The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02

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But whatever the candidate may
feel or do, the Offices of Maury coun-
w are in the hands of the people, and
they can do with them next Satur-
day, Just as they like. If boodlers are
elected to Office, they will be just as
good as the the men who elect them.
If whiskey heads are elected, they wnl
be fit representatives of the whiskey
heads who vote for them. If men of
VIGOROUSLY corrupt morals are given
places of honor and trust, it will be-
cause the people Of Maury county,
however high they may hold their
heads, or however loud may be their
boast of what they want and what
they condemn, are at heart and in pur-
pose and by secret ballot, which is a
true index and reflex of their private
living, are immoral themselves and
rather like that sort of thing. The
man who votes for a boodler, whis-
key head or a libertine, is no better
than the man he votes for.
1t is just as fair and as often cor
rect, to- judge a man by the vote he
casts as by the company he keeps.
here are certain men in this race who,
if not hard drinkers themselves, have
affiliated with the whiskey party all
tnese years. BY what kind of reason
ing can a temperance man excuse him
self for casting vote for one of these
high privates in the whiskey ranks.
There are other immoralities worse
than whiskey drinking, and yet chris
tian men are asked to overlook and
forget these things when they come
to cast their ballots. In former city
elections, when the Reform Party was
inch by inch fighting the battles of the
Home against the Saloon, some OF the
candidates now before the people, con-
sistently and regularly cast their influ-
ence and their votes for the Saloon
and against the Home. And there are
others who have stood true to the
Reform Party in every fight they have
made. Where should the Reform
party vote go next Saturday? 1t
should go, as matter of justice, right
and principle, to the men who have
stood with it and by it and for it.
IL Maury County wants or ever ex.
rects to get rid OF corrupt elections, the
people must fret turn down the men
who corrupt the elections. He may be
a good fellow, and all that; he may be
your neighbor and your friend; but II
be lie q boodler, you make yourself a
party TO bis methods whenever you
vote for him. 1t ia as a sounding brass
and tinkling symbol to talk temperance
at prayer-meeting or on Sunday, and
then vote with the whiskey gang at the
6rst opportunity. You will not vote
for your friend il be is a Republican,
Why should not your moral principles
be as binding upon you as your politi-
cal convi' tons?
If the good pop Q of this county
| will get togett er epd vote together
they can redeem this county from
much public wrong doing. and Tlace
| ouhlic Office and the administration of
Law upon the high plane where it be-
longs.
The good people have this much to
encourage and inspire them: The cleo
ton. will be held, at least In so far
as the efforts of the Chairman of the
Committee, Mr.. Ramon, and the
Secretary, Mr. Sniiser, can force clean
lection. When we say this, we speak
whereof we know. In the arrange
rent. printing and distribution of the
lection tickets they have been ex-
,eedingly CAREFUL end Iainstaking, and
absolutely fair They have their favo-
rites in differert races, OF course {;
but in their official acts they
bave made it as impossible for their
friends as for the opponents Of their
friends to get hold of or have the slight.
est knowledge concerning the tickets
ana to our Judgment it will be mighty
smart citizen who gets hold of or marks
ore of the tickets for schooling pur-
pcses." Having this much to start
with, it will be the fault of the people
IL they do not srow the aat-rockers, the
hiskey- drinkers, aiders and abettors
and the bocdlers, 30 far under an ava.
Il nche of honest votes, that they and
sht ir il fuenco in future elections in this
ounty, will be forever gone.
| Some of the candidates, and some ni
the frieuds Of these candidates, will
raise the cry that this article is written
against some and in tae interest Of
other ca didatee. 1t lie. 1t is written
10 the interest of the clean against the
uncIean candidates. In the ineItest Of
those who by precept, example ano
- Laro atood For temperanno and