Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-12-05
PAT DOMAINS BLAST.

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The Democratic party has split it's
political shirt to tatters with right
eOuS indignation against the use of
government vessels for private and
personal jaunts and junkets; but that
was NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Hayes,
Arthur and Harrison To-day the
United States navy is little more or
less than a royalty appointed fleet of
deadhead excursion boats for Cheap
John officials and their families.
Cleveland, who, twelve or fourteen
years ago, was shaking dice for the
drinks with Bissell in the back rooms
OF Buffalo beer salOons--has q United
States steamer and navy captain to
take him and his spreeative cabinet
cronies duck hunting and carousing;
and every cub OF a secretary or assist
ant secretary goes cruising like the
czar or the shah, with the national
ensign floating proudly at the peak,
forts and navy yards wasting powder in
laundering saIutes, and brass bands
only less brazen than Democratic pre-
tentiOns OF economy and reform
cracking and racking the circumam-
bient atmosphere with hilarious har-
monies. And the people, the great
toiling masses-echo answers asses
foot all the rollicking tiddlers' bills.
Democrats and the Democratic par
ty have shed hogsheads of alligator
tears over ''billiOn- dollar congresses
and Republican profigacy and extrav-
agance. They have the country and
the government now-and billion
dollar congresses are still the style. If
they knock off a pitiful fifteen-cent
piece in one place, they tack on a
Judas price of thirty pieces in anoth-
er. Our whole history is, as it has
been for generation, madcap story
of rant, riot and revel; and the peo-
pie, you, we, like Jones. of Bingham
ton, pay the freight"
Announcing itself the only guardian
of estates rights, " and the sole OPP
ponent of ''force bills, the Democrat
ic party, through it's Buffalonian dem
igod, ordered United States troops
into Illinois and Indiana against the
PrOclaiming it's deathless detesta-
ton of bosses and bOssism, the Demo-
cratic party has been and is the party
of Boss Tweed Boss Kelly Boss Crok-
er, Boss Hill and Boss German.
INCREASINGLY Wanting itself and
Haunting itself as the foe of oppres-
sion and corruption, the champion of
political publication and reform, the
Democratic party has for gener-
alton past crushed and cursed this
great city, the magnificent metropo-
lis of the new world, under the filth
dripping heels Of despOtism as brutal
and beastly as that of Ashantee or
Timbuctoo. 1t had not even the pict-
uresqueneSs of savagery to offset its
beastiiness. Democracy in New Y DIRK
has been Tammany, and Tammany is
and has been the foul embodiment of
all that is basest and cruelest and
most loathsOme in American politics.
Tammany rule-which was Dem
ocratic rule-has been the rule of gin
millers and gambling hellers, of dive
keepers and thugs, assassins, BRIDE
takers and black-mailers, who have
divided the revenues of bagnios and
abOrtionists, and waXed rich on
the wages of infamy and
shame. 1t has been a rule of Tweeds
and Crokers, Sheehaus, DIVERS, Red
Learys, and Dry-Dollar Sullivans. 1t
put an ex-dive boss and murderer at
the head of municipal government,
placed bunco steerers and criminals of
every dye on judicial benches, and
packed boards of aldermen and COM
missioners with penitentiary birds
and outcasts. 1t turned the order of
all Gods universe topsy-turvy and put
hell uppermost, so that / never saw