The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-04-30
THE REPUBLICAN PAKTY.
What 1t Has Done For the Laboring
Glasses.
[SpringfeII Leader.

springfield LEADER
Conceived in iniquity and born in
sin, like the Serpent from the garden
of Eden, bearing its scourge of dis
tress. its simeon of woe, its brand of
misery and torch of ruin to the hap
piest people under Heavens eX-
panse.
1t found them ia prosperity and
brought them to beggary; it found
them clothed in good raiment and
gave then tatters in return it found
their tables grOaning meath food in
abundance and now they are void of
even dishes, and with only tax
notice for tableclOth; it found
happy mansion and left but the
bleak and barren walls of a hopeless
despair, covered with mortgage and
tottering with debt. 1t changed
Arcadia into a desert and its roses
into thistles
Such is the record of the Republi-
can party!
Thirty years ago it fell upon this
then prosperous and happy republic,
like the curse of God on Sedan, with
its hell-engendered ideas of negro SUI
premacy and Capitalization, and its
very breath has been like the fumes
of industrial decay, while its feet
have trodden down and tramped on
a nations progress Its finger has
pointed the rugged way to ruin and
It's every promise has been lie.
The earliest act of this political
bastard was to baptise the land in
blood and put the vandal's torch to
the happy homes of the sunny
South, the garden of America.
This feat of patriotic valor accom-
plished, it next proceed to over-run
the same beautiful Southland with
uncongenial and repulsive human
scabs from the North, of the Clay
Evans variety, to assist their social
superiors, the Southern negroes, in
governing and humiliating Southern
manhood with carpet-bag and bay
onet.
Then they instituted their tariff
protection for the benefit of Wall
Street and its tributaries, throtling
industry, strangling hope and crush
ing the life out of labor.
Following this they struck down
silver, looting the country of one half
its coin and RELOCATING the money
of the poor, at the demand of New
York and London capitol. John
Sherman, the biggest, brainiest,
meanest man whose photograph has
ever appeared in their rogues gal
lery of heroes, was the author of this
diabolical diversion from the path of
| al f,-n 10 Il, ha int ri
3rd of American politics; the
Iago of public prosperity, the avatar
of ruin, the evil spirit of liberty.
He is too soulless to hear and feel
the anguish of Niobe weeping fol
her children; his heart was never
moved by pity, his eyes were meyer
wet with tears, and his serpent-like
body would refuse to perspire in the
middle of the hottest furnace in hell
And for this animal cadaverousness
this satanic spirit, he has been made
Secretary of State, the headwaiter
under the Mckinley administration
That administration came int
power through falsehoods, bull
doing and bribery, and it will 81
out with the well-earned curses o
. an honest people enSlaVeu ny leSls
lation and broken down with an end
, less debt.
They promised prosperity, and |
will come. 1t will come to the mil
lionaire bankers of the East, it will
come to the Shylock spectators o
Lombard street, it will come to tn,
foreign holders of American securl
ties, it will come to cur Englisl
Lords and masters, it will come t.
the Rothchilds and the Carnegies
it will come to protected corpora
tions and giant industries, it will
come to Mark Hanna and Johr
Sherman, it will come to the pen
sion-drawing patriots of the North
it will come to all these in plenteou
portion, but never dollar to tn
laboring man and the taxpayer.
Such has been the record of thi
party of broken promises and pen
sion robbery and tariff jobbery ant
financial murder in the past. 1t /
remaining true to the bastard tradi
! tions.