The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-04-03
Scoring the Administration.

w. S. Henderson, who spent several
months of 1894 visiting the Dunbars'
in Shelton, writes an interesting letter
from Colorado, to the Eaton Rapids,
Mich Herald He is evidently one
democrat who has sense enough to
know when he has had enough. We
extract few passages from his interest
ing letter:
PrrKIN, CoLo., Feb. IL, 1896.
Editor Eaton Rapids Herald, Dear
Sir: I notice in the Eaton. Rapids
Journal Of Feb, 7th, an editorial head
ed decline of the Senate" Sorry, in
deed, am 1 to see my friend Fairfield
take up the cause of such grand
rascal as Grover Cleveland. 1t is GER
tainly high time that some one should
tell the truth about the dastardly do
ings of the traitors who infest the
highest offices in the gift Of the people
of this great republic-even if they do
not clothe their language in as fine
rhetoric as the learned ex-senator from
Kansas did in his great speech on
"Voorhees." 1: is no time when a
villain has you by the throat to stop
and search a lexicon to find soft words
with which to address HIM, because he
happens to hold high and respect
able Office. High Office to the wind !!
IF man betrays his position, impeach
him; if not in deed, then by word
No matter whether he be United
States president or secretary of the
United States treasury. know ex-
Governor Tillman personally, and
know him to be "a gentleman who will
be found on the side of right, and
working for the masses and against
the classes. He is Conscientious and
untirins in his zeal to have right pre-
vail, and although he is not blessed
with the personal beauty of the long
whiskered ex-senator from Kansas.
and his shafts OF sarcasm may not be
us keenly polished, but they are highly
tempered, and where they strike they
leave an impression. "Truth is mighty
and must PREVAIL" and Mr.. Tillman
has the moral courage to stand up in
the halls of the United States senate
and tell th> truth even if he does tell
it in "coarse" and abusive language.
Mr.. Fairfield says, "There is no politi
cal contingency or national crisis that
could justify the TRADE which Mr.
Tillman applied to the president and
Mr.. Carlisle" In Gods name, Mr..
Fairfield; where have you been, or
what have you been doing, that you
are so ignorant of the great crisis that
is confronting the American people
today? When the president has the
effrontery to make private bond deals
with thieves, by which the people are
robbed of millions upon millions Of
dollars, and then his contracts are car
ried out to the letter by his henchman,
Carlisle, it is high time some one used
rough language and called them by
their proper names. No one hesitates
to call Benedict Arnold traitor, and
he only betrayed an army of few
thousand; but Grover Cleveland has
betrayed whole nation of nearly a
hundred millions. He deserves a
greater punishment than all the Ar
nOlds who ever lived since Adam and
Eve sewed fig leaves in Eden. If more
of the senators and congressman would
"unbridle their tongues" and speak
their honest thoughts cleveland, Car
Isle. & Co." would undoubtedly get
roasted still worse than by Mr.. Till
man.
Our own james M. Turner, of Lam
sing, says: ''Some of our law makers
at Washington ought to be hung"
He is right; they were sent there for
an honest purpose by an honest people,
but they sold their yer, souls for Eng
lands gold and political patronage.
fhe time has past for merely pnnctur-
ing their callous hides with slender
.i'aits oi satire and polished strokes OF
sarcasm. They need pounding with
t:ie trip hammer strokes OF rldicule.
just such as Mr.. rillmarl gave the
three hundred pound duck hunter aud
-Mr. Carlisle. Never mind Mr.. Till
man, he will take care OF himself and
"go one eye Oh them" i'll the way
along. Say, Charlie, what would you
have us do, go plodding patiently along.
like a jackass toward bucket of oats,
as We have been doing, tor lear of hurt
ing the feeling oil the king of the Unit
ed States, or make a break for liberty
Three years ago when l was here it
was "down trodden Colorado" What
is it now? The whole country is be.
ginning to see that they are down
| trodden. 1t struck the silver interests
first, then the railroads and manllfac
I"'s of mining machinery, then the
agrl ulturists and mechanics; and n.'v
since the silver using countries have
commenced manufacturing the com
odities. with a. difference Of LOO ke
cent lii exchange ln their favs, the,
are mako >eIir,zs~ s"r Ids 'ti' carA
| ern manufacturers. A9u c''a~,T
quence, our work shs i,s II si,iis afs
closed ali ovet isie a. ti 80 fu'n'..s'id'
| of honest W,rksLas s.'t' ~ ,
into tramps MI III
buy the necesslta -, 49,.
ters 1t If pu a'
bushel wheu,a sl.
cents? They nis..i Il -.
but who can produce then at Z cen Is
or corn at lS cents, or any of the farm
products at he price they are going .
today? They say overproductloI
| kopDs tho ,,rioo dsAup II IA ups}e