Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1893-12-08

OF Irwin, Colorado, IN the democratic
county convention of the county IN which
Irwin is situated. The Gunnison (CoA
Tribune, whose reporter took down IN
short hand the words of Mayor Irwin,
says that just before adjournment the
mayor arose, and all the delegates rever.
emily bowed their heads while he offered
prayer to the Stuffed Prophet The voice
of the prayer is said by the reporter to
have been "flled with emotion" Fol-
lowing is what he said ,,
20 almighty 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 {,ts father wouldn't
!own. it if he were here), we hail thy name
as the great political prophet of the cen.
tury. We bow down before thee in hum
BILE political obedience. When thou say
sayest unto US Co. we go. When
thou sayest Come we come. We have
no desire but 10 serve thee. If thou say.
est black is white, we will swear to it,
and lick the everlastin' stuffln 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 ard to vote 1t 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 fallewe wag our tails.
When they fall faster we wag faster.
When they don't fall at all we stand pa.
tiently by and wait until they do. This
is democracy. This isthe kind of democ!
racy which elected thee, our great and al
mighty Cleveland. Omost adored mas.
ter, we love thee for what thou hast not
| donefor us. We love thee because thou
art Cleveland. 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 love thee. Though business is
dull, we love thee. Though thousands
millions-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 bo.
som-is scantily dressed and looks so
shabby that she can't so to church, we
love thee. Though we are sinking deeper
in debt, and poverty is knocking loudly
at the door. we love. thee. This shows
our great faith and love Tor thee. Our
wives and children we are willing to sac.
1 riace, even as the Hindoo mother sacri.
fees her offspring by throwlngsit under
the crushing wheels of the car Of Jugger.
naut. O mighty Cleveland, words can
not express our love tor theo. We love
our party, too. What care we about the
many promises it made? We know i,
promised free silver, and we know il
won't give it to us but we will stick to
the party. We know that we said that il
it did not do the things it promised to dc
we would leave it; but we lied when We
said,so We thought then that we had
some manhood about US but we ain t.
We have no independence. Thou, Q
mighty Cleveland, hast all the manhood
and Independence in the party, We are
Observation-Disclosures We
haye no business to want anything or say
anything. Last year we favored free sill
yer, and now we have to oppose it. We
favored it then because we thought II
was right, We oppose 1t now, most
adored master, because thou tellest US to-
Aren't we honey of the first wateri
Did ever dog serve his master more faith.
fullyY Did eyer dog get less for iti
o mighty master, we are ever ready tc
serve thee and the party. All the pay we
ask is to be patted on the back by some
local politician and called good demo.
crat. We haven't any sense. We don I
need any-only enough to vote the ticket
1t doesn't take any sense to be good
democrat. What a joyful thought We
don't have to think. We don't have to
worry, Our work is all mapped out fcl
us. All that is expected of us is that we
do what we are told to do. We thank
thee, o Cleveland, that we are democrats.
We thank thee for the panic. We thank
thee tor the hungry and idle men and
women in the land. We thank thee fo1
the banks that have burst and the thou
sands Of business failures since thou hast
come into power. We thank thee for the
hard times. We thank thee for the rags
our children weag. 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 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 will take our
medicine. We will work our wives to
death, starve our children, sacrifice our
homes, cruelty liberty and killprosperity,
but will never 40 back on our dear old
party and on thee, o most adorable and
adored Cleveland, Thou art of more &C.
count 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 will love thee all the
more. And now, our great political
father, we leave ourselves in thy care.
Do with us as thou wilt. Kick silver
into the middle of the next century;
give more privileges to the national
banka Issue more honds. nreserua The