Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-09-13

Inc DcmOcFdG VI WIEN lstSb supPio
mented its former article why BE
Democrat. with an article purporting
to show what that party had done in the
last thirty years that would cause an
Intelligent man to wish to belong to 1T.
1t starts off with grand flourish and
says it has not done "a single thing but
many things" and then comes the
enumeration OF the many things anti
sorry spectacle it makes. Here they
are: st has repealed the election laws
and the purchasing clause Of the Sher-
man act"
1t takes considerable gall TO claim the
credit of passing the bill to repeal the
purchasing clause Of the Sherman act
when everybody knows that large
majority of the Democrats OF eaca
House voted against that measure and
that it was finally passed by almost the
solid vote OF the Republican members
aided by L small majority Of the Demo
Gratis As to the other thing" tho
repeal of tho election laws, they are
welcome to all the credit(?) there is in
that. II to open the door to wholesale
election frauds, voting of reporters and
the stulling Of ballot boxes is something
| to be proud OF then that party entitl-
cd to credit for tho repsal o. the cleo
ton laws and no one will try to rob
! them of the glory After having pass
ed a law which removes all safe guards
| from the ballot box, which offers q
premium for fraudulent voting and bal
lot box stufling; after having kept the
south solid for years by u system OF in
timidation and ballot box stutfing; after
| having stolen the ELECTORAL vote OF
New York for Cleveland in 1884 by re-
peating and fraudulent voting; after
the unsea ting Of Republicans whom the
courts had decided to be elected in the
last Congress, steals SO fragrant that
many Democrats refused to vote for
them; with it's McKanes and other fine
workers in New York serving time in
the penitentiary for frauds at the ballot
box It's accusations of theft and shouts
Of robbery fall pretty flat.
Is 1t not rather strange If the Repub
Leans are 50 great robbers as that
article would have you believe, that
every man convicted of intimidating
| voters is d Democrat; that all election
officers who have been sent to prison
| for making false returns have been
| Democrats; and that every man serving
| time for fraudulent voting is 8 Demo-
craft is it any wonder then that the
party as u whole g!ories in it,
Mr.. Sherwood's explanation of the
Democratic !'arty's trust legislation is
unique to say the least bat it will hard
| ly hold water. He says: 1.-The Demo-
cratic membership WAS forty-four On
account of the income feature attached
I, to the tariff bill Ar. Hill worked and
voted againstit, SO that in order to
pass bill it needed every remaining
vote In view OF these facts is il SO
very remarkable that the trust With
the aid Of Il solid Republican delegation
won u victory over the people.
A person unacquainted with the facts
upon reading the above would naturally
suppose that the Gorman~ iIavemeyer
sugar bill WAS passed by Il solid Rapub-
lican vote, aided by one or two Demo
cratic Senators. Instead '.of The aid @!
solid Republican delegation the bill
passed in spite of the opposition Of the
solid Republican delegation and Mr..
Hill to boot, lie says the Democratic
party will ge1 together and Kill both
the trusts and the Republican party
How the trusts must squism under the
J terrible blows given them by the Dem
ocratic party. a present of $40 900 ,00j
, in one year to the sugar trust as Chair
man " ilson said ard $4,000, coo to the
whiskey trust, and with Olney, the at
torney for all the great trusts, as At
!. torney General it is & wonder that The
trusts are not all dead ere this.
The only answer Mr.. Sherwood vouch
safes, and the only answer he can make
when cited to the widespread desola
ton which has accompanied the advcn'
of the Democratic party to power is the
palrotcry, Calamity bowler! Calamit,
bowler! Calamity howler Whel
his attention is called to the wrecked
banks he answers: Calamity Howler
When pointed to the factories closed
down and the laboring men working
: for reduced wages he reitcrates: CA
LAM1TY HoWLER! And as we APP
proach the silent mine with its idle
miners and their starving families he
shrieks: CALAMITY HOWLER!
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MCKENZIE NOMINATED.
The Democratic Assembly Conven-