Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-26
Tie Score, Ballot.


Sst p Il. Ok-As Y, La t4c = Ss0A J
Three stats, Mississippi, Kentucky and
Texas. have embodied the new ballet sys-
ten in their constitutions. The same coz
Esnticn which gave Mississippi . new
esnstitu;ian gave Ter slso an elsetiun ort-
nares which provides for blame ballot
win tie names Of csneiix.ss arranged in
gcoaps usasr the ofi.es Ia suaa order 50
tie "ssuad Judgment of iae eiacer charged
xish the printing" nay dicsste. THIS isv
vas pas n operation II the Ella ciior IN
November Last and worked saccessfu lg.
X ,ntuckY sad Tsxss have adopted
cossii.u i,8si snas1dmsn. cirec,irg their
LsgIsls.rfes 10 ecsct thu necessity ltvs
70 eSrry tee rs~ system into prse
tics- 0se oih.r SJusAefn state, Tent
ssses, mss had h. system IN success-
full operation since 1883, INT the South a. =
whole hiss been very backward Ia a~axiag
20 the merits Of ,hs tstorr1. This is sdns
what iEexpiics be il view Of The obvious
sre iAl sdss1ssges which the new system
las for the S1usher1 people. Ii iutE.sae.
then vita tie oeiy ms.hoi BY wish they
ca get rii OF he great bulk Of the c,iorad
vote Ia / gal, peNcesnls aud soej sciioa-
able manner N-rItsrn critics crnn5i COM
plsi1 of them IL Etey exclude the regrUes
tGDlA tASft=sC auEAltE a4c6Ac
Of sygeni OF voting which the North has
accepted But b. vond sni shove the in
porsa1ee Of sleatiJg criticism should be
reesoaed the m3rs' gain to The
SouSh itsalf -hieh would come
means employed u keep the negroes from
vo,iHg-ialimidstior, bribery, tissue-balIoss.
false counting, and sill .he rest Ct the train
"a - Sovtcaa NJ sef
mate the harm which persistent, systematic
and uadi gulsed chla'ing a. the pcl!s does
20 8 people who p;scsice il. The rising
gs-efsiion ia brought mp TO believe that
such cheating Is patriotic and right, il in
chinery, tu: recognized principle
In the code Of poli.icsl ethics. From
chsa,ias Of one kind TO cheating of
another kinda d of sll kinds the g.ep is
both lstursl and easy, and unless the South
shall take warning in season i! will discover.
SO surely ca the night follows the day. that
tn Methods which it hiss adopted to prevent
oegro Ignorance from gsining the control
If is public affairs have dssls blow at
white Integrity and N jrslity from which
they will not recover for a generation.
It is fac. of inca'ca:able importance tina.
be decided for the fl 80: tiu, in tie history
Of he couatry BY secret bsllo'. All the
states in which money has heretofore been
| used most freely far c,rrup! purposes in
su .h elections VIII vo;e in November under
the new system. There car be no insimi-
isticn Of voters in MAssschuietts Rhode
| Island, or Obj; no "blJcks Of five" can
b. marctei TO the polls in Indians; and
W hal av,b m IA 1sat in al
New HAMPSHIRE Neg York OF West Vir-
siaia will have to be distributed in blind
faith that the recipients Of il will keep their
bad bargain aud vote IS they ara
b,ioCd +: follows tha; ia this campaign
he professional co.rGpdoni Is will be less
| n demSnd as the chsIgmen Of campsis On
C lmmlt.e=s than heretofore Because they
| will be less useful; but we canno. hope TO
| be iii of then until the ballot system which
has made bribery iii .uit and Improbable
by breaking the connection between the
D.l5sr and the brlbsd st tie critical nc
ne7t. shail have been supplemented By cor
ru;t practice laws which pa: limit upon
ali expenditures and compel sworn public.
| i.y of oil money received aud sp3n. either
| by candidate or his agent or his campaign
C mnittee- Il was admitted in the last
lais.s had hit upon new plsu for buying
votes. They you'd not ;rust Dri1ed man
70 yJle in secret 50 thay hi'ed him co re-
ftain from registering. II his name did
MT appear upln the registration lists the
| orIber had whence ihss the bargain had
beer kept. Tais me'hod Of bribery is fol-
old len by TIE present corrupt practice ac.
Of New York. but it is very difficult to
| oo.a!n proof Of its Practice II csmpsign
expenditures we're limited and ornplete
pu lie accountability for every penny
feceiyc3 and spent were required from car
Hates, agent, and committee, this proof
c2rld 70: ne concealed, end the conscious
nsss that i. could not Do concealed wcuId
PIT d Stop to bribery. This hiss been the
fl CT produced in En2lsnd. where cor
-up practice act was made the c0rolisry of
q bs;lG &c; and English elections were far
m9re ,rfupI than ours have ever been.