River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-12-14

Gnnnison, (Col.) Tribune: Previous
to the close of the democratic county
convention last Tuesday, Edward
Croke, mayor of Irwin, arose and all
the delegates reverently bowed while
he offered prayer to Almighty Cleve-
land. The speakers voice was filled
with emotion and the reporter found
1t difficult to get every word, but here
1T is:
TO ALMIGHTY CLEVELAND.
Oh. almighty, and all powerful
Cleveland, who art in Washington,
when not fishing: thou who art the
father of Ruth and Ruth's sister, and
Maria Halpin's boy Oscar, and the
godfather of the democratic party, fits
father wouldn't own tiff 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.
Ii 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
will echo thy words; when thou sayest
gold then gold it is. We are demo
Gratis after the most improved moder
type. Our business is to vote the tick
ct 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; and when they don't fall we
stand and wait until they do. This is
democracy. This Is the kind of demOc
racy which elected thee, our great and
almighty Cleveland. Oh, most adored
master, we love thee for what thou
hast not done for us. We love thee
because thou art CleYeland. We
humbly surrender ourselves to thee
DO with us as thou wilt. Though
wheat is but forty cents a bushel we
love thee; though cotton is low we
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 scant-
lily dressed and looks SO shabby she
can't go to church we love thee; though
we are sinking deeper in debt and pow
erty is knocking at the door. aud hun
ger 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
wheels of the juggernaut. Oh, mighty
Cleveland, words cannot express our
love for thee. We love our party, too.
What care we about the many prom
Uses it made. We know il 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 promised to do We would
leave it, but we lied when We said it
We Thought then we had some man
hood 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 and jackalls. We
have no business to want anything or
to say anything. Last year we favored
free silver and now we have to oppose
It. We favored il then because we
thought it was right We oppose it
now, most arered master, because
thon tellest US to. Amt we honey
of the first water! Did ever dog serve
his master more faithfully! Did ever
dog get less for il! Oh, mighty
master, we are ever ready to serve
thee and the party. All the pay
we ask is To be patted on the
back by some local politician and
called 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.
" hat n joyful thought: we don't have
10 think; we don't have to worry. Our
work is mapped out for us. All that
is expected is to do what we are told
10 do. We thank thee, Oh Cleveland,
that we are democrats; we thank thee
for the panic; we thank thee for the
hungry and idle men AID women in
the land; we thank thee 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 what thou hast done
for the banker and what thou hast