Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-07-12
The Aiders.

All things come to him who waits
Witness, that Notwithstanding the
republican papers have persistently
maintained that the republican party
is in favor of silver and just as per
slsteptly and brazenly maintained that
the democrat party had committed
the objectionable sin Of repeating the
purchasing clause Of the Sherman law
Now the republican State Journal of
Topeka, in Its issue of July 2, com
mentiDg on the lack of action
on the part Of the democrat con-
gress says: Congress, with u
good working majority in both
branches, has been in session
nearly year, long enough to have
repealed all the republican Legislation
ever enacted. All they have done in
this line is to repeal the federal cleo
tion law and the Sherman silver law,
and the latter lCaS only repeated by
The aud Of republican UoterS. " NJ
great good mas yet appeared as re-
yulting from either action"
Noble confession Most righteous
Judgment
Repealed only by the aid Of repub-
lican votes! Every one who Is post
ed on the questions of the day knows
chat more republican members voted
aye Oh that question than democrats.
More than that, every one who reads
and remembers, knows that on the
vote OH the question Of coinage at the
raLio of 16 to | the nays as recorded
show as follows I'm The house,;
Democrats, 1903; republicans, ITO.
Very good "a'd."
Again, the nay vote in the senate
on the same proposition, shows:
Democrats, ~; republicans, SO.
Very good "atdT
But tie record does not end with
the figures just given. On the Bland
bill the nay vote in the house was as
follows:
Democrats, 80; republicans, TO-
Heap much "atd|
In the senate nay vote on the same
question was:
Democrats, IL; republicans, 20
Velly glood "ajd"
10 one who is not very wise in his
day and generation, 1t looks a though
the "ald"' had done about all of 1t, Tor
the record shows that on the UOte Ill
favor of silver, IN each Of the above
the great parties by their
voted-on the ratio of
Is to lin the house:
Democrats, aye, lib; republicans,
aye, IL.
Shades of all the aidersI How they
did "aidw
In the senate on the ratio Of l6 to 1;
Democrats. aye, %; republicans,
aye, 10.
Very effective 'aid"
On the Bland bill the aye vote in
house was:
Democrats, al; republicans, 10,
More "ald" Of the same kind
la the senate the aye vote on the
Bland bill was:
Democrats; 81; republican aiders, s.
Now why does not every old-party
man who has the good of his country
at heart, be honest with hImself and
acknowledge that, if The record Of his
party in congress is the correct stan
dard of measurement of parties, then
he is no longer democrat or repuO-
llcan, rs the case may be?
AS we said at the outset, all things
come TO him who waits, and the writer
OF this has waited patiently for the
oid-party press to make the good con-
fession, which, it was plain they would
have to do sooner or later, and the
Journal has led o1t aud sald,"we did
It," Yes, that is just right. The re-
publican party is responsible for the
demonstration Of silver in the first
place, and when we got a law which
gave us a partial recognition of silver,
it, the republican party, was tho party
who was, and is responsible for the
last blow.
But there are some more mighty
lnterestin' fguree' to be given and
they are on the vote on the Income
Tax bill, in the house, which are &c
cordlng to the record as follows:
Democrats, aye, 1856; republicans,
ave, 90.
" is that for "aid"!
Domoor, 70, nay, Is; republicans,
nav, 124. $50
How Is that for "aiu hol;onc
The writer of this does noI
that the democrat party is right GU
all things, but he knows that the re-
publican party,hy misrepresentation,
is wrong on these great vital ques.
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