Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-11-29

the American ballot-box, the ark of the
American covenant they deserve extermi-
nation.
Another powerful foe of this sacred chest
is intimidation. Corporations sometirnes
demand that their employees vote in this and
that way. 1t is skillfully done. II is not
positively in so many words demanded. but
the employe understands he will be frozen
out of the establishment unless he votes as
the firm do. So you can go into villages
where there are establishments with hun
| dreds and thousands of employees and hay
ing found out the politics of the head men
in the factory you can tell which way the
election is going. Now, that is damnable
If in any precinct in the United States "a man
can not vote as he pleases, there is some
thing awfully wrong.
| How do you treat that employee who votes
differently from what you do o. you say YOU
do not interfere with his right of suffrage
But you call him into your private Office,
and you find fault with his work, and after
while you tell him there is an uncle, or
an aunt, or niece, or nephew that must
have that position. You d. not say it is be-
cause he voted this or that way, but he
knows and God knows it is If that man
has given you in hard work an equivalent
ApA ihb NASto 9bu pay uLAiis you nave no
right to ask any thing else Of him. He sold
you his work; be did not sell you his polti
cal or religious principles. But you know
as well as do there is something on that
sacred chest, the ark of the American
covenant, a shadow corporate or monopo-
lstic.
/ do not wonder at the vehemence Of Lord
Chief Justice Holt, of ENGLAND, when he
said: ''Let the people vote fairly. Interior
ence 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 I
will charge the jury 60 make him pay well
for it.n No shadow plutocratic, or mobo-
cratic, 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 bal
lot-box. is bribery.
You know something of the hundreds Of
thousands Of dollg = that were expended to
carry Indiana in 1881 You know some
thing of the vast SIMS of money expended
in BROOKLYN and New York In other years
tocarry elections. BriborY l., one OF the
disgraces Of this country And there will
be more money used IN bribery this au-
tumns election than in any previous cleo
tion. 1t is often the case that a man is nom
mated for office with reference to his ca
paieity to provide money for the elections
or with reference to his capacity 10 COM
mand money from others. You know the
names of men who have at different times
gone into the gubernatorial chair or Con-
gressional ONCE buying their way all
through tell you no news Your patri-
otto heart has been panied again and again
with it.
Very often il 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
veyor General, you make me Mayor and I'll
put you on the water board; YOU give me
position and I'll give Won position" That is
the form of bribe often aud often in these
great cities. I do not say Il is in our city,
but you know again and again throughout
the land these have been the forms OF bride
offered SO it is often the ease that by the
time a man comes 10 an office 10 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 election. Two long
lines of worm fence, one worm fence reach
ing to Albany, and the otherto Washington,
aud there are a great many citizens astride
the fence, and they are equally poised, aud
they are waiting 10 sec on which side there
is most emolument, and on this side they
get down. But bribery kicks both ways.
II kicks the man that offers IL and the man
that takes II. Bribery TO day you win admit
to be one Of the mightiest foes ofthe Ameri-
can ballot-boX.
,r eu1anf -
is defamation Of character Can you find
out from the newspapers when two men are
running for Office which is the besti How
often in the autumnal elections the good
man is denounced aud the bad man applaud |
ell. so that you can come sometimes 10 no
lust opinion as TO who is the best man, and |
there are hundreds and thousands OF electors |
who 90 up to vote so utterly bef0gged they |
know not what they do. Is not that fear |
ful influence to be brought upon the ballot /
box Of this c0untryi II has been so ever |
since the foundation Of this Government |
Defamation Of character.
Thomas Paine writes Washington a letter, /
and publishes il saying: ''rreacherous in
all private friendship aud a hypocrite in 1
public morals, the world will be puzzled 10 4
know whether we had better call you an /
apostate or an impostor, and whether you |
abandoned good morals, or never had any,
That is Thomas Paine's opinion OF George
Washington.
John Quincy Adams declared that he was
solaced in regard to the scandals and the an
athemas 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 10 that present
election there were men who gave their en-
tire time TO manufacturing faisehood IN re-
gard 10 him. Martin Van Buren, was always
as a rat Thomas +. Benton
and Amos Kendall were always pictorial
lied as robbers with hattering rams break
ing in the door Of the Unhed Sta es Bank.
On the day on which Thomas Jefferson
was inaugurated President OF the United
States, March 4th. 1901, the following APP
reared in the Sentinel of Boston; "Monu-
mental inscription. Yesterday expired,
deeply regretted by millions OF grateful
Americans. and by all good men, the federal
of the Government OF the
United States, animated by Washington.
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