The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-15

offender against the law comes before me, /
will charge the jury to make him pay well
for it." No shadow pu~ltocratic, or mobo-
cratic, or capitalistic. Every man voting in
his own way-God and his wi conscience
the only dictator.
Another powerful foe Of that sacred chest,
the ark Of the American covenant, the ballot
box, is bribery.
You know something Of the hundreds Of
thousands ofdollars that were expended to
carry Indiana in 1880. You know some
thing Of the vast sums of money expended in
Brooklyn and New York in other years to
carry elections. Bribery is Que of the dis
more money expended in bribery this au-
tumn's election than in any previous cleo
ton. 1t is often the case that man is nomi-
mated tor office with reference to his capacity
to provide money for the elections or with
reference to his capacity to command money
rom others. You know the names of men
who have at different times gone into the
gubernatorial chair of 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 that brides, but
IT is office. "You make me President and I'll
make you q cabinet officer; you make me
"a - AAohC OI-kClcEd is
you make me mayor and I'll put you on the
water; You give me position and I'll give you
position" That il the form of bride often
and often in these great cities. I do not say
1t 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 q maj comes to an
office to which he has been elected, he is
from the crow of head to the sole
OF foot mortgaged 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 before
the election. Two long lines of worm fence,
one worm fence reaching to Albany and the
other to Washington, and there q great
many citizens astride the fence, and they are
equally poised and they are waiting to see on
which side there is most e%molument, and on
this side they get down. But bribery kicks
both ways. 1t kicks the man that offers it
and the man that takes it. Bribery today
You will admit to be one of the highest foes
of the American ballot box. ~
Another great enemy of that sacred chest
is defamation of character. Can you find out
from the newspapers when two men are run.
ming 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 Fan come sometimes to
no just opinion as to who is the best man,
and there are hundreds and thousands of
electors who 20 up to vote so utterly be-
logged that 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 SO ever since the foundation of this
| government. Defamation of character.
Thomas Paine writes Washington a letter,
and publishes it saying: "Treacherous in all
private friendship and a hypocrite in public
morals. the world will be puzzled to know
whether we had better call you IN apostate
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good morals, or never had any," That is
Thomas Paine's opinion of George Washing
ton
Ny father told me that when Andrew Jack
son was running for President of the United
States, the whole land was flooded with cof-
fin neutrality-suspicious. of six dead men, in
allusion to the six deserters whom Andrew
Jackson had had shot, and oil the EDITORIALS
of those times represented Jackson as taking
his office from the hand of the devil.
saw at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, in a museum, q
prominent paper of 1884, which spoke of
Henry Clay as a gambler, q libertine, and q
murderer; and the manner in which he was
ed upon him may be well guessed from Mr..
Clay's eulogy of his native state, Kentucky.
He said: "When / seemed to be assailed by
ali the rest OF the world, she interposed her
broad and impenetrable shield, repealed the
poisoned shafts that were aimed for my de-
struction, and indicated my good name from
every malignant and unfounded aspersion."
Defamationl 1t is the curse of the Ameri-
can ballot-box. just as soon as in the great
cities q nan is put up for Office he is made
the target. The fact that he is up is prima
facie evidence that he must be brought down.
His public life and his private life are scru-
tinized, and all the electric lights are turned
down under such things. In every autumnal
election the air is filed with carrion crows
seeming carcasses. Cav! Cawl Cawl
There are newspapers in the United
States that in the great autumnal elec-
tions take wild license for liberty.
They are filed with calumny. The editorial
papers in the United States which in the
great popular elections breakfast and dine
and sup on indecency. They wallow in it.
Swine like the mire. They give more for one
quilliull + 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 buzzardl Ghouls! Ghoulsl They tip
the city sewer into their editorial wristbands.
Defamation of character is one OF the curses
of the American ballot-box today. In your
great presidential elections who can tell from
what he reads who is the man he ought to
vote Tor? Bad men sometimes %applauded,
good men denounced.
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 tho
back part Of 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 o scaly, greasy, stenchful crew
that they had no choice. You say vote for
somebody outside. Then they throw away
their vote. Christian men of New York and
Brooklyn, honorable men, patriotic men. go
and take possession Of the caucuses. First
having saturated your pocket handkerchief
with cologne or some other disinfeetant, 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 hang your hat and
coat on Q line in the back yard for ventila-
ton.
In some of the states politics rave got so
low that the nominees no more need good
morals than they do q 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-jearim? Do
You not think politics have got to g pretty
sent to the Legislature of New York. and o
John Morrissey, the prince ~ofgamblers, could
be sent to the American congress?
Now, how are these things to be remedied?
Some say by q property qualification. They
say that after q man gets q certain amount
Of property-a certain amount Of real estate
he il financially interested in good govern
ment, and he becomes cautious and conser-
vative. / reply, a property qualification
would shut of from the ballot box q great
many of the best men in this land. Literary
men are almost always poor. A pen is q
good implement to make the world better,
but it is Q very poor Implement to get o live
ih0Od ordinarily. have known sc0rea Of