The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-16

They've buried him deep under thirty-dvs
Thousand majOritee.
Then Grover shed great big tear, an said: y
plainly see
IT'S condition that confronts US. an not 4
theoree.''
An then he sent for HOke Smith an laid hin
! across his knee,
While the horns were BLOWN after election
-Dittsburg Times.
OUR RULER IN WASHINGTON.
The Democratic Convention in Colorado
Closes With This Prayer.
Edward Cooke offered up the follow
ing mock prayer, last Tuesday at the
close of the Democratic convention, n
Gunnlson, the delegates bowling their
heads in more than mock solemnity:
Oh, almighty and all-powerful Cleve.
land, who art in Washington, when not
fishing; thou who art the father Of Ruth
and Ruth's sister. and Mary Halpin's boy
Oscar, and the godfather of the Demo
cratic party, tits father wouldn't own il
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 aud lick the ever-lastin'
stuffin' out of the man who disputes it.
When thou takest snuff we will sneeze;
when thou sayest free silver we will
echo tiny words: when thou sayest
gold then gold it is. We are
Democrats after the improved modern
futa h,,p X. TO, 81, soly<
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 adoreAniaster, we love thee for
| what thou hast not done for US. We
love thee because thou art Cleveland
We humbly surrender ourselves to thee.
Do with us as rhou wilt. Though wheat
is but 40 cents bushel we love thee:
though cotton 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 COM
panion of our bosom, is scantiiy dressed
and looks SO shabby she can't 20 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
faith and 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 Cleveland, words cannot ex-
press 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 that if it
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 independence. Thou, oh mighty
Cleveland, hast all the manhood and
independence in the party. We are
fools, liars. lickspittles, mudsills. 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
telest us to. Amt we honey of the
first water? Did ever a dog serve his
master more faithfully: Did ever
a dog get less for it? Oh, mighty master
we ara ever ready to serve thee and party
All the pay we ask is to be paited 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 is
all mapped out for us. All that is ex.
pecied is tn do what we are told to do
We thank thee, oh Cleveland, that we
are Democrats We thank thee for
the panic. We thank thee for he hun
CRY and idle men and " omen in the land.
We thank the for low prices. We
thank thee:for the banks that have; busted
and the thousands of business failures
since thou hast come into power. We
thank thee. for the hard times. We thank
thee for the rags our children wear. We
thank thee for the clothes our wife
needs and can't get. We thank
thee for all these things
because it is our duty as good Demo
era. 10 do SO. L. may he against the
grain" but we will take our medicine.
We will work our wives TO death,
starve our children, sacrifice our homes,
cruelty liberty and XIII prosperity, but
never 90 back OH our dear cid party, and
on thee. our most adored Cleveland
Thou art more account tiian ali Of us put
togei her Thou knowest more than the
south and west Cal US fools; spit IN
our faces; wipe your feet On us; we viii
love thee all the mare. And now our
great political father. We leave US IN
thy care. Do with us as thou witt.
Kick silver into the middle OF the next
century; give more privileges to the
national banks: is-,ne more bonds: estao-
lssh state bank: foster trusts; briee con-
gressmen with patronage; fl7h whenever
thou wilt. and hunt saipe whenever
tsou carest To, ami we viii inoor-e
every hing thou doest, carry Cleveland
ROSTERS. campaign torches, and Tor
evermcre sing tiny praise. Amen.
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