The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-10-03
REASONS WHY ST. JOHN SHOULD BE
ELECTED PRESIDENT.

il Iona eaougA In republic change OF
administration at least once i'll genera
ton is contemplated Parties like musk
melons, get good for nothing when they
get old There is. seed in them that will
do to plant after it is washed and sifted,
but the pulp plays out. Men or party by
being in power too long will come to think
and act as if they owned the party and the
country and need to be turned out to let
them know that the country is common
stock. The spirit alluded to took on the
form of bossism couple of years ago
which ruled the primaries and the party
with rod of iron. and will do so again,
and probably permanently, if they gain in
the present canvass. Of course it VIII
plead that it ought to be kept in posses
sion but that is just what anybody in pos
session of a fine piece of roast beef would
do. 1t makes good living.
:. Because tie Democratic party az not
net IN condition to be entrusted NTH the rams
of qorer7tment 1t is related that when
Peter Cartwright was doing service as
clared that if Peter came that way he
would pound him. Peter not personally
known to the boatman, did go that way
and cross at that ferry. When in the mid
die of the stream Peter revealed himself to
the oarsman. and that he had heard of his
threat. But Peter had two arms longer
and stronger than those of said person, and
with them lifted him over the side of the
boat and laid him little under the surface
of the water. The bath so cooled his cour-
age that when let up he proposed to be
good if he was let into the boat. IN OF
yet. said Peter, ''you must learn the
Lord prayer, and agree to make habit
of saying it. first
party that will put plank III ITS plat
form declaring against temperance laws
for protection of life and property, when
about 100000 of our fellow citizens are
being killed annually by rum, and the rum
bill of the nation is about $500 900, 900 Il
year besides the wreck and ruin it makes
of family relations, and the abuse and star
Walton of hundred of thousands of innocent
children and helpless mothers, needs to be
made to repent and pray awhile before lift
ing it into the ship of state to conduct the
the craft. A lengthy cold-water bath like
Peter gave the ferryman is the proper thing
to do If that party were to put plank
in its platform declaring in favor Of I'M
porting forty Spanish bulfights into each
state yearly it would be making decara-
ton less destructive to life and property
and i'll no sense more demoralizing.
;. st. John shoud be elected because the
,nomen Of tie nation prefer his election to
either Of tie ricaI candidates The men of
the nation have elected every president
that the nation has had from the beginning
and it is time that the wishes Of the wo-
men were regarded. There are as many
women in the nation as there are men, and
they have as much sense as the men have,
and good deal more religion, both natu-
rally and by grace. Those of them who
are bad are generally made so by the ras-
cality and trickery of the men. Why ig-
more the wishes of the best half of the peo-
pie of the nation? 1t is because the men
have not allowed the women to help elect
the rulers nor assist in shaping the laws
that the whiskey curse has got SO large and
destructive. If the men will not allow the
women to vote they ought at least this
once elect the man they want elected.
!. ST. JoAn should be elected because he is
q better man han is put up by either Of tie
ot1ter tar0 parties His experience has run
through years of public and professional
lfe--as a lawyer as a soldier, as legisla-
tor and as a governor. Nor III any rela-
ton that he has sustained, nor in any posi-
ton that he has filled, has there been any
scent of faint or even suspicion of it-al-
ways true u duty and true to his convic-
TONS ever daring to do right and coming
out of office as he went in with pockets in
nocent of public pelf, spectacle of recti-
tude, moral hero for the nation to look
at and be proud of-.just such an one as it
should delight to honor, and i'll every way
capable. The nation could not, by any one
act. so honor itself, as to elect this man its
next president And if the voters of this
country vote as the majority of them really
think, it will be done. The party machin-
cry of both the old parties is rum-soaked
and ought to be thrown aside. 1t is to the
credit Of the Pittsburg Convention that
nominated st. John-a convention that was
made up.of more than six hundred Of the
best men in the nation, and some Of them
the ablest-that they held prayer meetings
during intervals Of their business sessions
Such men are not fooling, neither is the
God of nations likely to let them be
fooled with. The better portion Of this
nation are reaching the point of dead earn
estness and their numbers are multiplying
The morning cometh' Put in the bal
lots for st. John. Let us put saint in the
presidential chair for once. We have had
the other variety there long enough.
J. G. CRATE.
Eleventh Annual Meeting Of w. y. G..
II. u. at 1T. Louis. October 22. 23.
81. and 23. 1854.