Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-11-30
(Fl ON Gunnison, Col. Tribune.)

Previous to the close of the demo
cratic county convention last Tues
day, Edward Croke. mayor Of Irwin
arose and all the delegates reyerently
bowed their heads while he offered
prayer to Almighty Cleveland, The
voice was filled with emotion and the
reporter found it difficult to get every
word. But here it is:
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 Of
Mary Ealpkin's boy, Oscar. and the
gOd-fa her of the democrat tic party.
its father wouldn't own it if he were
here, we hail thy name as the g"ea
political prophet of the century. We
bow down before thee in political
obedience. When thou sayst go, we
go, when thou saySt come, we come.
We have no desire but to serve thee.
Ii thou sayst black is white we will
sware to it and lick the. everlatin'
stuffin' out of the man who disputes
it. When thou takest snuff we will
sneeze; when thou sayst free silver
we will echo thy words; when thou
sayst 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
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This is the kind OF democracy which
elected thee, our great and almighty
Cleveland. Oh. most adured master.
we love thee for what thou hast done
for us. We love thee because thou art
Cleveland. We humbly surrender our
selves to thee. DO with US as thou
wilt. Though wheat is but forty
cents a busllel we love thee; though
cotton is low we love thee: though
thousands, millions. are ont of en-
plOyment we love thee; though our
wife, the dear companion of our
DOssonl, is scaLtily dressd, and looks
so that she can't go to church; we
love thee; though we are sinking deep
er in debt. and poverty is knocking az
the door. and hunger 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 express our love for
thee. " e love our party. too. What
care we about the many promises it
made. We know it promised free sill
yer, and we know it wont give it to
US, but we stick 80 the party. I've
know we said ii it did not 10 the
things it promised to do we would
leave il. We thought then that 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, lick
spittles, mudsills. We have no bust
ness to want anything or to say any
thing. Last year we favored free
silver and HOW we have to oppose it,
We favored it then because we
thought it was right. We Oppose it
now, most ad' red master, because
thou tellest us to. Amt we u honey
of the first water? Did ever dog serve
his master more faithfully? Did ever
dog get less for it? Oh. mighty mas
ter. we are ever ready to serve thee
and party. All the pay we ask is to
be patted on the back by some local
politician and be called Il good demo-
crat. We amt got and sense. We
don't want any. only enough to vote
the ticket. It don't take any sense
to be a good democrat. What Il joy
full 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-
pected is to do what we are told to do.
ny l. ~
are democrats. We thank thee for the
panic. We thank thee for the hungry
and idle men and vernon in the land.
We thank thee for the 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 the for what thou hast done
for the banker and for what thou hast
not done for the people. We thank
thee for all these things because it is
our duty as Il good democrat to do so.
1t may be against the grain" but we
take our medicine. We will work our
wives to death. Starye our children.
sacrifice our homes. cruelty liberty and
kill prosperity, but will never 60 back
ON our dear ould party, and on thee,
our most adored Cleveland Thou art
more account than all of lis put to-
gether. Thou knowest more than the
south and west. Call us fools, spit in
our faces; wipe your feet or us: we
will love thee all the more And now
our great political father. we leave. us
IN thy care. Do with us as thou wilt
Kick silver into the middle of the next
century; give more privileges to the .
national banks: issue more bonds; pre-,