The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-11-15

which way the election is going. Now,
that Is damnable. II in any precinct in
the United States man can not vote as
ne pleases, there is something awful ~
| wrong.
| How do you treat that employe who
votes differently from what you dor Oh
you say, you do not interfere with his
right of suffrage. But you call him into
your private Office and you find fault with
| ms work, and after awhile you tell him
there Is an uncle, or an aunt or a 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
IL is. II 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 re-
ligious principles. But you know as we'll
as do there is sometimes on that sacre
| chest the ark of the American covenant
shadow corporate or monopolistic.
do not wonder at the vehemence OF
Lord Chief-Justico Holt of England
When he i'd: 'Lst the people vote fair
Interference with mans vote is in
shalf OF this or that party. give you
notice that IL an off snder against the
laws comes before me, Il will charge the
jury to make him pay well for it" No
shadow plutocraiic, or mobocratic, or
capitalistic. Every man voting in his
own way, God and his own conscience
the only dictator.
Another powerful fos OF that sacred
chest, the ark of the American covenant
the ot-box, is bribery.
You know something OF the hundreds
of thousands OF dollars that were ex-
pended to carry Indiana in 1889. You
know something Of the vast sums Of
money expended in Brooklyn aud New
York in other years to carry elections.
Bribery is one OF the disgraces OF this
country. And there will be more money
used in bribery this autumu's electiop
than in any previous election. It is often
the case that a man is nominated 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 gubsrnatorial chair or con-
gressional Office, buying their way all
through. | tell you no news. Your
patriotic heart has been panied again
and again with 1t.
Very often it Is not mo ney that brides,
but 1t is office. "You make me Presi-
dent, and I'll make you a Cabinet officer;
you make me Governor, and I'll m AXE you
Surveyor you make ma mayor,
and Pil put you on the wafer board; you
give me position, and l'll give you posi-
ton" 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 offerad. SO it is often the
case that by the time a man comes to an
Off ee 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 b.
fore the election. Two long lines of worm
fence, one worm fence reaching to AL
bany and the other to Washington, and
there 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 ii. Bribery to-
day you will admit 10 be one of the
mightiest 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 running for Office, which is
the best2 How often in the autumnal
elections the good man is denounced aud
the bad man applauded, SO that you can
come sometimes to no just opinion as to
vbn ic ha. kar
dreds and thousands of electors W no go
up to vote so utterly befogged they know
not what they do. Is not that a fearful
Influence to be brought upon the ballot
box Of this country? 1t has been so ever
since the foundation of this Government.
Defamation OF character
Thomas Paine writes Washington let
ter and publishes it, saying: 'Treacher-
GUS in all private friendship and a
hypocrite in public morals, the world will
be puzzled to know whether we had bet
ter call you an apostate or an imposter,
and whether you abandoned good morals
or never had any" That is Thomas
Paine's opinion of George Washington.
John Quincy Adams declared that he
was solaced in regard to the scandals and
the aaathemas inflicted upon him by the
go through the same process, and John
Quincy Adams declared that he really
thought in that present election there
were men who gave their entire time to
falsehood in regard to
HIM. Martin Van Buren, was always pic
torialized as a rat Thomas H. Benton
and Amos Kendall were always pictorial
lied as robbers with battering rams,
breaking in the doors OF the United States
Bank.
On the day on which Thomas Jefferson
was inaugurated President OF the United
States, March 4, 1901, the following APP
peared in the Sentinel of Boston: "Monu-
mental Inscription. Yesterday expired,
deeply regretted by millions of grateful
Americans and by all good men, the Fed
eral administration of the Government os
the United States, animated by Washing
ton, Adams, Hamilton, Knox, Pickering,
Marshall and Stoddard, aged
twelve years. Its death was occasioned
by the secret arts and open violence OF
foreign and domestic demagogues. AS
one tribute of gratitude in these times,
this monument to the talents and services
Of the deceased is raised by the Sentinel"
Under such defamation as that Thomas
Jefferson went into Office
My father told me that when Andrew
Jackson was running for President of the
United States the whole land was flooded
with cofia handbills-pictures of six
dead men, in allusion to the six deserters
whom Andrew Jackson had had shot and
all the pictorials OF those times repre-
sented Jackson as taking his Office from
the hand OF the devil.
! saw at Put in Bay, o., in a museum,
prominent paper of 1884, which spoke of
Henry Clay as gambler libertine and
a murderer; aud the manner in which he
was DETAINED and the outrages which