The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-11-25
A Den PRAYEk,
Wof1hlhpinE CLEVELAND Ter His
0sedneee.

Previous TO the close Of Demo-
cratic county convention recently held
out IN Colorado, Edward Croke,
Mayor Of Irwin, Colo, srose and all
the delegates rverently bowed their
heads while he offered prayer to al
mighty Cleveland. Here Is the prayer:
Oh. almighty and slLpowerful
Clevlsnd, who art in Washington
when not fishing; thou who art the
father ~ Ruth and Ruth's sister, and
of Maria Halpin's boy, Oscar, sud
the grandfather Of the Democratic
party, Cts fsthe. wouldn't oNn It II
he were here) we hail thy name a.
the great political prophet Of the
century. We bow down before thee
in humble political obedience. When
thou sayest go, We 60, when thou
sayest come, we come. We hsve no
desire but to serve thee. II thon
ssyest black is white We will swear
to it sri lick the ~ererlastia' etasn'
ont Of the mzn who deputies it. When
thoa takes s1uG We will saeeze; when
thou ssyest god thea gold it is. We
are democrats afs.r the improved
modern type. Our business Is 20
vote the ticket ard vote 'er strs;gst.
What is it TO q. whether We hsye
free silver OF not. We are vat dogs
tt.t eat Of the crumbs ,hst tall from
or masters table. When the cnmb.
fall no Wrg our tsils, whea they fall
hsst we wss f.s'er; when they don't
fall we stand and wait until they do.
This is Democracy. This is the kiad
Of Democracy which elected thee, our
great and almighty Cleveland. Oh,
most ado:ed master, We love thee for
Whist thou hast not done for us. We
love thee beeanse thou art Clevsl,ad.
We humbly surrender our-lyes II
thee. Do with Us q thou wilt.
Though whest is bat forty cent. =
bashel We love thee; though eottce i.
low We love ther; though bss:ness is
dull we love tkee; thoagh thousands.
millions are cut Of ernpl-yE~nt we
love thee; though u children sre
clothed in rags We love ther; though
our wife, the dear companion Of our
bosom, is scantily dressed and look,
- shabby she can't 60 TO church, we
love thee; though We are sinking
deeper in debt and poverty is knock
ing At the door, and hunger i. staring
Us in the face, We love the still. Thi.
shows ? great latin and lore for
thee. Our wives and children We sre
willing to sacrifce, even ss the Hill
doc mother sacrifices her offspring
by throwing it under tie crushing
wheels of the juggcrasut. Oh, mighty
Cleveland, words cannot express our
love for thee. We love our psrty 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 if it dix
rot do the things it promised to W.
would leave, bat VIC lied when We
said it. We thought then we had
| some manhood about Gs, but we stint.
We have 40 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 wasn't anything
or to say anything. Last year
we favored free silver and nov
we have to oppose it. We favored it
then because we thought it was right.
We oppose it now, most adored mas
ter. because thou telics: us to. Amt
we a honey of the first water? Did
ever a dog serve his msster more
faithfully? Did eve dog get less
tor il? Oh, Mighty master we are
ready to serve thee and party. All
the pay we ask is to be patted or the
back by some local politician AID
called a good democrat. We Amt got
any sense. We don't want any, ou!y
enough to vote the ticket. 1t dent
take any sense 10 be y goodde,nocrst.
What a joyful thought. We don't
have to worry. Our work Is all
mapped out tor US. Al that is eY-
pected Is to do what we arc told to
do. We thank thee, oh Cleveland,
that we are Democrats. We thank
| thee for the panic. We thank thee
for the hungry and idle mon and wO-
men in the land. We thank thee for
low prices. We thank thee for the
banks that have busted and the thou
sands of business failures since thou
hast come into power. We thank
thee for the rags u children wear.
We thank thee for the clothes our
wife needs and can't get. We thank
thee for what thou hast done for the !
banker and what thou has not done
for the people. We thank thee for
all these things because it is our duty
as a coed democrat to do 80. 1t may
be against the grain but We Will
take our medicine. We viii work
our wives to death, staryc our
children, sacrifices our homes, cruelty
liberty and kill prosperity, but will
never go back on Our desr old party,
and Oh thee, our most adored Cleve-
land. Thou art more account than all
of us put together. Thou knowest
more than the soIth and the west.