Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-09

ignorance. Educate the people, givs
.nsm sd opportunity to know and under
stand whist they do. II they will no! take
the education, deny them the vote.
Another powerful enemy OF this sacred
chest, the srk CT the AmerlcsI covenant,
| the pallot box, is spurious voting. Ia
1880, in Brooklyn, there we're 1000 names
recorded Of perEons VINO. had no res :
dence here, and II there were 1000 at
tempted fraudulent votes in the best city
on the continent, what may we expect
in cities net SO fortunate? Whats grand
thing is the lew Of registration Without
it elections in this country would be 8
farce. There must be scrutiny on this
subject. The Isw must have the keenest
twiri for the neck of reporters some
thing more than slight fine and short I'M
pcisonment. l. is sn sttempt as the ss
sagsirstic1 OF the republic when man
attempts TO put in spurious vote. IN
! 0lden times when men laid uuholy hsnds
on the ark OF the covenant they dropped
| down dead. Witness Uzzsh. And when
men attempt to put unaolY hands on the
| ballot box, the ark Of the American COW
enant,
THEY DEsERV Z DIFFERENTIATION.
Another powerful zoe of this sacred
chest Is intimidation.
| Corporations sometimes demand that
their employees Vo.e in this ,nd tnst wsy.
It is skiil!ully done. 1. is 10. positively
in so many words demanded, bu! the en-
| pioys understands that he will be frozen
ont Of the establishment unless he votes
SO the firm do. So you can go into viL~
lsges where there are establishments
with hundreds and thousands Of employees
End having found GU. the politics Of She
Essd men in the factory, you can tel
which way the election Is going. Now
that is dsmnable. II in any precinct in
the United States Ilsu canno. vote Is
he pleRses, there is something sWfally
wrong.
How do you treat thst enplove whC
Yates differently from what yen DC? o.,
you say You 60 not interfere with III:
right CT snfssge. Bat you cali MIN into
your private cfiice, sid you ind fault
with his work, and after while you
tell him there Is IN uncle, or sn auat, or
9 niece, or nephew tnst must have thsi
position. You DO not say it is beciuse
ne voted this OF that way, but he knows
and God knows IL is. IL that man has
given to you In hsrd work ar equivalent
for the wages you pay HUI, sou have nc
right to ask anything else OF him. Eli
gold you his work; ns did not sell you
his political or religious principles. Blu
you know So we'll ss / do there is some
times OF thst sacred chest, the ark OF the
American covenant, shadow corporate
Or monopolistic.
Go not wonder 81 ths vehemence G.
Lord Chief Justice Holt CT England
when he said: "Let the people vot,
fairly. Interference with q man's vott
is in behalf OF this or that party. I civ.
you notice that IL an offender against tht
law come before me, will
CHARGE THE JURY
to make him pay well for it," No shsdoN
plutocrztic, Or mobocrstic, or cApitalistic
Every man voting in his own wey-Got
and his own conscience the only dicta. or
Another powerful foe OF that sscIeC
chest, the ark Of the American covenant
the bsllot-boX, is bribery.
You know something of the hundre 4
o. thousands OF dollars that were ex-
pended to csrry Indiana in 1880. Yol
know something CT the vast sums O
money expended in BROOKLYN and New
York in other years to carry elections
Bribery ig one OF the disgrsces Of this
country. And their will be more none!
used II bribery this sutumn's eleCi0,
than IL any previous election. tia Otter
The case that Nan ia nominated iCr ttic'
win reference TO his capacity 20 proVid;
money for the elections or with refereEc;
TO his capacity to command money from
others. You know tins names Of men
who ave at different times gone into tins
guoernstorial shsir Or CCGgreesiCns
office buying their way all through.
tell you no news. Your patriotic aesr
hiss oeen panied sgsll snd sgsin wita il
Very often It is not money Sha
bribeg, but 1t is cffice. "You MIKE nj
President and I'll make you Csbine
officer; you make me Governor end II
mike you Surveyor General; you mek'
me Msyor snd III put you on the W1tel
beard; you give me position end I'li CIV
you position" Tint is tEa form Of DTib:
often and often in these greet cities
90 rot gay it ID in our city, but you know
agsin end sgsiI: throughout the !s2t
tbeEe have been the Terms CT bTi5i
Cfe-ed. So it is Cften the case that By
the time q man comes 20 "a cffice *
which he has been elected De is from ii;
crown Of head to the sole OF foot mort
gsged with pledges, and the man whc
goes to Albany CO Washington
10 GkI AN OEFlCE
is spplyirg for gone position which VS.!
given away three months before the eIec.
ton. Two long lines Of worm fence, On,
worm fence reaching to Albany End the
other 10 Washington, and there 6 gres
many clt'Zs1s sstride :Ae fence, and taeJ
are equally poised, sud they are waiting
TO see on which side there is most en- olu
melt, and on this side they get down
But bribery kicks both ways. 1t kicks
tine man that ofIels 1t sld the man tha
takes 1t. Bribery to-day you Will admi
to be one OF the mighLiest fees OF Ia
American ballot BOX.
Another great enemy ct thst aEcret
chest ID defamation Of Character. Cal
you find out fr, In the newspapers Thel
two meo are running for ofiice which il
the bes!? How ofsen in the auium
nal elections the good man is de
nCuuced and the bad man applauded
6o that you can come sometimes Il
no Just opinion as TO who is the best msn
ana there are hundreds and thousands o
electors who 60 up to vote SO utterly be-
foggsd they know rot What they dc. Il
not thst fearful influence to be brough
upon the pailot-box OF this country? /
has bsen go sTer since ths foundation oil
this government. Defamation Of CHAR
scter.
Thomas Paine writes Washington let
ter, snd publishes II, saying: "Fre&ch-
erous in ell private friendship and hyp
ocrlte in puolic morals, The world will o.
puzzled 10 know whether We had bette,
cal. you an npostste or al imposter, sec
whether you abandoned coed morsis o.
never had any" That is Thomas Paipe'!