People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-01-24

the HOUSE SIlsp mas HIS bOn Ondr4ey
bugging 1900 year Of public money
as his teller-when all he could tell in
year would not be worth % cents
Democratic Senator Cockrell of Mis-
souri,, a wild eyed and obstreperous re-
former, had his son ilching $500 a
year as a committee clerk during all
the years he was at school thousand
miles away. Democratic Senator Col
quit of Georgia, till his death had his
12-year-old son as an alleged mes
senger abstracting sl,4iO year from
the public pocket. Senators German,
Blackburn, Gordon, Harris, Arkan sas
Jones, Pasco, Pugh, Mills and Butler
all illustrious and rambunctious
democratic ranters against republican
nepotism and nepotists-have sons and
nephews pocketing bigsnnual stipends
OF government money because they
are their sons or nephews. One Of
fetal family in Washington has nine of
its members on the public pay rolls!
To-day the United States navy is
little more or less than royalty ap-
pointed feet of deadhead excursion
boats for Cheap John officials and their
families. Cleveland, who, twelve or
fourteen years ago, was shaking dice
for the drinks with Bissell in the back
rooms of Buffalo beer saloons-has
United States steamer and a navy
captain to take him and his spreeative
cabinet cronies duck hunting and ca
rousing-and the people, the great
toiling masses-echo answers asses
foot all the rollicking fiddlers' bills.
Adlai Stevenson, a Sucker kinsman of
mine, has been trundling about over
the country in all the 'Jeffersonian
simplicity of deadhead private car,
expatiating in Kankaskian or Kanka-
kean high English on the glorious
principles of The grand cd democratic
party What are its 'principles?' Has
it any? If so, are they not as ringed,
streaked, striped and speckled as lit
tie darkey's shirt in blackberry time?
Goldbuggery with Cleveland and Hill
and free silver with Crisp and Bland.
High tariff with Laundryman Murphy
in New York, low tariff with little
Billy Wilson in West Virginia, and
free trade with Mills IN Texas and
Watterson in Kentucky. For trusts
with German, Brice, and McPherson's
cook, and against them with all the
long haired and leather lunged pay
triots' of the south and west. For
an Income tax in the rural dis
tricts, and against it in the
cities. For one thing here, another
there, and still another somewhere
else. All things by turns, and moth
ing long For heaven in theory and for
hell in practice!
Why should such party wonder tits
overthrow? Why should such a colos-
sus of organized imbecility, failure and
Justification ever have expected any
thing but defeat at the hands of the
American people? Why should its
blind leaders of the blind grope about
for explanations of what was newt
able as the DEGREES of God? 'Vox pop
uli' is sometimes, though, alas! far too
rarely, 'vox Del, instead of 'vox dia-
boli.' This was one of the times
The so called democratic party was
temporarily annihilated because it de-
served humiliation; because infinite
promise and infnitesimal perform
ance should not win; because 65,OOO,.
600 of people can not be fooled all the
time; because patriotic common sense
and common decencY have not wholly
persisted in America Thank God for
it!
Down with every party and every
man whose platform and pledges are
merely high sounding announcements
of what they never intend to do or try
to do! Up with the standards of right,
truth, justice and liberty! Perish all
demagogues and demagoguery; partv
pr 40 party! Live the republic of the
peUpl.' PAT DOMAIN.