The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-07
Communications.
The Fraudulent Democracy.

EDITOR WATCHMAN-It seems to me as
never before that the democracy is cheat
and fraud, and that democrats are afraid
of their shadows and are trying to raise
false issues to cover up their footprints at
Chicago in the late convention. But Cleve-
land is the boss fraud of the lot. This
shouting that Grover is better than his party
is back number. When chief magistrate
of the nation, he lent his aid to elect one of
the most dsreputable of the Tammany
crowd to high municipal Office In the
last contest in the house of representatives
he used his influence to elect a Southern
man for speaker-and, by the way, in the
tangled maze of parliamentary rules the
speaker has power greater than the presi-
dent. He has it in his power to stop the
wheels of the government. Every crippled
soldier, the widow and the orphan have to
bow to the will of the Southern brigadier.
The whole legislative machinery is placed
in the hands of the Southern people-the
same men who tried to destroy the govern
ment.
Now, 1 wish to ask my soldier friends
what they expect to gain by putting this
government in the hands of men who tried
to destroy it? / wish to have some demo-
crat tell me what he expects to gain if men
who hate New England and her institutions
are put into power. l have wondered a
good deal, since this campaign opened, if
the democratic party had not loyal man
who stood ghost of chance for the NOM
ination for high office, as l believe there
are such.
In his great Madison Square Garden
speech, Cleveland stopped to the level of
the demagogue, and tried to make political
capital out of deplorabe labor riot The
democratic party shouted itself hoarse, two
years ago, about the extravaganza of the
republican house, and that the expendi-
lures would exceed the revenues But the
late session of congress has exceeded the
l.
tions; and still they passed bills to reduce
the revenue and did nothing to supply that
defciency-the most transparent demagogy
extant.
This whole democratic doctrine amounts
to nothing but to whet the anarchists knife
ready for riot and murder, by sowing the
seeds OF discomfort over an imaginary griev-
ance. The last session of congress gave the
lie to this cry of extravaganza as effectually
as it could have been given. The Mckinley
bill bottled up all the decent campaign
thunder of the democratic party. They
We're driven to the extreme vagaries of
Henry Georges single land tax theory by
berating his whole book and having it
printed in the Congressional Record as
speeches that were never made.
Another good war-cry to satisfy the craze
of the anarchist and socialist for cheaper
money, was their espousal of wildcat cur
rency. But they have thrown all these into
| the waste basket and hold out the bloody
shirt " perched on federal bayonets They
have not done one single thing that they
proposed TO do two years ago. There is
only one creed that they have steadily adj
hered to, and that is their cry of I'VE want
the spoils."
There never was time in the history OF
the country when the farmer could buy as
much of the necessaries and luxuries with
his produce as he can now. There never
was time when the laboring man could
buy as much with the proceeds of his labor
as he can to-day. Will it pay to try the ex-
pertinent of putting at the head of this ma
ton demagogues and copperheads? Has it
come to the point when the above class OF
men are more desirable to rule us than men
who have taken an honorable stand and
been always loyal to the government?
S. BANEsTER.