Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1888-12-01

he did not sell you his pol teal or religious
principles. Yut you know as we'll as / do
here is somat mes on that sacred chest, the
ark OF the American Covenant. a shadow cor
pOrate r monOpOiIstlc. |
Another powerful foe of that sacred chest. |
the ark Of the American covenant. the ballot |
box, Is brlstery.
Very often il is not money that brides. but
il i Office. "ion make me President and I'll |
make YOU a Cabinet off rer: YOU make me
Govern n and I'll make vou Surveyor-G Gen
eyal. Won make ne Mayor and II put you on
the Water Board; you give me position and
was given away three months befor the elec- |
ton. Two long lines Of worm fence, one
worm fenc. reaching to Albany AMI the other
to Washington, and there a great many
citizens a~trpie the fence, and they are
e u1ilv polseI. aud they are waiting to sec
on which sid. there Is most emoltlment, and
on this siae they get down. But bribery
kicks both WAYS. 1t kicks the man that o
fers it and the man that takes it. Bribery
i..ine often and often in these great cities. l
20 not say it is in our city, but YOU know
again and again throughout the land these
have been thu forms Of bribe offered. So it
Il Of en- the case that bv the time a man comes
to an oiica to which he has been elected he
i from he crown Of head to the sole of foot
mortgageI with pledges and the man who
Cos t. ALBANY or to Washington to get an
Office is applying for some position which
,-dav You will a Init to he one of the might-S
lest toes Of the American ballot box.
Another great enemy Of that sacred chest
is defanatIon Of chara ter. Can you find
out from the newspapers when two men are
running for office which is tue best. How
often in the autu1inal elections the good man
is denounced and tile bad man applauded, SO
that you can come sometimes to no just
opinion as t. 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 10. Is not that a fearful in
fuence to be trought upon the ballot box of
this country 1T has been SO ever since the
foundation Of this Government.
Uefamationi 1t is the cuf Sc Of the Ameri-
can ballot box. Just as soon as in the great
cities a man is put up fer Office he is made
the target. The fact that b" is up is prima
facie evidence thath he must be brought down.
His public life and his private life are scrutl-
nized, and all the electric lights are turned
on. How often it Is that men, have gone
down under such things. In every autulnnai
election the air is filed with carrlon crows
seeming carcasSeS. Caw, Cav. Cav. There
are newspapers in the United states that IN
the great autunlEal elections take wid
license for liberty. They are nlien WIN
caluIny. The editorial columns of such
papers rcek with 1t; their columns are
stuffed with il. There are newspapers III
the United States which in the great popu-
lar elections breakfast and dine and sup on
iniecency. They wallow in it, Swine like
the mlre. They give more for one quill full
of it than IA whole hogshead Of decent pro
duct. There are in these great autumnal
elections men sitting in editorial chairs who
write with a quill, not plucked from the SUI
pid goose or the sublime eagle, but from q
turkey buzzarl, GhoulS' Ghouls. They
Tip the city sewer into their editorial INK
stands. defamation o. 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 for. rB al men sometimes APP
piaudei, good men d~enoun'e ed.
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. hen the elector
comes up he mas to choose | etween two evils.
In some of the cities men have come to the
ballot box to vote, and have found both
names such a scaly, greasy and stenchtul
crew they had no choice, You say vote for
somebody outside. TIL Il they throw away
their vote. Christ an men of New York and
Brooklyn, honorable men. patriotic men, go
and take possession of the caucuseS. First
having saturated your pocket handkerchief
with cologne or some other dlslnfectant, go
down TO the caucus and take posses
sion of it III the name of tie 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.
Now, how are these things to be remedieda
Some say by "a property qualification. They
say that after Il man gets a certain amount
Of %prOperty-a certain amount of real estate
he is financially interested In good govern
ment, AMI he becomes cautious AMI cOnserva-
tive. reply property qualification would
shut Oft from the ballot box a great many OF
the best men III the land. Literary men are
almost always poor. A Pen is a good nipple.
ment to make tie world bett IT, but it is a
very poor implement to get a livelihood ordi
narlly. ! have known scores OF literary men
who never owned a foot If groun and never
will own a foot of ground until they &c,
under it. Professors of colleges. teachers OF
schools, editors of news a{ers, ministers Of
religion, qualified IN every possible way tt
vote, yet no worldly success. There has been
many q man who has not>had a house or
earth who VIII have a mansion in heaven.
There are many who through accidents Of
fortune have come to great success Will,
they are proS0uni in their stupidity, as pro
found IN their stupidity as a mar of larg.
fortune with whom was crossing the ocean
who told ne ne was gong To see the dykes o.
Scotland, When Il me nher OF my famll,
asked Il lady on ler return from Europe i
she had seen Mont ElaDc. She replied: well
really, | don't know. is that IN Europe
iSH1IdHtt " tHt square loOt. fTopertI
qualification Will not do. The only way
these evils Will he. era1icated will be b,
more thorough legal defense of the ballo
box and a more thorough moralizatiol
and ChrlStianlIatl"n of the people. Tha
ark OF the covenant was carrie,
into captivity 10 kIr a.h- iearim. but on
day the IeCpe hooked oxen to a cart, an
thew put this ark on the cart. and tn
cart was taken TO Jerusalem the ark O
the covenant coming with the shouting an,
thanksgiving Of the people. And thong
the American ballot box. the ark Of tn
American covenant, our sacred chest, ha
been carried a-ain and again into captivit,
by fraud ami mi jultv and spurious voting.
believe 1t VIII he brought back vet by pra We
and by thrl>t.a an coa>ecratlCn. and Will /
set down IN t1e midst of the temple q
Christian patriotism. Whose responsibility
Yours and mine.
You have not only a vote, you have
prayer. The prayer may be mightier tina,
the vote. Oh, as clti ems Of this beautlfu
city. and OF this State. and Of this nation, lie
us do our whole duty. We cannot 1--we undo
any other form OF government than tha
which God has given us in this country. Th
stars Cn our tag are not tie stars Of q thicl
enlng night, but the stars Sprinkled amid th