The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-27
THE HARD TIMES.
Are the Democrats Responsible

Are the Democrats Responsible?
1t is not only false to state that the
Democratic administration has pro-
duced the present condition of the
federal treasury, but audaciOusly i'm
pudent for Republicans who created
the bankruptcy to now taunt Demo-
Gratis with the responSi bility for the
continued bankruptcy. cy.-Hutchinson
Democrat.
1t is one of the coolest things in the
history of politics to see the Republi-
llcans trying to get back into power
by charging the hard-times to the
Democrats.
The "crisis" began before Cleveland
was elected; see the declarations of
the Omaha platform, declaring the
country on the verge of financial ruin,
adopted July 4th, 1892; read the papers
of that day wheD they were constant
ly denouncing the Populists as
calamity howlers," because they
pointed to the poverty and distress of
the people. The truth is that if the
distress had not been great, before
the election of 1892, Cleveland never
would have won; nor could the Popu-
lists have polled 1880 votes. Silver
was demonetized nearly twenty years
before Cleveland's last election. The
business failures in the United States,
according to Bradstreet, increased
from 10, 673 in 1890 to II, 394 in 1891: and
the liabilities rose from $175,O3 836 in
1890 to $193, lis, 900 in 1891. The Demo-
Gratis, in the Chicago national conven-
tion, adopted this as one of their
planks:
"We deny that there has been any
increase of prosperity to the country
since it," (the Mckinley tariff went
into operation; and we point to the dul-
ness and distress, the acage distractions and
strikes IN the iron trado,as the best Dos
sible evidence that no such prosperity
has resulted from the Mckinley act."
They also adopted a plank, called
'The Mortgage Burden" in which
they stated that "the homes and
farms Of the country have become
burdened with real estate mortgage
debt Of ouer ttC0 billion .fre hundred mil
lion dollars.
In the face Of all these facts it is
shameful for the Republicans to now
come forward and say,-"The Demo-
Gratis have ruined the country. Put
it back in power and we will give you
good times" Were not those nine
million mortgages executed during the
Republican times, for $2,500,OOO 900?
Was not Harrison's administration
ready to issue bonds to keep up the
gold reserve? 1t is the eastern wing
the Wall street end of the Demo-
cratic party--that has destroyed it;
not the western contingent. Cleve-
lands crime is that he tried to carry
out Republican theories of govern
ment, spurred on and assisted by John
Sherman and the whole Republican
party in Congress. Whatever evils
have resulted the Republicans are
just as much to blame as the Demo.
crats;-more so, indeed; for they con-
ceived and gave birth to that mis-
shapen brat, the decentralization
monstrosity; Cleveland and his gang
simply became wet-nurses to it; cud.
died it to their bosoms, and adopted it.
And now that the whole land rises
up against the devil-brat the Repub-
licans deny it's parentagc and seek to
put the responsibility for its existence
on the wet-nurse. 1t takes GALL
colossal cheek--to do think like that
and not blush for shame. /. D.