Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-08-06
DUNCAN TO BUCKNER.
He Takes the Kansas City Lawyer to
Task for Bolting the Democratic
Party-Administers a Dose
of Shakespeare.

| iKOht tulS week III Inc LEDGEk as an
ardent advocate of the fallen fortunes
OF Grover Cleveland. He says:
aThe people in the convention nom
| mated Grover Cleveland, the greatest
Executive this country has produced
since the days of Thomas Jefferson"
Cleveland was nominated in 1892
and the people elected him and also
elected Democratic Congress for the
first time in thirty years. Well, what
of it? Just two years after, in 1894,
that same people, for reasons good
and valid to them, by sweeping vote
hurled Grover and ali his ideas of ex-
ecutive administration overheard, and
left him in the bottom of the sea,
ready for any of Jonah's whales to
take him in out of the wet. In the
scuffle the only embrace he got was
from that staid old war horse of Re-
publican fame, John Sherman, of Ohio,
who said: "Well done, good and faith
full Grover; demonetized silver and
| taught you the right way, and you are
walking in my footsteps. Don't swerve
from the true line. 1 know the Con-
stitution makes silver and gold equal
ly good sound honest money and that
you took solemn oath to support
that Constitution and faithfully de-
mean yourself in Office, but don't be
frightened by such small matters as an
oath. Just keep in line with Wall
| street, the banks and syndicates, and
let the poor tramps and shiftless ras-
calls go to the demnition bow-wows
and keep off the grass"
Again in 1896, after full and COM
plete canvass of all the issues involved,
the Democratic party by an over
wheiming majority in convention at
Chicago repud1ated Cleveland as a
transparent fraud and all his bonds,
banks, syndicates and Sherman Wall
street combinations as unworthy of the
support of any one even processing
Democracy.
Again Buekner says:
| Now, after four years of fault find
ing, inaction, impecility and obstruct-
| i've tactics of the Democratic politi-
clans, they have produced condition
of panic and distrust, and are fatten-
ing upon the famine which they and
the Populists have created.
The above statement is the cul-
mination of imbecility and ignorance
without parallel in literary produc-
tions.Who ever heard of any one get
ting fat on famine? Yet this greenhorn
says the Democrats and Populists are
fattening on the famine which they
have created.
| Here is what Buckner says of the
Chicago convention and the platform:
The platform is not only un- Dem
ocratic, but Populistic and Anarchistic.
Under the leadership of Tillman, Alt
geld and Stone they have evolved the
| proposition that the President of this
great country has no power to sup
press insurrection, unless first invited
| himself be actively engaged in or in
| sympathy with the insurrection.
"Upon what meat doth this little
Ruckner feed
That he is grown so great?
When went there by an age since the
great flood?
But it was famed with more than with
one man.
Why, friends, he doth bestride old
Democracy
Like a Colossus, and all petty men
daniels, Vest, Cockrell, Altgeld,
Stone, Bryan, Sewall, Blackburn and
| millions of others);
Walk under his huge legs and peep
about
To find themselves dishonorable
graves"
Metaphor aside, this is huge
statement little Tom makes about a
convention of statesmen and great
political party. He assumes to know
more than all of them combined about
| matters and things, and asserts that 1t
is not Democracy, but Populistic and
Anarchistic. He is Sir Oracle and
should be consulted by men who
speak for the public good. A man of
great wisdom and at least as much
prudence as the bull that undertook
to butt the locomotive off the bridge
immense zeal but small discretion.
On such occasion it is not safe to ap-
proach too near this man for the rea-
son that, as the frog in the fable that
tried to swell up to equal the OK, an
explosion is likely to follow, and every
one knows something of the odors
that come from ancient eggs, small
though they may be. Amid all his
rawlings of iunacy this poor, weak,
0r-ss s--<--.-~--------
expected after such cruel attack as
mis- letter shows him to be under that
he would manifest even scintiliation
of reason, but ne exhibits one sane
symptom and that was when he seized
his boot straps with both hands and
lifted himself bodily out of the Demo
cratic camp, and balancing himself on
one foot as he perched on the Nc
Kinley roost pole protruding from the
Republican hen house he uttered
these omnific words: "I bolt" II
he will extend the bolt far enough tc
land in Alaska among the icebergs nc
harm will come to anybody in thii
latitude, and we assure him that hi
"actiye work. in Democracy vii
never be missed. 1t may be that aftel
, a few years of cooling off, like tina
other smart chap, Nebuchadnezzar
who got too large for his pants afte
grazing with oxen in the open tsl'
/ and breathing the pure air his reasol
. returned. So with the Kansas Git
statesman, for there is always hop
while the breath and the pulse kee
Q up. Until such time shall come aroun
In behalf of the Chicago conventio
and it's gallant standard bearers, Bry
7 an and Sewall, I bid the little one
II ;ovful farewell. M.Y. DUNCAN.
;. sy. L. Rainey, formerly of Mexic'
NO., is now superintendent of th
: Gulf & South Park Railroad Compau
at Denver, Colo. Mr.. Rainey is mo
popular and efficient railroad MAJ
o and his many friends in Mexico W
It be glad to know that his services al
;. being appreciated and that he hi
70 been promoted.