Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-09-15

and everybody said he was goin to
the Good Place. If he did it seems
a right smart probable to my mind
that old Zeke went the other way,
providing he had his say when the
arrangements was made.
SOME OF THE MANY REASONS WHY.
l am plum willin for my friends
and the enemy to know right how
and where | stand onthe great ques-
tions that are agitating the political
waters of this day and generation,
and the reasons why | say what ]
do.
lam a Democrat for various and
sundry and divers reasons.
am a farmer because it suits me.
[ am a Democrat for the same rea-
son. | am not a Democrat simply
because some other fellow amt. |
run my Democracy a little deeper
than that. | don't have no fear OF
runnin too deep in this line. | love
to git down to rock bottom, where |
can keep all my feet under me
When a man plants his pegs on
Democratic principles and truth and
justice, he can stand up and face
the world, the flesh and the devil,
and whip the fight mighty nigh
every %clatter.
| am a Democrat because Repub-
licans spell nation with a big N, and
Democrats spell people with a big
P.
| am a Democrat because the par
ty is founded on principles that have
stood through storms and trials and
tribulations, beatin back the enemies
of the people at every step for nigh
onto a hundred years; because the
principles and purposes are honest
as the sunshine and broad as the
dyin day itself.
[ am a Democrat because Dem
ocracy wants the people to run
this government, and the Republican
party wants the government to run
the people; because Democracy
wants as much power as possible for
the people in general, and Republic
canism wants everything in sight
for the general government. l am
not agin the government exceptin
when the government gifts agin me.
| am a Democrat because all the
onerous and numerous and obnox-
Ious and various and unjust and I'M
equal laws regulatin the money sys-
tenn, the tariff and so forth and so
on, that has been passed for thirty
years to Cypress the people and
plumber the country comes straight
from the Republican party; because
Democratic statesmen like John G..
Carlisle, of Kentucky, Grover cleve-
land, of New York, and John T.
Morgan, of Alabama, have stood up
like brave men, even though their
hands was tied with Republican ma
iorities, fightin over every inch of
the ground for "equal rights to all
and special privileges to none" II
am a Democrat because in 1860, af-
ter a Democratic reign of over half a
century, about Is per cent of the
wealth of this country was held by
farmers and about % per cent
BY all other classes; and because
low, 1891, after the Republican reign
IF thirty years, the farmers hold
about % per cent of the wealth of
he country and about Is per cent
S held by other classes.
/ am a Democrat because under a
government the people
we're happy and the country pros
porous; because under Republican
'ule the country has been plundered
md the people, the masses, the
,reat unwashed, as it were, have
,een CROWN poorer every year and
very day.
| am a Democrat because the Re-
are simply out for stuff;
,ecause the Republican party is a
party; because the shyloeks
# Wall street, New York, and
lombard street, London, COM
nenced Robin the South and the
people through the Re-
party thirty years age, and
hey have gone on robbin us from
Jan to Beershebe, even unto this
hour.
I am a Democrat because the
party, in every platform
nd convention, from Thomas Jef.
- fun,cIaNI rianluj