Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1894-11-16

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thousand times more than he would
were he to receive reliable information
from on high that the gates of paradise
were forever closed against him by the
fiat of the Almighty.
On those poor simple souls of Demo
Gratis who have foolishly and fondly
labored and toiled for party success for
a quarter of century, indulging in the
insane belief that sometime within the
next hundred years, and in some way.
they knew not how, their party leaders
would muster up sufficient courage and
honesty to make real attempt at full
filling democratic platform pledges, the
result of last Tuesday, election will fall
with fearful force and effect. They
Will see in it the wreck of all their
fondest dreams and delusions, and if they
have not sufficient sense and manly in
dependence now to make the discovery
that the party idol which they have SO
long worshipped is unworthy of their
alteration, the sorry object lesson will
have been in vain.
Grover Cleveland, their political Joss
and idol like the image of Nebuchad
neZzar's dream, has long since proven to
be weak and fragile on every principle
of democracy and man of mud.
TO another class of democrats the
result will serve to make clear to them
the future path of political duty, the
outlines of which they only dimly saw
before. These must see that the demo-
cratic party of Cleveland, Hill, Brice
and GOrm@n is no more to be compared
to the party of Thurman, Ewing, Pen
deltOn and Hendricks than is the mon
key trappings and music of an Italian
organ grinder to be compared to the
costumes and symphonies of a grand
opera company lead by Patti, the night
ingale of song.
Intelligent and patriotic democrats,
and lovers of their fellow men, will be
forced to the conclusion that the ancient
democratic party whose fame and
glory filled the pages OF history in the
earlier ages of the republic, has long
since ceased to exist, and that it perish
ed in principle and was enveloped in the
same shroud that wrapped around the
mortal remains of Andrew Jackson
Such as these will not fail to see that
the spurious and counterfeit democracy
of to-day, symbolized and embodied in
the coarse personality and gold worship
ing fanaticism of Grover Cleveland, has
trampled underfOOt almost every prin-
ciple and doctrine that made and con
stituted the glory of the party OF Jeffer-
son and Jackson. If these great demo-
Gratis could visit the earth again and
see the innumerable hereSies and in
famies that have been practiced in the
name OF democracy, they would feel
constrained to scourge their degenerated
fellows from the shrine of democracy,
as Christ scourged the money changers
and thieves from the Holy temple
There never was time when plain
truth should be spoken more than now,
We write not for the benefit of men who
have suffered disappointment by their
failure to be elected TO office, but for the
benefit of the GOd-fearing, patriotic and
liberty-lOving American who in the Sc
cret chamber of conscience is asking
himself, what ought the free men and
voters of this nation do iii the present
emergency to preserve the little rem
nant of our liberties, and to hand it
down to our children and prosterity?"
To all such honest souls we say: The
vote of Nvoember 9th was not so much
vote of confidence in the republican
party, as it was one of want of con-
lidence in the democratic party
The people was with horror and
amaZement the sO-called democratic
party cutting and hacking at the few
slender props that upheld the lettering
structure of national industry, and as
every blow threatened the utter diStruc-
ton of the entire ediiice of public pros
perity, they threw themselves with wild
and fer0cious frenzy upon the men who
were ignOrantly or willfully working
this havoc andruin, and literally tore the
weapons of destruction from their hands
and thus sought to prevent the further
multiplication of calamities and woes
The disgust of honest democrats with
their party leaders was SO deep and pro-
found, and moved in such a mighty
channel, as scarcely to make a ripple on
the surface, and this very quiet rather
encouraged than deferred the Judases
of the democratic party from their work
of impudently and openly betraying
every democratic principle, and actually
falling over one another in their zeal to
serve the money power of Wall street
even better than has the republican
party. Such being the spectacle present
ed to the country, the people seized up