Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-08-09
THE TUPPENNY DEMOCRACY

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n. A. Burrell in the Washington. la.
rress; They boast of the fight at Kan
sas City over the free silver Is RI ,
pianK' whether a specific statement
saoul go in, or only a reafirmation of
the Chicago platform of 1896. They
and quibbled and criggled
ahu over that picayune thing
ior hours, yea, days, in committee and
OUT, a 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 1t made any difference rea firma-
ton would have embraced 1s 10 / and
al the other vagaries and anarchisms
OF the 1896 platform.
n fact that they should get heated
IKE school boys, over such a tuppenny
thing as that shows that the party has
no capacity for governing a country.
Ano IL is singular that the Democratic
party has not in fifty years made a
success OF administration. Buchanan
let the South steal the government
nllnd and gather momentum in prem
afatlon for a civil war. Jackson would
nave throttled the south instanter, The
democrats have not had a real man
since Jackson, nor has the party
to anything useful since he
leo them. AS men, Democrats are as
good business men as any others. But
as q 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
him for doing them. But he did many
Iooilsh things. and the country went to
the bad IN his last administration.
Harrison, before him, had paid off
$3.50, 900 900 Of the public debt, and
Grover owned in his frst message that
the country enjoyed prosperity unprec-
edented. Cleveland added $3.50, 900 010
to the public debt, and he made a fool
tarif that in four years made 60, 900
commercial failures with $500. 900 600
liabilities, sent 1T railroads into re-
ceivers' hands, closed ITO 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 D
lized 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 do
that doesn't show sense enough to run
a peanut stand-successfully. wit ont
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-
summate the job If they were given a
chance. Five-acre farmer Bryan
Tammany hall with its 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 100
cents on the dollar?
Or wants this lot of ~trifiers and
kickers to put a handful of weed seeds
in the vermiform appendix of Uncle
SAM