Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-10-03
OUR ZEKE CQONSKIN LETTER.

ance, and is Much Comforted There
by-Old Memories Crowd Upon His
MIND - "PrOteckshun is Oncons,itu-
shuaal'' : Grover Comes to the
Rescue.
MIsruR Ep1TuR Il .wuz much
shook up in my mind by the facts and
hygers presented by the husband Of
my Betsey Ann. Howsumever. since
| read Growers letter of acceptance.
begin to feel the ground firm under
my feet once more. Old Zske is him.
self agin.
Grover takes us back to the founda.
shun principles of Democracy. In
add'shun to the tariffs bein' tax, rs
herelnbefore mensuned, Grover seq it
is onconstitushunal.
This is the old battle, cry of Simon>
pure D!mocracy. 1t rings out like
bugle call and awakes the echoes from
afar. 1t calls up the dim past, and
causes the costs and fantoms of all
the ishues for which democracy hcz
tit, bled and been beaten from time
'mmemorial, to Git before my vishun.
When Linkun and his feller>
sgitaters begun to agitate the slavery
queschun, SIGH noble patriots as jeff.
Davis, Tombs, and host of others,
lncludin' myself, scd it wuz unconsti-
tushunal, and it wuz. When the
cruel war riz up. and the Lihkun
hirelin's wuz abroad in the land con.
SUNNI and devourin' all becez our
Southern brethren insisted on Dustin
this government to peeces, democracy
lifted up its united voice and wept
sore, and proclaimed to the world that
this q fort to save the Union wuz on.
consti,ushunal, and so it wuz.
Gallant old Steve, him as is our
candidate for Vice President, and me,
wuz amonst the chief weepers in In
jeany and Missoory. We WIZ both
on us Mites of Golden Circle, and
dun all we could to resist the draft
and make the cruel war failyure.
We fit reconstruckshun becoz it
wuz unconstitutional. We opposed
the grants of lands to railroad corpor-
ashuns, by which the Western wilds
wuz taken from the Itjins aud settled
Up mostly by people who vote the
black Republican ticket, beccz it wuz
ono, nstitushunal. We cried out agln
resumshun of specie payment for the
same reason. We held that THROWN
open the public domain to settlers by
the a,roshus homestead at of the
black Republican party wuz onconsti>
tushunal, and SO it wuz.
And now comes Grover, a con-
frontin' that hydra hedded monster
Proteckshun, that hez bin bildin' up
so many factories to disturb the quiet
by the hum of wheels and spindles,
and hez prevented lngland, the firm
and anshent friend of democracy,
from bcin' the onl manufacturin' ma
shun in the world worth speakin' of,
together with other atrocities too nu-
merous to manshun, now comes Gro.
yer, | say, with the old battle. cry Of
democracy on his lips, and cries out
in clarion tones:
"Proteckshun is Onconstitushunal"
All hail, Grover! Thou art he FOR
whom democracy hez sithed many a
long and bitter sithe Thou, Gro
yer, art the Moses as will lead US from
the wilderness of error into which sich
tyros in constitushunal law as old
Tom. Jefferson and Andy Jackson
them as never wuz full. Aedged Dino.
Gratis any how, becoz they believed in
and sancshuned the Proteckshun her.
esy-left us founderin' into the full
lite and liberty of rejuvenated Di-
mocracy.
Under the colossal Ejus OF thy alb
dominal protuberance, as in the shsd-
or OF great rock in a weary land,
will hide and shout defiance at the
minyuns of proteckshun.
j L I. T.