The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-12-06

| the balot-box, is spurious voting. In
| 1850. in Brooklyn, there were tho usaud
/ names recorded of persons who had no
residence here, and ii tn 3re were thou =
sand attempted fraudulent votes in the
best city on the continent what may We
expect in cities not so fortunate? What
a grand thing is the law of registration.
Without it elections in this country would
| be farce. There must be a scrutiny on
| this subj ect The law must have keenest
twist for the neck OF repeaters. Some
thing more than slight and short i'm
| prison ment 1t is an attempt at the as
| sassination of the Republic when a man
1 attempts to put in a spurious vote. In
olden times when men laid unholy hands
on the ark Of the covenant they dropped
down dead. Witness Uzzah. And when
men attempt to put unholy hands on
| the American ballot-box, the ark Of the
Am eican covenant they deserve ex-
| ter nination.
| Another powerful foe of this sacred
| chest is intimidation.
| Corporations sometimes demand that
| their employees vote this and that way. 1t
1 is skillfully DONE 1t is not positively in
| so many words demanded, but the en-
| ploye understands that he will be frozen
out of the establishment unless he votes
| as the firm do So you can go into vii
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. IL in any precinct in
| the United States man can not vote as
he pleases, there is something awful ly
/ wrong.
do not wonder at the vehemence of
| Lord Chief-Justice Holt of England
| when he said: ssLet the people vots fair
ly. Interference with a mans vote is in
behalf of this or that party. give you
notice that il an offender against the
laws comes before me, I will charge the
jury to make him pay well for it." No
| shadow plutocratic, or mobocratic, or
capitalistic. 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 covenant
the ballot-box. is bribery.
Very often it Is not mo ney that brides
but it is office "You make me Presi-
dent, and Pill make you a-Cabiuet officer;
you make me Governor, and I'll make you
Surveyor you make ms mayor,
and pil put you on the water board; you
give me position, and PHI give you posi-
tion.o That is the form of bride often and
often in these great cities. do not say it is
in our city, but you know again AMI again
throughout the land these have been the
forms of bride offered. So it is often the
case that by the time man comes to an
Off ce to which he has been elected he is
from the crown of head to the sole of foot
| mortgaged with pledges, and the mar
who goes to Albany or to Washington te
get an Office is applying for some position
which was given away three months be-
fore the election. Two long lines of worn
fence, one worm fence reaching to AL
bany and the other to Washington, and
there great May citizens astride the
fence, and they are equally poised, and
they are waiting to see on which side
there is most emolument and on thi.
side they get down. But bribery kick.
both ways. 1t 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.
An other great enemy of that sacred
chest is defamation of character. Car
you find out from the wspapers. wher
two men are running for Office, which is
the best? How often in the autumna
elections the good man is denounced and
the bad man applauded, SO that you car
come sometimes to no just opinion as t,
who is the best man, and there are hun
dreds and thousands of electors who e,
up to vote so utterly befogged they know
not what they do. Is not that fearful
Influence to be brought upon the ballot
box of this country? It has been so ever
since the foundation of this Government
Defamation Of character.
Thomas Paine writes Washington let
ter and publishes it. saying: Preacher
GUS in all private friendship and
hypocrite in public morals, the world will
be puzzled to know whether we had bet
ter call you an apostate or an imposter
and whether you abandoned good morals
or never had any," That is Thomas
Paine's opinion of George Washington.
John Quincy Adams declared that h
was solaced in regard to the scandals ant
the alathemas inflicted upon him by tn,
fact that his father, John Adams, had t,
go through the same process, aud Johr
, Quincy Adams declared that he reall,
thought in that present election there
, were men who gave their entire time tx
manufacturing faisehood in regard te
him. Martin Van Buren, was always pic.
torializod rs q rat Thomas H. Benton
and Amos Kendall we're always pictorial
lied as robbers with battering rams
breaking in the doors of the United State
Bank.
On the day on which Thomas Jeffersol
was inaugurated President of the Unite,
States, March 4, 1901, the following APP
i peared in the Sentinel os Boston: .sMonu
mental inscription. Yesterday expired
] deeply regretted by millions OF gratefu
t Americans and by all good men, the Fed
eral administration of the Government o
the United States, animated by Washing
ton. Adams. Hamilton, Knox. Pickering
McHenry, Marshall and Stoddard, age
twelve years. Its death was occasione,
by the secret arts aad open violence 0
foreign and domestic demagogues. A
one tribute OF gratitude in these times
{ this monument to the talents and service
OF the deceased is raised by the Sentinel
Under such defamation as that Thoma
Jefferson went into Office.
/ My father told me tlnst when Andre,
!. Jackson was running for President of tn
!, United States the whole land was fioode,
| with coffi1 baudbills-Dictures of si