The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-03-22
pected nothing and got nothing. The
esteemed Washington Post hits it
deity when it says:

rencv issue are not and could not be
Republicans without d radical change
in every other item OF their politica
faith. 1t happened that most OF the
boilers belonged to that faction %
the democracy that had been the
most extreme III its opposition to the
distinctive principles and chief poll
cies of the republican party. They
were the deadly foes OF protection
Mr. Mckinley was antipodal to them
and his tariff theory was their pet
aversion The coinage issue was the
only tie the only bond OF sympathy
between them and the party with
j which they allied themselves for the
specific and sole purpose OF defeating
Is TO l, thereby saving the nation
from what they believed would be a
great calamity"
No sooner was Mr. Mckinley warm
| in his seat, and his first congress as
sembled, than, instead of going to
work on a financial bill cOnsOnant
with the unwritten terms of the com
pact to which he owed his election,
the republican party dominated by
the robber barons then as it is dom
mated by them now, trOtted out the
old harlot of protection, and we had
an orgy ofcorruption and greed flung
right in our teeth.
If the republicans had wanted a
permanent alliance, such as that
made between the liberal-unionists
and the conservatives in England
primarily to defeat Mr.. GladstOne's
home rule bill, which worked SO well
that it discontinued ever since, the
Dinglev tariff bill was not the way to
get it. Ii they expected help of the
gold democrats in 1900, they took
poor way to show it, or to insure it;
and they have certainly not since
made the least effort or sign in that
direction. The truth is they rightly
Judged that they had got of us all
they would get i'll the supreme emer-
gency of 1896, and having played us
for all they thought we were worth,
they concluded to hog the game,
as they have done. In pretending
otherwise, the Globe emOcrat is
merely talking to hear itself talk,
talking for talks sake, talking
through its hat as a body may say.
AS far as the Courier-J ournal is
concerned the republicans and our
selves are quits. They owe us moth
ing and we owe them nothing. They
never did and we never did. 1t was
not to help them we made the break
in 1896, but to save the democratic
party. 1t was our honest opinion
that the Palmer and Buckner ticket
would get from a million to a million
and half of votes; that these would
form the nucleus of a reorganization
OF the party after the defeat OF the
men who had run away with its prin- |
ciples at the Chicago convention; and |
that historic democracy would thus |
he rescued from the modern theories |
of pOpulism and socialism which had |
taken mOmentary possession OF it.
In this we were mistaken. The result |
our theory. 1t wa. a
good theory, but it lost just as the
fusion movement back of Mr. Bryan
was a good fusion, though it lost
To make a long story short, the dem
Ocratic party of the United States
to-day in front of its old, historic
enemy; the few seeking to lord it over
the many; the sleek gentleman in the
back office, with the rutfied shirts and
he watch fobs, poking finger i the
eye and saying to another, what is
he constitution as amongst friends"
Among democrats-real democrats
hat issue constitutes an .'irrepressi-
Die conflict and whenever a man
,alling himself a democrat eQuivo-
,ates about it he is a humbug and
wants an Office.
The democratic party will be found
.olerably solid behind Mr.. Bryan in
he coming election. Ii he can keep
he outside vote he got in 1896 he
will be elected. The money question
out of the way, no demo-
rat, who is a democrat, is going to
Dalk in front OF any platform the
men in possession of the machinery
of the party May think it best for
hem to adopt They have their own
peculiar following to look after. We
shall question neither their right to
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