New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-24
Ell PERKINS or "THE CHANGE"
THE DEMOCRATS HAVE LIED AwFULLY. GOT
INTO 4 TERRIBLE scRArE. AND ARE
sAnIY Is NEED or HRAINs.
SADLY ~ NJ


From The Los Angeles Times.
When a .-rrnes" man sal down by E.i Perkins
last night and asked him 81 he really believed Mt.
Cleveland and the Democratic party hnd maze
'.To tell YOU the honest truth am sometimes afraid
thar w. Democrats are not altogether right w htl
see onc-tnrI Of the mills stopped ana $4,000
for us Democrats. am AFRAID mat We nave io'.s'l
country a year ago wonderfully prosperous. Ever,
body was at work What dd we Democrats nof
wng' ha1Iv Of We tod them that low tarin
would make things come in cheap from EuroPe
and that they would also continue to make me
same things with high wages here
well What Is the result, Mr.. Perkins, asked
why it proved to he, lie. our wages, w 2i1
down with he tariff and our nils s,opped; We
selves out Of power. and voted the GA ifee-iraIe
rebes and Ms.sPP ana Sogh CST94i 1o 4aye
/ To-. you We o,d-fashioned Democrats don't Ike 1t
iWhat csc don't you Democrats Ike" asked the
reR FgSr tho wav We lied about the Silver BILL
When the hard times came We said 1t wasn't the
wilson BILL but the Sherman BIZ. The Repubicans
had bought TorH of sv S1s during Tan I'M IN
prosperity every year. and then, when We put In
went all to pieces. We'll Old John sherman ana
the Republicans repealed the shyeT oi a, ana WEE
awful, how We lied about poor Ola Johh sherman
Are you Democrats pleased with the Hawaiian
pea sed? No. sir Our whole, party feels bad
alo wasn't Democratic.
IN follow Grover though. We had fought the war
with Mexico and lost 1000 Democrats 70 make
southern California and Texas into Republic. Yes
spent $50 10000 20 do IT, and then went and paid
81 100000 for Alaska and made those 800 Injnns ana
iceb4rgs into a Republic. and then our same Demo-
cratic party had go into the Pacific Ocean, sink
"A republic with 1900 people making sugar ana cot
ton and try TO put negress on a throne! ana
T struck the sofa cushion until the moths and dust
filed the room Ike cloud.
''Weil what You Democrats going TO DO about
h?" asked the reporter.
DO? Why. we've got TO let these fellows who
shot into at Gettysburg sail the ship We North
crn Democrats are out now. We are sitting down
in the hall We are mourning with Absalom. or
trainping with Coxey. DO you know what we poor
Democrats need just now
mo- what"
why we need few brains left over by some
female seminary. We are getting desperate. met
a Republican the other day In New-lork He looked
had He had whiskey In his eyes, tobacco on his
coat collar and corns his hands and liver
'''How do you Republicans feel now" | asked.
I'm not a Republican. he said I've Joined the
DEMOCRATS ,., a., 5000. H.. .. -. .
marty that made prosperity and join the Democrats?
Wei he said. i did II to disgrace an unc,e Of
mine MY unce abused and robbed and
insn,ted my wife. and do II to disgrace him.
"'What Is your uncle doing now ! asked.
Hes pounding stones In the Sing Sing Peniten-
uary.' 49,, 49,, ,, =,
Fii said he had spent the day looking at the
oranges out In the suburbs. He said he drove three
miles TO where the Mayor OF Los Angeles showed
him an orange tree with four oranges on II twenty
three years ago. and he found four-story bank
on the ground to-day.