Show THE LESSON or OF TIIE ELECTION N tho exiled boha doha whoa when ho he lad had to rough it il with the common lord herd thus thua moralizer moralized zed izod tho the sweet are he b uses na c I 1 dilill Wi lill like uia mile tul josd ugly aly sod va vano mom moui ones wears late rot ft la in ble bin bead the daily of the nowa news piper press load tho hopeful citizen to that this ibis universal yankee notion nation will also alao gain the iha precious jewel or of political oal from rom the ibo trying and adverse experience through willoh which wo we are now passing hitherto we baro bare been boan bla able to 9 seo see no do etal IQ ia our popular oysters of government ern ment annexation on all sides has quadro quadrupled pled our original of territory our locroi loo rouss in numbers his been mar marvelon velouR 1 and of wealth his has been enough to ceoil a floranco beside lim toli self we lave regarded our AN tho the greatest the oa tast tho the imet sod acl tho most wonderful under tho the sun if tny any thong i adful foreigner camo came to out stores cl made an eludy of our habits and our oar and then ont oat danger IQ ia tho facture wo we simply pitied his foreigners canoot comprehend com tho the american AmorI oaD people and their civil polity tacy make oo do cat imato of 0 tho the magio power of tho the checks bod and bilancia bilan coa introduced by ills iha wisdom of our forefathers into our torm form ot of government while thia boling of arido hold belil full possession 0 of our soula wo completed the centennial of our oar national existence and that admiring mankind might sea what wonders we ve had bid achieved ill all ma ca lions were invited to a friendly eon con the display of cf wealth luxury 1 ingen nily test tesla I 1 of no and nd I 1 ind ad writing then MOM arose a R ir ir y of a sort t or on an the wall wait disturbed the farqu enu our toula souls at tho the election eolion el for lyroyal doot to guile the ibe destinies of this great nation at the opening of the iho century of our history hi etory our nastad electoral was found loat idso so aoi aill inefficient that it hopelessly broto dawn und mind to thia his day tho the moat skilled 9 cannot tell which canJi dato hid bad been elected la IQ this ibis Bep republic ablio tho the billot box boi whish imoh wo we live LI TO goodly regi reginaed raed as tho the precious atwel 0 of f popular sovereignty is ia to bo roste paste and the iha electoral Irano biec ont or of which are arc bore bora the rulers ruler of a freo free people has b been con and no min man cia cam tell which is ia the spurious ious anil and which the legitimate issues at such a time the lesson 0 a read to this thia by so BO wide on instructor as a lord is 13 listened to wl with th tho closest interest and it is really to sea aes low macli mach profit is ia derived from lis lia teachings by al all I 1 thom who lay them to heart the 1 I be british E misgiving that placing the attribute ot of in the bands of the vicious and ana abo ignoc ant was via an error in ia the aba framers of our oar constitution which would show litter fruit ia a corrupt anil depraved government is ia regarded by many IB as true prophecy the standard elan ilard of political morality nys the ilia S st t kouji republican in treating upon Macau laya lays let letter tarl neter awes aboto tta the popular morality niora lily eta whatever evils evila fiod find their way iato aiato the aba political bo be they largo or emill nay may be traced directly to their source in ia the carol essum or cortni carru tion ol of tho the voting does class it II the ML min U argement of local rod nah motional Eat ional affairs is less esa pare less honest less chono M ical losa less able than it was twenty live or fifty years roars ago it is ig not cot because tho the government itself las ol 01 but bat because the ibo people now place it a lower esti estimate maLe uon parity lon hon cely economy ability than thoy did then every intelligent man ecea es danger in ia oar present electoral clec lorl ayi tern tem a 13 in trusted with a voice in ia making tho the laws and cd in ia ahoo I 1 dg officers ficeri of to administer th thorn 0 an he bo should igino some proof of mesa to exorcise exercise so important a right this lilis brought vividly home homa to the business baci ocea and boemma of all bring brine half bak i a bozon intelligent and patriotic citizens together at a dob club or a dinner party says the journal above quoted lot the conversation turn tarn upon political matters in their broadest aspect gild and it will bo be found that all recognize iu in universal auf frago the grabeal evil eva that besets boscea the republic Re publio it itis is truo true that misgivings often folt felt previous oua to the ibo ex ei per peric ienco of this ibis elections but bai such was tho blind devotion demotion of tho the american people to the principle of 0 umi verdal sovereignty that no BO editor of a popular journel was found bod t to intimate a belief that it would bo be wise wio to shorten sails bil slid limit the electoral eloot oral to thom who had bad intelligence enough t tl corn com arohood the issues issaca upon which I 1 they hey vote a voice president grant with the ibo average american look in the be lesson ol of ou our election and in his bis to the following month he be called attention to the neco ol 01 0 throwing bomb greater safeguard over the he method of choosing and decair log ing the election ol of a president As a partial port ial remedy tho message eug bug gastea increased enlightenment of the electors elector compulsory of iron arco and the ibo mont of ct all who cannot read and write ibo english T loan were nero words worda fily cly spoken and to use nao a scripture imago image era are like breda town eon upon soil boil we ire are now in in a mood to see that thai america is no CX ci caption to other ether powers of the girth earth sod that our fertile acres of walla mado mad s as carlyle ex i proms broms its it an unsound ODo unil principled will produce mischievous effic otel and ad abo be tomo tam moral awa operate upon our politic poli t ical 98 upon all others with willi this truth fully ally imp impressed lessed upon our wo we are ro ready to abato our former exaggerated national self ieli in flae coo and jo to take couns 41 of cl those who bring wisdom sea nd ex perien co I 1 0 rut aulda do Ds 0 and cry dacher imbe bend adi all they too ECO ui niagara Mi Ni igara agars 11 r |