The Irish standard., 1896-11-14
GROWERS AxE.

/ All parties and all shades Of parties
will be glad when the bull-headed, ego.
tisticaI and self-serving gentleman who
now occupies the White House; will, on
March a next, step down and out, never
again to appear in public as represent
alive Of the people unless fortune Should
take wings and fly away and be should
be Obliged to return to Buffalo and per-
form his old duties of legal hangmaD.
The party to which he osten sib.y belongs
in the main disowns him; all other par
tiles despise him Democrats who made
him-adhered 70 his fortunes through
good and evil report-he trod upon when
he did not ruthlessly cast them aside.
He was law unto himself, more arrogant
! than Napoleon ever dreamed of being,
and yet the one had great talent and abb
solute power and the other neither: wit,
wisdom nor gratitude. Once securely m
Office his supporters could shift for them
selves: once he had feathered his own nest
the rest Of the world could shiver In the
cod.
This is the mann Grover, the stuffed
prophet from Erie county, New York
who during the last campaign not only
electioneered himself, but urged and per-
mitted his friends-his henchmen, rather,
he has no friends-to do so. Nearly all
the members Of his cabinet were on the
stump, racing hither and thither like
frightened rats, screaming for the reten-
ticn of the gold standard. Heads OF de-
partments at Washington were also out,
believing like stricken cattle, tina! the
power of Wall street must be upheld.
Their master, Grover, had won his god
en- gains through the aid Of the money
power and that power was henceforth to
be worshiped as a god. One who held
his place by the favor OF Grover mildly
protested against this system of coercion,
but he had no sooner made his adverse
intentions known than off went his head.
In contrast to this observe the follow
ing: Those of1ce-holders who dared to
say during the last campaign that they
believed in bimetallism and not in the
gold standard, or that they believed IN
free silver and not in Grover, find their
heads in the basket since the election.
During the campaign spy was set upon
the federal office holders TO ascertain their
sympathies. If they were in favor Of sill
yer their doom was sealed. ,S0ne. Of the
spies sent out was none other than the
first assistant postmaster general. He
did his work well, and returned to Grow
er q startling list of all grades OF feder-
al office-holders who were in sympathy
with silver. The departments at Wash
ington have Jared no, better: Women
even who had no vote, never went on the
stump and never offended in any way
except that they were appointed through
the recommendation Of men who since
have proclaimed for free silver, have
shared the fate of the others. And the
work of decapitation continues and Grow
ers ayenging axe is dripping with politi-
cal gore.
Since these Wholesale dismissals have
come to light general feeling has sprung
up, irrespective of party, that had 1t been
known that such course would be pur-
sued for the exercise of opinion that the
gold standard would have been swallowed
from sight as it an earthquake had over
taken it. 1t is now too late. however, to
talk about human rights, but it will not
be too late four years hence to wipe out
such dastard.y deeds. And the pity Of
1t is that Grover will not be in place to
feel the keen, denunciations Of an out
ragged nation. But he could have felt It
thousand times before If he had not
had the hide of rhinoceros and: the
thick-wittedness of balloon. 800.
JUST A THIEF.
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