The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-11-15

to man when the nominations are made
in the back part Of GROCERY. When
the elector comes up he has no choice be
tween two evils. In some OF the cities
men have come to the ballot-box to vote
and have found both names such scaly
greasy and stenchful crew they had nc
choice. You say vote for somebody out
side. Then they throw away their vote.
Christian men Of New Y ork and Brook
Ign, honorable men, patriotic men, 60
and take possession Of the oaucuses.
First having saturated your handkerchief
with cologne or some other disinfectant,
go down to the caucus and take posses
| sion Of it IN the name OF the Lord Gcd
| Almighty and the American people,
though after you come back you should
have to hang your bat and coat on line
in the back yard for ventilation.
| In some of the States politics have got
so low that the nominees no more need
| good morals than they do bath tub.
| Snatch the ballot-box from such men.
| Where is tho David who will go fort1
| and bring the ark of the covenant back
from Kirjath- jearlm? Do you not think
politics has got TO a pretty low ebb in our
day when Tweed could be sent to the
Legislature of New York, and q John
| Morrissey, the prince of gam blers con!a
| be sent to The American Congress?
Now. how are these things to be reme-
| died? Some say by property qualifca-
| ton They say that after man gets a
certain amount Of property certain
| amount of rsal estate--he is financially
interested in good ernmeut, and lie
becomes cautious and conservative. /
| reply, property qualification would shut
off from the ballot-box a great many OF
the best men in this land. Literary men
are almost always poor. A pen is gond
implement TO make the world better, but
it is a very poor implement to get a live
lihood ordinarily. | have known scores
of literary men who never owned q foot
of ground and never will own a foot of
ground until they get under it Profess
sors Of colleges, teachers OF schools
editors Of newspapers, minister's of re-
ligion, qualified in every possible way to
vote, yet no worldly success. There has
been many man who has not had
house on earth who will have a mansion
in Heaven.
There are many who through accident
of fortune have come to great success
while they are profound in their stupid
ity, as profound in their stupidity as a
man of large fortune with whom | was
crossing the ocean, who told me he was
going to see the bikes of Scotland. When
a member Of my family asked lady on
her return from Europe if she had seen
Mont Blanc, she replied: "Well, really, |
don't know; is that in Iropel" Igno-
rance by the square foot. Property quail
ifcation Will not do. The only way these
evils will be eradicated will be by more
hnr oh Il nf hall
and a more thorough moralization and
Chrlstianization OF the people. That ark
of the covenant was carried into captivity
to Kirjath .jearim, but one day the people
hooked oxen to cart. and they put this
ark on the cart, and the cart was taken to
Jerusalem-the ark of the covenant COM
ing with the shouting and Thanksgiving Of
the people. And though the American
ballot box, the ark of the American
covenant our sacred chest, has been car
ried again and again into captivity by
fraud and iniquity, and spurious voting,
| believe it 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 and mine.
! charge you, then, as American citi-
zens, to remember your responsibility on
the first Tuesday in November. 1t will
begin early, the snowstorm of SURFACES.
1t will snow all day-snow on until noon,
snow on until night. The flakes will fall
in every town and village aud neighbor-
hood, the white fakes. The octogenarian
will come up, his hand trembling and
with specialized eye he will scrutinizs the
vote and dro , it and pass on. The capt.
talist will coma up with bedamoned IA
ger and the laborer with hard fist and the
one vote will be as good as the other.
Snowfiakes will be gathered together and
compacted into an avalanche that will
slide down in expression of the will of
the people. Stand ont of the way of 1t
In the awful sweep OF this white ava
Ian che let political fraud go down thou
sand feet under.
You have not only vote-you have a
prayer The prayer may be mightier
than the vote. On, as citizens Of this
beautiful city, and of this State, aud of
this Nation, let us do our whole duty. We
can not live under any other form of gov
eminent than that which God has given
us in this country. The stars on our flag
are not the stars of thickeuing night,
but the stars sprinkled amid the bars of
morning clouds. We are going to have
Let the despotisms of Asia keep their
feet off the Pacific coast, and let the
tyrannies of Europe keep their feet off
the Atlantic coast We are going to have
one government Mexico will follow
Texas into the Union, and Christianity
and civilization will stand side by side in
the halls Of the Montezumas. And if not
in our day then in the day Of our chill
dren. Yucatan and Central America
will come in dominion, while on the
north Canada will be ours, not by con-
quest-oh, no. American and English
swords may never clash blades-but we
will WOO our fair nelghbor OF the north
and then England will say to Canada:
"You are old enough for the marriage
day." and then, turning, willsay: "Giaut
OF the West, go take your bride" And
then from Baffin's Bay to the Caribbean
there will be one government under one
flag, with one destiny--a free, undis-
puted, Christianized American continent.
God save the City of Brooklyn! God
save tho Commonwea lth of New York