The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-08-03


"A double dealing money broker can UNI
derstand all about money but an intelli-
gent man with an honest thought is not
supposed capable Of understanding its OPP
eratiens.
STILL TRIUMPHANT.
In the few years past when Democratic
ideas swept everything before them and
elected more than a working majority OF
! all branches Of the government the party
itself had undert AIKEN a grea responsible
ity. The affairs of the country had been
sadly mismanaged. Republican extrav-,
agance knew no limit. Warnings OF ma
tional depression in trade and finance
were UNDECIDED. It was the mad career
for place and spells and the devil take
| the hindnost The grand old party was
driving the chariot of state and any man
| that called a halt was to be trodden I'M
der foot. The members of that G. 0. P.
were the accumulation Of wisdom. What
| they hadn't learned was not worth the
seeking. And besides all this learning,
did they not preserve the nation? They
continually told us of that. On stump
and platform and Fourth Of July ORA
Etions have we not been ali constantly re-
minded that were it not for the G. O. P.
there wouldn't be a man in the nation
| today that would know the spot wherein
he could lay his head. Why even the
old soldier himself caught his f1lspira-
ton from the famboyant argument
which he heard on every side from the
| mouths OF the G. 0. p. worshipers, and
he walked on air. Tattered though his
hon0red suit might seem, had he not
saved the nation and given a home and
national protection to all mankind
None Of us could have lived had he not
been present at Sholoh or Vicksburg, or
Gettysburg, or at some other spot where
he was forced into battle. During the
days Of the draft there were some patri-
fotic gentlemen caught on their way to
Canada, brought back and forced into
the ranks. They, too, saved the country.
| They had been intercepted on a little
trip to northern ATTITUDES, where they
were going for the purpose of viewing
the scenery, but their patriotism was
still in their pockets and they were de-.
termined upon saving the country.
The matter of saving the country is.
probably the principal stock in trade Of
the Republican party. To the world at
large it is palpably nauseating. 1t would
seem that a loyal Democrat did not ex-
list in the northern states It would
seem that there wasn't valiant Demo-
cratic general on the northern side.
The people sickened Of all this pother.
ALL Of them could not be hoodwinked
all the time and so they turned the ras-
calls out The sorry portion of this re-
cital is that when the rascals walked the
plank on their outgoing way there were
some rascals with a face Of innocence
who passed them ON the plank in the
other direction. The people had conf
dence in the ingoing party but there
was enough of malicious self1shness and
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT in 1t to basely.
leayen the whole lump. The promises Of
| the Democratic party were not carried
out, Irrespective Of the strenuous efforts
| Of the faithful. 1t was the expected and
| not the unexpected that happened. The
people had trusted and had been partially
deceived. Let the truth be spoken.
| Democracy had fallen, temporarily at
least, into a state Of disgrace. The sins
Of the few had been foisted upon the
party. A hue and cry was made, justifa-
! BILE, of course under present political
methods, and the result was that the peo-
PIE repudiated the party in whom they
had placed SO much confidence and won
dered at what they considered deception.
! The awakening has come. The Demo-
cratic party has purified itself from within
as far as it was possible to do SO. Cor
man, the chief conspirator in the trying
days Of the party, has been repud: lated in
his native state OF Mary and-not yet de-
feated but struggling against the force Of
his former friends land Others Wao fought
tine Wilson bill, either il the house or Il.
the senate have received the coolest kind
lof5recognit;on from their constituents.
Mangled as the w llson tariff bill was
when 1t left the senate and became a law
| it proved Itself 80 much preferable to the
mckinley enactment that the people are
wonde ring today how they ever could