The representative., 1900-10-11

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DEMOCRATIC INCONSISTENCIES.
/ The record Of the Democratic party aer
the past 40 years h an unbroken record
OF Inconsistencies. Ely
Protesting to be al led ana .e.a..s4
BY the grand truths Of the declaration o.
1 Independence. that proclaimed all men
were created equal. 4 spoased the cause
Of slavery. Il
So strong was its Opposition to the
greenback during the war that nearly
every one of its mambers OF congress
voted against the bili authorizing their
| issue. Then In 1868 the party declared
| Tor the payment of the public debt In
greenbacks, and afterward- nominated
Tilden and elected Cleveland, two OF the
hardest of the hard money men.
Processing undying antagonism to the
principle Of protection. in 1872 1t sup
ported Greeley. who was the father Of
the protection policy, and, later, when
1t had complete power, it passed tarin
| law that Cleveland. sthe great apostle CT
tariff reform. would not sign, but stie-
matized as piece OF party perndity
| and dishonor"
1t insists on having all paper money
| redeemable in coin, but maintains that
| 1t Is not necessary to have the coin to
redeem with.
Only few years ago its adherents
claimed that the great and only papacea
for all Ills was low tariff and low
prices. Now they maintain with equal
eloQuence and persistency that what we
need is free silver and high prices. In
the campaign OF 1892 tariff reform and
| low prices was the only thing that would
usher In the industrial millennium and
the money question was not an issue.
In 1896 free coinage of silver and high
! prices was their campaign slogan and
the tariff question was not an issue.
There are all kinds of Democrats and
the party has been on all sides of all
questions. Talk OF the Peoples party
! being made up OF the rag tag and bob
tail OF creation" admit that most Of
the members of the Peoples party are
poor. There are no millionaires, no
| railroad kings, coal barons or trust own
| ers In it. Its members are mostly men
who work on farms and in workshops
with their hands-who earn their own
| living without speculation. It does not
rely on lawyers and money changers
the two classes of men whom Christ
| criticised in the strongest language he
| used while on earth-to fix its policy or
| make it's speeches. But the Peoples
party has q creed and that creed is the
test OF Populism. The Democratic party
has screed. They ,enk test OF Demo-
cracy Is to support the nominees OF the
| primaries or the convention. The DEM
ocratic party is crazy-quilt affair.
In the Democratic fe3ty are gold bugs.
silver bugs. protectionlsts. free traders,
national bankers aud national bank ad-
vocates. advocates pf high tariff, free
trade and OF tarif S4r revenue only.
men who oppose the issue Of bonds, men
| who oppose and men whe favor the In
come tax, greenbackers and anti-green-
hackers, advocates OF everything, and
those who oppose-a molly, tangled, alb
surd, ridiculous. inconsistent mass of hu-
manity reaching out for the loaves and
| fishes.
PURIFIED DEMOCRACY.
They tell us the Democratic party has
been purified. How do we know that
this is true? There is only one answer
to that question: It says So Do you
| catch the full meaning of that? The
Democratic party says it is purified.
That IL pretty rich, Nobody else has
ever said SO, except few Populists who
want oface by aid of the Democratic
votes. There Is no other evidence to
support the declaration We are asked
to take the word OF the leaders of the
party. My friends, you can do as you
please, but l beg to be excused. They
offer us in evidence their platform. Well,
there is not much in their platform but
what would it amount to if there was?
It would only amount to some more
promises, and the record of the Demo-
cratic party on keeping promises is
worse than its record on anything else.
You can't catch me on Democratic prom
ises. l am like the girl that would not
let her lover kiss her before they were
married. nor give any reason for re-
fusing. After the marriage ceremony
was over her husband pressed her to his
| bosom, kissed her cherry lips and then
! asked her why she refused him before
! they were married. "I'll tell you, John, .
she said, I'VE are married now and it
don't make any difference, but 1 had
been fooled that way three times be-
FORE" Where has the Democratic par
ty redeemed any promises?
PEOPLE MADE MONKEYS OF.
The money power, trusts and corpora
tions use one old party until it becomes
so unpopular that it Is impossible to re-
tain it in power, and then sit takes up
the other one while that one recruits.
Thus, in 1880, Garfield was elected. In
1884 Cleveland came in. In 1888 Wall
street changed again and elected Harri-
son, but, in 1892, Cleveland was wanted
again. During his last four years ad-
ministration be served the money power