Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-19
TOM WATSON AGAIN.
Democracy's Future Is Doomed to
Failure.
Peoples Party Paper.l

Failure.
Peoples Party Paper.l =
The democratic party is bound to
die, not the principles of it. No, be-
cause principles never die, but the
party is going to die. Why? IL has
gone into the republican camp ana
there can't be two republican parties.
Here is the philosophy of human ma
ture. 1t is as old as the rocks; as old
as the mountains and the seas. In
every government there will always
be two parties, one to represent the
grasping. the ambitious, the concen-
trated wealth class privileges, vested
advantage. Whatever name you give
it there will always be some party to
represent those principles, class priv
ileges, class legislation. To-day the
repu blican party represents that
policy; to-day the dem cratic party
has got away from its principles, and
it stands for 4,e same identical prin-
eiples the repu blican party stands for.
The republican party stands for
special privileges; those special ex-
emptions which make an aristocracy.
Don't they do il? Can't you see it in
the republicans? (Cries of That is
right.') Can't you see it in the demo
Gratis too? 1t is six of one and half
dozen of the other.
Then what? In every country there
has always been another party, the
party which represents the great
laboring people; the party that repre-
sents the great producing people, the
party which stands for the great mid
die class; the party which stands for
equal rights to all men and special
privileges TO none. Where is that
party to-day; it is the Peoples party
and you will find it no where else.
Then which party will you join; which
party will you work with? They
say the democratic party has not
done all that it promised but
you must not turn them out because
few men have gone wrong. That
arithmetic was sound. If only few
democratic leaders had gone wrong
we would not be holding the party re-
sponsible for those few. But where
are the leaders who have not gone
wrong? it is the few who didn't go
wrong; it is the many who did go
wrong. The majority of your party
went against the people. You know
they said that Sodom could have been
saved by the finding of five pure men
in the city. They could not be found
nor can you find the five spotless
leaders in the democratic party who
have stood ever and always by their
principles and with the people. There
fore, what? Sodom must go. 1t is
bound to go.
They say we will elect new men.
What new men are we going to elect?
Give us their names. They have in
indorsed those who voted for free sill
yer; they indorscd those who voted
against it. They indorsed those who
voted for the sugar bounty; they in
dorsed those who voted against it.
They indorsed those who voted for
the income tax; they Endorsed those
who voted against it. Nothing they
can't swallow. They are the out-in-
dorsingist crowd l ever struck. Who
have they turned out of the church?
Nobody. Why? Because you can't
turn them out. You don't know where
the majority is The majority in one
church is for free silver; the majority
in another is against it, and you dare
not take vote. You just indorse
everything and go right ahead. In
some of the districts in Georgia they
indorsed the congressman who
fight Cleveland and turn around
and indorse Mr.. Cleveland. Why
you can't find them; you can't draw a
bead on them. 1t is like shooting a
didapper, you can never draw your
aim. The time you think you have
got him spotted he dives and comes
up at another place and you have got
to do it over again. Now in the dem
ocratic meeting house, if the preacher
takes a free silver text the house is
for free silver; if he takes gold bug
text they are for the single gold stand
ard; if he lines out an income tax
hymn they all sing it; if he lines out
high tariff hymn they all sing that;
if he prays for monopoly they all say
amen; If he pronounces the benedic-
tion in favor of national banks they
| all bow their heads and go away
happy; if the benediction is against
national banks they clap their hands
and cry "Hozannah. Just put a
democratic tag on it and it don't make
any difference what sort of dog it is.