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

often IL is that nien have gone down un-
der such things. In every autumnal elec-
tioh the dir is filed with carrion crows
seeming carcasses. Cawi Cawl Cawl
There are newspapers in the Unite
States that In the great autumnal cleo
tons take wild license for liberty. They
are filed with calumuy. The editorial
columns OF such papers reek with 1t; their
columns are stuffed with It There are
newspapers in the U nited States which in
the great popular elections breakfast and
dine and sup on ipdee ency, They walioH
in It. Swine like the mire They Civ,
mtrS for one quill full of it than a whole
hogshead OF decent product There are
in these great autumnal elections men
sitting in editorial chairs who write with
o quill, not plucked from the stupid
goose, or the sublime eagle, but from o
turkey buszardi Ghoulsi Ghoulsl They
tip the city sewer into their editorial ink /.
stands. Defamation OF character is one
of the curses OF the American BALLOT box
to-day. In your great presidential elecN
tions who can tell from what he reads
who Is the m au he ought to vote for. Bad
men sometimes applauded' Good men de.
roluced;
Another powerful foe of the sacred
chest the ark OF the American covenant,
the ballot box, is the rowdy and drunken
caucus
The ballot box does not give any choice
to q man when the nominations are made
in the back part OF Q GROCERY. When
the elector comes up he has no choice be-
tween two evils. In some CT TIE cities
men have come I'd the Dali OF box to vote,
and have found both names such a scaly,
greasy and stenohful crew they had no
choice. You say vote for somebody out
side. Then they throw away their vote.
Christian men of New York and Brooks
lyn, honorable met, patriotic men, go
md take possession of the caucuses.
First having saturated your handkerchief
with cologne or some other disinfe Giant
go down to the caucus aud take posses
sion of 1t in the name of the Lord God
AlI% ghty and the American people,
though after you come back You shcrla
have to hang your Rat and coat on a line
in the back ward for ventilation.
In some of the States politics have got
so low that the nominees no more need
good morals than they do a bath tub.
Snatch the ballot-bo from such men.
Where is the David who will go forti
and bring the ark Of the covenant back
from Kirjath- jearim? Do you not think
politics has got to q pretty low ebb in our
day when Tweed could be sent TO the
Legislature Of New York, and a John
Morrissey, the prince Of gam blers, could
be sent to the A merican Congress!
Now, how are these things to DO rene
died? Some say by a property qualifca-
ton. They say that after 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 tho ballot-boX a great many OF
the best men in this land. Literary m en-
are almost always poor. A pen is p good
Implement to make the world better, but
1t is very poor Implement to get live
lihood ordinarily. l have known scores
OF literary mon who never owned a foot
OF ground, and never will own a foot OF
ground until they get under it Profess
sOrs OF colleges, teachers o. schools
editors Of newspapers, ministers OF re.
ligion, qualified in every possible way to
vote, yet no worldly success. There he's
been many man who has not had a
house on earth who will have a mansion
in Heaven.
There are many who through accident
OF fortune have come to great success
while they are profound In their stupid.
ity, as profound in their stupidity as a
man OF large fortune with whom l was
crossing the ocean, who told me he was
going to see the bikes Of Scotland. When
a member of my family asked q lady on
her return from Europe if she had seen
Mont Blanc, she replied: "We]l, really,
don't know; is that in EIrope" Igno-
rance by the square foot. Property quail.
ihcation will not do. The only way these
evils will be eradicated will be by more
thorough legal efenso Of tine ballot box
aud more thorough moralization and
Characterization Of the people. That ARK
of the covenant was carried into captivity
to Kirjath. ie arim, but one day the people
hooked oxen to a cart, and they put this
ark on the cart, and the cart was taken tC
Jerusalem-the ark of the covenant com.
ing with the shouting and thanksgiving OF
the people. And though the American
ballot box, the ark of the American
covenant our sacred chest has been car
ried again and again into captivity by
fraud and iniquity, and spurious voting,
1 believe it will be brought back yet by
prayer aud by Christian consecE alton,
and will be set down in tho midst of the
temple Of Christian patriotism. Whose
responsibility? Yours and mine.
l charge you, then, as American citi-
zens, to remember your responsibility on
the first Tuesday in November. 1t will
begin early, the snowstorm of suffrageS.
1t will snow all day-snow on until noon,
snow on until night. The fakes will fall
in every town and village and neighbor-
hood, the white fakes. The octogenarian
will come up, his hand trembling, and
with specialized eye he will scrutinize the
vote and drop it and pass on. The capt.
talist will como up with bediamoued A.
ger and the laborer with hard fl st, and the
one vote will be as good as the other.
Snowfakes will be gathered together and
oompacted iato an avalanche tina. will
slide down in expression Of the will of
the people. Stand out Of the way Of it
In the awful sweep OF this white ava
lanche let political fraud go down thou
sand feet under.
You have not only a vote-you have a
prayer. The PRAYER may be mightier
than the vote. Oh as citizens Of this
beautiful city, and Of this State, and of
this Nation. let US do our whole duty. We
can not live under any other form Of gov
eminent than that which God has given
US in this country. The stars on our flag
are not the stars of thickening night,
but the stars sprinkled amid the bars Of
morning clouds. We are going to have
one government on this entire continent
Let the despotisms of Asia keep their
feet off the Pacific coast and let the
tyrannies of Europe keep their feet off
the Atlantic coast We are going to have
one government Mexico will follow