Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-07-06

prompt regularity that was simply
astounding.
We propose henceforth to eat at
the first table, close up to the head
at that.
We Western and Southwestern
men are not making any kicks or
threats. We are young, virile, pro-
life ambitious and not easily bluffed.
We have out-grown our swaddling
clothes, thrown off all leading strings
and propose to help run the Demo
cratic circus. We have a very clear
idea of what we want and we will
not be very mealy mouthed about
letting people know our opinion.
The men who conquered the Great
American Desert of our old time
biographies and made it blossom as
the rose-the men who, through long
days of labor, and nights devoid of
ease, subdued the wilderness and
rendered it the most delectable place
of human habitation beneath the
stars; these men
Who their duties know
But know their rights
And knowing dare maintain
These men are to be leaders here
after.
They intend to formulate a plat
form which can be understood by the
bulk of the plain people; which will
be made by them for their own in
%terest; and then they propose to put
a good sound valley democrat on that
platform and elect him as the sue
cessor to brave and honest Grover
Cleveland. There is magnificent
Carlisle, invincible Horace Boise,
brilliant James E. Campbell, cour.
ageous Sterling Morton, incompara'
BILE Adali Stevenson, and scores oil
others worthy of that exalted station,
Give us as much coddling fol
three years as Indiana and Ohio (tc
say nothing of New York; have re-
ceived annually for a quarter Of {
century, and the youngest child nov
slumbering on his mothers breast
though he should double discount
the remarkable age of Methuselah
wouldn't live long enough to see an
other Republican Presidential cleo
tor west of the Wabash River.
The central West is the great mis-
sionary grounds for democrats. IT.
easy to make fun of chasing politi
cal rainbows. You must know how
) When Gen. Palmer, Ben T. Cable
Gov. Altgeld, VIM. R. Morrison
VIM. F. Villas, the Daddy of Peck
Bad Boy and Gov. Boise began
chasing rainbows, somehow the.
got what they went after, and SOM
people heard something drop.
Besides a President, we western
Democrats want a few other things
We want that ''cowardly make
-, shift" the Sherman Law, repealed
1 but in its stead we want the none,
of Democracy and the constitution
both silver and gold, and a sufficien
paper currency to be kept at pa
with and redeemable in such coin
: We want the robber tariff so brok
Ell down that we can follow the rul
of common sense, justice and com
merce-sell in the highest marke
and buy in the lowest. We wan
the pension list so thoroughly purg
| ed that it shall become a veritabl
roll of honor. We want an incom
I tax on incomes of ten thousand an,
Z over, so that abnormal wealth ma,
l bear its proportional burden. w
., want true civil service accomplishe
by placing only democrats on guar
from Martha's Vineyard to the aleu-
Z tan Islands and from the Lake {
the Woods to the Dry Tortugas. w
want our great rivers and watel
S ways so improved that they will b
e navigable in fact as well as by act {
Congress, thereby regulating freigt
: and passenger rates. We want thos
utterly un-American and un-Demc
cratic cancers on the body politi
-monopolies and trusts-thorougl
n cut up by the roots with the SUI
y geon's knife, to the end that trad
I may be untrammeled and the Lahore
may receive his due reward.
These things we want, and thes
things we will have. Give us thes
and then, like Oil yer Twist, we wi
J call for more.
q
RAINFALL EXTRAORDINARY.
A Phenomenal D%OwnpOnr In Ly0
County, Kansas.