The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-31

How Populists ~ Well ~ Democrats
Have Been Taken In and Done For.


The st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Some people seem to think" said the
old politician. that ought to be ashamed
OF myself because | am getting a little
fun out OF politics. + tell you, years ago
| used to take II seriously. and as long
as the Democratic party stood for any
definite policies OF principles in legislation
or administration 1t was worth consider
ing. But when. after declaring in our ma
tional platforms In favor OF tariff revi-
sion, we would split up In congress and
enough of our party go with the Repub-
licans to beat the bill. and when, after
We got fun control OF the government.
Senator Jones. OF Arkansas offered i57
amendments to protect l67 things. and
when. after that he Joined the cotton
bale trust. and after that was made chair
man of the national Democratic commits
tee. TO carry on a campaign against the
trusts. says TO myself Look here, old
man. you're getting old. You ought to
have cut your wisdom teeth twenty years
ago, but You didn't. You kept on voting
for these fellows who played you for a
sucker and put your vote in their pocket
to be sold to the highest bidder. Are
YOU a haystack for the cows TO eat?
You've always held yourself good hand
at horse trade or a game OF draw, and
you can hold your own with any man
on buying land or cattle. You are no hay
stack when II comes to business, but I'll
be DID II you haven't been letting these
fellows play you for one when II comes 20
politics. Four years ago when Jones
said that all the plutocrats must be
crushed, at all hazards you threw up your
hat and hollered. You knew that Jones
had done a great deal for the piutocrats
In amending the Wilson tariff bill. but
your party spirit and your red Democratic
blood were up. and you didn't care a cuss
whether the plutocrats were crushed or
not just so YOU got a whack at the Re-
publicans. You went TO the polls through
heavy rain. whooping and yelling for
Bryan and the whole ticket from top TO
bottom. You put her In straight. though
you had your doubt about Stephens and
two or three more OF them. You made an
old fool OF yourself because your blood was
up and because. as you put 10. the party
spirit was reused within you
Don't let II get reused again. Jones
has made a million since the last election
in the cotton bale trust. and now he
thinks Imperialism ought TO be the para
mount issue. Bryan has made a cool hun
dred thousand. and thinks New York ia
the field OF battle. We've Quit taikfn'
about the tariffi. We've quit talkin'
about silver. We've quit talkin' abou,
everything except Imperialism. Most OF
our leaders are In on the ground floors OF
AtHSA~ corporations. They
raise overshadowing issues every few
years, when a new set Of leaders are try
Ing To break I'm on the ground floor. They
put the overshadowlng Issue in the news
papers, then in the platforms OF the con-
Eressional districts. then In the state plat
forms. and last OF ali IN the national plat.
form OF our great and glorious party
They get old geezers like yon 20 throw up
your hat and heller over the new over
shadowinK issue They get enough Of
them like yon 20 carry the country. or
one branch Of congress. or a state Iegis-
lature: they Introduce their sweeping re-
form measures snd then sit down ard
walt for the plui0crats to come and see
them. III the plutocrats don't come autck
enough they advance the bin 10 second
reading, and that generally brings them
20 time.
II j. my experience that n plutocra,
who IL about 10 be- robbed. or thinks -
II. can hardly stand the pressure beyond
the second reading our great and incor-
ruptibie leaders express surprise a. MI.
apparent uneencorn. and say that II they
were stockholders in his enterprise th.y
would move heaven and earth 20 sesea,
that measure. The pius0crat takes the
hint. and our great and iuoorruptihln lead
ers become stockholders aud defeat ~.
hiil. after those Of them who DO not want
To keep stock have been assured that .he
company will take Il hack on their hanAs
at is fao~ value