The herald., 1896-10-12
A HOT PULPIT Discourse
DR.. Mclean Scores Both
Political Parties
THE PUSH" Element MUST GO
Instances of Gross Fraud at the
Republican Caucus
AND ALSO THE PRIMARIES
The Make Up Of Good Citizen Plainly
Some Hot Shots Thrown at the Foreigners
Still Unuaturalized
Neither Religious nor Party Lines Ought
to be Drawn at the City Election,
but the Best Men Should
Instances OF Gross Fraud at the
Republican Caucus
AND ALSO AT THE PRIMARIES
The Make Up Of Good Citizen Plainly
Defined
Some Hot Shots Thrown at the Foreigners
Still Unuaturalized
Neither Religious nor Party Lines Ought
to be Drawn at the City Election,
but the Best Men Should
Be Voted For.

Be Voted For.
A large audience filled the auditorium
of the Simpson tabernacle last evening,
and listened with close attention to DR..
McLean's deunuciatjon Of the exist
ing corruption In both the political par
ties, and his strong plea to all lovers
of home and country to unite in purging
the city of the at present existing infa-
nous methods.
After the preliminary exercises DR..
Mclean stated that on each succeeding
Sunday evening until the city election
he proposed to speak upon some phase of
government, and the unrighteous meth
DDS adopted both In it's administration
and in the electing of men to fill the
various offices. In mentioning names
he did not wish 1t to be understood that
he spoke for or against any particular
political party, but as he might be called
to task for what he said, he wanted 1t
clearly understood that the data he
had collected and the information he had
cleaned were facts which he challenged
anyone to deny.
DR.. Mclean founded his remarks up
on the words found in Psalms 1, /, 5-6:
Blessed is the man who walketh not
in the counsel Of the ungodly. nor stand
eth in the way Of sinners, nor sitteth in
the seat of the scornful." "The
wicked shall not stand in the Judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the
righteous. For the Lord knoweth the
way of the righteous, but the way Of the
ungodly shall perish"
After making general application
OF the text and adverting to certain
newspapers in the country which de-
cried the notion of preachers taking po-
ntical questions for their themes. while
others took the opposite view of the
question DR.. Mclean spoke as follows:
"A great reason why we should love
our country and guard and hold sacred
the ballot is that we are citizens of the
first government in history that the peo-
pie have administered. There were So
called republics before ours became a
nation, but they were in name only. In
reality they were aristotracy dressed in
republican garb. Our proud boast is
"Of the people, for the people and by the
people," In this fair land every man Is
king and every woman queen. Here
the kings scepter is the ballot and 1
trust 1t will soon be the queens, also.
Is there any just or logical reason why
it should not? If SO, have never heard
1T. When that time comes in which wo-
man can vote side by side with man, as
she has right to do, we will hold more
sacred the ballot
How inconsistent we men are. We
are told that the trust given us of elect
ing officers of state is so sacred that we
should vote for the best men to represent
us. Then we,are urged togo to. the eau
Gus and primary election with no law to
punish fraud at either of these elections.
The better citizens and especially tile
Christian or religious and truly honora-
BILE cannot stoop to triclkery and fraud
and without law to punish fraud the
disreputable will rob a man of his fran
chise by voting another on his name and
by other dishonest means outnumbering
the honorable that vote and directly or
indirectly so effecting the many who
would oppose the push" that they re-
main away from the primaries. AS an
illustration, take the Fourth Ward Re-
form club. Believing that the methods
that the push" wouldresort TO would
make it impossible for us to nominate
our reform candidates we determined
to remain away from the caucus for the
nomination of delegates to the county
convention and place our ticket in the
field to oppose the caucus ticket. In
some precincts our reform. candidates
were thus elected, in some others, in
Guiding the notorious Twenty-ninth, in
which we lived, the push methods de-
feated us, excepting the contest case.
which resulted in the seating of myself
and the unseating of one who, ,.foT so do
ing, struck me in the convention. had
told the body that was before them
contesting not for place but for prin-
ciple, and requested that the seat be
given to another of our delegation re-
oeiving the next highest votes. After
their unanimous request that I retain
my seat 1 did so, lest the convention
would Judge me disrespectful to the en-
NOD haa f1xr1 rrn1
to remain.
For delegates to the city convention
our reform club determined to attend
the caucus. In some instances they sue
ceeded in nominating their candidates
1t was known that we were ready to op-
precinct. They, or at least the boss,
knowing that the rules adopted to gov
e.I. the caucus would compel, or de-
iEand. hat every man should give his
.+Snl- and address before voting for
chf;:rman or candidate, called the
us=e4ing to order and had a chairman
ssfd secretary elected by Acclamation
'titlout reading the rules ordered by
ne. city committee to be read by him
and every other committeeman. With
out ever having rule read, which
would have held them there until all OF
our force had arrived, the nominations
were made by acclamation, and the ad-
journment ordered within five minutes
from the time the meeting was called
to order. met the crowd coming out
many Of whom were not recognized as
of our precinct. Surprised at the light
ming speed with which the caucus was
rushed through, I asked the committee
man II he had read the rules, and he
would not answer my repeated request
was told by several standing there
that no rules had been read I there
and then pronounced the caucus as il
legally conducted and adjourned, and
invited all to return and hear the rules
read which had procured. After read
ing them was nominated as chairman
and. in spite of my protest, unanimous
ly elected chairman. I insisted upon q
ballot vote for chairman and secretary,
every person giving his name and ad-
dress, which resulted In the unanimous
choice Of Mr.. Getz as secretary and my.
self as chairman. I then asked for
nominations, saying: Every person is
asked to nominate the one or ones he
wishes. and every voter shall have a
fair show in this caucus 1t was not