Telegram-herald., 1888-11-05

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pa u1Aciy hz1es on TIE Alasrlcs-n L-2llOs
box. the ARK ~ the American covenant,
Jhsy deserve exteruu8aIlou.
AnOsher powerful foe Il th1s sacred
chest ls Inumadzuon-
Corpora1iOns sometimes demand that
tas4r ssnpLJyas xofe IA ghls sna that way.
L Is sklllfGly doLs. II y bot positively
in - many words demanded, buG the
enploye understands he viii Dc frozen
oaI q TIC esta0llshns@nt unless lie votes
&s the fam 10. 50 you can 60 into VII
lsges " here there are establishments
with Eandre,s aud thousands Of EN-
pioyes and having found Out the politics
of TIE head men IA the factory, you can
tel wh.ch way the electlon Is gong
NQw, thai IS damnable II Ia any pre-
cinct in the United States 4 mar cannot
vore as he please, there IS something
awfully wrong.
How DO YOU treat that employe who
votes differently from what you dof Oh.
yea say yoa 90 not interfere with bis
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your pgiVass Office, and you flnd fault
with his work, and after while you tel
hlm there Is an uncle or an aunt. or a
niece, q nephew that must have that
position. You do not say II Is because be
voted this or that way, bat he knows
and God knows it is. II that man has
given 70 YOU ia hard work al equivalent
for the wages you pay him. you have
no right 10 ask anything else OF hun.
lie sod you his work, be did not sell
you lis political or religious principles.
But you know al wei as | do there 10
sometimes on that sacred chest, the ark
Of the American covenant, a shadow cor
porate or monopolistic.
Anr.l lscr powerful foe Of that sacred
chest, the ark Of the American covenant,
the ballot box, Is bribery.
Hou know something Of the hundreds
Of thousands Of dollars that were ex-
ended to carry Indiana ia 1885, You
know something Of the vast sums Of
money expended in Brooklyn and New
York IN other years 10 carry elections
Bribery Is one Of the disgraces Of this
country. And there will be more money
used in bribery this autunn's election
than IL any previous election 1t is
often the case that a man Is nominated
for ofice with reference TO his capacity
70 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 gubernatorial chair
or congressional Office buying their way
| all through. / tell you no news. Your
patriotic heart has been panied again and
| again with it.
Very often it is not money TIA. bribes,
| but IL Is Office. ''You make me president
and III make you a cabinet officer; you
make me governor and III make you
surveyor general; you make me mayor
and I'll put you on the water board; you
| give me position and I'll give you posi-
ton" That is the form of bribe often
and often IN these great cities. do not
say 1t is il 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 70 an Office to which he has
| been elected, he ia from the crown Of
head 70 the sole Of foot mortgaged with
! pledges, and the man who goes 10 Albany
or 70 Washington TO get an Office
Is applying for some position which
was given away three months
before the election Two long lines Of
worm fence, one worm fence reaching 70
| Albany md the other to Washington,
and there great many citizens astridC
the fence, and they are equally poised,
and they are waiting TO see on which side
there is most enolument, and on this side
they get down. But bribery kicks both
ways. 1t kicks the man that offers il
and tho man that takes IL Bribery to
day you viii admit To be one of the
mightiest foes Of the American ballot box
Another great enemy of that sacred
chest Is defamation of character. Car
you ind out from the newspapers wher
two men are running for Office which j.
the bostg How often in the sutumna-
elections the good man Is denounced and
the bad man applauded, 50 that you car
come sometimes TO no just opinion as &c
who Is the best man, and there are hun
3reCs and thousands Of electors who gC
up 10 vote 50 utterly hefogged they know
not what they do Is not that fearful
influence to be brought upon the ballot
5ox OF this counUy2 1t has been 50 evel
Rnce the foundation Of this government
| Dcfamationl Ii il the curse q tn,
American ballot box. Just as soon as II
tho great cities a man is put up for officI
he Is made thc target. The fact that h
Is up is priIna facie evidence that h
must be brought down. His public If
and his private hfe are scrIhnized, ant
all the electric lights are turned on. How
often il Il that men have gone dowl
under such things. In every autumna
election the air Ia filed with carTiol
crows seeming C8rcasses. Cawi Cav
Cawi There are newspapers in "a
/ United States that IA the great az
! tumual elections take wild license 70
liberty. They are filed with calumny
| The editorial columns Of such paper
reck with L.. their columns sr
sts1f7ed with L. There ara newspaper
IA the United States which in the grea
popular elections breakfast and dine an
SIP cn indecency They wail9w in Il
Swine Ike the r1ire. They give mor
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