Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-12-05
PAT DOMAINS BLAST.
-geIIing Remarks by Disguised but
Fluent Democrat.
From The Chicago Inter Ocean,

y can truthfully say: Il told you
So" told it loud and long and Of
zen | told it before and after the
presidential nominations. | told it
before and after the election. Many
OF my southern and Democratic &C
@quaintances, a year or a year and a
haIf ago, set me down as little, any
better than blasphemer, in declar-
ing publicly and privately, that ''the
selection of Grover Cleveland was the
greatest Republican victory since the
days of Abraham Lincoln" | won
der what they think about it now?
Was there ever, in the history of the
country so gigantic a revolution in
E9ublic sentiment in so short time?
at is but twenty months since the
%big and burly Butfalonian bullhead
went into the White house with near
3y million majority behind him,
with both houses of congress over
rwhelmiul- his way with three-fourths
of all the state governments, North
and South, enthusiastically backing
him, and with millions of well-mean-
ing, but untutored American citizens,
of all shades of political belief and
unbelief, waving their hats and hur-
rahing for him.
To day, seated amid the ruins of
his party, scorned and repudiated by
the whole country, there is not dog
except some office-hOlder' S or office
seekers eggSucking stray yaller cur :
between ocean and ocean, so poor or
so low as to do him the scant rever-
,@ence of a tail-shake-even ola stump
tail, at that
The fellow who shrieked. ''Oh. what
a fall was there, my countrymen!"
mad never seen q real tumble. The
election of a Republican in 1892
would have been a Democratic de-
feat; the election of Cleveland was
Democratic humiliation.
And all the buriesque sages aud pun
dts and grand panjandrums of the
a3rover Kamehameha dynasty are
puzzlng their august skulls to account
for the "prodigious disaster" the
Wiping out of stuffed prophets" and
stuffed prophetism. Cleveland says
st was Hill, German and Brlce. Hill.
Gorman and Brice declare it was
Cleveland. Little BillyWison charges
1T to the industrial depression,
hard times and suspicious delays of
1ls queer brand Of tariff reform in the
senate. Old Isham G Harris, a dilap-
adated antebellum fossil, who repre-
SCENTS Tennessee antediluvianism in
Ghe senate, ayers that Financial dis
tress and mugwumpery produced the
disastrous result" That illustrious
sample Of peanut statesmen, Ambas- |
eSadOr Bay ard, who came home from |
England to see his three-peach-or-
e@hards-and- -whipping-post carica-
6ure on statehood 60 Republican for |
she first time in thirty years, sug-
gests that it was ''the failure to put |
fhe agricultural and mineral raw
materials on the free list The |
Nashville American thinks "the off |
year did it." The Wattersonian !
Louisville Courier-J ournal lays it to |
'incompetency in leadership and fac
Glon of the ranks" The Baltimore
Sun, which rarely has an opinion on
any subject, IS sure ut was to rebuke
the failure of Democratic congress-
men to follow Mr.. Cleveland s advice"
GJhe Savannah News alleges that 1.-THE |
real cause Of the defeat was the hard |
shines" The Chicago Record pro-
1ounces it the ''handiwork of Sena-
tors German. Brice and Smith" The
Detroit Free Press calls it San off
year result" The Indianapolis News
attributes it to Democratic aithless-
ness" The Chicago Herald regards |
1t as @'the victory of a compact min
ority over divided majority" The
St.Paul Globe proclaims it a triumph
Of calamity" Brother Dana, Of The |
New York Sun, is inclined to dump
the responsibility on Cleveland and |
faithlessnesssto the Chicago platform
And SO they go; each wiseacre &C
counting for the smash-up in his own |
superficial way; all right in part, but |
all wrong in larger part.
The historic questions, "Who killed |
Cock Robin?" and 'Who struck Billy |
Patterson" dwindle to insignifcance |
beside the mighty interrogatory,
~SWho or what caused the Democra-
cy-burying avalanche?" The answer
ought to be easy even to the average
donkey who poses as an American
statesman.
What had the bogus Cleveland-Hill- |
Croker-Gorman1zed Democratic par
ty done that it should have demand |
ed or expected popular support?
What is it's record, that it should
have asked the people Of the
United States to continue its hold
upon the throat and pocket of the
nation? "By their fruits We shall
know them" By its acts you may
Judge it.
Since God Almighty created Luci-
fer an archangel of transcendent light |
and glory in heaven, and let him scoot |
headlong down the steep toboggan-
slide of damnation to become the |
mead devil in hell, there has never
been a greater failure, a more mon
strous falsifier ofpledges and violator
of platforms than the Clevelandesque
aggregation Of freaks and mi3fts
that lyingly labels itself the Democrat
&c party. To compare IFS ante-elec-
tion promises and prophecies with
hts post-election performances is not
comparison, but contrast.
From the days of Jefferson, Madi-
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