Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-04-14
A DEMOCRAT PRAYS.
he Shows His Faith in the Great
and Good Grover II.

he Shows His Faith in the Great
and Good Grover II.
The following prayer is reported to
have been uttered by Edwin Croke,
mayor of Irwin, previous to the closing
of the Democratic County convention
of Gunnison county, Colorado. 1t first
appeared in the Gunnison Tribune, and
by request of number of our readers
we publish it in the WORLD. Here is
the prayer:
TO ALMIGHTY CLEVELAND.
ooh, almighty and all-powerful Cleve-
land, 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 if he were here), we hail thy name
as the great political prophetof the coun-
try. We bow down before thee in hum
BILE political obedience. When thou sayest
go, we go; when thou sayest come, we
come. We have no desire but to serve
thee. If thou sayest black is white we
will swear to it and lick the eyerlastin'
stuffin' out of the man who disputes it.
When thou takest snuff we will sneeze;
when thou sayest free silver we will
echo thy words; when thou sayest gold
then gold it is. We are democrats after
the improved modern type. Our bust
ness is to vote the ticket, and vote FER
straight. What is it to us whether we
have free silver or not? We are but
dogs that eat the crumbs that falls from
our masters table. When the crumbs
fall we will wag our tails; when they fall
fast we wag faster; when they don't fall
we stand and wait till they do. This is
democracy. This is the kind of democ
racy which elected thee, our great and
almighty Cleveland.
ooh, most adorned master, we love
thee for what thou hast done for us. We
love thee because thou art Cleveland
We humbly surrender ourselves to thee.
Do with us as thou wilt. Though wheat
is but 40 cents bushel we love thee !;
though cotton is low we love thee;
though business is dull we love thee;
though thousands, millions, are out of
employment we love thee; though our
children are in rags, we love thee;
though our wife, the dear companion of
our bosom, is scantily dressed and looks
SO shabby she can't go to church, we love
thee; though we are sinking deeper in
debt, and poverty is knocking at the
door and hunger is staring us in the face,
we love thee still. This shows our
great faith and love for thee. Our wives
and children we are willing to sacrifice,
even as the Hindoo mother sacrifices
her offspring by throwing it under the
crushing wheels of the juggernaut. Oh,
mighty Cleveland, words cannot express
our love for thee. We love our party
too. What care we about the many
promises made. We know it promised
free silver, and we know it won't give it
to us, but we will stick to the party. We
know we said if it did not do the things
promised to do we would leave it, but
we lied when we said it. We thought
then we had some manhood about)us,
but we amt We have no independence.
Thou, 0 mighty Cleveland, hast all the
manhood and independence in the par
ty. We are fools, liars, ickspittles,
mudsills. We have no business to want
anything or to say anything. Last year
we favored free silver. and now we have
to oppose it. We favored it then be-
cause we thought it was right. We OPP
pose it now, most adorned master, be-
cause thou tellest us to. Amt we a
honey of the first water? Did ever dog
serve his master more faithfully? Did
ever dog Get less for it? Oh, mighty
master, we are ever ready to serve thee
and party. All the pay we ask is to be
patted on the back by some local politi-
clan and called a good democrat. We
amt got any sense. We don't want any,
only enough to vote the ticket. It don't
take any sense to be a good democrat.
What joyful thought! We don't have
to think. We don't have to worry Our
work is all mapped out for us. All that
is expected is to do what we are told.
We thank thee, oh Cleveland, that we
are democrats. We thank thee for the
panic. We thank thee for the hungry
and idle men and women in the land.
We thank thee for the low prices. We
thank thee for the banks that have
busted and the thousands of business
failures since thou hast come into power
We thank thee for the 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
thee for what thou hast done for the
banker and what thou hast done for the
people. We thank thee for all these
things because it is our duty as good
Democrat to do so. 1t may be against
the grain but we will take our medicine.
We will work our wives to death, starve
our children, sacrifice our homes, cruel
fy liberty and kill prosperity, but will
never go back on our dear old party, and
on thee, our most adorned Cleveland.
Thou art more account than all of us
put together. Thou knowest more than
the South and the West. Call us fools;
spit in our faces; wipe your feet on us
we will love You all the more. And now,
our great political fither, we leave us
in thy care. Do with us az thou wilt.
Kick silver into the middle of the next
century; give more privileges to nation
banks; issue more bonds; preserve the
Mckinley bill; establish state banks :;
foster trusts; bride congressman with