A Free Ballot

One of the planks of the Kepubiican platform "demands that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot, and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as cast." That reads very prettily indeed and the spirit in which it is exemplified is shown in the coerción being practiced in every manufacturing plant and railroad controlled by gold advocates in this country. Employés threatened with the loss of their situations unless they bow to the behest of their gold masters and vote as they dietate, is a strange interpretation of the phrase "one free and unrestricted ballot." Satan himself smiles at the duplicity practiced by his Republican vice regents. Boys, step into that booth and vote as you