The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-11-22
Democratic Prayer.

vi, himISuty nhu OH PoWCIiui
Cleveland who art In Washington
when not fishing; thou who art the
father of Ruth and Ruth's sister,
and the godfather of the democrat.
ic party, Otis father wouldn't own
it if he was here,) We hail thy name
as the great political prophet of
the century We>bow down before
thee in humble political obedience.
When thou sayest go we go; when
thou sayest come, we come. We
have no desire but to.serve thee.
If thou sayest black is white we
will swear to it, and lick the ever
lasting stuffin out of the man who
disputes it. When thou takest
snuff, we will sneeze; when thou
sayest free silver, we will echo thy
words; when thou sayest gold, then
gold it IS. We are democrats after
the improved modern type. Our
business is to vote the ticket and
vote'er straight. What is it to us
whether we have free silver or not?
We are but dogs that eat the
crumbs that fall from our masters
tables. When the crumbs fall we
wag our tails; when they fall fast
we wag our tails faster; when they
dent fall we stand and wait until
they do. This is democracy. This
is the kind ofdemOcracy that elect
ed thee, our great and almighty
Cleveland. Oh most adored master
we love thee for what thou hast
done for US. We love the because
thou art Cleveland. We humbly
surrender ourselves TO thee. Do
with us what thou wilt. Though
wheatis but 40 cents a bushel we
love thee; though cotton is low we
love the; thoagh business is dull we
love the; though thousands, millions
are outof employment we'love thee;
though our children are clothed in
rags we love thee; though our wife,
the dear companion of our bosom
is scantly dressed and looks SO
shabby we can'tgo to church, we
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love thee; though we are sinking
deeper in debt aad* poverty is
knocking at the door and hunger
staring sin the face, we love thee
still. This showes our great faith
and love for thee. Our wives and
children we are willing to sacrifice
even as the 1Iindoo mother sacri
fees her offspring by throwing il
under the crushing wheels O
the Juggernaut.' Oh mighty Cleve
land, words cannot express our love
for thee. We love our party too
What care we about the promise;
it made. We know it promised
free silver and we know 1t won
give it to us, but we will stick tt
the party. We know we said
it did not do the things it promset
to do we would leave it, but w
: lied when we said it. We though
: then we had some manhood abou
; us, but we amt. We have no indi
: pendence. Thou, oh mighty Cleve
land, hast all tile manhood and in
dependence in the party. We ar
fools, liars, lickspittles, mudsill'
We have no business to want any
thing or to say anything. Las
: year we favored free silver an
now we have to oppose It, We fs
0 vored it then because we though
h it was right. We oppose it nov
n most adored master, because tho
: tellest usto. Amt we honey O
the first water? Did ever do
+ serve his master more faithfully
g Did ever dog get less for it
d Oh mighty master, we are eve
r ready to serve thee and thy part,
a All the pay we ask is to be pate
on the back by some local polit
clan and called good democr,
IS we amt got any sense. We don
= want any, only enough to vote ii
T. ticket. 1t don't take any sense ,
# be good democrat what u joyf,
thought; we don't have to thin
Is We, don't have to worry. OF
work is all mapped out for us. A
=, that is expected is to do what "
u are told to do. We thank thee Z
IT Cleveland that we are a democrs
It We thank thee for the banks tina
n have busted and for the Thousand
n of business failures since thou ha
- come into power, we thank thee f
y the hard times we thank thee fortl
rags our children wear, we than
thee for the clothes our wife need.
and can't get, we thank thee 4
whatrthOaih hast done for the bank,
and what thou hast mot done f
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