Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06

Everlastingly Wanting itself and
Haunting itself as the foe of oppression
and corruption, the champion of po-
litical publication and reform, the
Democratic party has for generation
past crushed and cursed New York
city. tie magnificent metropolis of the
New World, under the filth-dripping
heels of despotism as brutal and
beastly as that of Ashantee or Timbuc-
too. 1t had not even the picturesqu g.
ness of savagery to Offset its beastli-
ness. Democracy in New York has
been Tammany, and Tamnany is and
has been the foul embodiment of all
that is basest and cruellst and most
loathsome il, American politics.
Tammany rule-which was Demo
cratic rule-has been the rule of gin
millers and gambling-hellers, of dive
keepers and thugs, assassins. bribe-
takers. and blackmailers, who have
divided the revenues of bagnios and
abortionists. and waxed rich on the
wages of infany and shame. 1t has
been rule of Twerds and Crokers,
Sheehans, DIVERS. Red Leorys, and
Dry Dollar Sullivans- 1t put an
ex-1ive boss ut the head of municipal
government. placed bunco steerers
and criminals of every dye on judicial
benches, aud packed boards of alder
men and commissioners with peniten-
tiary birds and outcasts. 1t turned
the order of Gods universe topsy-turvy
and put hell uppermost, so that new
er saw a cloud rise above Manhattan
Island without expecting n shower OF
ashes and sulphur. The Dead Sea
has for 4. 900 years rolled it's dark bill
lows of birthstone, salt, and bitumen
over two royal cities that were never
viler than New York under the sway
of Tanmany bosses. The stencil of
its lniquities and infaDiies has CON-
PEELED the archangels of heaven, MS
they flew over Gotham a million miles
high, to wear patent-nipper clothes
pins on their radiant noses and carry
disinfectants in their celestial hip
pockets. And Tammany rule has
been Democratic dominionl
Adlai Stevenson. a sucker kinsman
of mine. has been trundling abont over
the country. in all the jefferson sim
plicity" of u private car, expatiating in
Kaskaskian or Kaskakeean high Eng
lish on 1.-THE glorious principles of the
grand old Democratic party" What
are its ''principlesa" Has it any2 If
so, are they not as hinged, streaked,
striped, and speckled IL a little dark
ey's shirt in blackberry timer told
bugger with Cleveland and Hill, and
free silver with Crisp aud Bland.
High tariff with Laundryman Murphy
New York, low tariff with little
Billy Wilson in West Virginia. and
free trade with Mills in Texas and Wat
terson in Kentucky. For trusts with
German Brice, and McPherson's cook.
and against them with all the long
haired and leather hinged ''paytriots"
of the South and West. For an in.
come tax in ths rural districts and
against it in the cities. For one thing
here, another there, and still another
somewhere else. ''All things by turns
and nothing long," but always imbe-
cile and always false. For heaven in
theory for hell in practical
Why should such party wonder at
its overthrow2 Why should such a
colossus of imbecility, failure, and
Justification ever have expected any
thing but defeat at the hands of the
American people9 Why should its
"blind leaders of the blind" grope
about for explanations of what was in
evitable as the DEGREES of God2 "Vox
populi" is sometimes, though, alas !
far to rarely, "Vox Dsi," instead OF
.'Vox dIaboli." This vas one of the
times. The so-called Democratic par
ty was temporarily annihilated e.
cause it deserved annihilation ;because
infinite promise and infinitesimal per.
Torrance should not win; because
sixty.five millions of people cannot be
fooled all the time; because patriotic
common sense and common deceDcy
have not wholly persisted in America
Thank God for it!
Down with every party and every
man whose platform and pledges are
merely high sounding announcements
of what they never intend to do or try
to dol Up with the standards of right,
truth, justice, and liberty Perish all
demagogues and demagogy; party OF
no partyl Live the Repu bile and the
people. p. DOMAIN.