The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-19
WENT FOR TIE POLITICIANS.
Rev. A. N. Williams Discusses Honesty
In Political Campaign Methods.

In Political Campaign Methods.
The Payment of a Voters Taxes he
Considers as Pernicious as the Pur-
chasing of Votes-No Necessity, He
Says, for the Expenditure of Large
Sums of Money in the Conduct of the
Campaigns-The Municipal Campaign
Touched Up.
Rev A. NJ. Williams preached at Wes
ley Monumental church last night on the
subject Honesty, Personal and POLITICAL
In the morning Rev. Mr.. Williams
preached at Trinity church and Rev. ].
o. a. Cook was at Wesley Monumental.
Rev. Mr.. Williams sermon was an in
teresting one. His text was taken from
Proverbs Xxx: z: THE just man walketh
in his integrity" He began by saying:
Honesty is the fundamental virtue.
Without it all the other virtues are vi
tiated and fill us with suspicion. So i'm
portant is it that three of the ten com
mandments teach it directly or by ready
inference.
Dishonesty starts in the secret cham
bers of mans own soul David describes
the honest man when he says he speazeth
the truth in his heart The moment a
man desires to have anything without
giving value therefor, the soil of his heart
is ready for dishonest action The mani
festations of dishonesty are gross and re-
fined 1t accomplishes its purpose through
force in the fearful crimes we hear of.
Through fraud it makes it's way in swind-
ing, cheating, taking advantage of I'M
fortunate circumstances of our brother
Honesty manifests itself in debt paying
and in carefulness in contracting debts.
Honesty reaches larger field, and
applies TO mans treatment of the public
IN ms political acts 1t is just as wrong
to steal from the whole people as from
one person to defraud the people of their
political rights as their money"
Key. Mr. Williams seems to have been
close observer at the late election held
here, He thinks it was not in all respects
what 1t ought to have been He com
mented on the matter as follows:
The ballot box is sacred contract he
tween the voter and his country. When
ever fraud touches it the whole peopIe are
dishonored. l saw a sight that stirred my
very soul on the day Of our late election.
negro repeater led from one box to an
SN--N+ ~ wv itSI1GtldDle LOOKING white
men, 1t is bad enough to have your vote
the result of careful study. earnest nra, YER
ana conviction, offset by one ignorant
vote. But to have it overwhelmed q dozen
tunes by the same ignorance under aliases
is unbearable. If it is done against me II
ms me with resentment, if on my side /
am filled with loathing and disgust
never see the large democratic ma iorit,- -
TINS district mentioned in the paners with
out my cheeks burning with shame. am
dlsSusted with myself for being con
nected with such a farce
we need a reform. Give us a better
DaIlot law II we need it. We need more
the reform in the will of the naorlo
men the people say we will have no
more OF this evil, it will be stopped We
need club of patriots, pledged not to +al,e
once TO band together to execute orr
election laws" ouI
lie freely condemned the use of money
III eiectlons IN any manner whatsoever
considering the payment of the voters
taxes as pernicious as the PURCHASING Of
the votes On this subject, he said.
There is danger, too, in the noIic,, %
paying the taxes of voters. The custom
Is not IN the direction of purity and hon.
est electlons. AS it is charged that it has
Deen general custom [ cannot no 90,
sidered partisan when condemn II AZ
one interviewed during the week said
certain candidate could not be elected he
cause the pulpit would oppose him ON the
sunday question, l cannot be critioi7ol
for speaking out against another evil
Honesty is a proper theme for the puInft
and honest methods in politics bae re-
place there, too. Paying taxes of voters
Is corrupting in its tendencies. If a.
Stroys the Independence of the voter n.
becomes the political slave of the mart,
faction or person who pays his tax In.
dependence Is fundamental in pure bal
iot. raging taxes is convenient step
IN educating the voter to sell binosaif
for other considerations If it is right for
a voter to support clubs candidate ON
consideration Of the payment Of his taxee
why not right on the consideration ~
furnishing bread to his family? The cus-
tom lowers the moral standard of our
public life. The custom makes our ,ol
itics too costly. Amounts have been talked
of freely this week as necessary to carry
elections SO large as to make a moor
Methodist preachers head swim.
IF both sides spend as much as has been
figured out for one they will far exceed
what the South Georgia conference win
raise for missions"
lie minated that the expenditure NJ
such large sums of money We're not made
without the expectation of some return
and the successful candidates looked 70
the people, and to the power given them
by their offices for return on their in
vestment.
Money spent" he said "opens the
way TO money corruption in government
Men do not give such large sums in
other directions. They look well to their
investments. Is this an investment Out
ofwhom must the dividend come? The hest
morals and all other interests can for
close, steady and hearty condemnation
OF this tendency"
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