Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-09-20
OFFICIAL PAPER BURLEIGH co.
THIS Is TOO MUCH.

The republican party is willing to
make many allowances for the demo-
Gratis. It Is perfectly willing to concede
to them any small morsels Of comfort
which they may have been able to ex-
tract from the situation and condition
OF the nation since they took charge Of
it, a couple of years ago. The national
democracy has had a hard row to hoe.
ali things considered. It has had upon
its hands the management of the great
est nation on earth, without having had
any definite idea as to how a nation
should be managed. 1t has had to sal
the ship of state with a crew of seamen
who didn't know the difference between
a mainmast and a paddle wheel. 1t has
had many things to do without any
particular method of doing them. It
has endeavored to mend a rent in the
national treasury with a patch which
was several degrees to small, and addi-
tional patches at S50,O0O,O 900 apiece have
had to be sewed into the aperture which
was left, at regular intervals. All these
things have tended to demoralize the
party, and in it's unhappy awe at the
large amount of the devil it has raised
with so small an amount of ability, it is
to be pitied rather than %censured, in
many ways.
But, taking this charitable view of the
situation, the democrats should do some
thing in return. If nothing else, they
should at least MAINTAIN a discreet
silence. But here the Pennsyl-
vania democratic convention, with a
blast which causes a cold chill to creep
along the spinal column Of every truth
ful mar in c~hristendom:
The democratic party, in convention as
sembled, hereby reneWs its allegiance to
and declares its faith in the principles of
democracy as formulated by Jefferson and
illustrated by Madison, Monroe, jackson and
Cleveland. 1t congratulates the American
people upon the first fruits Of the demo-
cratic administration, which inherited
from its republican predecessors bankrupt
treasury and unwise financial legislation.
impaired public credit. and widespread
disaster, and which, under the sagacious,
courageous, and patriotic leadership of its
great president, Grover Cleveland, led the
people out of the slough OF dependency
10 the high road of substantial and increas-
ing prosperity.
Now, frankly, candidly and honestly,
this is too much. Even allowing for
that characteristic exaggeration which
pervades all democratic convention res
olutions, and knocking off fifty per cent
for pardonable partisan enthusiasm, it is
too much. The democratic party in
Pennsylvania, we are willing to admit,
is entitled to crow a little louder than in
any other state, since that is about all
the satisfaction it gets. But when it
climbs up to the top of the table, and
promulgates such s%addening untruths as
these, it creates q gloom which martles
the truthful citizen as a cloak, and
causes him to weep bitter tears at the
reckless disregard of veracity which is
50 a%ppallingly displayed. Even the
hardened democrat must blush, as he
reads those burning lines, which tell how
the democrats inherited bankruptcy and
disaster, and made altar of roses, balm
of Gilead, and other blessings out of
them. Really, it is too much.