The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-01-18
to-day you will admit to he one of the might

to-day you will admit to he one of the might |
lest foes of the American ballot box
Another great enemy of that sacred chest
is defamation of character. Can you ind
out from the newspapers when two men are
running for Office which is the bestl How
often in the autumnal elections the good man
IS denounced and the bad man applauded, 50
that you can come sometimes to no Just
opinion as to who is the best man. and there
are hundreds and thousands OF electors who
go up TO vote so utterly befogged they know
mot what they do Is not that a fearful IN
siuence to be brought upon the ballot box OF
this countryi 1t has been so ever since the
foundation of this Government.
Defamationl It is the curse Of the Amer.
can ballot box. Just as soon as in the great
cities man is put up for Office he IS made
the target The fact that he is up IS primo
,facie evidence that he must be brought down
his public life and his private life ara scrutl-
nized, and ell the electric lights are turned
on. How often it is that men have gone
down under such things. In every autumnal
election the air is filed with carrion crows
seeming carcasses. Cawl Cav! Cawl There
are newspapers in the United States that IN
the great autumnal elections take wild
license for liberty. They are filled with
calumy. The editorial columns OF such
papers reek with 1t; their columns are
stuffed with it. There are newspapers IN
the United States which in the great popu-
lar elections breakfast and dine and sup on
ndecency. They wallow III it SWINE like
the mire. They give more for one quill full
Of it than whole hogshead Of decent pro-
duct. There are in these great autumnal
elections men sitting in editorial chairs who
write with quill, not plucked from the stu
pid goose or the sublime eagle, but from
turkey buzzard Ghoulsl 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 elections who can
tell from what he reads who is the man he
ought to vote for! Bad men sometimes ap-
plauded, good men denounced.
Another powerful foe of the sacred chest,
the ark of the American covenant, the bal
lot box, is the rowdy and drunken caucus
The ballot box does not give any choice TO
2. man when the nominations are made IN the
= ,,aclss part of a e.IlsS&erS. hen the eleClor
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 scaly, greasy and stenchtul
crew they had no choice, You say vote Tor
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 handkerchlets
with cologne or some other disinfectant, go
down to 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 10
hang your hat and coat on line in the back
yard for ventilation.
Now. how are these things to be remediedi
Some say by property qualification Ihey
say that after a man gets certain amount
OF property certain amount OF real estate
he is financially interested in good govern
md
tive. reply, property qualification would
shut off from the ballot box great many OF
the best men in the land. Literary men are
almost always poor. A pea is a good imple
ment to make the world better, but it Is a
very poor implement 10 get livelihood ordt
narily. have known scores of literary men
who never owned foot of ground and never
will own a foot of ground until they ge
under it. Professors Of colleges, teachers o.
schools, editors Of newspapers, ministers o
religion, qualif Vi in every possible way u
vote vet no worldly success There has beer
many man who has not had house Of
earth who will have a mansion in heaven
There are many who through accidents o
I fortune have come to great success Whil
Sthey are profound in their stupidity, as pro
Mound in their stupidity as man OF larg
| for-1ne with whom l was crossing the ocean
/ VIZ told me he was going TO see the dykes o
| SStlandi When a member OF my tamlll
| asked lady on her return from Europe /
she had seen Mont Blanc, she replied: We'll
really, | don't know; is that in Europe.
Ignorance by the square foot. Propert,
Qualification will not do. The only wa.
these evils will be eradicated will be b.
more thorough legal defense of the hallo
box and a more thorough liberalization
and Contamination of the people. Tina
| ark of the covenant was carrie
into captivity to Kirjath-jea hut on
day the people hooked oxen to a cart, an
they put this ark on the cart, and tn
cart was taken to Jerusalem-the ark G
the covenant coming with the shouting an
| Thanksgiving of the people. And thong
the American ballot box, the ark of tn
American covenant, our sacred chest, ha
been carried again and again into captivit
by frand and ini9uity and spurious voting,
| believe it will be brought back yet by praye
and by Christian conservation, ana VIII
| - dawn in the midst OF the temple {
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