Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-19
be unable to sustain itself, the only
alternative is to- resort to the govern
ment to aid and assist in purifying its
management
DEMOCRATIC PRAYER.
No. Mi.

NO. XII.
Most adorable and ever to be rever-
enced Grover: Thou who art always
great, whether trampling tadpoles on
Hog Island, catching bass at Ruzzard's
Bay, or making congress trem 6le in
it's boots at Washington. We come to
thee once more to thank thee for all
thou hast done for our party and for
the people. Our most esteemed politi-
cal father, thou dcest all things we'll,
and we are willing that thou shalt be
glorified therein.
If congress is stubborn, thou takest
it by the nape of the neck and the
seat of the pants and shaketh it until
its free silver teeth rattle in its head
That is right. Make them squirm.
DID they not vote for thee? Did they
not nominate thee? Did they not
stump the country and advise every
body to vote for thee? Verify they
did. Now, most adora BILE Cleveland,
make 'em toe the mark. Make 'em
pass resolutions praising thy ad-
ministration. Hold their noses
to the political grinds'one while
the Populists and the repu blicans ride
on their backs. Give 'em the gold cure
until they puke up every time
honored principle they ever knew.
Take their shaggy locks in the right
and left hand of thy wrath and bump
their heads ,ogethe: until they prom
ise to kiss thy big toe. Most worthy
master, we commend to thy especial
care the southern congressman who
advised everybody to vote for thee,
who sworc by Adams off OK that
thou vast the right stuff, who shared
the swag, and now are trying to re-
pudiate thee and profane thy great
name, Onr worshipful master. don't
let them do it. Drive 'em away from
thy pie counter. Follow them home
and defeat their denomination. Sit
down on them with the Importance of
thy political weight. Mash the ever
lastin' stuffin out of them forever and
forever. AS 10 us poor common peo-
thought whatsoever.
Thou knowest our uprisings and our
downsittings. Thou canst tell it by
the patch on our pants.
1t is glory enough for us to see thee
rule with an iron rod. We are but
the mud sills of society. Put thy feet
on us and mash US into the earth.
We fear thy name and thy mighty
power.
We shall never ask thee for any
thing that will bring displeasure to
thy fatness.
Coxey and Browne tried that and,
10! they did languish in Jail.
They rose up in the morning and
went forth with a banner the size of
a Columbian postage stamp.
They bearded the lion in his den.
They stepped on the grass.
They offended thy fatness and the
servants of thy fatness.
And the servants of thy fatness
swooped down upon them and gath
cred them in.
They smote them hip and thigh.
So be it, most gracious master, in
all thine enemies.
What business has poor man to
want that which he has not?
If he is not satisfied let him get off
the earth.
There are too many of them here
anyhow.
We thank thee, most gracious mas
ter, that they are being starved out
and shot and killed.
It will make more room for thy
fatness-
Now take us into thy care. Put us
in the seat of thy pants and sit down
on us wbHnSoever thou wills. Tie us
in knot And throw us to the dogs.
but we wisl continue to praise thy
name foEsver and forever.-Amen.
THE fight between the tweedle-de
ard twSsSle-dum tariff parties has
ended for the present 1t is now in
order for the liars 10 come home and
speak for the free silver thev Svolild