Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-01-08
Crisp and His Party.
(Communicated)


To the close Observer there is an ominous
ring to toe speech of acceptance male by
tte Speaker of the Fifty second Congress,
on his election to the third Office in power
in the United States.
| The famous motto, "0f the people for
the people and by the people" will here
after read, "0f the party, for the party and
BY the party
| Il pledge myself here and now to de-
vote every industry, every ability i.poSseSs
TO the real advancement OF the Democratic
party" And again, 81 tare felt that we
were all Democrats aud that we
stand as one body, laboring for one COM
mon cause, the principles of the Demo
cratic! Party" are words that should
make thoughtful men; men who have the
welfare of the Nation at heart, to watch
the proceedings of the body of which Mr.
Crisp is the head.
| Already the question is arising, WHITTIER
are we drifting in politics. Never before
did the Nation witness such colossal fraud
as is being perpetrated in New York. the
win of the people defeated and the judicial
power of the State.put in force for partl'
san ends
The apportionment Of States into dis
tricts giving the party in power the advan-
tage in electing representatives has not
| been without its evil influence, but when
| this "gerrvmanderiDg' i>ibrOught into ioEee
| to secure the election of men who are 70
decide who will be our Chief Executive II
| is high time TO call halt In this M5chI-
gan has set an example that may be far
reachiug in its evil producing influences
We look around US and seeing prosper
| ty on every hand, think little ot thess
things, and cry 'crOaker' at any one who
tries to point out the growing evils IN our
poilticai system. So did the people Of Old
Rome, bat nevertheless the cank"r was
| eating away at the very heart OF the Em-
pire and the crssh came.
As Nation We live too much IN tho
present Oar glorious past ia almost tor
gotten, and cur future uncared ijr. we
| do rot want to bother about what sort oi
government our children's children VIII
hive uuder. And every dav these evils are
growing and their eradication becoming
more difficult. Politicians educate thr
people. not the people politicians, and the
success of q certain faction is held para
mount to the welfare of the country, the
people being already educated to that
nlan1e. Shades of Webster. WHAT woula
the fathers Of our Legislation
say if they were TO be now
brought back to earth and witness the
proceedings of our Representatives az
Washington under the regime OF the Dem
ocratic party. Where once the air wa'
thrilled br the eloquence Adams, Ran
dolnh Benton and CLAY, or hushed it,
whjsperings to hear the mighty logic OF
the Massachusetts giant il now Is redoleEt
with the Disgusting sqaabbles OF party fac
tions quarreiiny oyer spol!s, JfngnGg I"
see who shall grasp the most money from
the National funds.
Thomas Reed was beheaded, politically,
because his patriotic mind grasped tne
true idea that our Congress was Nation
al body. aud that Congressman owed al
leeiance to the Nation AID its welfare, not
to section and party.
We did not notice in the remarks of Mr..
Crisp any OF that spirit prompting the
words Il would rather bs right than ba
President OF the United States"
All, no; Amor Patrie hides her diminish
head while love OF party holds high carni
val in halls that ought only to echo to The
voice of patriots.
And it is we'll TO notice which OF the two
great parties il most accountable for
this state of things.
When the Mckinley bill was passed, the
Democratic press all over the country be-
gan q systematic plan OF misrepresentation
1t published tables of figures and col
uInns of .'facts" that would have mads
those champions of ye olden time, An
nanias and Sapphira, groan with envy. > In
stead of givipg the new law lair trial
they, the Democratic editors, determined
to lie it cut OF popular approval from the
very beginning. Their dear party WAS a.
stake as to the advancement of the coun-
try, ''th,t is not what they get paid for
We of the North, engaged IN the chase
after wealth resign all this to The hands OF
professional politicians, We do not stop
to think that hundreds Of thousands OF
the citi zens of this 'Frees" country arc
openly deprived Of the rights given them
by the highest law Of the land. That one
section of our country is arrayed in avowed
hostility to the Constitution. All over the
Sough Negro suffrage is farce, and the
millions OF money, the thousands of lives
that were sacrificed in giving them their
freedom, were more than wasted. The
South has said "Fhe Negro is not our
equal, and Constitutional Amendment can
not make him such. If be votes our ticket
well and good, bat il he should have dim
idea that he is his own master, we favor the
shotgun argument that be is dreaming of u
promise long since proven to have been a
myth"
Aud the party that dominates that sec
| tion is uIingIrg its principles into action
in The North, wherever I'D supremacy is at
stake Only in northern states they re-
sort to open fraud instead of midnight as
saults.
We know all this, yet the wheels of tho
Juggernaut that viii surely crush our
National life, grind onward, its speed
! accalerating with every year of gaining
pnwsr, and no one offers to put spoke IN
it's wheel
" DO will be the Joshua of our Nation.
His shadow has not yet appeared, or will
tie history of other popular governments
finally be ours, and thus repeat her ancient
tale. HARRY BURNEs-