The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1902-07-24
JONES IS SILL DISCOURAGED
Ne Sees No Hope on the Political Horizon
Ne Wants an "lshcw."

Dear Mister Editer:-l still feel nifty
discouraged like when look around and
see the hopeless condishcn Of the Dim.
crcrat party at this ritin. We've bin In
a heap Of utc places since 1860, and sdf'
fored defect and Disappointment cnufr to
have made job brake over and swarc,
bu, the sad fate to which We now seem
To bo ioreduumcd il cnuiI 10 cause cold
chills 10 run down the backs Of our
chairs, even.
What was the Dimcrcat pnrty made
for, cnnyhowY Was II 10 BE- tossed like
n shu,tlecock by the progressive and
aggressive Radicles, and bulrctcd by
the waves OF Disappointment on every
hand? Here we ar, like Gagged bird II
beatin its head agin the wires. We ar
wcarin ourselves out tryia to git into
power, and the more We try the more
we don. git thar. A paraphraZc OF u
good old hymn suits our case ud1ackly,
viz:
| This is the way wc long have sought
And muurn.I b.fase W. found II not
| Our grcefa burden long has b,n
lIecasc our party cant Kit In.
We've bin worryin ourselves for ever
so long TO find an ishcw, but dad-blnmc
the Radiclcs! they jist jump In and take
tho wlnnin side Of every ishcw and leave
US to jist scrapc around and take the
leavins. 20 that all we can do Is TO OPP
pose the very thing we was for, jist be.
case the Radicles was for it--and after
all we have TO ncquics.
wish that word acquics was blotted
outen our dictionary; we've had To use
1t 80 much In tho last forty years that
II has lost its taste, and Is as insipid to
the Dimcrcrat palate as stale beer, And
where ar We now? Arter pickin flaws
in the Radicklc policies, and opposin
en- with ell our mite all thru the last
session Of congrcc, we mr. now like hap
noatip In an eddy; We ar oil the time
goin. but we never git cnpywhnr: Its
une eternal round Of runnin agin The
popular current, and then as last re-
sort we have 20 appeal TO Ncsbit and
Goblc laws, and fraud aud chuain at
the polls to bold our grip on the oiilses
shiver for our party in Mo-, iist as ]
did here In KY, when Guvner John
Young Brown ordered Dick Tato's books
examined. II minds me OF mor-
chant AS was watchin the stars iallin
in 1888, when he exclaimed, "Gra,e God :
Here's the day OF judgment cum and my
books not posted!' 1t seems like the
day Of judgment is at hand for our party
In No., and our books not balanced.
And hero IN Ky. how is it9 Wear In
power, 1t is tru, but how did We git
tharY l will not worry tho reader by
sayin: but, Lordy! when our stars begin
to fall Dimercrats will be hcarn cryin
for the rocks and mountains Ia fall on
them and hide ON from the face Of IN
indignant people, and we mny hear the
awful denunciatior, depart from me,
yon cussed, into politiclo oblivion, where
frauds and dciaultcrs abide"
Now the idea OF our goin into cam.
pane without n symptom Of II sign OF an
impression OF an idea OF an ishow is one
Of the forlorncst hopes ever hoarn Of in
pollyticks; and then the attitude Of our
leaders Is dcplorablc, Thst CRATE "har.
mony' meetin In Moo York was one OF
the most inharnonious afTarcs In its ef.
iccks ] ever hcarn tell OF. Here wns
Mr. Bryan and Mr., Cleveland, like the
two halves OF pare Of sheers cut,in In
opposite directions, and the Dimcrcrai
party fell atwixt EN- and is cut in halves,
fear never 10 be united agin. Wewns
hopin TO git somethin outcn the trust
question, but now the Itadicles has gon,
and jumped rite in ahed OF us, and as /,
were, snatched the hole thing rite from
atwixt our teeth, and here we stand lik,
, a boy AS has let bird 90. never did
see party as empty handed. Hope,
where art thou?
: JONATHAN JONES,
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