The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-06-11

1nStld Nv Drltenln up and glvlD us sum
hopes fer the footure mi labcrs tn weld
tugether the fragments NV our Dimicratic
party hev bin generally unsuccessful. Mi
larst attempt tu du SO wuz a dismal fale
yure frum a strickly partizun standpoint,
and thet liz whut we all steer fer wen we
go out tn fool sumbuddy. FL / Stated in
mi larst lettur, we he'd resolved tn drop
the old issoos thet he'd becum danger sig
nails tn the kountry thru our bad manage
ment and look ahed fer once and tri tn
Iced the processhun with sum prinsiples
not tn much shopworn. I waited fer kon-
gress tn ajurn, so thet our STATESMEN Good
not excuse their absence bi sayin tina he'd
the publick bizness tu look after. Sum
he'd roodly insultid me befOar hi tellin mo
thet the bizness tina wuZ pade til trans
ackt wuz NV moar importance than eny
thing thet a Moo Gersey Dimicrat Good
suggest, so I wuz forced TIL overlook sich
hoomiIiatin treetment and ketch them at
a time wen tina he'd no publik dooties tn
perform.
Bi maxim a multitood NV promises, and
the persuasiv logick NV seven gallons Nv
Moo Gersey applejack wich Grover Cleve-
land he'd sent tn me by xpress fer the gen
eral good NV the cause he'd at hart, sue
ceeded in assemblin quite largo number
NV our representative men frum different
Seckshuns nv the kountry tn konsult with
me upon the contrarineSs Nv the sitoOa
shun. We he'd goodly number frum the
southern and western stats and sum frum
other seckshuns, incloOdin wun from Moo
England hoo he'd escaped frum Massachoo-
setts and wuz huntin round fer 6onc sort
NV an issoo thet Good be yooscd bi men
hoo wantid tn konduct war without 1itin.
After we he'd sampled the liquid produck
befour alloOded tn kallcd the assem- biage
tu order and sed: Gentlemen, we hcv
met wunst moar in the interests NV the
Dimicratic party tn maik Il final attempt
tn git tugethcr fer the wurk ahed nv us in
1900 and tn konkoct plans tn enable us to
git offises fer our trends. Ez agreed upon
ut our larst session, we hev conclooded tu
treet our past rekord ez korpse thet IL
ded and buried, and wo don't want no
resurrccks kshun NV It. Fer the first time we
hev concloodcd not tn waite tn see whut
tho Republicans are goin TIA du, and then
du the contrary, but we air goin tn talk
tho inishiativ and perseed tn maik things
hum in the next campanC cz we want ON
tu With tibet objeck In vuo l shell be
pleeZed tn hear from enyhuddy hoo kiE
trot out sum moo idces thet kin he de-
pendid upon tn hoodwin< the people wen
wurked intu politikal platform. Re-
neInber" sed l in conclooshun, tibet
thar IL tn be no lookin backward: Our ize
air sot and sot strait ahcd. " Then took
mi sect and awaited tho cffecks Nv mi re-
marks.
he'd expected thet our crate men wood
almost tumble over each other in their
anxiety tn be the fust tn advance sumthin
moo thct wood sweep the kountry fer us
two yeers hence; sumtnin thCt wood en-
thoose the rabble and the aristokrats the
laberin men and the capitalists, and sum
thin thet Good be KEEP doun bi the silver
ties and not be hove up hi the goidbugs
Tu mi surprizc nobuddy scd a word
he'd expected the iludgatcs NV talk III be
opened, and thare wuz dcd silence in5tid
l wuz astoundid, and, jGmpin ontu il
chair, l said: ''Whut dUZ this meen2
Here IL - men, not kOuntin fools, and
the most ny you air senaturs or represent
ativs in kongrrss. Yu hev bin maxim
speeches all winter and fndin fault with
the president and blamin him and the Re
publikin party fer whut w sod wuz the
orful kondishun Ev the kountry You scd
thet the only hope Nv constitooshuual lib
erty and fer men hoo wantid tn keep out
NV Jail was III dcpOsc the Republican
party and let the old party uv the cOEsti-
tooshun cum intu power agin. Now wen
/ ask yu whut noo issOos we air tn hoop
'cr up fer in 1900 yu air all cz dunn ez IL
Moo GersCy oyster
''Tharc air no non issoos. old man, thet
we kin win on, Scd a kungTessIAan frun'
Tennessee. ''onlcss we kin handle 'cln
better then we hcv bin doin lately We
hcv bin buttin our hCds agin everything
in site ontil We hcv neerly rcechcd the
posishun Nv publck obstruckshunsts
We did all we Good tn bring on war with
Spain, and wen we got it we didn't want
it. We hev plade fast and loose with all
the kwestuns CROWN out NV it and cum
nifty neer tn BLOWN ourselves up hi takin
sides with the nakid heethen NV the Fill
poems agin our own Amerikin sol9Crs
We hev tride tn cut doun the size Nv tho
army, and we hev in meny waZe bin play
in intu the hands NV the enemy. OnlesS
we kin hev better leedurship ir kongress
we he'd better stop tall1in about moo issoos
and stick tn the old wuns. -
This riled up kongressman Bailey NV
Texas, hoo hcz bin tryin TIL Iced the party
in kongress and hoo hez laitly led hizself
out NV it, and he took the fore with flyin
hair and swingin arms and "A voice like a
roarin bull I'VE hev," scd he, got tu
go intu the next campanc upon the broad
and fites fer hiz kountry disquaIi1ize hiz-
self fer politikal honors. 1 made mi fte
agin General Joe Wheeler and Il; her knn-
grcssmen hoo We're soljers upon thr5
ground, and | shood hcv won il il It
hedn' bin fcl the lack NV votes in the
house. The WA l wuz desertid hi tho
members uy the Dimicratic par:y, loo
shood hev follercd mi lecdurship, wuz in
tenseiy hoomiliatin tn mi personal pride,
and l hev decided thet the party ort til be
disciplined ez Il sootable reparashun for
the provokin insult and the woundin NV
mi personal vanity. wich, in mi partik ular
case, IL no Site affares Therefore, hc7in
bin sot doun ontu hi mi party associates,
hev conclooded to leave the obstinate
.cusses tn du their own lecdin "
If yu he'd dun thet in the fust place, :"
ssed q congressman frum Moo York hoo
hez son in the army, I'VE shoodnt hev
he'd so much monkey bizness, and the
lDimicratic party wood hev stood better be-
foar the kountry than it duz now under