The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-08
Only . Single Cross VIII Do the
Business.


The safest and most effective way Of
voting under the new ballot law is the
easiest. It is simply to mark q cross with
q black pencil in the circle under q party
emblem. If you do that alone, you are
sure to make no mistake, and your ballot
Is sure to be counted. Otherwise, In the
confusion which may ome to the coolest
head, you are in danger Of invalidating your
ballot by some error In the marking, and
the count at all elections shows that such
mistakes are dangerously frequent.
Moreover, at this election 1t Ii impossible
to rebuke effectively the Democratic party
for Its outrages against honesty in politics
and in the Judiciary except by voting
squarely and fully forthe Republican ticket
headed by THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Every
candidate in the Democratic column Is
an offender against the public sense Of
justice. From top to bottom they are ac-
completes in the crime against the in
dependence Of the Judiciary, the stain Of
which has been put on the Democratic
party, and no logical and consistent mind
can separate any Of them from COM
plicity in the outrage. Not one Of them,
from VAN WICK at the top to the candidate
for the Assembly at the bottom, has had the
courage or the decency to join in the over
whelming sentiment Of indignation in the
community at the infamy proposed.
Nor has any Of the candidates dared to
express his opinion OF the currency issue,
save only one, WILLIAM SUIzER, candidate
for Congress in the Eleventh Congress dis
trict, an avowed Bryanite.' Such pusil-
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political campaigning. 1t insults the public
intelligence, and every instinct of manliness
in the people must resent it. Think Of a
party which has the %impudence to ask for
the votes Of the citizens, thougA 1t is afraid
I'M ashamed to confess to them its posi-
ton toward the vital question divid-
ing public sentiment at this timel Is
Organism an honest conviction or is it
a sneaking conspiracy? Is tho Chi
a platform a standard OF political
doctrine which receives proud loyalty
from the Democracy or is 1t a creed which
men dare not confess except in holes and
corners? 1t was not so In 1895. II there
is any sincerity in the Democratic party,
II any courage and self-respect remain to
1t, they will rise up and destroy the leaders
VIII nave buuBhI W cALlDlJ Iuem 10 Jn0
world as cowardsand dissemblers. Both the
silver sentiment and the gold sentiment Of
the Democratic party are insulted, and
neither can expect to command public re-
spect in tho future unless it repudiates
such imputation put upon it by the conduct
of this Democratic campaign.
That punishment can be inflicted only
by leaving blank the circle under the
Democratic star on the ballot and
marking a cross in the circle under
the Republican emblem Of the eagle. OF
course, all Republicans will dc that, but
their proceeding will be initiated by every
citizen Of whatever political faith who be-
lleves in square politics and hates political
cowardice. He will strike the blow in the
most effective way possible, and witTall the
more determination because he is an honest
Democrat who is not ashamed OF his con-