Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
TO ALMIGHTY CLEVELAND,
(From the Reed City Clarlon.l

(From the Reed City ClaronO
Oh, almighty and all powerful Cleve-
land who art in Washington, when not
fishing; thou art the father of Ruth and
Ruth's sister, and Of Maria lIalpln's
boy, Oscar, and the godfather of the
Democrat party, we haYe thy name as
the great political prophet of the CEN
tury. We bow down before thee in
| humble political obedience. When
thou sayest go, we go, when thou say
est come, we come. We have no desire
but to serve thee. If thou sayest black
is white we will swear to it and kick
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 till they do. This is demo
cracy. 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
not done for us. We love thee because
thou art Cleveland. We humbly sur
render ourselves TO thee. Do with us
what thou wilt. Though wheat is only
40 cents Il bushel we love thee; though
cotton is low we love thee; though bus
mess is dull we love thee: though thous-
| g.f,
we love thee; though our children are
clothed i'll rags we love thee; though
we are sinking deeper in debt and poy-
erty is knocking at the door, and hun
ger is staring us in the face, we love
thee still. This shows orr great faith
and love for thee. We love our party,
too. What care we about the many
promises it made. We know it prom
ised free silver, and we know it won't
give it to us, but we will stick to the
party. We have no independence.
Thou, oh mighty Cleveland, hast all
the manhood and independence in the
party. We are fools, liars, mudsills.
We have no business to want anything
or to say anything. Last year we fav-
ored free silver, and now we have to
oppose it. We favored it then because
we thought it was right. We oppose II
now, most adored master, because thou
tellest us to. Did ever dog serve his
master more faithfully? Did ever a
dog get less for it? Oh, mighty master
we are ever ready to serve thee and
party. All the pay we ask is to be pat
ted on the back by some local politician
and called "a good democrat. We ain
got any sense. We don't want any on
| ~ to vote the ticket. 1t don't take any
sense to be a good democrat. What
| joyful thought We don't have TO
think. We don't have to worry; our
work is mapped out for us. Ali that is
expected of us is TO do as we are told
to do. We thank thee that we are
! democrats. We thank thee for the
hungry and idle men and 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 pow
er. We thank thee for the hard times.
We thank thee 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 a good democrat to do so.
1t may be against the grain" but we
take our medicine straight. Thou art
of more account than all of us put
together. Thou knowest more than
the South and West. Call us fools;
spit in our faces; wipe your feet on us;
we 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 in the middle of next CEN
fury; give more privileges to the ma
tional banks; issue more bonds; pre-
serve the Mckinley bill; establish state
banks; foster trusts; bribe congressman
with patronage; fish and hunt when
ever thou wilt. We will indorse every
thing thou doest, Oh mighty Cleve-
land. Carry Cleveland roosters, cam
paign torches and evermore sing thy
praise. Amen.