The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-07-06

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Even the little boys, who read the
newspapers, know that bribery has
: been going on in all the Legisla.
lures for years,-indeed, they even
know that it was openly charged
! that Senator Conkling himself was
/. induced by certain promises of pa
tronage, &c, to support Mr.. Garfield
for the Presidency last year.
! 1T is a fact-and a startling fact
} that money controls every important
E election in the United States. It is
a fact that money corruptly used to
buy up votes in Indiana and New
York defeated Gen. Hancock and
elected Mr.. Garfield President of
the United States. It is a fact that
bribery, perjury, forgery
and fraud defeated the Inaugural
ton Of Samuel ]. Tilden and placed
Hayes in the Presidents office. 1t
is a fact that more than one Senator
holds his seat in the United States
Senate to-day by virtue of votes
which he bought and paid for 1t
is fact that the "Great Corpora
tons" have control Of nearly all, if
not all, the Legislatures of the
States; they have control Of both
houses of the Congress they have
control of the President and his
Cabinet, and they have control of
the Supreme Court of the United
States. That high court was reor-
ganized some years ago and "pack-
ed for the special purpose of de-
claring an unconstitutional act of
Congress constitutional, valid and |
binding. If Senator Conkling has
really beenin ignorance of all these
things for so long time, as he now
says he has been, then indeed must |
his public dutiesat Washington have
been heavy. 1t Is q wonder his
mind-a giant mind though it may
be-had not broken down under the
long continued pressure. But we do
not believe his public duties were all
that kept his attention so closely
confined to Washington City.
Delilah had charmed this modern
Sampson, and instead of attending
to his public duties as a Senator he
has been enjoying her bewitehing
smiles and has been slowly going to
the devil under her seductive in
fuences,
If the country Is in a bad way
now, and ON the very verge ofruin
if civil war with all its nameless
horrors is menacing the people, Sen
ator Conkling is not blameless for
such a state of things. He was the
head Of the great ruling partyof the
Nation. He fostered the very "cor-
porations" which now give him so
much alarm. Why did he not from
his high place sound the note Of
warning long ago? Why did he ;
not notify thepeople that the Money
Kings, the Great Corporations, the
Railroad Bosses, the Banks, the !
Bondholders, had formed combin-
alton to strangle the liberties of the :
people to death F.? Why did he wait :
till somebody had offered member :
of the New York Legislature two :
thousand dollars to vote against |;
him before he became indignant and
denounced the practice OF buying 9
votes as a crime against liberty? :
is too late with his virtue :
and his patriotism. The Money I
Kings have learned how to buy :
buy up State Legislatures, :
Districts and Presi- :
lential elections. The practice is =
90 common and too popular now =
or even Senator Conkling, with his O
intellect, to put a stop to it. g g
It has already come to pass that no !
nan can be elected to the House of -
Representatives at Washington I'M
ess he has a fortune to spend in the
anvass and another fortune to spend ;,
-fter he gets to the seat of Govern +
nent. Seats in the Senate are bought .
n the Northern States, IN the South, .
he East and the West Senator =
is the only man in Amerl- T
a of intellect who can say he has q
lever heard of these outrages on 8
liberty. 1t has. been the common -
ak in the newspapers for years. 4
The New York Herald advises e
hat a new party be formed-a Re e
0rm party-with Senator Conkling \
s leader. There ought to be par y y
Y in this country made up of all "
he men in it who are opposed to At
be use of money, whisky or other r.
ndue influences in elections-either e.
tate, National or Corporation. But h,
re doubt whether such party could e,
yer succeed in gaining control of "
he National government. The Or
honey power is too strong now for
be common people. If such a par
Y is formed we should be reioiced -
) have Mr.. Conkling give it the =
enefit of his powerful mind, but we A
couldn't exactly like to have such a !,
ian as he or Beecher as the great :;
lead Light and Principal Leader = =
would be too much like the devil :,
eproving sin. The Herald is a r r
reat paper and Conkling is a great .
ian, but neither of them have been q
luch celebrated in past years as i,
lOral reformers or political saints
he Reform Party should be made
p and led by men an | newspapers -
18th lean-records, and not by brok- ~
n-down Bosses and Job-takers. -
we shall welcome this new ~
arty into the field, shall give them 1,
1 the eneouragementwe consistent :,
: can, and hope it will result in great ~
ld lasting good to all the people in II
1 the land. Come on with your r
eform party, Roscoe. The harvest K
ripe and the laborers are few. -
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Educated Women. e.
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