Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-11-29
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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 it is that men
have gone down under such things. In every
autumnal election the air is filled with car
rion crows seeming carcasses Cav Cav,
Cawl There are newspapers in the United
| States that in the great autumnal cleo
tions 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 break
| fast and dine and sup on indecency. They
wallow in it. Swine like the mire. They
| give more for one quill full of it than
| whole hogsheild Of decent product There
are in these great autumnal elections men
sitting in editorial chairs who write with a
| quill not pucked from the stupid goose, or
the sublime eagle, but from a turkey buzz
zard, Ghouls Ghoulsl They tip the city
sewer into their editorial inkstands. Defa-
nation of character is one OF the curses Of
the American ballot-box to-day. In your
great Presidential elections who can tell
| from what he reads who is the man he ought
TO vote fori Bad men sometimes applauded;
! good men denounced
Another powerful foe OF the sacred chest,
the ark of the American covenant, the bal
lot box is the rowdy and drunken caucus.
The ballot box does not give any choice TO
a man when the nominations are made in
| the back part OF a GROCERY. When the
elector comes up he has 10 choose between
I Al .Hks 4.
come TO the ballot-box to vote and have
| found both names such a scaly, greasy and
stenohful crew 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 posses
sion OF the caucuses First having
saturated Your pocket handkerchief with
cologne or some other disiniectant, 20
down to the caucus aud take pos
session of il in the name Of the Lord God
Almighty aud the American people, though
after you come back you should have to
hang your hat aud coat on "A line ia the back
/ yard for ventilation.
In some Of the States politics have got 50
/ low that the nominees no more need good
morals thau they do bath tub Snatch the
! balot-boN from such mau Where is the
David who will 90 forth and bring the ark
OF the covenant back from Kiriath jearim!
| DO you not think politics have got 10 a pretty
low ebb in eur day when "A Tweed could be
sent 10 the Legislature of New York. and a
John Morrissey, the prince of gamblers,
could be sent to the Am aricau Cougressi
Now, how are these things To be remediedi
Some say by property qualification. They
say that after man gets certain amount
OF property certain amount OF real estate
he is financially interested In good govern
meut, and he becomes cautious ana cOuserv-
alive ! reply, a property qualification
would shut of from the baliot-box a great
many Of the best men IN thi, land. Literary
men are almost always poor A Ren is "a
good implement TO make the world better,
but il is a very poor implement 10 geta live
lihood ordinarily | have known scores Of
literary men who never owned foot Of
ground a.i never will own n foot Of ground
until they get under IL. Professors Of col
leges, teachers Of schools, editors Of news-
papers, ministers Of religion, qualified in
every possible way 10 vote, yet no worldly
success. There has been many a man who
has VI had a house on earth who will have
a mansion in Heaven.
There are many who through accidents OF
fortune have come 20 great success while
they are profound in their stupidity as pro-
found Ia their stupidity as a man OF large
fortune with whom / was crossing the
ocean. who told me he was going 10 see the
dykes Of Scotlnudl When member OF
my family asked a lady ON her return from
Europe IL she had seen MI Blanc she re-
piled. "Wei, really l don't know; is that
in Europe!" Ignorance bv the square foot
Property qualification will not do. The
only way these evils win be eradicated will /
be by more thorough legal defense Of the bal /
lot-b0x and more thorough mordlization /
and chrlstianization OF the people. That /
ark 81 the covenant was carried into cap |
tivity to Kiriath- jearim, but one day the I
people hooked oxen TO a cart, and they put |
this ark on the cart, and the cart was taken 4
70 Jerusalem-the ark OF the covenant com /
ing with the shouting and thanksgiving 4
Of the people. And though the American /
ballot-box. the ark OF the American cove I
nant, our sacred chest has been carried 1
again and again into captivity by fraud and 4
iniquity aud spurious voting, ! believe II .
will be brought back yet by prayer and by
Christian conservation, and will be set down
in the midst of the temple of Christian
patriotism. Whose responsibility Yours
or minei
- lDNI NNlultE WIN ~ a AalANEGN~tE III I.
London. He wanted 20 get back TO the
army. He had overrun his furlough, and
he wanted 20 get back in quick transit. The
money was given 10 the poor soldier who
said to the man who had offered the kind
ness: ~ have nothing to give you in return
but this little worn out receipt for making
backing He gave il. not thinking there
was any value in it especially. and the man
who took it did not suppose there was any
special value ia it; but ii yielded the man
who took it 81, 5O1.O00. aud was the founda-
tion Of one of the greatest estates in En-
gland. Aud that little vote that insignif-
cant vote which you rake out of your
pocket insignificant in your sight and in
significant in the sight Of others-may
start an inf ence that will last all through
the progress of this government.
charge you. then. az American citizens
10 remember your responsibility on the first
Tuesday of November. Il will begin early,
the snow storm OF suTrages. It will snow
all day-suOw on until noon. The flakes will
fall IN every town and village and neighbor-