Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-04


the populists, has issued an address
to the voters of North Dakota. The
following are extracts from his ad-
dress which show that the demo-
cratic row in North Dakota Is some
akin to the democratic row in Day
County.
Buxton, N. D., Sept. 20, 1894.
TO the voters of North Dakota:
| am sorry to come before the
people burdened with "a family
trouble. But by looking back at
the history of the human family,
we find that family troubles and
rows are the oldest and most firmly
rooted institutions on earth. That
they come without irrigation and
flourish when all other crops fail.
That they grow rank and large, es-
recially in North Dakota.
No sooner did Ewes two eldest
boys grow up than family troubles
and rows began. Trouble commen-
ced ever before this; 1t commenced
with Adam and Eve before any
boys were born, and has kept up
down to the last democratic o0n7eu-
ton, when a political boss tried to
force the honest democracy Of this
state to swallow populists for dem
ocrats.
SO it goes from the highest to
the lowest. We are not living in a
new state or contending with a new
condition when we open up family
troubles and family rows, but are
strictly in harmony with human
nature and the way the world is
made. We are simply keeping time
with the order of nature. In some
respects a family row, or any other
kind, has many unpleasant features
and it is to be regretted that more
of them cannot be avoided or made
more agreeable when coming on
and going on. But as long as they
cannot, let us make the best of
everything and be thankful for
that which we have.
In a family row, or any other,
the first and most natural question
is, "Who is to blame?" Let us see
who it is in this case. Let me in
quire,
. uuho,o A.. cr- uaodar;pr nartv ton;yht.
The party of all my lowest
II has wandered away and Joined the Pops.
And now roosts with the strange, wild doves.
Once it was pure as morning dew,
As it knelt at Jefferson's knee,
Now it jumps and iiops around
Worse than Paddy's flea.
Since my party got to wandering
and roosting with the birds above
referred to, 1t has acquired new and
strange notions. 1t gets up on it's
ear if every enc else does not flop
and wander around and try to get
on the same roost. This is a polit-
zeal hallucination hard for a straight
democrat to understand; and be-
cause l refuse to wander out in the
fold and 60 to roost with these soil.
ed doves, some of them claim |
have a sore head, and am running
to relieve it. That is about as
reasonable as some of their other
ideas, | am not running because |
have a soie head, but because | am
sick all over-sick OF the weakness
and hypocrisy of political brokers
and would be political leaders.
1t is enough to make u 8 rong
dog sick, to say nothing about a
weak, nervous man, to see a lot of
political plugs and office holders
get together claiming to represent
the great principles of democracy
and then have them overlook every
principle and object on which de.
mocracy is founded and for which
it exists.
Compare the great party of An
drew Jackson to the deformed and
demented organization Of North
Dakota and see the contrast.
Look at the hero of New Orleans
and then look at III political
dwarfs here. See these political
mendicants and beggars hanging
around back alleys and back doors,
with hats under their arms, begging
populists to take them in out of the
cold. Great democrats these are.
Where is the man who will hold
up his right hand before Heaven
and swear this is not true? Know.
ing this is it not only right, but the
duty of every true democrat to keep
in ''the middle Of the road"
Endorsing populists does not
make democrats. 1t makes polit-
ical half breeds without force Of
character or principle beyond office
seeking. A cross between a demo.
crat and apopulist begets a political
mulatto, which is neither a first
class whiIe man or a good negro.
Any man or party is unworthy to
he trusted with the care OF this
government, or any other, who
barters away principle and honor
for persopal or pOlitical gain. Pho