Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-01
A COUNTY ooNyrNrIoN.


CUMBERLAND THINKS 1T THE ONLY
TIoN ABUSES.
Editor GAZETTE Your suggestion that
we have county convention to nominate
a full corps of officers must meet with
the approval of the dislnterested citizen
who desires purer ballot and more ex-
peditious and faithful administration OF
affairs.
The charge that the ballot is now cor
rupted by lavish expenditure Of money
is only too true, but to undertake to rem
edylthe evil by punishlng the offender
may be compared to the experimental
efforts of quack doctor in treating
very sick patient, the nature OF whose
disease he does not understand, nor UNI
Outstanding would he know what to adj
minister. To eradicate any evil the root
must be reached, No surer means to q
pure and honest election can now be eni-
ployed than to take away the incentive
to corruption. Way need good man,
asserting as 4 general proposition that
the corrp,pt use of money in an
election. ought to subject the offender TO
ielonious punishment, under the
Exciting influences of holly contested
election, to spend'his money like prince,
draw largely npona future income which
To his own shame and self-condemnation
in more WAYS than one, be guilty OF prac
tices which can only be eXtenuatec OF
the plea that his right hand knew no
what his left hand didf
In the "free-ior-all race" who is IL ina
ia elected, and who is profited thereby
AK Yourself the question, 'Was my ma
elected?n II be was, then, like trle
TREND. YOU worked for him In ways Una
Won would prefer should not be mao
Known. and the soothing JUNCTION VINE
Won take TO your soul is: the end Justine
I, The means. But is this CORE,
= rule for human actionP Ana y
y very truth may we not attain "
d came end in a manner more hohes
y more dignified and more In conserVane
,, with the theory Of our instltuuons'
!; On the other hand your man was n
- elected. what have you TO say Oh u
k. means which you know were employed
s; defeat him? And will you withhold yo
Endorsement when the proposition Is gu
NC mitted TO ma Ike change for the oeC,'
p nv settling in convention the protract
i'd 1v,angles. with all their embitteflng
Z corrupting influences, WHICH eH.e
Al. ,bronah, from three TO six montns
W each recurring Year, o,rs,o,
,ooi Itis no answer to the conclusi" i
u II have reached to urge that the cor vent
las ,ni,l he hacked and in the en- bee
corrunt. When this evil is o'ice ur %
) Il viii he time enough TO seek its
on rection. The evil OF witch we COM
!, r "a now upon us AID demap DIS AZ
banda honest and faitp' ful a.
'S9n. TO eradicate it. + rom
,ar races for Office wi ,hout
riss, ination there are consr antly spril
.sd, whole broods of evils. which in
our; turu hatch and send off in our
om. their contagious OFFS ring,
SIsi Again, our city is now leading
mic; race for metropof tan supremacy
'hee' state; the life an' i energies OF GU
-ity citizens must .eds be spent IN
iour; pllshing TINS much desired emo.
Ingsi man IS tnere then, among u1em, ~
ar Nj the time, g IN If so inchneu, a. :,
Jack. history nd weigh the qqahuoaSS,
Nun mw each IN liyidual in the nui' ,I,so,
y q " seek No popular voter upo'
l II; merl' and dement's he nust Pa7I i
.ong If ,no wavs. if he exercises y
New pr nv AZ The American citizen
i i ,dividually inquire as to eacn cd y.
has or else accept the selection OF 80, =,
M " whom he sends TO the conv CONVEX
a, latter is the only prectioau,,eo
~ q; ,SSiIe our hands are full Oh e ihese
II r @, loan and momentous as 'nose
now crowd upon US. ,.n,,on II
NJ The calling OF conVen Lnnodan
., A. ,oaos "a not an irreyokable prece 1,,'l
IN iou future needs and conditiohs we we,
heia 70 the proper course. Eor sn n,ra I n
Ill come ore called upon TO adopt so Sans,ou
ce is de- c Correct the abuses Of our elect,De
Is an imperative duty, ,,, anu Of n
sbirk. for upon the purity % ou "
oont,nue S Tss,s the approximation OF oui
audience situations. n,v conyenti
int under Let US nH'S CuMBE
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