Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-11-11

| Albany and the other 70 Washington,
and there great many citizens astride
the fence, and they are equally poised,
and they are waiting TO see on which side
there's 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 to-
day you will admit to be one Of the
mightiest fOes Of the American ballot box.
SOME OF THE ODDITIES OF CAMPAIGNS.
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 best. How often in the autumnal
elections the good man is denounced and
the bad man applauded, so that you can
come sometimes 10 no Just opinion as 10
who is the best man, and there are hun
dreds and thousands Of electors who 90
up TO vote 30 utterly befogged they know
not what they do. Is not that fearful
Influence TO be brought upon the ballot
box Of this countryl 1t has been so ever
since the foundation of this government.
Inomas ralne writes Washington a
letter, and publishes it saying: ''Treach-
erous in all private friendship and q
hypocrite in public morals, the world
will be puzzled to know whether We had
better call YOU an apostate OF all impos-
tor, and whether you aban'k ned good
morals, or never had any. That is
Thomas Paine's opinion Of George WASH
ington.
John Quincy Adams declared that he
was solaced in regard to the scandals and
the anathemas inflicted upon him by the
fact that his father, John Adams, had to
go through the same process, and John
Quincy Adams declared he really thought
in that present election there were men
who gave their entire time TO manufac-
turing falsehood in regard to him. Mar
tin Van Buren was always pictorialized
as rat. Thomas II. Benton and Amos
Kendall were always pictorialized as rob-
bers with battering rams breaking in the
door Of the United States bank.
On the day on which Thomas Jeffer-
son was inaugurated president Of the
United States. March 4, 1901. the fol-
lowing appeared in The Sentinel of Bos-
ton: Monumental inscription. Yester-
day expired, deeply regretted 10y millions
of grateful Americans, and by all good
men, the Federal administration Of the
government Of the United States, ami
mated by Washington, Adams, Hamil-
ton, Knox, Pickering, Mcllenry, Mar
shall 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 de-
ceased is raised by The Sentinel" Un-
der such defamation as that Thomas JEFF
ferson went into Office.
My father told me when Andrew Jack
son was running for president of the
United States, the whole land was flooded
with coffin handbills-pictures Of six
dead men in allusion 10 the six deserters
whom Andrew jackson had had shot,
and all the pictorials of those times rep
resented jackson as taking his Office from
the hand of the devil.
saw at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, in museum
a prominent paper Of 1874 which spoke
of Henry Clay as a gambler, libertine
and a murderer; and the manner in
which he was DETAINED and the outrages
which were heaped upon him may be
well guessed from Mr.. Clay's eulogy Of
his native state, Kentucky. He said:
"When seemed 10 be assailed by all the
rest Of the world she interposed her broad
and impenerable shield, repelled the
poisoned shafts that were aimed for my
destruction, and vindicated my good
name from every malignant and un-
founded aspersion."
Defamation! Ii is the curse Of the
American ballot box. Just as soon as In
the great cities 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 scrutinized. and
all the electric lights are turned on. How
often il is that men have gone down
under such things, In every autumnal
election the air is filed with carrion
crows scenting carcasses. Cawl Cav
Cav! There are newspapers in the
United States that in the great au-
tumnal elections take wild license for
liberty, They are filled with calumny.
The editorial columns of such papers
reek with il, their columns are
stuffed with il. There are newspapers
in the United States which in the great
popular elections breakfast and dine and
sup ON indecency. They wallow in 1t.
Swine like the mire. They give more
for one quill full Of il than a whole hogs
bead Of decent product. There are in
these great autumnal elections men sit
ting IN editorial chairs who write with
quill, not plucked from the stupid goose
or the sublime eagle, but from turkey
buzzard! Ghoulsl Ghouls, They tip the
city sewer into their editorial inkstand,~
Defamation Of character is one Of the
curses of the American ballot box today.
In your great presidential elections who
can tell from what be reads who is the
man he ought TO voto fort Bad men
sometimes applauded, good men de-
nounoed.
THE PART THE SALOON TAKES IN roII-
TICS.
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
20 man when the nominations are made
| IN tha hack mart NJ N nrrnpgarx uyl