Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-09-08
0[ARk'S LETTER
Organism Is by No Means
Defunct.
IT BOBS UP IN VERMONT.
Still Ready to Give McHannaism
q Most Lively Bout.
TERRIFIRs THE COUNTRY SAVERS

Some Good Stories About General Joe
Whseler-How He Raised the Old Yell
nj Santiago Tho House Favors Five
Minute Speeches.
Especial Washington letter.
Every day for nearly two years we
have been hilariously told by sapient
editors sitting on sundry tripods and by
Solomonic orators with that owlish
wisdom which is engendered at divers
banquets "betwixt the walnuts and the
wine'' that Organism is dead as the men
who lived before the food and the IS
to 1 lunacy is exploded forever and
forever so long as the river flows"
In eyary such case the wish is father
to the thought. Ever and anon, just as
we are about to conclude that these
u~nctuous patriots themselves believe
what they say-even If nobody else be-
lieves it-Bryanism rears its head aloft,
lively as q cricket, fresh as a daisy,
bright as the sun, fair as the moo and
terrible as an army with banners carry
ing CONSERVATION into the ranks of the
country savers and causing them to
hold another wake yer the remains of
the object of their d%etestation.
Several years ago I read "Ivanhoe. "
It is q delightful romance. Its charac.
ters abide with one as real flesh and
blood people-Isaac of York, Rebecca
the beautiful, King John, Richard of
the Lions Heart, Friar Tuck, Rowena,
Ivanhoe and all the rest.
That splendid story is marred by only
ono thing-which I have always re-
garded as an impossibility in nature.
Good Sir Walter asks as to believe that
after Athelstane had been split from
crown to chin, had been laid out for
three days in the cerements of the
grave and just while his retainers were
celebrating his death by a feast after
| the barbarous fashion of those times,
he suddenly came to life and, being
hungry after his long fast, consumed
most of the victuals himself. Now, one
| Of three things is true-either Athel-
| stane's headpiece was built on q differ
| emit plan from ours or his head wasn't
split SO thoroughly as 1.-THE Wizard of
the North suggests or this amazing
performance never happened at all.
Not . Death Wound.
So about this killing of Organism.
| When the editors and orators aforesaid
pronounce it dead, either they have not
wounded it past all surgery" as they
| suppose, or it is imbued with more
lives than all the cats of Cat island. 1t
| hobs up serenely and u~biquitously to
haunt its would he murderers.
The last place where it suddenly
burst upon the astonished vision Of its
| slayers was Vermont most unexpect-
! ed place-the Green Mountain State,
the land of brave old General Stark,
| the habitat Of Justin S. Morrill,, st.
Jerome Edmunds and Redfield Proctor,
the country Of maple sap and rock ribbed
Republicanism.
It goes without saying that a Yer
mont Democrat is an honest, courageous,
patriotic citizen. He is a conscience
Democrat. He nsver tastes the loaves
and fishes, never even gets close enough
to the feshpots to inhale their savory
odor. He knows full well that his
chances for gobbling the offices are
like angels visits, far and few be-
tween" Year after year he walks mp to
''the rack, fodder or no fodder" most
generally to discover that the Republic
ans have devoured all the provender.
| Consequently he philosophers on poll
tics without having his reason clouded
| and his sense of right blunted by
/ schemes of expediency. Re is a Demo
crat from a sense of right doing. In his
| case "virtue Is its own exceeding great
reward" and his only reward. Not be-
ing under any necessity Of pandering to
any doubtful element, he speaks out in
meeting, blurts out his opinions freely
and bravely. There is no time serving,
| double dealing, ~weathercock, riding
two horses going in opposite directions,
about him.
The Vermont Democrat is a refresh
ing creature, a man worthy of all honor
and Of all admiration. General Have
lock always commended that courage is
the common heritage of the human race.
He once said, ''In every !, 900 men there
are 800 who would storm the gates Of
hell" Had he known the sublime cour-
age, fortitude and fidelity Of the Yer,
mont Democrats he would have made
his possible hades stormers unanimous.
The Vermont Democrats.
While others have been endeavorine
to box the political compass, wriggline
and squirming and somersaulting, the
Vermont Democrats recently got them
selves together and set an example
worthy Of emulation by their political
brethren everywhere. Their clarion mote
rings out clear and i~nvigorating oven
the land. They declare "unswerving
loyalty to the money of the constitution,
the money Of Washington, Jefferson,
jackson and the long line of illustrioui
American statesmen, " and that ''the
money that brought prosperity and con
tentment to this country for 80 years il
the money that will restore prosperity
to business and the suffering people"
No shsmbling, double shutting, good
Lord, good devil jargon about that. II
is tangible Ineligible, full of meat.
Nothing can be more certain thar
| that Colonel William J. Bryan wal moi
in attendance on the Vermont conven'
| ton. He is busy far away at b heae