Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-11
ALMIGHTY GROVER.

cratic county convention last Tues
day Edward Croke, Mayor of Irwin,
arose and all the delegates reverent-
| ly bowed their heads while he offered
prayer to Almighty Cleveland.
Here it is:
ooh, almighty and all-powerful
Cleveland, who art in Washington,
when not fishing; thou who art the
father of Ruth and Ruth's sister,
and of Maria Halpin's boy, Oscar,
and the godfather of the Democratic
party, Tits father wouldn't own it if
he were 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 everlastin'
stuffin' out of the man who disputes
it. When thou takest snuff we will
sneeze; when thou sayest free silver
we echo thy words; when thou say
est gold, then gold it is. We are
Democrats after the improved mod
ern 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 of the crumbs that fall from
our masters tables. When the
crumbs fall we wag our tails; when
they fall fast we wag faster; when
they don't fall we stand and wait
until they do. This is Democracy.
This is the kind of Democracy which
elected thee, our great and almighty
| Cleveland Oh, most adored mas
ter, we love thee for what thou hast
not done for us. We love thee be-
cause thou art Cleveland. We
humbly surrender ourselves to thee.
Do with us as thou wilt. Though
wheat is but forty cents bushel we
love thee; though cotton is low we
love thee; though business is dullIwe
love thee; though thousands, mil
lions are out Of employment We love
thee; though our children are
clothed in rags we love thee; though
our wife, the dear companion of our
bosom, is scantily dressed and looks
SO shabbily she can't go to church,
we love thee; though we are sink
ing deeper in debt and poverty is
knocking at the door, and hunger
is staring us in the face, we love
thee still. This shows our great
faith and love for thee, Our wives
and children we are willing to sac
rifce, even as the Hindoo mother
sacrifices her offspring by throwing
it under the crushing wheels of the
juggernaut. Oh, mighty Cleve-
land, words cannot express our love
for thee. We love our party, too.
What care we about the many prom
ises it made. We know it promised
free silver, and we know it won't
give it to us, but we will stick to
the party. We know we said Nit
did not do the things it promised to
do we would leave it, but we lied
when we said it. We thought then
we had some. manhood about us,
but we amt. We have no indie
pendence. Thou, oh mighty Cleve-
land, hast all the manhood and in
dependence in the party. We are
fools, liars, lickspittles, mudsils.
We have no business to want any
thing or to say anything. Last
year we favored free silver, and now
we have to oppose it. We favored
it then because we thought it was
right. We oppose it now, most
adored master, because thou tellest
us to. Amt we honey of the first
water? Did ever dog serve his
master more faithfully? Did ever
a dog get less for it? Oh, mighty
master, we are ever ready to serve
tnee ana party. All tne pay we ask
is to be patted on the back by some
local politician and called a good
Democrat. We amt got any sense.
We don't want any, only enough to
vote the ticket. 1t don't take any
sense TO be good Democrat. What
a joyful thought! We don't have
to think. We don't have to worry
Our work 8 all mapped out for US.
All that is expected is to do what
we are told to do. We thank thee,
oh Cleveland, that we are Demo-
Gratis. We thank thee for the panic.
We thank thee for the hungry and
idle men and women in the land
We thank thee for the low prices,
We thank thee for the banks that
have busted and the thousands OF
business failures since thou hast