The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-16
Its Professions and Promises
Compared with Its
Performances.
vERlTABlE CALAMITY PARTY
breaches the Gospel Of Discomfort and
Wastes Time in Obstruciiug Wise
and Bencficent Republican
Policies.

Congressman j. Adam I;cdc tclls ,r
meeting a typical member of the party
of promises and calamity howlrrs. The
democrat had just rome ont of "A saloon
when he told liclc he had been huyinp
some lining ror his uudrrrlothcS. In
reply to Bedc's query as To- how he was
getting on. III" unfortunate lcSciplc of
Jefferson answered.:
THAT HIS horse went dead and bi. urro
went lame.
And he lost Fix COWS In n poker game;
Then n hurricane anne uu u summers Inr.
And blew the house where he lived, away
And an earthquake came when that was
gone.
And swallowed the laud that the house
Then the tax collector soon cam, 'rrrnd
And charged him NJ with the hole in The
ground
Bede said that his friend thought that
was carrying the single tax too far. I:nt
If you could nnalyze his ease AMI those
nf all chronic complaiucrs and kickcrS
you would find that. ont Of Il hundred
Of them, at least niuety-cight ought to
80 cut and kick themselves.
Short on Performance.
Democrats do not know the meaning
of the word 'pcrfornancc.' when ap-
pied to doing anything for the grn-
cral good, the Advancement Of the hi.
man race, or tho hettermcnt of man
kind. As Il party it has been trying
10 write il for more than n full round
century, and yet it has not succeeded in
forming the first letter. To do anything
constructive or OF permanent lenctit
seems utterly beyond its moral and
psychic conception, or physical capacity
10 perform. Its normal attitude is with
its face 10 tho past and its back to the
future. Ii never secs an opportunity I'M
Ill the issue has been permanently set.
tied by the Republican party and public
sentiment. Then it will stand up, with
unblushing and nconceivable cfirontcry.
and say: Il did it,
IL the question Of locomotion. with
il, depended upon the two limbs of prom
ise and performance, 1t would limp
through its course a loathsome deformity.
The promise leg would reach several
times around the earth and then to the
imoon, while the performance member
could not be found, intact. with Il pow.
crful magnifying glass. 1t has been n
helpless victim of promiscphobia for n
hundred and ono years, and there is not
n single symptom of relief in sight. The
disease is conceded hy tho best author
tiles to be fatal. but Il slow death car
rics its own peculiar form of rctributive
punishment.
Founded On a Mistake.
Jefferson. its father, while Il man of
deep learning and ~consummatc diplo.
macy, hated Washington, and early OPP
posed the cardinal principles OF the Fed
crnl Government. He organized the
Democratic party to aid him in this OPP
position. Washington and Hamilton
wanted n strong protective government,
Jefferson wanted n weak Government
that would govern the least" Founded
On the idea OF resentment, resistance, me-
cation, subversion and an academic and
false conception Of personal privilege.
the party has quite naturally been
''fOrninst" all sane measures directed
toward the healthy progress Of the coun-
try and the real advancement OF its pco-
pie. Being n party OF opposition AMI
obstruction it's policy has been to preach
calamity and foster discomfort: to prom
Use everything and actually do nothing.
Party Odium Under jackson.
II Jefferson was the founder of De.
mocracy, Jackson is its patron saint. AZ
ter the Jeffersonian period, lSOl-2j. came
the Jacksonian. lS2J-iO. The signiii-
rancc Of the jackson era of Democracy
lies IN the fact thai he was able Ia build
u machine from the rahblc or the less
educated classes. that enabled him act
ually TO assert his claims in conflict with
the Constitution and against the idea
Of RcpubliCinism. He assumed a posi-
ton between Congress and the people, rs
il were; as a patriarchal ruler Of the rc-
public. The curse OF JackSon's al.
ministration was that it weakened re-
spcct for law. The first clear symptom
Of the decline Of n healthy political spirit
was the election and reelection Of Jack
son 10 the Presidency. His administra-
ton paved a broad way for the dcinor-
nlizing transformation OF the American
people. Under Jackson. politics were
~vnlgarized aud American society was de-
prived OF its riShtful influence over gov
eminent.
Partisans, Not Patriots.
The twenty years from the defeat OF
Van Burcn IN 1910 to the defeat or
nonglas in 1850 brought additional dis
astcr and odipm upon Democratic nd
ministration. The strength Of the party
Inns always rested In tn" Solid South,
and the unelucated riffraf of our great
cities. During the years mentioned the
Southern Democracy pursued a policy of
territorial expansion, not out Of patriotic
Ut broad motives. hut for the sole pur'
pose Of increasing the number of slave
States, and thus preserve the sectional
balance In the Senate. These years are
memorable in history for the struggle
for territorial acquisition, the struggle
lrycr the Wilmot Proyiso, the Compro-
lnisc OF 1850. the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. for the long agony in Kan
sas;U 1r the sensational bred Scott de-
.jsiOn, and for the reconstruction oil the
iarty on strictly sectional lines,
Rapid Moral Decay.