The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-28
ADEMoCRATIC PRAYER.
A Democratic Conventional in Colorado Closes its Session with MOCK
 Invocation to Cleveland.


 thing like this, especially by the men-
 bers of his own party. On the author
 ity of the Gunnlson, (Col.) Tribune
 the late democratic convention in that
 city closed with prayer by its pre- siding officer, Col. Crock, mayor of IT, win. His invocation was addressed to Grover Cleveland and was as follows:
 "Oh mighty and all powerful Cleve-
 land, who art in Washington when not
 fishing; thou who art the father of Ruth
 and of Ruth's sister. and of Maria Hal
 pins boy, Oscar, and the god-
 father of the democratic party, Qts ia
 ther wouldn't own it if he were here),
 we hail thy name as the great political
 prophet of the century. We bow down
 before thee in humble political obedi-
 ence. When thou sayest go, we go!
 when thou sayest come, we come. We
 have no desire but to serve thee. If
 thou sayestblack is white we will swear
 to it and lick the everlastin' sutffin' out
 of the man who disputes it. When thou
 takest snuff we sneeze; when thou say
 est 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 Ter 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 ta-
 bles. 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 democ-
 racy. This is the democracy which : elected thee, our great and mighty Cleveland. Oh, most adored master, we love thee for what thou hast not done for us. We love thee because 7 thou art Cleveland. We humbly sur render ourselves to thee. Do with us as thou wilt. Though wheat is but 4( cents bushel we love thee; though . cotton is low we love thee; though bus f mess is dull we love thee; though thou
 sands, millions are out of work we love , thee; though our children are clothed
 in rags we love thee; though our wife ? the dear companion of our bosom, il I scantily dressed and looks so shabby she can't go to church, we love thee f though we are sinking deeper in deb and poverty is knocking at the door I and hunger is staring us in the face, w love thee still. Our wives and childrel we. are willing to sacrifice, even as thu I Hindoo mother sacrifices her offspring , by throwing it under the crushing |. wheels of the juggernaut. Oh. might.
 Cleveland, words cannot express ou
 love for thee. We love our party, too What care we about the many prom g ises it made. We know it promised : free silver, and we know won't give it to us, but we will stick t Q the party. We know we said if it diC - not do the things it promised to do w . would leave it, but we lied when W, J said it. We thought then we had som Q manhood about us, but we ain't. w - have no independence. Thou, Oh a mighty Cleveland, hast all the manhood ]; and independence in the party. w 2 are fools, liars, lick-spittles, mudsills 1 We have no business to want anythin; or to say anything. Last year we ia s vored free silver, and now we have t,
 oppose it. We favored it then be cause we thought it was right. w
 oppose it now, most adored master, be !, cause thou tellest us to. Ain't W, o a honey of the first water? Did ever
 dog serve his master more faithfully n Did ever dog get less for itP Oh n mighty master, we are ever ready L 1T serve thee aud party. All the pay W f ask is to be patted on the back by som f local politician and called good dem a ocrat. We ain't got any sense. w don't want any, only enough to vot ,s the ticket. It don't take any sense t , bo good democrat. What a joyfu q thought. We don't have to think. w e don't have to worry. Our work i mapped out for us. All that is expecte Q is to do what we are told to do. W
 thank thee, Oh, mighty Cleveland, ths 4 we are democrats. We thank thee fo l. the panic. We thank thee for the hun ], gry and idle men and women in tn e land. We thank thee for the low prices IS We thank thee for the banks that hay IS busted and the thousands of bushes d failures since thou hast come into DOW