Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-07-07

churcn members 10 20 TO the primaries
and help nominate the men who ought
TO be nominated and help elect those
honest men after they have been placed
in nomination II the members OF the
churches would only stand side by side
at the ballot box and IN the primaries,
as the saloon keepers and the owners
Of the places of evil resort stand side
by side. the day would not be far dis
tant when all cities would be redeemed
and purged Of political corruption, even
as our United States courtrOoms and
our national legislative halls have
ceased to be stencil IN the nOstrils OF
all decent people
senator Hoar's Testimony.
Thank God, | believe civic puriiica-
ton is not far distant. It is almost MI
raculOus to catalogue the rapid changes
which have come within the life of the
present generation IN the publication
of our national life Senator George +.
Hoar died IN 1905. \ short time before
he passed away he was asked this
question. Senator, is the political life
at Washington growing better or
wOrseY He answered the question in
these words: when | came into pub
lie life in Washington In 1869 the corrl-
dors of the capitol were haunted by
lobbyists interested in all sorts OF
schemes for plundering the public
treasury. There were quite a number
Of senator's and representatives who
were suspected by their associates Of
being yenal When | think Of the con-
ditions which prevailed then and for
years following Tweed intenched IN
power in New York, five judges OF the
United States court fleeing from Office
under threats Of impeachment for cor
ruption, the Credit Mobilier scandals.
the scandals attending the Austrian
exposition, the lobbying, the whole c'Y'
il service treated as patronage by pow
| erful political leaders the report OF the
committee Of military affairs IN the
house recommending the expulsion or
four Of its members for making sale OF
their privileges Of selecting youths 70
be educated at our great military
school the impeachment for corruption
of four Judges IN New York. the wh.s-
XIV frauds On which the private secre-
tary Of the president was impllcatedl
the Belknap impeachment one eminent
member Of the United States senate
saving to another when he declared he
could find no steal in a pending meas
ure that if the senate could ma no
steal in il it was not likely TO be there
eight active Republican leaders in Mas
sachusetts detected in state prison Of
fenses-it seems to me as if were Nv
ing not only in another age, but IN an
other planet"
That was the testimony Of the purln-
cation of national and state politics IN
the political life of Senator George +.
Eoar of Massachusetts,. May we hVe
to see such "A wonderful change in the
notification Of city politics. May we
live to see our churches aroused pollu-
ooilu Nav our fhnrcheS heroine grGat
institutions of moral ana pOhlcai '"ilN
ing May their members side by side
90 forth to capture the political pri-
maries in our cities for purity anu
right May godly men always not only
, be willing to serve their fellow men ID
, civic offices, but may godly men, by the
grace Of God, 90 forth to elect tner
fellows to positions Of civic trust. Then
shall the Declaration Of Independence
Of national liberty, signed by our an
cestors for us, be supplemented by
} declaration Of independence OF our mu-
f nicipal charters, signed by us for the
benefit of our children and our chii-
dren's children. Then, like the Hebrews
, Of old. we will not only have six cities
{ of refuge, but all our cities shall De
I cities of refuge wherein purity ana
, truth and honor shall love to dwell ana
where Christs affairs shall be the
? sbrines at which municipal officials ana
| inhabitants shall bow the kaee ana
worship. May God bless and speed the
, consummation of our beloved cities
D emancipation from sin.
= copyright, 1905. by Louis Klopschl