The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-05

repealed the poisoned shafts that were aimed
for my destruction. and vindicatcd my good
name from every malignant and unfounded
aspersion."
Defamation! It is tho curse OF the
American ballot-box. Just as soon as i'll
tine great cities man is put up for Office
he is made tho target. The fact that he is
up is primd fdcie evidence that he must
be brought down. His public life and his
private life are scruiniz1d, and all the
electric lights are turned on. How often
is it that men have gone down under such
thi 'gs. In every autumnal election the
air is filled with carron crows scenting
carcasies. Cav! Cav Cav! There
are newspapers in the United States
tions take wild license for liberty:
They are filled it'll calumnv. The editorial
columns of such papers rcek with it; their
columns are stuffed with it. Thee are
newspapers in the United States which in
the great popular elections breakfast and
dine and sup on indecency. They wallow
i'll it. Swine like the mre. They give
hoEshead of decent product. There are in
these great autumn lal elections men sitting
in editorial chairs who write with a Quill.
not plucked from the stupid goose or the
sublime eagle, but from turkey buzzard.
Ghouls! Ghouls! They tip tue city sewer
into their editorial inkstands. Defamation
of character is one of the curses Of the
American ball It box to-day. In your
great Presidential elections who can
tell from what he reads who is the man he
ought to vote fora Bad men sometimes APP
plauded, good men denounced.
Another powerful foe of che sacred chest,
the ark of the American covenant, the
ballot-box, is the rowdy and drunken
caucus.
ri, LoIot Io.- loaa ,,oI 1.-TWO ou1y ohoioa
to man when the nominations are made
in the back part If "A GROCERY. When the
elector comes up he has to choose between
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
stenchful crew they had no choice. You
say vote for son.eb body outside. Then they
throw away their vote. Christian men Of
New York and Brooklyn, honorable men,
patriotic men, go and take possession Of the
caucu es. First having saturated your
pocket handkerchief with cologne or some
other disinfectant, go down to the caucus
and take possession of it in the name OF the
Lord God Almighty and the American
people, though after you come back you
should have TO haHg your hat 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
the David who will go forth and bring the
ark of the covenant back from Kirjath-
jearim3 Do you not think politics have got
to a pretty low ebb in our day, when a
Tweed could DO sent to the legislature of
New York, and John Morrissey, the
prince of gamblers. could be sent to the
American cOngressf
Now, how are these things to be RENE
dieda Some say by property qualification.
They say that after a man gets a certain
amount of property-a certain amount OF
real estate-he is financially interested in
good government, and he becomes cautious
and conservative. | reply, a property
qualification would shut off from the ballot
box a great many Of the best men in this
land Literary men arc almost always
poor pen is a good implement to make
the world better, but it is q very poor i'm
plement to get a livelihood ordinarily. |
have known scores of literary men who
never owned foot Of ground, and never
will own foot of ground until they get
under ii. Professors Of colleges, teachers
of scohos, editors of newspapers, ministers
of religion, 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 thr ough accidents
of fortune have come to great success while
they are profound in their stupidity, as
profound in their stupidity az a man Of
large fortune with whom / wes crossing
the ocean, who told me he was going to see
the dykes OF Scotlandl When a member Of
my family asked lady on her return from
Europe if she had seen Mont Blanc, she re-
piled: "Well, really, l don't know; is that
in EuropeS Ignorance by the square foot.
Property qualification will not do. The
thaca nxyiIo will hn IL
Gated will be by more thorough legal
defense of the ballot-box and a more
thorough moralization and christianization
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 coming with the shouting
and thanksgiving of the people. And
though the American oallot-box, the ark OF
the American covenant, our sacred chest,
has been carried again and again into cap
tivity by fraud and iniquity, and spurious
voting, believe 1t will be brought back
yet by prayer and by christian consecra-
ton, and will be set down in the midst Of
the temple of christian patriotism. Whose
responsibility? Yours and mine.
A poor soldier went to a hairdresser in
London. He wanted to get back to the
army. He had overrun his furlough and
he wanted some help to get back in quick
transit. The money was given to the poor
soldier, who said to the man who had
offered the kindness: II have nothing to
give you in return but this little worn out
receipt for making backing" He gave it
not thinking there was any value In 10 es-
pecially, and the man who took it did not
suppose there was any special value in 1t;
but it yielded the man who took it S2,5OO,-
600, and was the foundation Of one Of the
greatest estates in England. And that
little vote, that Insignificant vote which
you take out OF your pocket--insignifcan
in your sight and insignificant In the sight
Of others--may start an Influence that will
last all through the progress OF this govern
ment.
| charge you, then, as American citi-
zens, to remember your responsibility on
the first Tuesday Of November. 1t will
begin early, the suow storm Of suffrages. IL
will snow all day-snow on until noon,
snow on until night. The flakes will fall in
every town and village and reighborhoodi,
the white flakes The octogenarian WIN
come up, his hand trembling, and with
specialized eye no will scrutinlze the vote,
and drop it and pass on. The young man
who has been waiting for his time Will come
nm and proudly and blushinRly deposit his