Connecticut western news., 1894-12-06
THE ROLLS OF INFAMY.-

They are to be found in every import ant election and all the year long in party committee rooms, here in Connec- ticut as in the other states. What are they? They are the lists of the names and prices of the citizens who sell their votes as strumpets sell their favors. These citizens are of no one party. or creed, or race, though thus far, thank God, they are all of one sex, the com mon shame of the manhood of Connec- ticut, and the common enemy of every woman and of every child whose wei fare is bound up in the future of this commonwealth.
 For this Connecticut is the common wealth of all her people. They hold her, share and share alike, in all their generations. Her history, her fame, her hope are theirs, and they must all travail together in her pain and suffer together in her dishonor. No human being is born, into time or into eternity, upon her soil without a share in her glory and her shame.
 To her ballot boxes lies the appeal of causes involving the interests of all and every one of her people. To them, as in her sister states, is committed the most unlimited jurisdiction of things temporal ever established on earth. They contain the decisions of court in which every Connecticut voter sits as a sworn judge, and this is the oath of his office: @
 "I solemnly swear that I will be true and faithful to the state of Connecticut, and the constitution and government thereof as free and independent state, and to the constitution of the United States; and whenever I shall be called to give my vote or suffrage touching any matter that concerns this state or the United States, I will give it as I shall judge will conduce to the best good of the same, without respect of persons or favor of any man; so help me God.
 With that oath upon their consciences many Connecticut voters notoriously and habitually sell their decisions. Recreant to their God. and false and faithless to their state and:to their coun- try. they sell the best good of both to the highest bidder, and their souls to the devil. Many of them imagine that their crime is secret. A leper could easier hide his plague than they their perjury.
 Outcasts from the respect and confi- dence. even from the pity, of their fel- low men. they poison the very founda- tions of their blood, and bequeath their infamy to their children No treason SO base as theirs has ever threatened this republic. Compar- ed with them, the men who assaulted Liberty and the Union generation ago were as eagles to buzzards. Their ven- ality is not more notorious than their cowardice. Stealthy creatures of the night, lips hot with perjury, hands foul with bribes, they sueak from blind alleys and boozing kens to stab at the ballot box, the welfare of their state, the civilization of their country, and the honor of the human race.
 What of the man who buys the venal voter and his vote? He is the more criminal and the more infamous If pos sible) of the two; his the blacker guilt. A cell at Wethersfeld and the brand of perpetual disfranchisement should be his portion. They will be presently. New times are coming in Connecticut coming fast. coming soon. Hartford Courant.