Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-07-05
THE L8tlIsstfi.E taURiER-IDUg-
Nal QU0fEs CHAMP cLAHK',
PESAsyi.yANfA SPEECH.
The Bemoefa,ie Party Is Getting
Ready To Give samebaiy Whip
ping-it Is Angry and Win
isro0fs No fanIissiness.
Correspondence of the Courier Journal.

Correspondence of the Courier Journal
WASHINGTON, June 25.-One OF
these fine mornings the Democratic
party is going Il. wake up and pro-
ceed to separatssihe sheep from the
goats. After the goats are turned
ont of the fold the Democratic party
will proceed to do something, and
will make a tariff bill ''as is' tariff
bill. 1t will raise enough revenue
from tariff taxes on sugar, tea, coffee,
alcoholic, vinous and malt liquors,
musical instruments and jewelry,
which, added to the internal taxes
ON whisky, beer and incomes, will
support the Government. Then
when a man pays taxes his money
will go into the Treasury. Every
man will be the equal of every other
man before the taxing power.
The Democratic party is angry.
1t is just as angry in New England
as it is in Illinois; it is just as angry
in Pennsylvania as it is in Kentucky,
and in Kentucky, as | have reason
to know from personal contact with
it, it is determined TO whip some
body. There is not going to be any
foolishness about the matter. The
fall elections may go by default,
for this fall the Democratic party
will be in. the hanging business.
Democratic fools and traitors will
mount the scaffold in every COM
munity from ocean to ocean.
In proof of this Il single example
will serve for scores of others. The
Nineteenth Pennsylvania district is
the old Jerry Black district. 1t is
now represented by one Beltzhooyer.
| remember him rs far back as the
Forty-sixth Congress when he be.
longed tn the late Mr.. Randall. Last
winter he made a tariff speech full
of Vandalism. and Champ Clark,
OF Missouri, replied to it and evils
cerated the Hon. Beltzhoever in
forty odd different ways Well, the
time came when the superb Democ-
racy of old York proceeded to con-
slider the ease of their Representative.
They weighed him in the balance
and found him wanting. They held
a town meeting and sent for Clark,
who responded. He went to York
and made speech-lust such a
speech as he would have made in
Kentucky, where he was born, or
in Missouri, where he lives, and he
set the woods afire. | want toquote
from it to show that Pennsylvania
is full of Democrats, just such as
the Courier Journal has been max
ing in Kentucky the past thirty
years. Here is how he began:
Some Simple Simons, speaking with
out knowledge, talk ;.s though Democ-
| racy were in articuio mortis,
They reason without their host.
Truth is immortal. democracy is truth
and can never die.
1t may be sold out, betrayed, stab
bed In the house of its friends; but it is
| the last human institution that win
perish from the earth.
Democracy has more lives than all
| the felines in Cat Island, and this fact
should give them pause who prema-
turely write its epitapi.
The people will not let Democracy
/ die; because the aspiration of the hui
man heart is for Constitutional Gov
ernment; and there can be no Consti-
| tutional Government without Dem oc-
racy.
The Democratic party, like Antaeus,
a celebrated wrestler of antiquity, re-
ceives new strength every time it
| touches the ground and rises reinyig-
Grated for future contests.
When fortunes appear to sink the
lowest, it is not approaching state OF
dissolution. but Is experiencing sea-
son of recuperation.
1t has demonstrated beyond all cavil
that in opposition it is the greatest and
bravest party the world ever saw;
and, when it has purged itself of GER
tain recalcitrant elements, it will
prove that it has not lost its cunning
and its courage when intrusted with
power.
Mr.. Clark then went on to review
the causes of the Democratic triumph
in 1892, and cited as the sole cause
the tariff message MIR. Cleveland
wrote in 1887. Then he proceeded
as follows, while the Democracy,
old Jerry Black fashioned, went
wild:
And. now, when for the first time
in generation we are in possession
of every place of power, handful o.
renegades, calling themselves by 9
much more euphonious and conserva'
tive name, deliberately propose thai
the triumphant Democracy shall stul
tify itself and commit harikari in the
face OF the civilized wofld-that il
shall plead guilty to being the greatest
hypocrite since Peeksniff sprang from
the brain of Dickens, to being the
greatest liar since Ananias and his
preeions spouse had that nl-starred
land transaction and to getting one
hundred and fifty thousand offices
under false pretenses.
| It Is monstreus. 1t is idiotic. 1t j:
wicked. 1t is suicidal.
Tell ii not in Gath, proclaim it no
| in the streets of Askalon that tiis
victorious Democratic army is simply
going TO repeat the ridiculous perform
ance of the French King who marched
mn The hill and then Y.,arehad doHiI