Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-07-21
A HARRISON DEMOCRAT.
He Has Voted Wrong fer Thirty Years and
Concludes to Switch on His System.

The following contribution to the
Billings Gazette of last week will be
found mighty interesting reading.
The writer hits the nail on the head
in every sentence:
Pity the sorrows of a poor miserable
Democrat! My father was "A Union, pro-
lection, hard-money Democrat, and have
always been IA Democrat because NV father
was. But, ] have had hard trials; my
father having enjoined me to remember
that Washington, Jefferson and Jackson
were all sound protectionists. | was not
born soon enough to experience the glow of
pride that "a "simon pure Democrat has
in having voted for James Buchanan. In
1850 ! cast my frat vote for Douglas and
"Squatter" or jump-your-claim SOY
erignty, instead Of Lincoln and the propo-
sition that AL men are created equal"
because | was a Democrat, when | really
felt in nv heart that IL was wrong. In
1864 | voted for Mcclellan and the propu-
sition that the war WAS "A failure. while
Grant was marching on to Richmond and
~walloping the last lingering life out Of the
DtlluCfdIit TtDtiIibu, WHth Il knew ! was
wrong. In 1865 | voted for Seymour and
Blair and the proposition that the amend
ments to the constitution for the protec-
ton al 1 600, 900 poor laborers WAS un-
constitutional. when | knew | was wrong
la 1872. Holy Moses | forsook all my
Democratic principles excepting protection,
and voted for Horace Greeley just to beat
Il I...t NDI., I'D mat -. N.i III. ITn..., ,xl.,
| knew | mas wrong. In 1876 / voted for
Tilden aud free trade when | knew it waa
wrong. Ia 1880 | hurrahed for Hancock
who ~relegat-d the tariff question tn the
congressional districts, when | knew it
Was wrong. la 1881 | voted for Cleveland
aud the tariff siraddie, when | knew it waH
wrong. la lSSS 1 again voted for 'leyr-
land and the straddle when ] knew il was
wrong. Aud nov in this year of our Lord,
1892, there ID put up Tor my support II
third time the on--term Cleveland together
with two other dead are,sses-th old
stump tail state bank system, and free
trade from the political gra ve-yard of the
confederate constitution, as IL in eating
crow and carrinn ia the past ! had cult
waited u buzzari's appetite that woull
relish them all the more because they wrrr
rotten.
Shades Of Andrew Jackson, my patron
saint. who threatened to hang the fire,
traders of South Carolina higher than
Haman" if they did not obey the protec
tion laws, excuse me from living if ! swal
low mother sickening dose of this quad
rennial ippecac,
Ia order to be consistent in my incon
sist.ncy as n Democra ! have been every
thing and anything by turns and little oil
nothing by spells. was against green
backs when they were necessary to tn,
nations life and for them hen they wer'
a menace to its prosperity. | was frs
against specie resumption and afterwar,
for it. was first against the abolition o
slavery but afterwards abolished the mos
dearly cherished principles of my Democ
racy to he for it. For years | was har
assed with dark ~forebodings of being com
PEELED to marry "A Niger" but | am no,
quieted by adviees OF "A southern process
that bleaches the darkness out of sucI
fears and the darkies at the same time
Always riding backward in the Democrat
band wagon we Democrats never saw any
thing until it was passed, so we were Away
for what we were ''agin' previous befor
and ''agin' what we were for previous after
| have been on both sides OF and straddle,
every known political question, and hav
swallowed everything from "A cock-sparro'
tn an elephant. never really knew final,
what my principles were, whether I WAS