the polls in.
stead OF being the rough and cheerless
and filthy apartment that it is will be q
saloon OF cleanliness and beauty. On
the 18th OF this month in ll,0W school
districts OF this State women voted and
had right to vote. Order reigned
everywhere. BY wlat justice have the
majority of the grown people OF this
country been so long disfranchised SIM
ply because they were women.
Give Women the Ballot
and YOU settle Mormonism and the tenn.
perance question. Women pay taxes,
why not have them help decide what
shall be done with the money they pay?
Many OF us have opposed female sui.
frage. We do not want refined women
to endure the insult and the filth OF our
elections. But give her the bollOt and
there will be no insult. no blasphemy,
no disorder. Ii is not so much what he
ballot box could do for women but what
women could do for the ballot box. |
cannot understand how Americans and
Enplishmen should be afraid OF wO.
mans elevation to political power in
the day when we have great sonled
Mrs. Hayes rcignng in the White
House and illustrious Queen Victoria
i'm Windsor Castle. Women must hel lp
men in the reformation Of the ballot
box.
The ancient ark OF the covenant was
carried away into captivity. but alter.
ward it was put upon q cart and oxen
voked to il, i; was brought to Jerusa.
lem with thanksgiving and prayer and
shouting. And so from time to time
the ballot box, the ark OF the American
covenant, has been carried into captlvl.
ty OF dcmagoguism and mob violence
and we need with PRAYER To bring 1t
back and put it in the temple OF Chris
tian patriotism.
Take q Step 10 the Right Direction Next
Tuesday.
Ii may be your last vote for the highest
Office i'm the Nation. Here and there is
a centenarian who can tel how he voted
for nearly all the Presidents. But the
majority Of men vote for only four or
five. You NAV think your vote II little
Importance. 4 poor soldier in England
called at a hair dressers and begged for
money to help pay his way back to the
army as he had stayed beyond his fur.
Tough and must get quick transit. The
hair dresser gave him the money and
the poor soldier in gratitute said: !
have nothing to give you in return Tor
YOUR kindness save this piece OF paper
which has on it a recipe Tor making su.
perior blacsirg Neither the giver OF
the recipe nor the one VINO took 1t
thought anything especial OF 1t, but 1t
has already yielded the latter =, jOO,OOo.
The little piece OF paper you pnt in the
ballot box may seem Of no Importance,
but it
Moral aud National Value.
may be beyond estimation. l charge
YOU on the solemnity OF your position
as electors. About : o'clock on Tues
day morning, the snow storm oi sufira.
ges will begin. The white hlkes will
fall in all the villages and cities from the
highlands OF NaversinS 10 the Golden
Horn, SO silently they will drop, the
keenest hear cannot hear one OF the
millions OF them. Showing on al noon,
Showing on till night. The ortogenarian
will come up with trembling hand, and
scanning his vote carefully through
spectacled eyes will watch for its sale
deposit. The crippled invalid will come
up ON the crutches. and posing on one
loot take the crutci e. in one hand, with
the vote in the other he viii express his
patriotic preferences as firmly as though
he had limbs athletic. The young man.
long waiting imi atien,ly for tie time OF
his first vote, will proudly and blush
inyly hand in his bailo, and pass on. In
the same line OF electors will stand
capitalists with diamond finger, and the
workman, hard.iisted, and the vote Of
the one will be equa. 10 the vote oi The
other. SLosing, showing, showing, TIL
al sunset the united fakes will be com
,nai,r IN slfIa