The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-08-09
THE TuPPENNY DEMOCRAT

II. a. Burrell in the washington Ia
Press: They boast of the fight at Kan
sas City over the free silver 16 to
plank, whether a specific statement
should go in, or only a reaffirmation Of
the Chicago platform of 1896. They
twiddled and quibbled and criggled
and piddled over that picayune thing
ior hours, yea, days, in committee and
out, very large minority insisting
on the latter, and the majority so
wishing, and all yielding to Boss Bry-
ans demand for the specific thing. AS
II IT made any difference reafirma
ton would have embraced Is to | and
all the other vagarias and anarchisms
OF the 1896 platform.
The fact that they should get heate
like school boys. over such tuppenny
thing as that shows that the party has
no capacity for governing a country
And 1t is singular that the Democratic
party has not in fifty years made a
success Of administration. Buchanan
let the South steal the government
blind and gather momentum in prep
aration for civil war. Jackson would
have throttled the south instanter. The
Democrats have not had a real man
since Jackson, nor has the party
amounted to anything useful since he
led them. AS men, Democrats are as
good business men as any others. But
as party, what good service have
they rendered since 1850? Cleveland
did two or three good things but did
them in spite of his party that damned
dntn0 Int no
foolish things, and the country went to
the bad in his last administrator
Harrison, before him, had paid off
100000, 900 of the public debt, and
Grover owned In his first message that
the country enjoyed prosperity unpre,-
edented. Cleveland added $3.50 900 0)0
to the public debt, and he made fool
tariff that in four years made 10000
commercial failures with 5000 900 900
liabilities, sent lit railroads into re-
ceivers' hands, closed 10 national
banks, ruined wool growers foreclosed
thousands of mortgages, threw one
third of the laboring population out of
work-damage infinite. The country
naturally forced the election of Nc
Kinley on pledges that the old, tried
policies should be restored, the
finances be put on adamant, and all
that sort of thing, and the pledges
have been kept. The country Is back
on the Harrisonian basis, and every
thing is in good shape, but the popu-
liked Democratic party now comes to
ask the privilege of running things
and, as proof of their capacity and
ability in the conduct of public af-
fairs, give us this object lesson
whether they shall affirm the Chicago
platform" or name silver, These school
boys fought two days over that silly
twaddle. A great party that could d.
that doesn't show sense enough to
peanut stand-successfully, wit G
breaking up. Their last hitch at gov
erning, before the pops swallowed EN-.
well nigh bankrupted the country, and
these silly fellows would surely con-
suEmate the job if they were given a
chance. Five-acre farmer Bryan
Tammany hall with it's ice trust, and
Altgeld, would make a nice mess of it,
indeed.
Who wants another panic?
Or another stroke of paralysis in
business?
Or tinkering with money worth 10)
cents on the dollar?
Or wants this lot of triflers and
kickers to put a handful of weed seeds
in the vermiform appendix of Uncle
Sam?