The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-12-06

/ der such things. In every autumnal cleo
/ ton the air is filled with carrion crows
scenting carcasses. Cav. Cawl Cav!
| There are newspapers in the United
| States that in the great autumnal cleo
| tons take wild license for liberty. They
are filed with calumny. The editorial
| columns of such papers reek with it; their
| columns are stuffed with it. There are
newspapers in the United States which in
| the great popular elections breakfast and
dine and sup on irdecency. They wallow
| in it. Swine like the mire. They give
more for one quill full of it than W hole
hogshead of decent product There are
| in these great autumnal elections men
sitting in editorial chairs who write with
quill, not plucked from the stupid
goose, or the sublime eagle, but from
turkey buzzardi Ghouls Ghoulsl They
| tip the city sewer into their editorial ink
stands. Defamation of character is one
of the curses OF the American ballot box
| to-day. In your great presidential cleo
tons who can tell from what he reads
who is the man he ought to vote for. Bad
men sometimes applauded, good men de-
nounced.
Another powerful foe of the sacred
chest the ark of the American covenant.
caucus.
The ballot box does not give any choice
to man when the nominations are made
in the back part Of GROCERY. When
the elector comes up he has no choice be :
tween two evils. In some of the cities
men have come to the ball ot-box to vote,
and have found both names such q scaly,
greasy and stenchful crew they had no
choice. You say vote for somebody out
side. Then they throw away their vote.
Christian men of New 7 ork and Brook :
Ign, honorable men, patriotic men, go
and take possession of the caucuses.
| First having saturated your handkerchief
with cologne or some other disinfectant,
go down to the caucus and take posses
sion of it in the name OF the Lord God
Almighty and the American people,
though after you come back you should
have to hang your hat and coat on a line
in the back yard for ventilation.
In some of the States politics have got
so low that the nominees no more need
good morals than they do bath tub.
Snatch the ballot box from such men.
Where is the David who will go forth
and bring the ark of the covenant back
from Kirjath- jearim? Do you not think
politics has got to a pretty low ebb in our
day when Tweed could be sent to the
Legislature of New York, and John
Morrissey, the prince of gamblers, could
be sent to the American Congress?
Now, how are these things to be RENE
died? Some say by a property qualifica-
ton. They say that after man gets a
certain amount of property certain
amount of real estate-he is financially
interested in good government and he
becomes cautious and conservative.
reply, property qualification would shut
off from the ballot-box great many OF
the best men in this land. Literary men
are almost always poor. A pen is good
implement to make the world better, but
it is very poor implement to get live
lihood ordinarily. have known scores
| OF literary men who never owned foot
of ground, and never will own foot of
ground until they get under it Profess
sors Of colleges, teachers of schools
editors of newspapers, ministers Of re-
ligion, qualified in every possible way to
vote, yet no worldly success. There has
been many man who has not had a
house on earth who will have q mansion
in Heaven.
There are many who through accident
of fortune have come to great success
while they are profound in their stupid
ity, as profound in their stupidity as a
man of large fortune with whom / was
crossing the ocean, who told me he was
, going to see the bikes of Scotland. When
a member of my family asked lady on
, her return from Europe if she had seer
: Mont Blanc, she replied: stWell, really,
don't know; is that ia Europe?" Tgno.
rance by the square foot. Property quail
iication will not do. The only way these
evils will be eradicated will be by more
thorough legal efense of tue ballot- boz
and more thorough moralization and
Characterization of the people. That arl
of the covenant was carried into captivit,
! to Ksrjath. jearim, but one day the peopl,
hoof ed oxen to cart and they put thi.
ark on the cart, and the cart was taken 1,
Jerusalem--the ark of the covenant com
ing with the shouting and thanksgiving o.
the people. And though the American
ballot-box, the ark of the American
! covenant, our sacred chest has been car
. ried again and again into captivity b!
, fraud and iniquity, and spurious voting
believe it will be brought back yet b,
prayer aud by Christian consecr alton
aud will be set down in the midst of thu
temple of Christian patriotism. Who's,
responsibility? Yours and mine.
charge yOuy tuous dS Am0rlCdH Cltt'
IONS, to remember your responsibility or
the first Tuesday in November. 1t will
begin early, the snowstorm of suffrages
1t will snow all day-snow on until noon
snow on until night. The fakes will fal
in every town and village and neighbor
hood, the white fakes. The octogenarial
will come up his hand trembling, an,
with specialized eye he will scrutinizs tn,
vote and dro,, it and pass on. The CAPT
, talist will come up with bsdiamoned Fl
ger and the laborer with hard fist and tn,
/. one vote will be as good as the other
: Suowfakes will be gathered together ant
compacted into an avalanche that viii
,, slide down in expression Of the will o
,. the people. Stand out of the way of it
|. In the awful sweep of this white ava
lanche let political fraud go down thou
sand feet under.
, You have not only vote-you have {
J prayer. The prayer may be mightier
than the vote. Oh, as citizens OF this
beautiful city, and of this State, and o
this Nation, let us do our whole duty. W
can not live under any other form of go-
9 eminent than that which God i1as give,
us in this country. The stars on our fla,
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