The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-16
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more for one quill full OF It than " hole
hOgsheGd OF decent product There are
In these great autumnal elections men
sitting in editorial chairs who write with
q quill, not plucked from the stupiG
goose, or the sublime eagle, but from e
turkey buzzardI GhOuls GhoGlsi They
tip the city sewer into their editorial 1nks
stands. Defamation OF character Is one
OF the curses of the American ballot box
to-day. In your great presidential cleo
tions who can tell from what he reads
who Is the man he ought to vote for. Bad
men sometimes applauded, good men de-
nounoed.
Another powerful foe OF the sacred
chest the ark of the Amertc covenant
the ballot box, Is the rowdy and drunken
caucus.
The ballot box does not give any choice
to a man when the nominations are made
I'm the back part OF q groggery. When
the elector comes up he has no choice be-
tween two evils. Iu some OF the cities
men have come to the ball Ot-box TO vote,
and have found both names such scaly,
greasy and stenchful crew they had no
choice. You say vote for somebody out-
side. Then they throw away their vote.
Christian men OF New Y ork and Brook
lyn, honorable men, patriotic men, go
aud take possession OF the caucuses.
First having saturated your handkerchief
with cologne or some other disinfectant
60 down 60 the caucus and take posses
sion 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 bat and coat on @ line
in the back yard 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 tab.
Snatch the ballot-box from such mon.
Where is ths David who will go forth
and bring tho ark of the covenant back
from KiriAth- iearIm? Do you not think
politics has got to pretty low ebb in our
day whom a Tweed could be sent to the
Legislature Of New York, and q John
Morrissey, the prince OF gamblers, could
be sent to the American Congressl
Now, how are these things to be RENE
diedf Some say by n property qualihoa-
ton They say that after man gets q
| certain amount of property-a certain
amount Of real estate--he is financially
| interested in good government, and he
becomes cautious and conservative. /
| reply, q property qualification would shut
/ off from the ballot-box a great many OF
| the best men in this land Literary mon
| are almost always poor. A pen is a good
| implement t0 make the world better, but
| it is a very poor implement to get liva-
| lihood ordinarily. / have known SCORES
| OF literary men who never owned a foot
| of ground, aud never will own foot Of
ground until they get under It. Profess
! sOrs of colleges, teachers OF schools
editors OF newspapers, ministers of re-
ligiOn. qualified in every possible way to
vote, yet no worldly success. There has
been many q man who has not had
house on earth who viii have mansion
/ In Heaven.
! There are many who through accident
/ OF fortune have come to great success
/ while they are profound in their stupid
/ isy. as profound In their stupidity as q
man of large fortune with whom was
crossing the ocean, who told me he was
1 going to sec the dilres OF SEQ otland. When
/ q member Of my family asked a lady on
her return from Europe q she had seen
Mont Blanc, she replied: "WolL really, !
don't know; is that in EuropeT Tgno-
rance by the square foot. Property quail
/ ihcatton will not do. The only way these
/ evils will be eredicated will be by more
thorough legal efense OF the ballot box
| and more thorough moralizatlOn and
| Characterization OF the people. That ark
of the covenant was carried into captivity
to Klriath .iearim, but one day the people
| hooked oxen to q cart and they put this
| ark on the cart. and the cart was taken to
| yerusalem-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,
| believe it will be brought back yet by
/ prayer aud by Christian consecration,
| and will DO set down in the midst Of the
temple OF Christian patriotism. Whose
| responsibility Yours and mine.
A poor soldier went to a hair dresser
in London He wanted to get back 10 the
army. He had overrun his furlough, and
he wanted some help to get back in quick
| transit The money was given 10 the poor
| soldier, who said TO the man who had o.
fered the kindness: II have nothing 60
give you IN return but this little worn oHt
receipe for making blacking." He gaze
ft, not thinking there was any value In II
| especially, and the man who took IT did
i not suppose there waR any special value
in it, but it yielded the man who took II
two million aud a half dollars, and was
the foundation of one Of the greatest es-
tates In England And that little vote,
that insignificant vote which you take oUi
OF your pocket-in significant in yoar
sight and insiRnihcant in the sight Of
others-may start an influence that VII
last all through the progress OF this GoF-
| ernment
I char 60 yo1, then, as American cit'
zens, TO remember your responsibility on
the hrgt Tuesday In November. It VIII
begin early, the snowstorm OF suhr ages
It will snow all day-snow on until no0ng
snow on It'll night The fakes will fail
In every town and village and ne!Rhbor-
hood. the white fakes. The octogenarian
will come up, his hand trembling, and
with spectacled eye he will scruttnize the
vote and drop It and pass on The capt
talist will come up with bediamoned j I
ger aud the laborer with hard list and the
one vote will be as good as the otnor;
Snowhakes will be gathered together ana ma
compacted into an avalanche that Wiii
slide down in expression Of the will OF
the people. Stand out Of the way OF ~
In the awful sweep Of this Whits ava
lanohe let political fraud 60 down "a @thOu"
sand feet under.
You have not only n vots-you nave
prayer. The prayer may DO mighsieT
! than the vote. Oh, as citizens OF mus
beautiful city, and Of this state ano 20 2.
: this Nation, lot as do our whole duty: w
! can not live under any other form OF GOV
srnrneat than that which God has gwen
as IN this country. The stars on our nag
Z are moi the stars Of thickentng n18nag
1 | Iut the stars spriukled amid the bars OF
. rnorpfn0 clouds We are going 70 nAVe
b one 20 vernment on this entire eontnehI.
] | let the deapotisms OF Asia keep theiF
8 ts@t or the Pacific coast and let the
: tvraunies of Europe keep their feet on
> | fba Atlantic coast We are going 70 nave
r ore government Mexico will follow
4 | Texas into the Union, and Christlenlty
r and civilization win stand side ~ SIZE u
q the Aalls Of the MonteSumes' anu l'.. n ,ls1 w
49, YuoasAn and Central America
o will come in dominion, while On TIE
I | ne~th C,Snada will be ours, not by con
+ SHaSt-.-oh, 40. American and English
I a~srds nay never clash blades--but we
!. win WOO our fair nelghbor OF the n0rtn'
aW& wmgf1 mmw n Car AL m
4 | ssYon are old enough for the marriage
\ / aav.s5 ana then, turnin@, wtllEnys s-iimna