New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-05
THOTGHTS FOR SUNDAY.

II is the praisewOrthy custom OF p0lltlcal
parties to suspend their activities on sunday
and the established precedent will be followed
to-day. We have never been able to see, now
ever. why citizens who are grateful to Heaven
for the blessings which they enjoy in lahd OIL
freedom and opportunity should on Sunday Oh
all DAYS in the week. and on the Sunday Delore
election, Of all days in the year. refuse 10 'hink
of the primary obligation of citizcnship-the
obligation to vote in obedience to the dictates
of reason and conscience. If there is any act
which ought to express the purcst purposes anu
aspirations Of those who live under a popular
government it is the act of choosing their
rulers Yet tens of thousands of reputable clti-
zens either make the ballot the means OF re-
cording merely selfish, casual or whimsical
preference. or prove themselves unworthy or
their birthri-ht by neglectng to vote at all III
is not only permitted TO every CITIZEN Dut IL -
especially incumbent on such persons as 'hese
to give serious thought today to the ques'iohs
which will be decided at the polls on TUESDAY
For one of the main issues involved in this
brief campaign now closing is the issue OF COM
mon honesty on the judicial bench and IN po-
ltical management. The Democratic leaders
whom Incidence. blindness and partisan preJu-
dice have fortified in power. until they are able
to impose their will upon great party, nave
dared mt last to defy decent public opinion by
the nomination of criminal to the Court or
Anneals. This designation of Maynard is not a
scandalous epithet, carelessly applied after
snap judgment by vindictive antagonists. 1t IS
the worl deliberately chosen by political adj
herents of pre-eminent ability and unblemished
character after n searching investigator, 10
express their deliberate, final Judgment OF the
act for which he Is arraigned. There Is aD-
solutely no room left for denial. The facts are
undisputed. They have been publicly acknowl-
edged and appropriated as his own by the ac-
cused Those who stand by him now are re-
duced, like Governor Flower. to the necessity
of approving a crime in consideration OF us
consequences. The case has been completely
and forever removed from the field OF doubt
and conjecture There was theft, and May
nard is the thief.
The necessity of recording an explicit and
irreversble verdict against this act and this
agent has been made absolute by the deter
minaton Of the Democratic leaders TO ratfy
the one and record the other. And If any FUR
Their prOvocatiOn to resent and resist their
tyranny is required by any honest citizen it is
supplied by the methods which they are en-
| ploying to accomplish their design. In this
city, in Kings County, in every stronghold OF
the machine, they have fraudulently enrolled
by the thousand the creatures whom they mean
to convert into fraudulent voters on Tuesday.
| The truth is known. The proofs are in the pos
session of officers of the law. They are pro-
claimed by Democratic organs, for once indig-
nant and rebellious Upon the reputable, hon.
est citizens of this Commonwealth, too many
of whom are sometimes selfish and generally
| Indifferent, depends the issue. There is no sub
ject which can more appropriately claim their
thoughts to-day than the disgrace which threat
ems them and their obligation to avert 1t.