Show ELECTION reflections those who will take the trouble to fish out the points in the late elections that are worth considering have a good field to work in one that will yield useful if not pleasurable results for instance the political equality which our system of government establishes and maintains making one state equal to any other in the matter of sovereignty identity and recognition could not be more plainly drawn than when new york and nevada are mentally placed side by side one is the empire state having the greatest population the other the sagebrush state having the least A senator from new york is no more potent politically than one from nevada yet the former represents over of people the latter approximately that is one is some times more populous than the other yet a negative vote by a nevada senator nullifies an affirmative one cast by the new yorker the reason for this is that the states themselves are equal in the matter of governing or participating in the government and the senators are representatives directly of the dignities in their aggregate capacity but only indirectly ot of the sovereigns them themselves selve s these being represented on their own account by members of the lower house of such members nevada has one utah has one and new york has thirty four utah has six or seven times as many people as nevada which means that the representative in congress of that states gives people as much potency in the house as to is wielded by about in utah in this respect new york is not placed at such 9 a disadvantage as in the case of the senate representation having one for about each people or four times as many as in nevada it is altogether notwithstanding some inevitable defects a grand and equitable system all theories of popular government except absolute democracy or the immediate rule of the masses is observed and carried out the individual being the first entity receives the first consideration all means by which the power originates is placed and controlled troll ed rest with him and proceed from his hands through a system which absorbs somewhat of the innate sovereignty as it progresses this being necessary for the establishment and maintenance of the authority which we recognize as government while all functions and privileges not needed in such establishment and support are retained I 1 in the hands of people they can cause a repeal of obnoxious measures or ven even bring about changes in the great i charter itself it can have laws suited to their times and conditions enacted can elect officials and have them removed can in a word by simply dimply asserting I 1 their majesty cause those whose duty it Is to do or not to do anything what ever that is feasible and desirable election is an object lesson of 0 grandeur of our republican m me practically applied in one sense are then no states at all but a nation deciding what and whom it have in the places to be filled in anotle er sense state lines are so carefully 0 served and local regulations so str stariea maintained that all the sov sovereign seems to reside in and be the emal ex claim property of the commonwealth in n er words the motto of the nata E pluribus unum out ot of many fittingly and thoroughly exema exemplified 1 a how true it is that t great privileges which we joy of being the of our own career the architects wr our own political fortune are in n pa efte perverted and debased in such A tern tem as in almost every other crew work of the visible continually because a ca class ass pe people ople who toll toil not y aad spin nothing but webs to tio en ensnare sn are asle unwary have intruded themselves ivee cailo the temple of liberty to corrupt aft debauch wherever the unwary V i those jhb are willing to be tempted found votes that should be as sa sac as they are po powerful werf ul are ba bartered ered 3 so many cheaply devised t trinkets k s birthright of the citizen goes for a a of pottage and too frequently ve very savory pottage at that men who cunning unscrupulous and use the purchasable element sin AM M Br as a means of furthering I 1 W ends and this extends to some into every of the nation AM fabric offices high and low are bad for and bought in some regarN places fi 31 scandalous boldness land and dis disregard 2 privacy it Is when the office SOU sought brought within the disposal of a i instead of being controlled by 1 I many that the worst phase of the bi gain and sale bu business go g aee oni 9 office of united states senator for dimple ainsle is one that is so and honorable that it ft is peculiarly object ot of purchase iby by means which we have two too frequently belm the spectacle of meo men hot ing it not by reason of any firnem but tor for the simple reason tj they were able to buy it this is so common now as it was dal the period fo at civil war but is still practiced practice occa ally and yet the seller of a legis vote Is many times worse thiam them the who disposes for gain of the ballot balloid casts in common with Ms his fellow zens at the polls the former b bel an accepted trust he makes m merai mer xi dise of interests committed to hani the sacred charge of those w who honored him with the place he ej traitor to the institutions of arts a oo 00 try a a renegade to his e enemy to the commonwealth and ana of those who should be scourged urged out i Li bertys realm the same is true fw emphasized degree it if possible trafficker himself may the day eded come when our system will be from all such when an election in 1 part of our country will be free I 1 stain or suspicion thereof and all a possibilities pos of a land freedom and the fullness of hum hudaa deavor properly directed will vall be f iced |