Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-12-06

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We give the following extracts from
. letter written by Pat. Donan, q
prominent Illinois democrat. to the
Chicago Inter Ocean, on the party and
the cause of the recent landslide,
which answers the question a. to why
It was defeated:
1.-THE historic questions, who killed
Cook Robin and who struck Billy
Patterson dwindle to insignificance
beside the mighty intereoRatory. who
or what caused the democrat burying
avalancher The answer ought to be
easy even to the average donkey who
poses as an American statesman.
What had the bogus Cleveland. Hill,
Croker, Commanded democratic party
done that It should have demanded or
expected popular supportf What is
its record that 1t shnuld ask the peo-
pie of the United States to continue
its hold upon the throat and pocket
hook of the nationa BY their fruits
We shall know Them By its acts you
may judge it.
Ever since the days of Grant. the
democratic party has howled itself
hoarse and raw-throated over republi.
can nepotists and nepotism. And to.
day every democratic Cabinet nobody,
Senator, and alleged Representative,
have all the departments jammed till
their heads and heels stick out of win
dows, with their sons and their neph-
ews, their uncles and their cousins and
their auDts-to say nothing of their
other female connections. Democrat
ic Vice President Stevenson's son was
appointed a paymaster in the ma
lvy-saddled for life on the country
and the people, at So. 900 per year, and
did not get it because he tailed to pass
the necessary examination. Democrat.
10 Tariff Abortionist Billy Wilson's
son has a similar appointment, and
the people of the United States will
be taxed for the rest of their lives to
pay this hopeful scion of film fam re.
form his generous annuity. Demo
cratic Secretary of the Treasury has
two aons drawing handsome salaries
from the government; Secretary Her
bert has his son in law and variegat.
I'd assortment Of other relatives and
dependents billeted upon the people
Democratic Speaker of the House.
Crisp. has his son, Charley, bagging
-, 200 year of pnblic money, rs his
teller-when all he could tell in cen
tury would not be worth % cents =
Democratic Senator Cockrell, of Mis-
souri,. Il wild eyed obstreporous reform
er, had Ills son filchng 81. 400 year
as committee clerk, during all the years
lie was mt school thousand miles
away. Democratic Senator Colquitt,
of Georgia, till his death, had his IL
year old son as an alleged messenger,
abstracting Sl440 year from the pub
lie pocket. Senators Ransom, Black
burn. Gordon. Jones, of Arkansas,
Pasco, Pugh, Mills and Butler, all
illustrious and rambunctious demo
cratic ranters against republican nep.
otists and nepotisn-have sons or
nephews pocketing big annual stipends
of government money because they
are their SONS or nephews. One Off
cial family In Washington has nine of
its members on the public pay rolls
The whole government has been con-
veTted into a vast continental soup
house and free lunch route for the
countless hordes of pauper kin of
sham democratic statesman and air
saving denouncers of republican nep-
otists and nepotism.
All democratic speeches and plat
forms for years past have heaped a
mountainous mass of furious vituper-
alton upon trusts and monopolies
And yet under the leadership of Cor
man, Cal Brice, Havemeyer, Billy
Wilson, Carlisle, and McPherson's
cook, an overwhelming Democratic
Congress voted $40, 900, 900 year out
of the pockets of the people, your
pockets. our pockets, into the insati-
ate hands Of the sugar trust alone
Olney, Cleveland's Attorney General,
is lifelong monopolistic hireling;
and the gigantic whiskey trust has
named its most gorgeously advertised
brand of bug Juice for Paul Jones, it's
Washington chief lobbyist, a nephew
of Dan Voorhees,. of Indiana, chairman
Of the Democratic Senate finance com
mittee. Funny is no name for it.
The Democratic party has split it's
political shirt to tatters with righteous
Indignation against the use of govern
ment vessels for private and persona
jaunts and juDkets; but that was un-
der Republican Grant and Hayes, Ar
thur and Harrison. Today the United
States navy is little more or less than
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