Milford chronicle., 1888-11-09
INTIMIDATION OF THE EMPLOYEES OF COR
pORATTONg

Corporations sometimes demand that their
employees vote in this and that way It is
skilfully done. 1t is not positively in SC
many words demanded, but the employe un-
derstands he will be frozen out OF the estab-
lishment unless he votes as the firm do So
you can go into villages where there are es-
Establishments with hundreds and thousands
Of employees, and having found out the poll
tics Of the head men in the factory, you can
tell which way the election is going Now,
that is damnable. II in any precinct in the
United States man cannot vote as be
pleases, there is something awfully wrong
How do you treat that employe who votes
differently from what you doi Oh, you say
you do not interfere with his right Of suf-
frSe But you call him into your private
Office, and you find fault with his work, and
after a while you tell him there is an uncle,
or an auat, or a niece, or nephew that must
have that position. You do not say it is be
caiIse he voted this or that way, but he knows
AMI God knows it 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
ansthing else Of him. He sold you his work:
he lid not sell You his political or religious
principles. But you know as well as l dc
there is sometimes on that sacred chest, the
ark Of the American covenant, a shadow cor.
pOrGte or monopolistic.
/ 10 not wonder at the vehemence Of Lord
Chipf Justice Holt, Of England, when he
said: "Let the people vote fairly. Interfer-
enco with a mans vote is in behalf Of this OF
that party. | give you notice that if an Of
fender against the law comes before me will
charge the jury TO make him pay well for it..
No shadow plutocratic, or mobocratic, or
capitalistic. Every man voting in his own
way-God and his own conscience the only
dictator
Another powerful foe of that 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 something
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 used in bribery this autumn's
election than in any previous election. 1t is
often the case that a man is nominated for
Office with reference 70 his capacity to pro-
vide money for the elections or with refer
ence to his capacity to command money
from others You know the names Of men
who have at different times gone INTO the
gubernatorial chair or congressional office
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 bribes, but
it is office. "YOu make me president and Ill
make you a cabinet officer; you make me
governor and I'll make you surveyor gen
eral; you make me mayor and I'll put you on
a. a..
I'll give you position That is the form Of
bribe often and often in these great cities l
do not say it is in our city, but you know
again and again throughout the land these
have been the forms Of bribe 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 cleo
tion. 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 II kicks the man that Of
fers it and the man that takes it, Bribery
today you will admit TO be one Of tho might
lest 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 arc
running for office which is the besti How
often in the autumnal elections tho good man
is denounced and the bad man applauded, SO
that you can como 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 befogged they know
not what they do, Is not that fearful in-
1uence to be brought upon the ballot box OF
this counuyl 1t has been so ever since the
foundation of this government.
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 impostor, and whether you abandoned
good morals or never had any" That
Thomas Paine's opinion of George Washing
ton.
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, ami John Quincy
Adams declared he really thought in that
present election there were men who gave
thoir entire time to manufacturing false
hood in regard to him. Martin Van Burcn
was always pictorialized as rat. Thomas
II. Benton and Amos Kendall were always
pictorialized as robbers with battering rams
breaking in the door Of the United States
bank.
On the day on which Thomas jefferson was |
inaugurnted president Of the United States, |
March 4, 1901, the following appeared in
The Sentinel of Boston; Monumental in
scription. Yesterday expired, deeply re-
GREETED by millions Of grateful Americans, |
and by all good men, the Federal administers /
tion Of the government Of the United States,
animated by Washington, Adams, Hamilton, |
Knox, Pickering, McHenry, Marshall and
Stoddard; aged twelve years. Its death was
occasioned by the secret arts and open VIC |
lence 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 JEFF |
rerson went into cfiee.
My father told mo that when Andrew ,
jackson was running for president Of the
United States the whole land was flooded
with coffin 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 represented jackson
as taking his office from the hand Of the
devil.
saw at Putin-Bay, o., in a museum, a |
prominent paper Of 1874, which spoke Of |
Henry Clay as a gambler, a libertine and a /
and the manner In which be was /
and the outrages which were heaped /
upon him may be well guessed from Mr.. |
Clay's eulogy Of bis native state, Kentucky. |
He said: "When seemed to be assailed by |
all the rest Of the world, she interposed her |
broad and impenetrable shield, repelled the |
poisoned shafts that were aimed for my de-
struction, and vindicated my good name
from every malignant and unfounded as
persion."