New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-12-20
THE MAYOR PRA YED HARD.
Nv e are but thy Dogs he Said, 50 we
ag our Tails. ''.
Though Wheat IS but Forty Gentsa Bush
el, we Still Thank Thee.

81 have Just returned from Gunnison,
| Colorado said ;,tfavelling man the 9TH
er night. .sThey held democratic con
/ ventien while I was there and Mayor
| Edward Croke, mayor Of Irwin a neigh
boring city, arose and all the delegates
reverently bowed their heads while he
offered prayer to Almighty Cleveland. !"
s.Oh, almighty and all powerful. Cleve-.
land" he said, "who art in Washington,
when not fishing; thou who art the faith
er of Ruth and Ruth's sister: and the
god -father.of the democratic party Gts
father wouldn't own it if he were here,)
we hal thy name as the great political
prophet of the century. We bow dow n
before thee in humble political obedience
When thou sayest go, we go; when thou
sayest come, we come. We have no de-
sire But to serve thee. If thou sayest
| black is white we will swear to it and
| Lick the everlastin' stuf1in' 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 Dem 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 table. 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. .5 ...
| .'Oh, most adorned luaster, we love
thee for what thou hast done for us. We
humbly surrender ourselves to thee. Do
| with us as thou wilt. Though wheat is
but forty cents bushel. we love thee;
thougllcottoni is low we love thee; though
business is dull, we love thee; though
thousands, millions, are out of employ
ment, we love thee; though our children
are clothed in rags we love thee; though
our wife, the dear companion Of our
bosom, is soantily dressed and looks so
shabbilY she can't go to church, we love
thee; though we are sinking 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
| love for thee. Our wives and children
we are willing to sacrifice, 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 promises 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 if it did not do the things it pro-
/ missed to do we would leave it. but we
lied when we said it. We thought then
that we had some manhood about US, but
we amt. We have no independen
/ Thou, oh mighty Cleveland, hast all the
manhood and independence in the party.
We are fools, liars, lickspittles, mudsills.
1--WE have no business to want any
thing q. to say anything. Last: year. we
favored free silver, and now we have to
1oppose it. We favored it then because
I'VE thought it was ight We oppose it
now, most adored mas ter, because thou
tellest US to. Amt we honey 81 the
first watera Did ever dog serve his mas
tersmore faithfully Did ever q dog get
less for it2 Oh, mighty master, we are
ever ready to serve thee and part All
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