The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-30
a pIsoRAcEFuL EXHIBITION.
The People Grew Tired OF the whole
Democratic Outfit.

The People Grew Tired Of the Whole
Democratic Outfit.
1t was a rude awakening for tho
American people 10 the consequences
of their own action in calling the dem
ocratic party to power in 1892. when
the motley crowd of statesmen who
came in under that name. or as its
populist allies, began to disclose them
selves in their true character. Never
was there such a procession of below
ing blatherskites. Illuminating fakira
and fiamboyant fools since the expert
ment of self-government was initiated.
The people, who in momentary aber-
ration had opened the doors to them,
looked at them with disgust. and lis
tened with horror to their incompre-
hensible outgivings, their empty noises
and blood-curdling proclamationa It
was bedlam let loose. The cages Of
the entire millennial menagerie had
been thrown open and the little
child" who was to ''lead them" had
forgotten his lines. They would not
"lie down together" They did every
other kind of lying but that. And
they manifested disposition to graf
ify their carnivorous propensities by
turning to and eating up the little
child.
What a lot they were! And with
what wide-eyed amazement the coun-
try looked on at their antics and
listened to the roaring. the swapping
and the snarling! All business stood
still to give the workingmen q chance
to see the show. The first eruption
was in Oregon, when the pestiferous
Pennoyer broke loose with an insult
ing telegram to the president of the
United States telling him to mind his
own business Then came Waite, of
Colorado. breathing fire and smoke
and threatening to ride in blood to the
| horses bride if congress did not take
the whole world by the throat and
compel it to call fifty cents worth Of
silver a dollar. Then Lewelling. OF
Kansas, took up the strain. and with
little less violence proposed to consti-
| tute himself the supreme ruler of Kan
sas and general supervisor of the rest
of the country. Stone, OF Missouri.
followed with the proclamation of an
unalterable purpose on the part of the
farmers of the Mississippi valley to
cheat their creditors out of all they
owed them unlsss they agreed to the
passage of a free silver bill to scale
down the Indebtedness Then came
the unspeakable Altgeld. of Illinois,
showing his contempt for law and his
sympathy with lawlessness by pardon
ing the convicted anarchists; and Till
man, of South Carolina, tailed of the
procession with his proclamation OF
defiance of the authority of the gov
eminent.
These and others of like kidney too
numerous to name came in with the
great democratic triumph in 1891.
They might have postponed their in
! evitable fate had they known enough
to quell their own mouths and 60
slowly. But they had not sense enough
for that Even before the Inaugural
ton of their president, the little
child" who was to lead them" they
were in full cry. Emulating their ex-
ample. great pack of unofficial feath-
er-pates broke loose. For a time the
Coxeys and Carl Browns with their
tramp armies contributed to the gen.
eral din, holding share Of public at
tention, and they were followed or ae-
companied by the devastating Debs,
who held the business of the country
by the throat and was not disposed OF
until the military arm was invoked to
suppress him.
What nightmare it was. And now
the American people, who have had
this object-lesson and have been i'm
patient to get at the teachers of it for.
many months, have risen up in their
intelligent might and said to the whole
millennial menagerie: There, nowl
Scatr-N Y Tribune.