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Show THE TRAFFIC IN VOTES. In writing of the uniform ill-uc-cc-ss of the democratic purly in Omaha the Herald says: Tko away tho $5,000, $0,000, $8,000, or $10,0-0 i 'f stolen money with which, in cur more important contests, r.ur republican re-publican advf-rsani-i buy and bribe men away from their du'.y, and such a thinjf a a want of htrniony and success in either city or county would be unknown. This is a terrible story to relate of the democracy of Omaha. There must be something rotten in politics, or a prevailing disbelief in the soundness sound-ness of the democratic party, when a controlling number of its Voters de-' liberately sell themselves year after year to their political opponents, fiut where are the democratic capitalists all this lime? Perhaps, however they do not believe in iL'htin" the devil with fire. If they are too pure to engage in bribing republican voters, why don't they prosecute and punish the republican thieves who buy democratic votes, and make it hot for democrats who sell themselves to the enemy. There should be some way duvised to reach this evil; and perhaps there U no better bet-ter way to accomplish the result than by making the democratic party so strong a friend of tho industrial classes, that it will bo to their interest to vote for its candidates r.ither than to sell thoir votes to the republicans, if this is not already the state of aftiirs. There was a time in our history when party linea were so el'jaely drawn that buying and selling of voters were things unheard of. It would bo well for our friend, Dr. Mil-lor, Mil-lor, and other leaders of tho democratic demo-cratic party, to analyze Una state of ail.iira in order to discover a ruiiictly, which is so much needed, fur thin illegal and shameful trafliu in tlc pjpuUr franchise of tho b.illut, tho freedom ot which diatinuiahed ul0 United .-jutes from most other countries. |