The record-union., 1892-10-19
HHOW NOT 70 Do IT."
The Democracy Party Of Circum-
IOCution.
Mistakes 1t Has Made Since Its Or
ganization-A Lesson That
Should Be Taught.

sN-AAN-estACA n l@SSSOA A1ltb
Should Be Taught.
| Correspondent in Cleveland Ohio Leader.l
When Charles Dickens wrote his admi-
| rable tale of Little Dorrit'' and intro
duced his readers to the Barnacles and
the circumlocutiou office-that great Office
whose only mission was to oppose adj
vancement and find out the way show not
to do it"-he certainly must have just re-
turned from the United States and from
| hobnobbing with the leading Barnacles
OF the Democratic party. America was
discovered four hundred years ago this
month, and I can't help thinking what
an admirable time this would be, just as
we commence a new hundred years in
our history, and all the more fitting as
we are on the eve of a great Presidential
| battle, for the Democratic party to come
| out in their true light and change their
name to the CircumIocution party. For
| if ever party has sought To find the way
of how not to do it," they have.
! The Republican party of to-day is the
| party of progress, OF advancement, seek
ing 10 push the interests and resources of
| this country far in advance of all COM
| peutors; the Democratic party is the stone
| on the track and seeking ''how not TO do
| it." The Republican party resolved to
| put an end to slavery, and successfully
sought the way to do it; the Democratic
/ party opposed them and sought to md
| out "hoW not TO do it," War came Oh as
result, and the Republican party sought
/ the way TO crush the rebellion, aEu the
/ Democratic party strained every nerve to
hnd out the way show not to do it," The
war over, the Republican party tried TO
\ iiild out the way TO pay their obligations
IN gold and preserve the national honor,
and the Democratic party again endeav-
I Oreu to lind out "hoW not to do it," At
( ter recovering from the shock produced
/ by long ana bloody war, the Republic
can party realized that the time for the
resumption OF specie payment was at
| hand, and successfully sought the way TO
DO It. The Democratic party claimed it
was not, and vainly sought the way chow
not to do it," The Republican party
tclalmed that the manufacture of tin could
I be made a prosperous American indus
try, and sought 10 place safeguards
around the Industry so 1t would be pOssi-
/ bic to do il. The Democratic party sought
TO tear them down so it would be possible
to find way "how not to do it," The
4 Republican party has ever sought to pro-
tect this country with good, healthy
tariff so thai il would be possible for us
to become the most prosperous nation on
the earth. The Democratic party has op-
/ posed it and sought through all the bar
nacles of their party to find the way
how not to do it,"
The South to-day is controlled by this
very circuInlocution party, and their ad-
vaucement shows it. We are told and
asked 10 believe that ali that country ly-
ing south OF Mason and Dixon's line is
the garden spot of the world" My
friend, that is So but the garden is over
run with weeds. A short time ago | was
i'll Montgomery, Ala, the capital of the
state, and of course | had a curiosity to
see the State House. l went up to see it
and on my way passed n small square,
| and in the square was fountain, but out
OF that fountain no water was squirting;
and in the basin that used to catch the
water after it was squirted, L saw old hats
and hOOpSkirts, old bottles and buStles,
old boots and beer keg, tin cans and
| broken dishes-everything in fact, but
| water, and as ] stood leaning against the
iron fence that inclosed the fountain and
gazing at the State House two hundred
yards away, l sighed and said: This
fountain, 100, has sought and found the
way how not to do it," The farmer of
the North raises everything his land and
the climate is capable of producing, and
| strives each year to increase the variety
OF his product. He has converted his
calling into a science. lie has lived for
years in the country controlled by the
Republican party, has caught the inlec
ton and successfully sought ''the way to
do it."
His brother IN the South living under
the influences of the circumlocution party
is where he was a hundred years ago.
To start with he had finer climate,
broader acres and richer land than his
Northern brother, and should have pro-
duced a greater variety of commodities.
Go through his fields to-day and you viii
find two things-cotton and watermel-
ons. Years ago he fell in love with cot
ton and watermelons. He married cot
ton and adopted watermelons, and to-day
he knows nothing but cotton and water
melons, talks nothing but cotton and wa
termelons, and raises nothing but cotton
and watermelons. He, too, has sought
and found through the example set him
by his party the way of 'how not TO
do it.''
The South has vast mountains Of iron
and coal and forests of the finest timber,
and until brains and energy and capital
went there from the sctiOn of the country
controlled by the Republican party and
took hold of them they were in the same
undeYelOped state they were on the day
Columbus discovered the first skirt dan
GERS on the Atlantic Coast 400 years ago.
Chattanooga, Atlanta and Birmingham
bear testimony to the fact that missiona-
ries are there from the land Of progress,
and that they have elbowed their way in
and said: You have been showing US for
years how not to do it, Now we will
show you how to do it, ="
Sectional strife is bad thing no matter
how you look at it, and if we are to have
"Solid South'-cotton and watermel-
ons-against the hundreds of industries
in the North, we should all stand to
shoulder and do all in our power to show
this circumlocution party chow to do it,"
We are told that cotton is KING"
therefore "watermelons must be queen"
but as this is not a kingdom but grand
and glorious republic, we will not sub
nit to their dictation and for once will
adopt their tactics and show them in No
vem Der show not to do it.''