The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-06
VERY STRANGE.

50 far as we are able to judge, the
Democratic ticket is composed of pref
ty good men pretty good men,
considering. 1t is truly deplorable
that men who otherwise bear
good regulations, make good citizens
and are reputable members of the body
polite should have contracted Dem
ocracy in early life and remained In
durable. 1t does seem as though there
was something in the old Calvanistic
doctrine OF fatalism after all. You find
those men in their social, business and
religious capacities, good, average folks,
and naturally conclude that they are all
right, but when you come to examine
them politically. they don't hold out.
It's really puzzling to understand why
anybody should be Democrat these
days. Two years ago Democracy prom
Used to remove the tax from state bank
circulation and make good times by in
creasing the money issue, and then last
spring they kicked bill designed to
carry out that promise into the con-
gressional waste basket and laughed at
the Chicago platform. They also prom
ised US tariff reform and then passed a
measure which leading Democrats des-
crfbed as worse than McKinleyism, and
which Mr.. CLEVELAND denounced
as filled with perfidy and dishonor.
CLEVELAND understands the English
language first-class, and when he said
"per6dy" he meant violation OF
promises, false to trust and con-
fdence, faithlessness, treachery; yet
CLEVELAND signed that bill be-
cause, according to Democratic ideas,
it. was a considerable step in
the right direction. When CLEVELAND
said "dishonor," he understood thor
oughly what the term indicated, and
he simply meant that the tariff bill re-
hscted the disgrace, ignominy and shame
of Democracy. Yet, Democrats are
upholding that measure to-day on the
ground that it is in line with pure
Democracy, and they are staying by
CLEVELAND because - well, because.
That's all, just because. Two years ago
Democrats promised to run the price OF
wheat up to dollar bushel, and now
an eastern minister has commenced
suit against them for damages. On the
strength of that promise, he voted the
Democratic ticket, and instead of get
ing one dollar a bushel he had to sell
for 80 cents. Some more of the peri
dy" which President CLEVELAND spoke
about so feelingly. The Democrats
promised laboring man cheap clothes,
but instead of that gave him cheap
labor and mighty little of it; so that if
dress suits were selling at dollar a
dozen, he couldn't buy suspender but
ton. The Democracy promised an era
of prosperity and then precipitated a
crisis unequaled in history for the
length and breadth of its devastations.
They promised to wipe trusts off the
face of the earth. and then fixed up the
sugar schedule, which brought on the
collapse of Prof. WILSON and compelled
President CLEVELAND to cry aloud
against such perfidy. Then they prom
Used us the markets of the world, and
we surmise that Chairman WILSON is
over in London now examining the
goods. The last we heard of him, the
lords and ladies were ransacking the
markets for his special benefit. He had
the liberty of the city of London and
was feted and banquetted on every
hand. And there is some OF the "dis-
honor" that President CLEVELAND al
luded to so touchingly in his epistolary
remarks. We really can't understand
what good, level-headed citizens find in
modern Democracy to admire. In the
days of JEFFERSON and JACKSON it
was no doubt, very good, but it has de-
generated lamentably. 1t is very strange
to find at this time single adherent in
Canyon County, where the average in
telligence. responsibility and patriotism
run SO high. Very strange.