The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1893-11-12

lies ever TOLL IN rQiS country are our
ing the elections. 1 stop ct the door
of a democratic meeting and listen
and hear that the republicans are
liars. / stop at the door of a repub-
lican meeting and listen, and hear
that the democrats ale Scoundrels.
Our public men microscopized and the
truth distorted. Who believes a
tenth part of what he reads or hears
in the autumnal elections? Men who
at other seasons of the year are very
careful in their speecl becOme ped
dlers of scandal
In the far east there is place
where, once a year. they let the = co.
pie do as they please and say what
they please, and the place is full of
Hproar, misrule and wickedness, and
they call it the Devils day" The
nearest approximation to that in this
country has been the first tuesday in
November. The community at such
times seems to say, Go to, now: let
US have good time at lying" p. ON
inent candidates for office are de-
nounced as unprincipled AMI rene
gade. A smart lie will start
in the corner of couu-
try newspaper, and keep on
running until it has captured the
printing presses of the whole CONT
nent- What garbling of speeches!
What Misrepresentation of motives,
What misrepresentation of individual
antecedents The trouble is that we
have in this country tw great manu-
factories-manufacto of lies-the
republican mandatory of lies and
the democratic mandatory of lies
and they are run dav and night, and
they turn out half a dozen a dav all
equipped and ready for full sailing.
Large lies and small lies. Lies private
and lies public and lies prurient. Lies
cut bias and lies cut diagonal. Long
lim.cd lies and lies with double back
action. Lies complimentary and lies
defamatory. Lies that some people
believe, and lies that nobody believes.
Lies with humps like camels and
scales like crocodilrs and necks as
long as storks, and feet as swift as an
antelope &. and stings like adders.
Lies raw and scaIloped and panned
and stewed. Crawling lies and jump
ing lies and soaring lies Lies with
attachment screws and ruttlers and
braiders and ready wound bobbins.
Lies by Christian people who never
lie except during elections, and lies
by people who always lie but beat
themselves in a political campaign.
l confess l am ashamed to have a
times. l should think he would stand
dazed, and dare not go out nights!
What will the hundreds of thousands
of foreigners who come here to live
think of US? What a disgust they must
have for the land OF their adoption.
The only good thing about it is that
many of them can not understand the
English language. But suppose the
German, and Italian, and Swedish,
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peddle out the internal stuff to their
subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever
stop such a flood of indecency. The
Christian religion will speak after a
while The billingsgate %nd low
scandal through which we wade al
most every autumn mast be rebuked
by that religion which speaks from its
two great mountains, from the one
mountain intoning the command,
Thou shalt not bear false wit
moss aga nst thy neighbor," and
from the other mount making plea
for kindness and love and blessing
rather than cursing. ., Christian men!
frown upon political falsehood! Re-
member that political lie is as black
rs any other kind of lie. God has
recorded all the falsehoods that have
been told at the city, state or national
elections since the foundation of this
government; and, though the perpe-
traitors and their victims may have
gone into the dust, in the last day
judgment will be awarded. The
1alsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed
into the ear OF BlennerhasSet, the
ISLANDERS that Northumberland
Gage proclaimed about George Wash
lngton, the Misrepresentation in re-
gard to James Monroe, are as fresh on
Gods book today as the lies that were
printed last week about our local
candidates "And all liars shall have
their part in the lake which burneth
with IRE and birthstone: which is the
second DEATH
Again. l counsel you as Christian
men to set yourselves against the mis-
use of money in political campaigns
OF the thousands of dollars already
spent this autumn, how much of the
amount do you suppose has been prop
erly used? You have right to spend
money for the publishing OF DO itical |
tracts, for the eSta ablishmeut of organ |
lzations for the carrying out of what |
you consider to be the best; you have |
right to appeal to the reason of men |
by arguments and statistics and by |
facts Printing and renting of public |
halls and political meetings cost |
money, but he who puts bribe into |
the hand of a voter, or plies weak men
with mercenary and corrupt motives,
commits sin against God and the ma
tion. Bribery is one of the most ap-
Dalling sins of this country. God says,
Fire shall consume the tabernacles of
bribery" Have nothing to do with
such sin, o Christian man! Fling it
from the ballot box. Hand over to the
police the man who attempts to tam
per with your vote, and remember that
elections that can not be carried with
out brides ought never to be carried at
all Again l ask you as Christian
men to SET yourselves against the dis
sipations that hover over the ballot
box. Let me say that no man can