The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-16

and that way. 1t Is sk1llfully done. 1t Is
not positively in so many words de-
manded, but the employee understands he
will be frozen out of the establishment un-
less he votes as the firm. So you can go
into villages where there are hundreds and
thousands of employees, and having found
out the politics of the head men of the
factory you can tell which way the cleo.
ton is going. Now, that is damnable. II
in any precinct in the United States man
can not vote as he pleases there is some
thing awfully wrong.
How do you treat that employe who
votes differently from what you do, Oyou
say you do not interfere with his rights of
suffrage. But you call him into your pri-
vate Office and you find fault with his work,
and after awhile you tell him there is an
uncle. or an aunt, or a niece, or a nephew
that must have that position. You do not
say it is because he voted this or that way,
but he knows that 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 any thing else of him.
He sold you his work; he did not sell you
his political or religious principles.
But you know as well as l do there is
sometimes on that sacred chest, the ark of
the American covenant, a shadow corpo-
rate or monopolstic. 1 do not wonder at
| the vehemence of Lord Chief Justice Holt
of England, when he said: ''Let the people
vote fairly. Interference with a mans
vote is in behalf of this or that party.
| give you notice that If an offender against
the law comes before me, l will charge the
jury to make him pay well for it" No
shadow plutocratic, or mobocrasic, 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 cf
| the vast sums of money expended in
| Brooklyn and 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
| autumn's election than in any previous
election. 1t is often the case that man is
| nominated for Office with reference to his
| capacity to provide money for the cleo
tons or with reference to his capacity to
command money from others. You know
| times gone into the Gubernatorial chair or
Congressional Office buying their way all
through. I tell you no news. Your
patriotic heart has been panied again and
again with it
Very often it is not money that brides,
but it is office. "You make me President
and I'll make you a Cabinet officer; you
| make me Governor and I'll make you Sur.
nc ka nd
III put you on the water board: you give
me position and I'll give you position"
That is the form of bride often and often
in these great cities. 1 do not say it Is in
our city, but you known again and again
throughout the land these have been the
forms of bride 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 his 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 be-
fore the election. Two long linfs of worm
fence, one worm fence reaching to Albany
and the other to Washington. and there
are 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 It
kicks the man that offers it and the man
that takes it. Bribery to-day you will ad-
nit to 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
best: How often in the autumnal elections
the good man is denounced and the bad
man applauded, so that you can come
sometimes to no just opinion as to who is
the best man, and there are hundreds and
thousands of electors who 60 up to vote so
utterly befogged they know not what they
do. Is not that fearful influence to be
brought TO bear upon the ballot box Of
this country 1t has been so ever since the
foundation of this government. Defama.
ton of character.
Thomas Paine writes Washington let
ter, and publishes it, saying: Preacher
Gus in all private friendships 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 had abandoned good morals, or never |
had any," That is Thomas Paine's opin.
ion of George Washington.
John Quincy Adams declared that he |
was solsced in regard to the scandals and |
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 thai present election there were men |
who gave their entire time to manufactur- |
ing falsehoois in regard to him. Martin |
Van Buren, 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 of 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 CRATE
fal Americans and by all good men,
the Federal Administration of the Gov
eminent of the United States, animated
by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Knox,
Pickering, Henry, Marshall and Stod-
dard; aged twelve years. Its death was
by the secret arts and open vio-
lence of foreign and domestic dema gogues.
As one tribute of gratitude in these times
this monument to the talent and service of
the deceased is raised by the Sentinel"
Under such defamation As that Thomas
Jefferson went into office.
Ny father told me that when Andrew
Jackson was running for President of the
United States the whole land was flooded
with coffin neutrality-suspicious. Of six dead
men, in allusion to the six deserters whom
Andrew Jackson had shot, and all the pic
torisls Of those times represented Jackson
rs taking his Office from the hand Of the
devil.
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