| Show the peoples voice the tee cry of boodle was all right enough during daring a campaign democrats stood on the motto during the late contest that anything was fair in love lore and war bat after an election why keep up the senseless cry that the citizens of the united states are either corrupt or vote like dumb domb driven cattle we do not believe i that american manhood has hag yet yei degenerated so far there is of course a small email class in any community that would not scruple at selling their franchise franchi sp but men of that kind are happily few and far between the great majority of american citizens know the value of a free and huntr am meled ballot and would willingly die to maintain it that patriotic sentiment is not limited to any orie oae section of the country the west has no more a monopoly of it than has the east the campaign just ended has been full of criminations crimi nations and recriminations sectional and feeling has run high in the east the common opinion seems to have been to judge from the newspaper charges that we in the west who favored free coinage of silver were a lot of anarchists while on thi the e other hand the western press would lead one to believe that most of the citizens in the east were either purchased or coerced into voting for the republican candidate and so eo often havethe have the p people heard and read the charges charged that they seem to take stock in them now that the campaign is over we hope they will disabuse their minds of all such rot As we said before the american people are great lovers of their glorious republic and that love is ia not limited to either party we all love the flag fla 1 all know that the perpetuity of the government depends on a free ballot and a fair count and it is because of that knowledge that EO many safeguards are thrown around the ballot box nearly all leading states have the australian b ballot allot r system ys at great expense iu in order to ta insure a pure ballot no voter can be coerced under that system nor can he be bought for there is no way of determining that he delivered the goods the election clearly shows the pure voice of the people |
