The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-11-15

Nuelt SdplOyeS vote THIS ana nat way. IL
Is skillf6liy done. 1t is not positively in
SO Many words demanded, but the en-
ploye understands that hs will bs frozen
out of the establishment unless he votes
as tho Arm dc. So You can 90 into viii
lagos where there arc establishments
With hundreds and thousands OF em-
ployes, and having found out the politics
OF the h-i Of the factory, you car tell
which weS the election IL going Now,
that is dannable. ft IL any precinct in
the United States man can not vote as
he pleases, there is something awful ly
wrong.
How do you treat that employe who
votes differently from what you doS oh,
you say, you do not interfere with his
right of suffrage but you call him into
your rFiF ale Office and you fnd fault with
ms work, and after awhile you tell him
theie is an uncle, or an aunt or a niece,
or nephew that must have that position,
You do not say it is because he voted THIS
or that way, but he knows and God knows
1t is If that man has given TO you in
hard work an equivalent for the wages
you pay him you have n right to ask any
thing else OF him. He sold v3G his work.
he did not sell yo" his political or re-
ligious prin cipies. But you know as we'll
as 10 there is sometimes on that sacred
chest the ark of the American covenant
a shadow corporate or monopolistic,
do not wonder at the vehemente o.
Lord Chicf-Jusics Holt OF England
when he nd: "Lst the red PIE v0ts fair
iy. Interference with 4 mans vote is in
| behalf Of this o. that party. / give you
notice that IL an off ,nder against the
Jaws comes before me, will charge the
jury to make him pay well for i." 20
shadow plutOcratic, or rHDocratic, or
capitaistic Every man voting in his
own way, God and his owu conscience
the only dictator,
Another powerful fos OF that sacred
| chest, the ark of the American conveDaut
the ballot-box, is bribery.
You know something OF tho hundreds
of thousands 81 dollars that were e.
! pended to carry Indiana In 1880 You
know something % the vast sums of
money experGed in Brooklyn and New
! York ia other years to carry elections.
! Bribery Is one of the disgraces OF this
country. And there will be more money
used in bribery this autumn's election
than in any previous election. 1t is often
the case that man is nominated for
offic, with reference to his capacity %
| provide money for TIE 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 ths gubtrnatorial chair or con-
gressiOnal odica, buying .heir way all
through. I tel you no news. Your
| patriotic heart has been panied again
and again with it.
! Very often it is not money that brides,
but it is Office. "You make me Presi.
dent aud Phi make you a Cabinet officert
you make me Governor, and I'll N IKE you
Surveyor General; you make me- mayor,
and III put you on the wa'er boafd; you
give me position, and I'll give you posi-
| ton" That il tie form Of bride often and
often ii these great cities. l do not say it is
| in our city, but you know again and 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
office to which he has been elected he is
! from the crown of head to the sole of foot
mortga aged 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 great many citizens astr ide the
fence, and they are equally poised, aud
they are waiting to see on which side
| there is most emolument and on this
| side they get down. But bribery kicks
both ways. 1t kicks the man that offers
| 1t 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 newspa pers, when
two men are running for Office, which is
the best? How often in the autumnal
| elections the good man is denounced and
the bad man applauded, so that you can
| come sometimes to no just opinion as to
| who is the best man, and there are hun
| dreds aud thousands of electors W no go
! up to vote so utterly befogged they know
| not what they do. Is not that a fearful
| influence to be brought upon the ballot
box Of this country? 1t has been 50 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 q
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 &c orge Washington
| John Quincy Adams declared that he
was solaced in regard to the scandals and
the aaathemas 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 falsenood in regard to
| HIM. Martin Van B lrel was always pic
torialiZsd rs rat. Thomas H. Benton
and Amos Kendall were always pictoral.
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 APP
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 Government OF
the United States, animated by Washing
ton, Adams, Hamilton, Knox. Pickering.
McHenry, Marshall and StodIard, aged
| twelve years. Its death was ocoasioned
| by the secret arts aad open violence of
| foreign and domestic demagogues. AS
one tribute of gratitude in these times,
| this monument to the talents and servic es
| OF the deceased is raised by the Sentinel"
| Under such defamation as that Thomas
Jefferson went into Office.
| My father told me that when Andrew