The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-11-23
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %. 1895.
'our Saw


''As general thing democrats are
not mourning much over over he re-
suits. While they are not rejoicing al
the result they are not showing much
feeling one way or the other. AS a
matter of fact politically, they have no
feeling. They have heeu in the pillory,
as it were. for The past three years. For
three long years they have watched
and hoped for snn,e act on the part OF
their so called standard bearer, who
occupies the White House, that savored
of democracy, some act that democrats
could endorse, bat only to receive in
stead, stab in he back. So often has
this been The case, they have t-come
used to it. The thrust has insi lnignancy
aud is no longer felt. OF course they
are crushed, int not by defeat. They
are crushed as was Washington when
be discover. d the trrachery of his
favorite general-as was Christ when
Judas betrayed him. II is useless for
The cukoos to try. and defend him.
do so but III ,se whom he has so faith
fully served; The goldbugs and the re-
publican parry.
OF course We do not make the sweep
ing charge that the defeat of he demo
cratic party was owing solely to he acts
of Cleveland, tut we do assert that he
has done abont all man cnnld do TO
destroy the party-that be has divided
ami drmoralizsd it and used his great
power and patronage 10 fnrce upon it |
doctrines which are auiagoBi>tic 10 its
dearest principles and traditions. |
Allied with the prospersous classes. |
himself and seIvile agen's have ~aged |
relentless war against the less fortunate
masses, trsmpliog under foot the time
honored democratic principle of pro-
lection 10 tie weak.
Is it strange thea that the demoralized
and spiritless legions of democracy had
no heart in the fight and that the re-
publican maj lrties were phenomenal?
We have said before that he present
administration assumed the reins of
government at time when the crisis of
twenty-seyen years nf republican mis-
rule had been reacbed-.at time when
the substantial temple of The peoples
rights had been thoroughly UNDER
mined through a systematic disregard
for years of the commonest interests of
the many, that the wishes of the in
flneuiiaI aud powerful few might be
gralified.
In 1892 The people understood the sit
uaiioD. They believed Grover CIeve-
land and the great parry he represented
would right their wrongs and they
elected him by vote v hich was COM
piment such as few men ever receive. :
But can the most obedient cnkoo name
a single act of the man whom the peo- ,
pie hal come to believe modern
Moses, that was not an assurances that !;
their confidence had been misplaced?
tariff for revenue only WAS his 8
and on this ihs people gave :
him their votes in generous numbers.
But during he weeks of desperate con- /
tentinn in congress for tariff reform in
accordance with the tariff plank in the ,
platform, was his voice heard in its
advocacy, or his powerful influence ex-
erted for its accomplishment We i
know that it was no., and that the tariff /,
reform from which he ope expected !.
so mnch Turned nut TO be only slight :.
mo LITIGATION of McKinleyisu. The IN !,
come tax, about the ouly democratic a
FEATURE of the bill, was signed by hin a
and transmitted 10 congress v i,h com :.
nents which left no room to doubt that =,
I was obnoxious to him aud that it !,
wonld bave been vetoed had it been n
possible 10 have done so without oe- y
troying the other. ;,
II may he said that it was not the ~
province of the president to il fuenre >,
lie will of congress in ihis matter; y
which reminds rs of a comparison il,
which may be said 10 be odions like all Fl
theirs and, that is the activity he dis nj
'layed in using bis position, whether 81
lis province or nor, 10 strike down the n,
liver money of people in Obedience ri
the wishes Of the gold trust and con- b,
rsclionists. =,
We will not enlarge on these facts s,
'hich are matters Of history familiar to fe
very reading citizen, We take no
leasnre in this kind of criticism of
ne president; but our love for trne %
emocracy and our conviction hat his in
olicy has not been the policy of dem hi
crai. and for the sake of Tho mario tv