Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-12-05

heap" Cleveland did what no Repub-
lican in his position could ever have
done-hrought this country to mon
ometallic basis. By his humbugDemo-
cracy and the omnipotent bribery Of
half a billion dollars of annual pat
ronage, he secured bunco Democratic
votes enough in congress to carry his
gold brigandage scheme through, and
turned the capitol, the treasury and
! the White house into annexes of
Wall street bucket shops and gamb-
ling bells. And 10000 bankruptcies
and 100000 tramps and beggars
promptly attested the monstrousness
ofhis sin and infamy. LII hisfrst twelve
months 40 900 miles ofrailroad went
into receivers hands, more than a
hundred banks suspended, mines, mills
and factories were shut down, mer-
chants and farmers were sold out at
forced sales, the whole republic was
| plastered with assignees' ard mort
gagees' notices, hordes of ragged and
| hungry Observation-Disclosures
citizens and workmen-beleague the
National CAPITOL hered flag of bank
ruptcy and rum waved triumphant
over half the continent, and the
coyotes of universal perdition reared
back on their hind legs and howed in
ghoulish glee from Winnepesaukee to
Yuba Dam.
And amid all the roar and wreck
and crash the squeaky voice Of Cleve-
lands asinine little Comptroller
| Eckels, who had never seen a $50
bill two years ago, was daily and hour
ly heard jubilantl ~ assuring the coun-
try and the world that it was mot
much of "a shower after ALL" Silver de
monetlzation was the seemingly insig-
nlticant trigger that threw the ponder
Gus trap of hemisphere disaster, and
Cleveland Democracy sprung it,
From time immemOrial the Demo
cratic party has poured out it's ferc-
est anathemas on the"rob0er tariff"
In every convention platform state
and national, in every speech and re-
solution and fabbergasty editorial,
Democrats have execrated the ruth
less war tariff" as the capitalization
of all political folly and financial
crime. For nearly two years they
have had the whole government and
It's departments, executive, legislative
and neutrality-suspicious., senate, house
OF eml-representative and courts
In their hands; and what have they
done to abrogate or mitigate "the
masterpiece Of legalized sneak-thiev-
cry, against which they have so I'M
anlmously and vociferOusly protest
ed? They have given US a protective
tariff with a few tiny corners chopped
off, and $40, 100000 a year added on
sugar alone; a tariff that Cleveland
declared was "reeking with perfdy
and dlshOnor;" a tariff that Dave
Hill denounced as ga national dis
grace and a national scandal"-a |
Mckinley bastard In Wilson cradle. |
Ever since the days of Grant, the
Democratic party has howled itself |
hoarse and raw-throated oyer Repub- |
llcan nepOtists and nepotism And |
to-day, every Democratic cabinet no.
body, senator and alleged representa-
tive, have all the departments at |
Washington damned. till their heads
and heels stick out Of windows, with |
their sons and their nephews, their
uncles and their cousins and their
aunts-tO say nothing of their other
female connections. Democratic Vice
President Stevenson's son was ap- |
pointed paymaster in the navy-sad- /
died for life on the country and the |
people, at So, 600 a year, and a pen
sion to his widOw-and did not get it
simply because he could not pass the
necessary physical examination
Democratic Tariff Abortionist Billy
Wilson's son has similar appoint
ment, and the people of the United
States will be taxed for the rest of
their lives, and their children after
them, to pay this hopeful scion of
t1lm-fam reform his generous annui-
ty. Democratic Secretary of the
Treasury Carlisle has two sons draw
ing handsome salaries from the gov
eminent, from you, from US. Demo
cratic Secretary Of the Navy Herbert
has his sOn-in-law and variegated
assortment of other relatives and
billeted upon the dear
people, you, US. Democratic Speaker
of the House Crisp has his son
Charley bagging 1900 a year ofpub-
lie money, your money, our money, |
as his teller-when all he could tell in
a century would not be worth % |
cents. Democratic Senator Cockrell, |
Of Missouri, wild-eyed and obstrep- |
erous Ereformer,s had his son filching |
81, 800 year as a committee clerk |
during all the years he was at school |
a Thousand miles away Democratic !
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, till his |
death had his 12-year-old son as an
alleged messenger, abstracting 81 ,44O |
a year from hepublic pocket. Sena-
tors Ransom, Blackburn, Gordon,
Harris, Arkansas Jones, Pasco, Pugh,
Mills and Butler-all illustrious and
rambunctious' Democratic ranters
against Republican nepotism and
nepotists-have sons or nephews
pocketing big annual stipends of
government money because they are
their sons Or nephews One official |
family in Washington has nine of it's
members on the public pay rolls! The
whole government has been convert
ed into vast continental souphouse
and free lunch route for the countless
hOrdes of pauDer kin of sham Demo-