New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-14

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But you call him into your private office. and
you find fault with his work, and after 8
while you tell him there is an uncle or an
aunt, or niece, or nephew that must have
that position. You do not say it is because
he voted this or that way, but he knows and
God knows it is. IF that man has given to
you IN hard work an equivalent for the wages
you pay him, you have no right to ask any
thing else of him. He sold you his work; he
did not sell you his political or religious prin-
clples. But you know as well as i do there is
sometimes on that sacred chest, the ark of the
American covenant. a shadow corporate OF
monopolistic.
do not wonder at the vehemence of Lord
Chief Justice Holt, of England, when he
said; $ Let the people vote fairly. Interior
ence with mans vote is in behalf of this OF
that party. give you notice that if an
offender against the law comes before me, /
will charge the jury to make him pay well
for it.. No shadow pultocratic, or mobo-
cratic, OF capitalistic. Every man voting in
his own way-God and his own conscience
the only dictator.
Another powerful foe of th at sacred chest,
the ark of the American covenant, the ballot
box, is bribery.
You know something of the hundreds of
thousands of dollars that were expended to
carry Indiana In 1880. You know some
thing of the vast sums of money expended in
Brooklyn and New York in other years to
carry elections. Bribery is one of the dis
graces of this country. And there will be
more money expended in bribery this au-
tumns election than in any previous cleo
ton. 1t is often the case that a manis nomi-
mated for office with reference to his capacity
to provide money for the elections or with
reference to his capacity to command money
from others. You know the names of men
who have at different times gone into the
o11b ,atr oho Of oil
buying their way all through. / tell you no
news. Your patriotic heart has been panied
again and again with it.
Very often it is not.money that brides, but
it is Office. You make me President and I'll
make you a cabinet officer; you make me
Governor and III makey on surveyor
you make me mayor and I'll put you on the
water; you give me position and I'll give you
position" That is the form of bride often
and often in these great cities. do not say
it is IN our city, but you know again and
again throughout the land these have been
the forms of bride offered. So it is often the
case that by the time a man comes to an
Office to which he has been elected, he is
from the crown of head to the sole
of foot mortgaged with pledges, and the man
who goes to Albany or to Washington to
get an Office is applying for some position
which was given away three months before
the election. Two long lines of worm fence,
one worm fence reaching to Albany and the
other to Washington, and there a great
many citizens astride the fence, and they are
equally poised and they are waiting to see on
which side there is most emolument, and on
this side they get down. But bribery kicks
both ways. 1t kicks the man that offers it
and the man that takes it. Bribery today
you will admit to be one of the highest foes
of the American ballot box.
Another great enemy of that sacred chest
is defamation of character. Can you find out
from the newspapers when two men are run
ming for Office which is the best? How often
in the autumnal elections the good man is
denounced and the bad man applauded, so
that you can come sometimes to
no. just opinion as to who is the best man,
and there are hundreds and thousands of
electors who go up to vote SO utterly be-
logged that they know not what they do. Is
not that a fearful influence to be brought
upon the ballot-box of this country? It has
been SO ever since the foundation of this
government. Defamation of character.
Thomas Paine writes Washington letter,
and publishes it saying: "Treacherous in all
private friendship and hypocrite in public
morals, the world will be puzzled to know
whether we had better call you an apostate
or an imposter, and whether you abandoned
Thomas Paine's opinion of George Washing
ton.
Ny father told me that when Andrew Jack
son was running for President of the United
States, the whole land was flooded with cof-
fin ndbills-pictures of six dead men, in
allusion to the six deserters whom Andrew
jackson had had shot, and all the EDITORIALS
Of those times represented Jackson as taking
his office from the hand of the devil
saw at Putin-Bay Ohio, in a museum,
prominent paper of 1884, which spoke of
Henry Clay as a gambler, a ibertine, and a
murderer; and the manner in which he was
DETAINED and the outrages which were heap
ed upon him may be well guessed from Mr.
Clays eulogy OF his native state, Kentucky
He said: when | seemed to be assailed by
all the rest of the world, she interposed her
broad and impenetrable shield, repealed the
poisoned shafts that were aimed for my de-
struction, and yindicated my good name from
every malignant and unfounded aspersion.'
Defamation! 1t is the curse of the Ameri-
can ballot-box. Just as soon as in the great
cities a man is put up for Office he is made
the target. The fact that he is up is prima
facie evidence that he must be brought down.
His public life and his private life are scru-
tinized, and all the electric lights are turned
down under such things. In every autumnal
election the air is filed with carrion crows
scenting. carcasses Caw CaWl Cawl
There are newspapers in the United
States that in the great autumnal cleo
tlOHS Udhe VIII llCeIlSe LOT liberty,
They are filed with calumny The editorial
columns are stuffed with it,. There are news
papers in the United States which in the
great popular elections breakfast and dine
and sup on indecency. They wallow in it,
Swine like the mire. They give more for one
quillfull of it than a whole hogshead of decent
product. There are in these great autumnal
elections men sitting in editorial chairs who
write with a quill, not plucked from the stupid
goose, or the sublime eagle but from
turkey buzzard! Ghouls Ghouls They tip
the city sewer into their editorial inkstands.
Defamation of character is one of the curses
of the American ballot-box today. In your
great presidential elections who can tell from
what he reads who is the man he ought to
vote for? Bad men sometimes applauded,
good men denounced.
Another powerful foe of the sacred chest,
the ark of the American covenant, the ballot
box, is the rowdy and drunken caucus.
The ballot box does not give any choice to
q man when the nominations are made in the
back part of a groggery. When the elector
comes up he has to choose between two evils.
In some of the cities men have come to the
ballot box to vote, and have found both
names such a scaly, greasy, stenchful crew
shat they had no choice. You say vote for
somebody outside. Then they throw away
their vote. Christian men of New York and
Brooklyn, honorable men, patriotic men, go
and take. possession of the caucuses First
rg saturated your pocket handkerchief