By many different meanssome of them bold and flagrant. others stealthy and indirectthe use of money has tainted the purity and honor of our polltics But of all these. forms of corruption. the- one most to be deplored Is. the poisoning of the spring of popular government at its vely source. The habitual. and wholesale bribery of voters not only makes the rule of the majority a laughing stock and a farce but It destroys the dignity and selfrespect of communities. and so impairs. manhood as to unfit it for the best things in every sphere of social or business life. We have had in our great cities fearful examples of ballotbox stuffing. fraudulent registration. dishonesty In the counting of votes and returnIng of results. colonization of repeaters. false naturalization of foreigners. and -othet offenses against fair and honest elections. . But these things which may. Indeed..defcait the will of a majority of the rightful voters. are too trivial to be mentioned In comparison with the offense of -corrupting the rightful voters themselves.
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