The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-29
A EEASTLY SHOW.
The People Grew Tired of the Whole
 Democratic Outfit.

The People Grew Tired of the Who'll.
 Democratic Outfit.
 It was a rude awakening for the American people to the consequences of their own action in calling the dem- ocratic party to power in 1892, when the motley crowd of statesmen who came in under that name, or as it's populist allies, began to disclose them- selves in their true character. Never was there such procession of below ing blatherskites, Illuminating fakirs and flamboyant fools since the experi- ment of fself-government was initiated. The people, who in momentary aber- ration had opened the doors to them. looked at them with disgust, and lis- tened with horror to their incompre- hensible outgivings, their empty noises and blood-curdling proclamations It was bedlam let loose. The cages of the entire millennial menagerie had been thrown open and the little child" who was to Head them" had forgotten his lines. They would not ''lie down together" They did every other kind of lying but that. And they manifested disposition to grat- fly their carnivorous propensities by turning to and eating up the little child.
 What lot they were! And withk what wide-eyed amazement the coun- try looked on at their antics and listened to the roaring, the snapping and the snarlingl All business stood still to give the workingmen a chance to see the show. The first eruption was in Oregon, when the pestiferous Pennoyer broke loose with an insult ing telegram to the president of the United States telling him to mind his own business. Then came Waite, of Colorado, breathing fire and smoke and threatening to ride in blood to the horse's bridle if congress did not take the whole world by the throat and compel it to call fifty cents worth of silver a dollar. Then Lewelling, of Kansas, took up the strain, and with little less violence proposed to consti tute himself the supreme ruler of Kan. sas and general supervisor of the rest of the country. Stone, of Missouri, followed with the proclamation of an unalterable purpose on the part of the farmers of the Mississippi valley to cheat their creditors out of all they oEy I them unisss they agreed to the asa-e of a free silver bill to scale down indebtedness. Then cams the Table Altgeld, of Illinois. sho ,SiE, contempt for law and his sympat ith lawlesBness by pardon ing the convicted anarchists; and Till. man, of South Carolina, tailed off the procession with his proclamation of defiance of the authority of the gov. ernment.
 These and others of like kidney too numerous to name came in with the great democratic triumph in 1892. They might have postponed their in- evitable fate had they known enough to quell their own mouths and go slowly. But they had not sense enouGh for that. Even before the inar --l-. tion of their president, the 'lh child'' who was to "lead them" they were in full cry. Emulating their ex. ample, a great pack of unofficial feath- er-pates broke loose. For a time the Coxeys and Carl Browns with their tramp armies contributed to the gem eral din, holding share of public at. tention, and they were followed or ac- companied by the devastating Debs, who held the business of the country by the throat and was not disposed of until the military arm was invoked to suppress him.
 What nightmare it was! And nov the American people, who have had this object-lesson and have been im- patient to get at the teachers of it for many months, have risen up in their intelligent might and said to the whole millennial menagerie: ''There, nowI Scatr-N. Y. Tribune.