Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-14

STATED by THIS relationship led to rapid
decay. The party ceased to produce
great leaders. Men Of conscience and
courage, like Thomas III. Benton, left
it. The significance Of this period is the
illustration it gives of the disastrous re-
suits Of betrayal of principles, to the
morals, honor and usefulness of party.
The people have not trusted the Demo
cratic party since, except during the two
brief Nightmares of the Cleveland ad-
ministrations.
Party's Shameful Record.
Founded on the wrong side of moral
and political ethics, it spent the first
sixty years of it's existence along the
lines of ACKNOWLEDGMENT and narrow
partisan legislation. While processing
IN its platforms to be the friend of the
masses, it persistenly enacted laws
winch bound them to penury and dis
tress. While publicly advocating
broad, intelligent citizenship, it voted
against individual freedom. While beat
ing the tom-toms for prosperity to the
people, it voted against cheap postage,
the Homestead law, and the Resumption
OF Specie Payment Claiming to be in
favor of higher standard of living for
the workingman, it enacted free-trade
measures which sent him into indefinite,
enforced idleness, and reduced him and
his family to the level Of the pauper
labor of Europe. Processing the utmost
patriotism, it gave all possible aid to
the rebellion.
Some Companions.
COntraSted with the grand old Repub-
hcan party: the one abolished slavery,
the other upheld it to the last the one
put down the rebellion, the other sup
ported the rebellon the one preserved
the National faith and credit, and paid
the National debt the other tried every
scheme and expedient to stultify the re-
public and avoid the debt; the one pre-
served the standard of value unchanged.
the other sought to tamper with it and
destroy it.
Gets Worse Instead of Better.
The professions and promises of the
Democratic party, during the past forty
three years, and the absence of all per-
fcrmance are as notorious as ever. They
show the lack of ideas, or purpose, but
abound in hypocritical dogmas and
f1atulent pretenses. 1t has reversed
itself on, almost every important Ma
tlonal measure and brought upon itself
the ridicule of right-thinking people,
Apropos OF this deplora BILE condition in
the party, Mr.. Dooley" proposed the
following want ad., a little while before
the st. Louis conventions:
"WANTED-A good, active, energetic
Dimmycrat sthrong iy func an limb:
must be in favor iy sound money, but not
too sound; an anti-mpeeryalist, but f'r
holdin onto what We've got; an inimy of
thrusts, but friend " organized capital;
sympathizer with tn crushed an down
throdden people, but not be amy means
hostile to vested INTERESTS; must advocate
sthrikes, gover'mint be injunction, free sill
tax, a tariff FIR riviHoo, tn CONSTRUCTION
to follow tn flag as far as it can, an no
farther; civil service rayform iv tn la'ads
i'll office, an all tn great an gloryous
principles iv our great an gioryous party,
or amy great an gloryous parts thereof
He must be akelly at home in Wall street
an tn stock yards in tn parlors iy tn
r-rich an tn Kitchens Nv tn poor
Cleve1andism and Democracy.
During Cleveland's administration our
National debt increased half million
dollars a day in the face of the party's
promise of better times. Each day we
lost half a million dollars in foreign
trade. During that administration the
value of farm products decreased more
than five hundred million dollars. Dis
trust and panic paralyzed the great in
dustrial system of the country. Banks
closed their doors; business houses as
signed; the balance of trade was against
us; capital withdrew from the fields of
legitimate enterprise into secret places;
labor was forced into unwilling idleness;
we had deserted mills, smokeless facto-
ries, silent machinery. We had tramps
and beggars, industrial armies, starving
women and children Two million able
bodied men were begging for work
the opportunity to earn bread for their
starving families.
Unworthy Of Existence.
This happened during the administra-
ton of the Democratic party which dur
ing fifty years has added nothing to
progress, nothing to the cause of liberty,
nothing to freedom, nothing to the glory
of our common country. This is the
party that, no matter what it promises,
always goes into partnership with calam-
ity. 1t feeds on disaster and fattens on
despair. The only time it has had con-
troll of this country during this gener-
alton, it shut the doors Of industry and
clothed labor in rags 1t fought under
the dishonored banner of free silver, it
opposed keeping our flag III the Orient,
and advocated that it be lowered in
retreat and trailed in the dust of dis
honor. Such is part of the record of
the party of calamity, professions and
promises-the oft-defeated discouraged,
disorganized, disgraced, divided. decrepit
old Democratic party. It stands to-day
without an issue, without a principle,
without a policy, without platform,
without q leader and without hope
In closing we quote S. e. Kisor of
the Nebraska Independent. who puts
these words in Bryan's mouth as regards
Parker and his party:
Organs Position.
Friends and countrymen, let's trust him
Though he's not man to trust
Let's endeavor to elect him.
Though his cause is far from just;
l have put away all rancor
AS l promised them / would,
/ am for the splendid ticket,
Though it isn't any good.
'Let US grid ourselves for battle
But | hope we cannot win
Let US pray to be successful
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