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Show WHERE THEY SELL THEIR V OIL'S. We have heard of the rotten boroughs. of the West, where wealthy men have been able to buy their way to the United States senate by corrupting: legislatures, but there is nothing in the politics of all this region to compare in deadened conscience and corrupt practice with the record of Adams county, Ohio, where nearly every voter is a elf-oonfessed taker of a" bribe and where 1,000 men have been indicted for selling their votes. We are told the practice has been so general that no one m that part of Ohio felt the least compunction in accepting money for a vote and this condition has prevailed for years. The disregard of the principles of American citizenship have been so flagrant as to challenge belief. We have heard of women in thia state who had no dear conception of the obligations conferred by the franchise, who have offered to sen' any party and vote for any person under hire, but no Utah man, with a sense of pride, ever openly has peddled his vote. The sucoess of the American form of government depends on an tmpurchasable electorate, and it is a source of regret that even one county in all the country should be so corruptod as to prove unworthy of a voice in the government. |