Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-04-07

CHAMP CLARK'S LETTER
Republican Disregard of
Platform Promises.
NEW INSTANCE OF PERFIDY.
They Smash the "Free Homes"
Plank to Smithereens.
STEALING A SEAT IN CONGRESS.
STEALING A SEAT IN CONGRESS.

STEALING A SEAT IN CONGRESS.
lot Turn Out . Democratic Member With
out q Hearing-Judge Miers' Able Argu-
ment of No oAvafl-Representativ Rob-
inson Shows Up Republican Hypocrisy
In the T,reatnsnt Of the Old Soldier.
Especial washington Letter.l
Republican platform promises. like
pie crusts, are made TO be broken. 7"
Since political parties were invented no
party ever put forth such gorgeous and
multifarious promises as did the Re
publioans In the st. Louis convention
In the dog days Of 1895. Having won
the great political Derby and captured
the "pie counter" they break those
promises with as much agility and aban-
don as o circus equestrienne jumps
through the papersd hoops for such
cases made and provided. They have
such a mania for smashing their prom
ises that if any Republican is SO mala-
droit as to insist on passing any bill be-
cause the party IL pledged to it he pro-
vokes howl of derision from his part
ners in political iniquity. They appear
to believe with Talleyrand that language
was made for the purpose Of concealing
ideas. Their civil service, Cuban and ade-
quate revenue promises have all gone
glimmering. Advocating OWL service,
they are the hungriest Of spoilsmen.
Sympathizing with the Cuban patriots
t,,x hot .1oS
a finger In Cuba's behalf until Democrats
aroused public opinion to such an ex-
tent that they dared to disregard it no
longer. Making vociferous promises to
pass q measure which would produce
sufficient revenues, they enacted the
Dingley bill, which, while taxing the
people within an inch of their lives,
produces vast annual deficiency.
They are a lot of gay deceivers
"Keeping the word Of promise to the
ear, they break it to the hope"
There is no platform promise too
large or too small to be broken. When
one Republican charges another with
breaking any particular plank, the &C.
cused recriminates by charging his ac-
cuser with breaking some other plank.
When General Grosvenor, "The Grim
| Old Lion Of Athens" I" made his vicious
assault upon what 1ordly Roscoe Con-
| king denominated "snivel service re-
| form, and Mr.. Barrett of Massachu-
setts, with>she innocence of the babes in
| the woods, inquired why Grosvenor did
not stand by the civil service plank, the
| tough old soldier dived into his desk,
drew forth the Republican platform and
showing it under the nose Of the astound-
ed Barrett asked with bitter sarcasm,
"Why don't you stand by the Cuban
plankf" This sally was received with
such shouts Of laughter that the Goddess
Of Liberty on top of the dome wabbled
her lofty head as though she had been
suddenly stricken by as palpable case
of palsy as afflicted Mr.. Dombey's peren
nially and preternaturally youthful
/ motheY.in-law, the Hon. Mrs. Skewton.
The presumptuous Barrett collapsed into
his seat in SO limp a condition that the
scene recalled stanza from Bret Harte's
famous poem, 1.-THE Society Upon the
Stanislaus:"
| order, when
4 A chunk Of old red sandstone took him in the
abdomen,
| And he smiled kind of sickly smile and curl
ed up on the floor,
And the subsequent proceedings interested
| him no more.
When the whisky ringsters were
prosecuted in st. Louis, General Grant
telegraphed, "Let no guilty man es-
capel" The Republicans seem to be de-
termined that no plank Of their plat
form shall escape compound fracture.
Their last achievement in this line was
when they knocked "the free homes"
plank into smithereens to the utter dis
gust and complete discontinue Of west
ern Republicans. They smashed that
little plank into splinters with great
alacrity.
The savage manner in which the Re-
publican chiefs danced q war dance ON
the dishonored fragments Of "the free
homes" plank led Mr.. Eddy, Repub-
lican without guile from Minnesota, to
exclaim in agony Of soul, care plat
forms only made to catch suckers?" The
vote taught Brother Eddy that that was
the identical thing for which the Re-
publican platform was built, and sad to
say 1t worked like charm.
Page Morris, the Virginia Republican
from Duluth, who has face strikingly
like Edwin Booths and who defeated
the renowned Silver Republican Charles
A. Towne, shook his ambrosial curls
and made an eloquent appeal to the Re-
publioans to live up to this one promise.
He eulogized the pioneer as "the unsung
hero"-a phrase which Is likely to live
lin q manner which brought him great
applause, but all in vain. He spoke to
hearts Of adamant. His classic face had
pinched, drawn expression and was
white as marble when the vote was de-
olared which killed the bill. Perhaps in
that formal announcement he heard his
political doom.
Two Promising Indianians.
Two Hoosier representatives have re-
Gently distinguished themselves on the
floor Of the house. giving promise Of
maintaining the high standard hitherto
established by Indiana Democratic rep
resentatives. Because the mortality has
been so great in late years among the
Democratic leaders Of that state it is
with unusual pleasure that I note the
successful performances Of these two
&. b. Cauthorn.
From the Laddonia Herald.
Col. Bob Cauthorn, of Mexico, was
hare lase waek. Mr.. Cauthorn In quite