CHAPTER II.
The Debauchery of the Ballot.
The Sacredness of the Ballot—Its Corruption by the Vice Trust—Methods of Corruption—Affidavits Showing Corruption—A Cleansed Ballot Box—A Cleansed City.
American advancement has its foundation in the principles of government by the people, for the people and of the people.
Every American citizen, in theory at least, is an ideal autocrat. He is the judge of his personal conduct; the maker of his surroundings; the master in his home; the ruler of his nation by his power of representative government.
Ideal democracy is God’s highest gift to his best creation.
Prostituted democracy is hell’s highest triumph; is evil’s best instrument.
Individual right to create a governing power is an American citizen’s first prerogative.
The most sacred thing in the mechanism of self-government of the United States,—is the Ballot Box.
Tamper with the ballot box and you aim a body blow at the constitution of the United States.