Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-29
wAuA WHILE.

In view of the bitter abuse now being
poured out as so many walls. OF wrath
upon the head Of Mr.. Cleveland, what
must be the feelings Of those demo
Gratis who deliberately deserted him in
the hour of battle, abandoned their
colors, sold out their party, went over
bag and baggage to the enemy. scared
what little conscience was yet left to
them with the degrading iron Of the
renegade, licked the dust from the feet
of an organization which had been On
their necks for twenty-three years, and
will have to endure for no telling how
long again the same old prescriptions
and tyrann;es Of the days of the bloody
shirt and jack:boots reconstruction.
But really did these renegade demo-
Gratis have either feelings or conscience?
Their president has been a man OF
singular purity of action and honesty
of purpose. He strove and wrought
with perfect unselfshness for the
general welfare of all the people. No
communicating breath of slander ever
touched the spotless integrity Of his
administration. Sectionalism was q
word expunged from his entire vocab
ulary. He saw only restored. union,
too great and powerful for petty spites
to mar its fair proportions. and silly
hates and animosities to retard its
growth and lessen its prosperity.
Banded against him were all the Quays,
the Blaines. the E Eil1inses, the Dorseys,
the Dudleys, the railroad kings, the
Carnegies, the trust bOodlers, the iron
barons, the tariff lords, the subsidized
manufacturers, the importers Of pau
per labor, the Ping Wing sympathisers,
the manipulatOrs Of such rotten
boroughs as Oregon, Nevada, Colorado
and California; and then to think that
those he was striving to shield and
cave from the utter rapacity and de-
vourment of the moneyed oligarchies
should desert him at the eleventh hour
and vote for party which has we'll
nigh made them slaves!
But patience, and shuttle the cards.
a day will come when the bonfires
will go out; when the blare Of brazen
instruments will be hushed; when tho
exultant roars of partisan frenzy aud
fanaticism will die away as the howl
ing of wild beasts in the distance; when
times will begin TO tighten and power
ty to pinch; when settlement day will
come for the mortgage carriers, and
the wheat in the farmers field worth
barely fifty cents bushel; when the
home market will be gorged to a sur
feit and the foreign market made un-
re achable by a tariff Chinese wall
VIII ,'ch Mr.. Cleveland tried so ably and
so faithfully to batter down: when
every ,Necessit~ of life is subjected to
the ext.1rtionate manipulations of a
trust, ant, when republican waste pro-
flfgacy and pillage will bring on a new
John Sherm sn-Jay Cooke panic as in
1873, which made a million of paupers,
tramps, dead beats and bankrupts.
Then what Rowling! What groans
and lamentations will go up from the
spasmodic lips of agriculture! How the
renegades and the traitors will squirm,
and twist. and screch at the imposi-
tiOns of their newfound allies and
masters! How they will recall the calm,
unselfish courage of Grover Clevelapd
and wonder why they were so smitten
by moral and political blindness as to
make them stab him in the back while
he was standing in the very breach in
the defense of their rights as free
citizens, ,uncrushed by war taxation and
protected monopolies, heartless, soul
less and all-devouring.
No matter the assertions and declara-
tions to the contrary, agriculture
furnishing, as it were, the very life's
blood of the nation-is not prosperous;
and yet the larger agricultural states
gave triumph TO the party which has
put upon them the heaviest and most
grievous burdens they are now bending
and groaning under. The states, also,
that were the most heavily mortgaged,
gave the heaviest republican majorities.
On the contrary, two of the heaviest
manufacturing states in the union,
New Jersey and Connecticut, went
democratic.
What a reprOach and reflection
upon free and intelligent American
suffrage. What adjectness and cow
ardice to strike down one of the truest,
the braveSt and the most unselfish
champions they have had in all the CEN
tury, and lift up another who has never
spoken a word In their behalf or struck