Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30

:! nm whose reasons for anonymity
AA sufficient to us as to himself"
81 great creative artist asks: SIS
such a thing as Christian Cit
hin? No" he says, "but it could
NJ eated." In part he says:
Nsso christians should vote their duty
ligb, nd at the polls, they would carry
in,. election. and do it with ease
v would elect every clean candi-
sec, in the Unietd States, and defeat
y soiled one. Their prOdigious
Of er would be quickly realized and
n enized. and afterward there would
Nn no unclean candidates upon any
1;a |et. and graft would cease No
ne rch organization can be found in
Al country that would elect men of
ly character to be its shepherd, its
H. surer, and superintendent of its
'ec hday-school 1t would be reyolted
the idea; it would consider such
election an insult to Cod. Yet
l. ery Christian congregation in the
hntry elects foul men TO public Of
y while quite aware that this also
an open and deliberate insult to
d, who can not approve and does
approve the placing Of the liberties
ID the well-being of His children in
e hands of Infamous men It is
(e Christian congregations that are
sponsib1e for the filing of our pub
Offices with criminals. for the reas-
S b that they could prevent it if they
hose to do it. They could prevent
without organizing a league, with
ut framing a platform. without max
pg any speeches or passing any reso-
r. ltions-in word, without concert of
my kind. They could accomplish it
" each individual resolving to vote
pr God at the polls-that is to say.
4ote for the candidate whom God
Eould approve. Can man imagine
euch thing as God being a Republi-
a
ssN criminal or blackguard merely be-
Sause party loyalty required it? Then
can we imagine that man can i'm.
upon Gods attitude in this mat
Ter, and by help of professional poll
lclans invent better policy? God
mas no politics but cleanliness and
SSahonesty. and it is good enough for
s A mans second duty is to his fam
&sliy. There was a time when clergy
3Nman's duty to his family required him
A8to be his congregations political slave.
and vote his congregations ticket in
asorder to safeguard the food and shell
Rter OF his wife and children. But that
III II time has gone by. We have the secret
n ballot now, and clergyman can vote
Is Tor God. He can also plead with his
n congregation to do the like.
II Perhaps. We can not be sure. The
d congregation would probably inquire
n "hom he was going to vote for; and
It he stood upon his manhood and ans.
II "ered that the had no Christian right
q N"hlch is the same as saying no moral
Il right, and, of course, no legal right
3 TO ask the question; it is conceivable
mot to say certain-that they would
q ulsmlss him and be much offended at
MS proposing to- be a man as we'll as
clergyman.
otlil, there are clergymen who are
SO situated as to be able to make the
experiment. 1t would be worth while
10 try it. If the Christians of Amer.
ica could be persuaded to vote God
Il ana clean ticket it would bring
ABOUT moral revolution that would
oe intellectually beneficent. It would
\ save the country-a country whose
/ Christians have betrayed it and are
destroying it.
Ahe christians of Connecticut sent
bulkeley to the senate. They sent 70
,no legislature the men who elected
i''i' ihese two crimes they could
nave prevented; they did not do it
anu upon them rest the shame and
tne responsibility. Only one clergy.
man remembered his Christian morals
ana MS duty to God, and stood bravo.
" oy both. Mr.. smythe is probably
ai outcast now, but such man as
thae can endure ostracism: and sucb
a man as that is likely to possess the
treasure of family that can endure
,e win MIN, and be proud to do it. T
KISS the hem of the garment
four years ago Greater New York
had two tickets in the field. ono o,oo.
.ne other dirty, with single excen.
9ion; an unspeakable ticket with +ha+
lonely eXcentinn O,o.