Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-05
BUDD REEVES LAMENT

Little Bo Peep has lost his sheep,
But if he'll let them alone
After election they'll come home,
With their tails dragging behind them.
He has filed the following petition for
divorce OF the democrats from the pops,
3'amensa ct thoro," as follows:
To the Voters of North Dakota:
I am sorry to come before the people
burdened with q family trouble But by
looking back at the history Of the human
family, we find, that family troubles and
rows are the Oldest and most firmly
rooted institutions on earth. That they
come without irrigation and flourish
when all other crops fail. That they
grow rank and large, especially in North
Dakota.
No sooner did Ewes two Oldest boys
grow up, than family rows and troubles
began. Troubles ever commenced be-
fore this; it commenced with Adam and
Eve before any boys we're born, and has
kept up down to the last democratic
convention, when a political boss tried
to force the honest democracy of North
Dakota to swallow populists for demo-
Gratis.
Jacob and Eeau commended. Joseph
and his brothers had a bloody time.
James G. Blaine and Roscoe Conkling
contended; President Cleveland and
Dave Hill cannot agree; neither can Bill
Leistikow and myself.
So it goes from the highest to the low
est. We are not living in a new state or
%contending with a new condition when
we open up family troubles and family
rows, but are strictly in harmony with
human nature and the way the world is
made. We are simply keeping time with
the order Of nature. In some respects q
family row, or any other kind, has many
unpleasant features; and it is to be re-
GREETED that more of them cannot be
avoided or made more agreeable when
coming on and going on. But as long as
they cannot, let us make the best of
everything and be thankful for that
which we have.
In a family row, or any other, the first
and most natural question to ask is:
t'Who is to blame?" Let us see who is
in this case. Let me inquire: Where is
my wandering party tonight, the party
of all my loves? 1t has wandered away
and joined the "pops,' and now roosts
with strange, wild doves. Once it vas
pure as morning dew, as it knelt at JEFF
ferson's knee; now it jumps ard fops
around worse than Paddy's flea. I will
go for my wandering party tonight; 60
for it good and strong; I will show it up
in it's proper light, and let the people
know who is wrong. j
Since my party got to wandering and
roosting with the birds above referred to
it has acquired icy aud strange notions.
It gets up on it's ear if every ore else
does not flop and wander around, and
try to get on the same roost. This is a
species Of political hallucination hard
for q straight democrat to understand;
and because I refuse to wander out in
the fold and go to roost with these soil
ed doves, some of them claim I have a
1tsore head, and am running to relieve
1t. That is about as reasonable as some
of their other ideas. I am not running
because I have a 'sore head" but be-
aus I am sick all over-sick Of the
weakness, threachery and hypocrisy Of
political brokers and would-be political
leaders.
1t is enough to make a strong dog
sick, to say nothing about a weak, ner-
vous man, to see a lot Of political plugs
and Office holders get together claiming
to represent the great principles of de-
mocracy and then have them overlook
every principle and object on which de-
mocracy is founded and for which it
exists.
Compare the great party Of Andrew
jackson to the present deformed and de-
mented organization of North Dakota
and see the contrast.
Look at the hero Of New Orleans, and
then look at our political dwarfs here.
See these political mendicants and beg
gars hanging around back alleys and
back doors, with hats under their arms,
begging populists to take them in out Of
the cold-great democrats these are.
But before begging for the milk of
populist infants, what do they do? A
few of them get together in advance of
any convention, and trade off all their
principles and the principal part of the
Offices for a promise of the deposit of
state funds. They said to a few popu-
lists, ""You take the offices and give us the
bank account" They sold their prin-
ciples for q promise Of gold, But it re-
mains for the people to ratify the con-
tract. Let us see whether they do it or
not.
When it comes to fusion, it IS simply a
matter of taste Dr. judgment what to
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