The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-01-15
COUNTY OFFICERS.
JACKSON AND BOLTOCRATS

JACKSON AND BOLTOCRATS.
They called it a banquet, that Jack
son day gathering at Chicago Friday
evening, whereat 200 bolcocrats met
to eat, drink ard be sorry. But il
was more like a funeral.
What right had the representatives
of that crowd-which not only plotted
and perpetrated treachery against the
democratic party, but arrayed the
polluted carcass of treason in the
pinchbeck jewelry of hypocrisy and
called the repulsive thing patriotism
to drag an honored name, glorious
What incident is there in the history
of the grand old hero of New Orleans,
the fearless Chief magistrate who
stood between the plain people anC
the encroachments of corporate wealth
that could be tortured INTO the slight
est approval of the remuneration OF
party fealty or the reputation oil
party doctrines? Republican ffessions
glorifying the day Oh which the battle
of New Orleans was fought and eXtol-
ling the hero who captained the mel
whose valor won it, presents IA spec
tacle of effrontery that only the shame
less band of political freebooters who
drank and talked ut Chicago on Jack
son day could have evolved.
The champion of the rights of the
people against the expressions of the
banking power, lauded and claimed as
the political prototype by such crea-
lures as the millionaire grocer, Frank
lin McVeigh, who presided over the
feast, and the partyless president,
who sent the feaSters his ponderouS
commendation i'll epistOlary form,
were he in the flesh and constrained
by some incOnceivable power to attend
this feast of proclamation, would teel
as utterly out Of place as an eagle
among a flock of masqueradlng mag
pies.
Cleveland alluding in terms of pol
itical fellowship to Andrew Jackson
and the sold landmarks of the demo-
cratic party" is travesty and a sac
rilege. The destroyer of democracy
yoking himself in encyclopaedia phrase
with its most fearless exponent and
defender is enough to make the gorge
rise in the throat of every Honest dem
Ocrat throughout the length and
breadth of the union. Jackson. the
conqueror of the British, coupled with
the fat-brained egotist who looks to IA
foreign nation for his financial policy;
bending all the resources which the
people have placed in his hands to
force these same people beneath the
tyranny of the organized mJneyed
power, mating his beliefs and policies
Will thC pun anu iuSSCu prlSoIdllIy
of Old Hickory. who took by the
thloat the United States bank and
stillsd Its demands by the sword of
the constitutions; jackson, who barred
his breast to his cOuntry's foes on
many IA battle field and shed his blood
in his couhtry's cause without ire
NOR of regret; jackson who stands for
the highest expression of bravery,
patriotism and statesman
ship in the American republic. har,
messed in terms of party consanguinity
with the dropsfcal eX-sheriff of Erie
county, New York, who fought his
battles when his country called for
men with a LIred substitute and whose
wailike experiences are confined to
desperate onslaughts upon the ducks
of the Potomac and Carolina swamps
and to angling depredations upon the
ducks of Bazzard's Bay. These are
some or the grotesque and unseemly
of violence done to the
verities of history and the honored
OF the democratic PARTY by
the little band of boltocrats who gave
their lonely and !ugubriouS banquet
in enumeration of Andrew jackson at
Chicago.
An Insignificant group. representing |
a crowd which at the recent election
polled less tlran Que per cent of the
popular vote defamiug and denouncihg
as wholly bad and immoral the organi !
zation that cast over six million votes |
for the democratic candidate, is an !
exposition of cheek which deties the
which have come and gone
since the dawn of h istory fer lis para
ell or its peer.-KaDsas City Times.
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