Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1894-12-14

DODQ 'nOIuTy, anu plFhClCdI tOoleTy' IcSl'
dent of the United States. They placed
the money devil they had so long exc
Grated at the top Of the heap Cleve-
land did what no republican in his
position could ever have done-brought
this country to monometalc basis. BY
his humbug democracy and the omnipo-
tent bribery of half billion dollars of
annual patronage. he secured bunko de-
mocratc votes enough IN Congress to
carry his gold brigandage scheme
through, and turned the Capital, the
treasury and the White House into
annexes of Wall street bucket shops and
gambling hells And 10000 bankrupt
cies and 100000 tramps and beggars
promptly attested the monstrousness of
his sin and infamy. In his first twelve
months 100000 miles of railrord went into
receivers hands. more than hundred
banks suspended, mines, mills and f'c-
tories were shut down, merchants 'n'l
farmers were sold out at forced sales. '''''
whole republic was plastered with ASST
ees' and mortgages notices, hord,>
ragged and hungry tatterdemalion>
American citizens and workingmen-h ht.
leaguered the National Capital; the red
flag of bankruptcy and ruin waved tri-
umphant ovet half the continent, and
the coyotes Of universal perdition reared
back on their hind legs and howled in
ghoulish g!ee from Winnepesaukee TO
Yuba Dam.
And amid all the roar and wreck and
crash the squeaky voice of Cleveland's
asnlne little Comptroller Eckels. who
had never seen $50 bill two years ago,
was daily and hourly heard jubilantly
assuring the country and the world that
it was not much Of shower after all!
Silver demonstration was the seemingly
insignificant trigger that threw the pom
derous trap Of hemisphere disaster, and
Cleveland democracy sprung it,
From time immemorial the democratic
party has poured out its f1ercest anathe-
mas on the 'rob5er tariff in every con-
vent,on platform, state and national, in
every speech and resolution and fiabber-
gasty editorials. Democrats have exc
Grated the ruthless war tariff as the
crystallizat;on of all political folly and
financial crime. For nearly two years
they have had the whole government and
all it's departments, executive, legislative
and judicial president, senate, house Of
demi-representatives and courts-in their
hands; and what have they done to abro-
gate or mitigate the masterpiece of
legalized sneak-thievery. against which
they have so unanimously and vocifer-
ously protested?
They have given US protective tariff
with few tiny corners Clipped off, and
$40, ,OOO. 900 year added on sugar alone;
tariff that Cleveland declared was
'reeking with perfidy and dishonor;' a
tariff that Dave Hill denounced as q
national disgrace and a national scandal
"a Mckinley bastard in a Wilson cradle.
Ever since the days of Grant, the demo-
cratic party has howled itself hoarse and
raw -throated over Republican nepotists
and nepotism. Today, every democratic
cabinet nobody, Senator and alleged rep
have all the departments at
Washington jammed, till their heads and
heels stick out of windows, with their
sons and their nephews their uncles and
their cousins and their aunts-to say
nothing of their other female connections.
Democratic Vice President Stevenson's
son was appointed paymaster in the
navy saddled for life on the country
and the people at $4,000 year, and a
pension to his widow-and did not get 1t
simply because he could not pass the
necessary physical examination. Demo
cratic tariff abortionist Billy Wilson's
son has a similar appointment. and the
people of the United States will be taxed
for the rest Of their lives. and their chill
dren after them, to pay this hopeful scion
of film fam reform his generous annuity.
Democratic secretary Carlisle has two
(COnti nued on Fourth Pa10.)