The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-16


Another powerful foe Of this sacred
chest is intimidation.
Corporations sometimes demand that
their employees vote this aud that way. Ii
is skillfully done. It is not positively in
many words demanded but the en-
ploye understands that he will bs frozen
out of the establishment unless he votes
as the firm do. SO you can 60 into VIII
lagos where there are establishments
with hundReds and thousands OF en-
ployes, and having found out the politics
Of the head of the factory, you can tell
which way the election is going. Now,
that is damnable. II in any precinct in
the United States man can not vote as
he pleases, there is something awful Iy
wrong.
do not wonder at the v vehemence OF
Lord Chief-Justice Holt Of EnRland
when he said: "Let the people vote fair
ly. Interference with a mans vote Is In
behalf of this or that party. / give YOu
notice that If offender against the
laws comes before me, I will charge the
jury to make him pay we'll for it" No
shadow plutocratic, or mobocratic, or
capitalistio. 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 cOnvenant
You know something of the hundreds
of thousands OF dollars that were ex-
pended to carry Indiana in 1880. You
know something Of 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 bo more money
used in bribery this autumn's election
than in any previous election. 1t is often
hat Ia In rad
Office with reference TO his capacity TO
provide money for the elections, or With
reference to his capacity to command
money from others. You know the names
of men who have at different times gone
into the guber material chair or con-
gressional Office, buying their way all
through. 1 tell you no news. Your
patriotic heart has been panied again
and again with it.
Very often it Is not money that bribos,
but it is Office. "You make me Presi-
dent, and Pll make you Cabinet ofacerI
you make me Cover nor, aud TIL make you
Surveyor General; you make ms mayor,
and Pll put you on the water board; you
give me position, and I'll give you posi-.
ton" That is the form Of bribe oftSn and
often in these great cities. do not say 1t Is
in our city, but you know again and again
throughout the land these have been the
forms Of bribe offered So IL 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 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 lines OF worm
fence, one worm fence reaching to Al.
bany and the other to Washington, and
there a great many citizens astrids the
fence, and they are equally poised, ana
they are waiting to SEQ 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 admit 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 best2 How often in the autumnal
elections the good man is denounced aud
the bad man applauded, SO that you can
come sometimes to no just opinion as TO
who is the best man, and there are hum
dreds aud thousands of electors W ho 60
up to vote so utterly befOgged they know
not what they do. Is not that q fearful
influence to be brought upon the ballOt-
box Of this country2 It has bsen so ever
since the foundation OF this Government.
Defamation of character.
Thomas Paine writes Washington q LETT
ter and publishes it, saying: ''Treacher-
Gus in all private friendship aud a
hypocrite in public morals, the world will
be puzzled to know whether we had bets
ter call you an apostate or 'an impostsr,
and whether you abandoned good morals
or never had any" That Is Thomas
John Quincy Adams declared that he
was solaced in regard to the scandals and
the alathemas inflicted upon him by the
fact that his father, John Adams, had to
go through the same process, and John
Quincy Adams declared that he really
thought in that present election there
were men who gave their entire time TO
manufacturing falsehood In regard TO
HIM. Martin Van BIren was always pIc-
torialized as a rat Thomas H. Benton
and Amos Kendall were always pictorial
| lied as robbers with battering rams,
| breaking in the doors OF the United States
Bank.
On the day on which Thomas Jefferson
| was inaugurated President Of the United
| States, March 4, 1901, the following ap-
peared in the Sentinel of Boston: "Monu-
mental inscription. Yesterday expired,
| deeply regretted by millions of grateful
Americans and by all good men, the Fed
eral administration of the Governments OK
/ the United States, animated by Washing
/ ton. Adams, Hamilton, Knox. Pickering.
| McHenry, Marshall and BtoddaFd, aged
/ twelve years. It's death was occasioned
/ by the secret arts and open violence OF
| foreign and domestic demagogues. AS
one tribute Of gratitude in these times,
this monument to the talents and services
of the deceased is raised by the Sentinel 7"
Under such defamation as that Thomas
| Jefferson went into office.
! My father told me that when Andrew
! Jackson was running for President OF the
/ United States the whole land was flooded
with coffin handbills-pictures OF sir
dead men, in aIlusion 10 the six desert9rE
whom Andrew Jackson had had shot and
all the pictorials of those times repre-
| sented Jackson as taking his once from
the hand OF the devil
/ saw at Putt Bay. O., IN museum,
| prominent paper Of 1884. which spoke o
Henry Clay as a gambler, Hber1ne anS
q murderer; and the manner in which b.
was DETAINED and the outraRes whicl
were heaped upon him may be wei
guessed from Mr.. Clay's eulogy Of hi
native State, Kentucky He said
when / seemed to be assailvd By all tn
rest of the world, she interposed he
broad and impenetrable shield, TePeie'
the poisoned shafts that we're aimed 10
my destruction, and viudieated m = goo,
name from every malignant and unfound
ed aspersion."
DeramationI II Is the curse OF Tn
American ballot box. just as soon q
in the great cities q man is put up 70
! oeica be is made the target The fac
he is up is prima fRcie evidence that y p
/ must be brought down His pubic IHl
! / and his private life are sorutinazed- -.
All the ele ctric lights are turned on Ao'
> often IL Is that men have zone oPan ~ -
der such things. Il every 3s.s .-S,S
l saa,.s-o careasses Cawl cawi Cav
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