The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-11-20
Ocalaism and Its Stranded WRECKS.

OcaIaISm anu lJS STRANDED NfechS.
American The vocifer Gus silet Z
of Hon. SJckless simpson is b. =
ming 10 attract attention, aud StIl &c"
wonder grows that no sound -
from out the whiskery jungle Iis
which the long tongue of Senator
PETER is supposed to keep it's lair. II
is contrary to all we know of the hab-
its of these two persons to allow the
tired welkin 10 cease TO ring or give
the everlasting hills period of re-
pose from the task OF tlingiug back
the echo of their resonant statesman
ship. Since the great up-speW of
enebriate ignorance which ca [ these
two freaks upon the astOunded world
they have never paused until now IL
the exercise of their vocal organs.
From one end of the country to the
other they have travelled on free
passes and in parlOr cars, raving
against the damnableness of things i'll
general aud lashing the ambient air
with their whip-l Ike tongues u til il
shrieked in agony. Day after day
uttering speech and night after ilght
showing ignorance, they have chased
the Wretched voter from stump to
stump, pouring into his tortured ear
t!dings of dempatiOn and prOphesies
of doom.
But a dumbness as Of death or oys-
ters has overtaken these rsmbunctiOus
patriots, and painful and detected
reverie has succeeded the riotOus ac-
tiviiy of theil turbulent tongues
For the fir-t time in their lives,
PETER and Simpson have stopped
talking long enough to think. The
burden OF their meditations, no doubt,
is the gruesomeness of oblivion and
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for a day. PETER and Simpson are
suffering out, and perhaps they
know it. The State of Kansas has
written their meme tekel upon the
we'll, even while they were riOting in
their feast Of greatness. The recent
elections proclaimed the doom of the
Alliance and its false prophets Dis
gusted with the " lid eXtravagancies
and lurid lunacy of OcalaisIn the peO-
pie of Kansas have gone back into the
Republican party, barred the door and
are now ready to set the dog on any
man who calls himself a refOrmer.
Kansas people who, under q cOnserva-
tive and sensible leadership, might
have been brought to the support Of
genuine reform, have been so deceived
with counterfeits, that they will not
even stop to examie honest ware.
From this time on high tariffs and
bloody shirts and rebel flags are good
enough issues for them. And thus it
is that the folly OF fools and the
knavery of demagOgues have killed
the hope of redeeming Kansas from
bloody-shirt Republicanism.
But it has been a hard year on fools,
all the same. The mortality among
idiot statesmen was never so large in
any year of our cOuntry's history.
no ho no n
those ambitious politicians whO.e
short-sighted eagerness for political
place made them stultify themselves
by rushing into the arms of these
demagOgues and bargaining away
their consciences for such support!
WHAT do hey suppose will become
of them when the tide has eb6ed?
The men whom the shOrt-lived craze
has rescued from the oblivion in
whose bscurity alone they are fit TO
live win be no worse, except for the
natural heart-burnings of disap-
pointed ambition, than they We're
before; but how the intelligent man
who, for temporary success, has FAC
rificed his convictions, must envy the
brave and honest patriot who refused
to barter his honor FIR an office!
Think of the poor fool Kelley, in
Kansas, for instance, who was de-
feated for Congress as a r. publichn
nominee and then deserted the Re-
publican party and took passa- on
the third-party boat just a. it went I"
pieces on The rock! Fhiuk of Rice
PierceI What would he give to-day
to stand in Frank Bonds shoe? Mo
DowelI can retire on his coal oil tees
aud will be that much better off than
he could ever have hoped TO be but
Ior The Alliance; aud the contempt Of
honest men will max little change in
his business. But men Of finer mould
and superior in diligence who have so
If, baseI their manhood as to become
the ,rl- Of such creature can never
hone to rise from under the burden OF
cont, mpt WI ich will weigh them
down when the sustaining power of
o ala fanaticism |. as passed away.