Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-24

lam not reading any newspaper now.
because | an longing fo. rooster. and |
not a one of them has the backbone 10
put one up. Somehow | an getting a
iittie lonesome because 1t looks like | am
the only democrat lef.-the others have
al found their back bone to be made out
OF Jelly, end they are wilted like tube
rose after hard freeze. What is the
matter with tie boys in the trenches any.
howY They stayed hungry for twenty
hve years and were kicked and cuffed
about by the republicans, and then they
stood the same treatment for four wears
OF Growers administration, without
mourning; but now they quit like yellow
dogs only fit to be made into wiener.
wurs'.
Everywhere around me | hear talk of
who killed the democratic party. Nv
iiiends, nobodv Si.led Cock Robin; for
Cock Robin il not dead, and not even
W. There is not AZ English sparrow
'Nho pecks at old Hu;chs wheat that can
kl Cock Robin with ali the bows and
arrows In he universe, until the reputli-
can party be dead and damned as it ought
20 be. And while that party lives, if all
.ae other fellows on our side quit, shall
nave to hold national convention by
myself, and nominate myself for presl-
Gent and vice president and vote for nv
sell Tor ali the offices and by the seven
teen holy pokers I'll do it if it becomes
necessary Tue democratic party, in
some form or other, is an nseparable
part OF American institutions, and while
The United States is in existence it must
last. Other parties must come and 60;
but IT goes on forever, and when it
ceases liberty becomes thing of the past.
Personally l have taken but little in
..--|sst in the campaign. 1t does not mat
ter cents worth, financially, to me
which party is in. Think for myself, or
speak out in meeting when | feel like it
which is great relief to me, but a very
impolte course of conduct; because the
men who cut out the pie expect you to at
least promise them your conscience and
your intellect, ii they give you slice OF
II. The fact thst YOU lie about it, and
hetray the man to whom you sold your
self, is merely an element of political
promotion TO the other fellow for whom
you have done your dirty work And
he takes care 10 ill your belly and keep
it full, lest IN your hunger You should
sell out again for a mess of fresh pot
tage.
So being not in the pottage business,
and a kind Of sly hunter OF secluded
mushrooms on my own hook, il doesn't
matter pinch of Scotch snuff to my
pocketbook either in state or national
affair, which party gets the offices. In
either event, my nearest approach to +
square meal would be to get look at the
plate after some obsequious servitor had
licked it clean If sought my own adj.
vantsge, could find it best BY Joining
the republican party since il seems to be
the fixed policy of both parties to reward
traitors and deserters from the other,
rather than those who have been faithful
for many years to the party of theil
choice And | am tough citizen when
it comes to enduring: ! can stand pretty
much anything that anybody else can gel
alone with. Therefore y change of ad-
ministratiOu don't hurt me financially a
all, any more than it hurts nv neighbol
who votes the republican ticket 10 have
free whisky and taxed fiauuels. If hi:
party carries out its policy Ms outlined If
its platform, he will have to pay doubl,
price tor his red flannel uuderclOthes
while he roars with the rheumatism a
usual this winter, but | can 90 whislln!
down the street with the happy conscious
ness that my red liquor, which scares tn
rheumatism away and makes one iuvul
nerabe TO snake bites, costs only one
tenth Of what it did under Democrat
government But he knows verv wei
that bis party doesn't intend to carry gu
its promises, He knows that it woul,
agree 10 take the tariff of of brimston
and put n DrohlbliOry duty on the win
fearhpr> Of the angels, il it would carr
the first ward in he'll with such plat
form And he knows, too, that it wOul
not scruple TO 70 back on its promise
after election, and even then assess tn
devil for additional expenses to hr
Pinkerlou detectives TO watch The demo
Gratis and keep them from stealing tn
keyhor of the door to he bOttoness pi
He knows ali This, sud between time
while his rheuuatisr rvinoes Ieeva hi,
hres,h rnough IN talk ne chrcsIes ov,
the /. oil, from foreign lands VINO ha,
voted with him and wonders at u
eredulity of laboriDg men Ubn follov4
in his lead IN tnsir bnnkruntcv r
knows that his parry will. if MIR Harrisr
is elected make sucn a substantial redu
linn in tho tariff a.. will No, b,pr, tho m,