The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-01-06
lRe-puhlished by Request.l
A MOCK PRAYER

Democratic Convention In Colorado
Closes With Prayer by Mayor Crelke--
Terrible Arraisnmeut Of the Aamisis-
iratien. J
Prayers to Cleveland are much In
vogue out West, but the .Gunnieon,
COL, Tribune publishes the best that
Almighty Cleveland" and was spoken
by Edwin Croke, Mayor Of irwin. at
the close of the Democratic County
Convention on October 3lst. The
idoiatry with which Mr.. Cleveland has
been regarded by his party In the past
10 sarcastlcrliy taken on by the silver
Democrats thus:
On Almighty and all,powerful
Cleveland. who art in Washington,
when not fishing; thou who art the
father Of Ruth and Ruth's sister, and
OF Maria Halpin's boy, Oscar. and the
godfather OF the Democratic party,
(its father wouldn't own It II he were
here we hail thy name as the great
political prophet OF the century.
We bow down before thee In humble
political obedience. When thou sayest
20. we go; when thou sayest come, we
come. We have no desirs but to serve
thee. III thou sayest black In white
lastin' stuf1ln' out OF tho man who
disputes 1t. When thou takest snuff
we will sneeze; when thou sayest free
silver we will echo the words; when
thou sayest gold then gold 1t lis. We
are Democrats after the improved
modern type. Our business is to vote
the ticket and vote 'er straight. Whit
10 IL to us whether we have free silver
or not, We are but dogs that eat the
crumbs that fall from our masters
tubles. When the ca umbs fall we wag
our tails; when they fall fast We wag
faster, when they don't fall we stand
and wait until they do. This lie DEM
ocracy. This Is the kind Of Democra-
cy which elected thee. our great and
almighty Cleveland.
Oh, most adored master. we love
thee for what thou hast done for US
We love thee because thou art Cleve.
land. We humbly surrender our
selves to thee. DO with us as thou
wilt. Though wheat is but forty
cents bushel we love thee; though
cotton is low we love thse; though
business Is dull We love thee;.. though
thousands, millions are out OF em-
ployment We love thee; though our
children are clothed In rags we love
thee; though our wife. the dear COM
panion of our bosom, Is scantiIy
dressed and looks so shabby she can't
goto church, we love thee; though we
are ainkiDg deeper In debt and pov.
erty is knocking at the C8or. and
hunger 10 staring us In the face, ve
love thee still. This shows our great
faith and love for thee. Our wives
and children we arc willing to sacri'
ice even as the Hindoo mother sa,ri.
fees her offspring by throwing 1t un
der the crushing wheels of the jugger.
naut. o mighty Cleveland, words
cannot express our love fer thee. We
love our party, toe.
What care we about the many pro.
misses 1t nader We know 1t promised
free silver, and we know it won't give
It to US, but we will stick to the party.
We know we said II IL did not do the
things II promised we would leave II,
but we lied when we said 1t. We
thought then we had some manhood
about us, but We amt. We have no
Independence. Thou, oh mighty
Cleveland. hast all the manhood and
independence in the party. We aru
fools. liars, lickspittles, mudsills. We
nave no business to want anything or
say anything. Last year we favored
free silver. now we have to oppose It.
We favored 1t then because we thought
II was right. We oppose 1t not, most
adored master, because thou tellest us
to. Amt we a honey OF the fret
water1 Did ever dog ssrAe his master
more faithfully? Did ever a dog get
lese for it7 Oh, mighty master, we are
ever ready to serve thee and our party.
All the pay we ask Is TO be pattod on
the back by some local politician and
called good Democrat. We amt got
any sense. We don't want any, only
enough TO vote the ticket. II don't
take any sense to be good Democrat.
What joyful thought We don't have
time to thlBk. We don't have to wor-
ry. Our work 10 all mapped out for
we are told to do. We thank thee, o
Cleveland. that we are Democrats.
We thank thee for the panic. We
thank thee for tho hungry and idle
men and women In the land. We thank
thee for low prices. We thank thee
Tor the banks that have busted and the
thousands OF business failures since
thou hast come Into power. We thank
thee for tho hard times. We thank
thee FOR the rags our children wear.
We thank thee for the clothes our
wife needs and can't get.
We thank thes for what thou has
uons ipE the banker anu what thou
has not done for the people. We
thank thee for all these things because
1t is our duty as e God Democrat to
do so. 1t may be ''uRalnst the grain. =
but we will take our medicine. We
will work our wives to death, starve
our children, sacrifice our homes,
cruelty liberty and kill prosperity, but
will never go back on our dear old
party, and OIL thee. our most auored
Cleveland, Thou art OF more account
than all OF US put together. Thou
knowest more than the South and
West.
Call us fools; spit In our faces; wipe
your feet on us; We will love thee all
the more. And now our great political
father. we leave US. in thy care. Do
with US as thou wilt. Kick silver into
the middle OF next century; give more
privileges To the National Banks; issue
more bonds; preserve the Mckinley
bill; establish State banks; foster
trusts: brlbe Congressman with pa.
tronage; fish whenever thou wilt and
hunt snipe whenever thou carest to,
and we will endorse everything thou
doest. carry Cleveland ROSTERS. cam.
paign torches and for evermore sing
thy praIaA AMMAN