The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-12-22
To Almighty Cleveland.

The following is credited to Col
orado paper as being a prayer offered
at the close ola Democratic county con-
vention just held in that state:
"Oh, almighty and all powerful
Cleveland, who art in Washington,
when not fishing; thou art the father of
Ruth and Ruth's sister and thou know
est how many more, 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 pro-
phet of the century. We bow down be-
fore 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' 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 Democrats after the improved
modern 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 Dem
ocracy. This is the kind Of Democracy
which elected thee, our great and al
mighty Cleveland. Oh, most adored
master, we love thee for what thou hast
done for us. We love thee because
thou art Cleveland. We humbly sur
render 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 bus
mess is dull we love thee; though thou
sands, millions, are out of employment
we love; though our children are cloth
ed in rags we love thee; though our wife,
the dear companion Of our bosom, is
scantily dressed and looks 50 shabby
she can't 90 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 off
spring by throwing it under the crush
ing wheels of the juggernaut. Oh,
mighty Cleveland words cannot express
our love for thee We love our party,
too. What about the many promises it
made? We know it promised free sill
yer, 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 manhood about us,
but we havn't. We have no independ-
ence. Thou, oh mighty Cleveland,
hast all the manhood and independence
in the party. We are fools, liars, lick.
spittles and mudsils. We have no
business to want anything or to say any
thing. Last year we favored free sill
ver 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 a honey of the first water
Did ever dog serve his master more
faithfully? Did ever dog get less for
1t? Oh mighty master, we are ever
ready to serve thee and party. All the
pay we ask is to be patted on 4 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 a good democrat What IA 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! ecied
is to do what we are told 10 do We
thank thee oh, Cleveland, that we are
democrats We thauk thee for the
panic; we thank thee for the hungry and
idle men and women in The land; We
thank thee for low prices; we thaIk thee
fol the banks that have been busted and
the thousands of business failures since
thou hast come into power; we thank
thee for the bard 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
I
has done for the banker and what thou
hast not done for the people; we thank
thee for all these things because it is our