Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-01-23
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Prosperity Is Too Much for the
Chronic Calamity Howl


dening to Bryanite ears. It suggests
that there is a screw loose in the dem
ocrat tic platform or intelligence. A
retrospect or a prospect is all tho
sworn brethren of the Peerless are
willing to treat themselves to at
present. That sprouting journalist is
unchanged, as everybody knows. He
is going to talk and write until he
dies. So he is perfectly happy wheth-
er the democratic party agrees or not
with his theory that tits better to be
licked and licked than ever to have
won at all by giving up the principles
of Chicago and Kansas City.
Hon. John w. Kern, democratic can
didate for governor of Indiana last
year, rises from the waters of woe
and egurgitates catalogue of the
hosts of imperialism. It is long, but
it is worth the price of admissions:
"O A large majority of the so-called
Independent newspapers of the country,
which, while protesting feebly against
| the open Outrages committed against
constitutional government, cringe with
disgusting servility before it and yield
! their unfaltering allegiance in the SUI
| preme hour of contest.
go The most of the clergymen of the
| land, whose salaries depend upon the
| bounty of the social royalty built up by
this power, and who, while pretending to
preach Christ and Him crucfied, are in
every campaign apologizing, in Gods
name, for the Golden Rule, and justify
| ing murder, conquest and rapine carried
on by imperialistic power in the various
| parts of the world.
"(3) The entire lot of that great body
of human beings commonly known as
snobs, who are the camp followers of
wealth, and who are always ready to
sacrifice country and principle for the
| little social recognition they can obtain
| by crawling on their bellies in the pres
ence of the vulgar rich. o.
| go A very large number of busin ess
men who quail before the threats Of
financial panic which confront them in
every campaign.
"(5) vast number of unthinking, but
| well-meaning men who have neither time
nor inclina ton to look beneath the sur
| face of events, or who are so busy in
the business of none! getting as to for
| get their country and the duties of pa
| triotism.'
1t seems as ii slide were removed
and you saw the lava seething inside
of Mr.. hern's head. He has arranged
to have the democratic party grapr-e
with imperialism, and tear ''the mask
of hypocrisy from the canting preach
ers who affect to see the hand of God
in every damnable outrage perpe-
trated by the temporal powers who
serve for hire He also proposes 10
turn the light on ''the crawl
ing, fawning snobs who sacrifice prin-
ciple for social recognition and he
promises himself the happiness of see
ing ''the miserable reptiles shrink ami
wither into nothingness." Heat rath-
er than light is Mr. Kern's element.
The democratic party can scarcely at
tract converts by the scorching and
soaring process. But how familiar
these eruptions of Kernese look!
Hon. Robert Treat Paine, Jr., who
personally represents the declaration
of independence, and was the Bryan
tie candidate for governor of Massa-
chusetts last fall, tells the Maine dem
ocratic club with a charming and even
path etic candor that 1--WE are handi-
capped by the prosperity enjoyed"
How can people enjoy prosperity
when they hear the rumble of the die
tator's chariot and the clanking fet-
tiers of the martyr Of liberty in the
Philippines? But they do enjoy it,
such is the base commercialism of the
human constitution. Take off the
handicap, bring the country to rags,
and the democratic party will be
ready to run the race. In the words
| 1,,4 o1x-11, rr
/ bard:
''Nothin' dom,
Give us ruin
A staff correspondent of the Kan
sas City Times, a high old cockerouse
of the Bryanites, sends the same mes
sage from Washington. He gives a
conspectus of democratic sentiment
as he finds it at the capitol:
Suppose that the trust fails, that the
wonderful conditions which have en-
abed the railroads to declare dividends
| change; that the competition among
these great railroad systems becomes so
strong as it is daily and yearly becoming
| stronger, and the business which has
largely been increased by abundant crop
| yields and general prosperity becomes
| less; the railroads are unable to pay
dividend upon their stock and a few of
! the trunk lines fail to pay the interest
on their watered bonds, those interested
will likely begin to look into these af-
fairs and receiverships and foreclosures
| might follow While the conditions of
the country at present preclude the prob
ability of a panic, conditions might occur
which might cause the greatest one
within the next four years in the history
of the country In their wild greed for
gain it is not doubted that the great cor
| pora tons of the country have overstepped
the bounds of safe business policy and
the pendulum might swing back. In case
| 1t does the republican party is without
an argument and Mr.. Bryan would I'M
| doubtedly be the logical candidate for
president"
The logical candidate Of a smash
up. Hurrah for the panic party and
the panic candidate! 1t takes demo-
Gratis to say the worst things about
the democracy.-N. 7. Sun.