Cañon City record., 1904-09-15
IT, Professions and Promises
Compared with It's
Performances.
vERl1ABLE CALAMITY PARTY
Preaehes Tie Gospel Of Diseostest asd
Wastes Tine u Obstuctisg Wise
asd Beseiicent Repsbllcaa
Policies.

SohkresNmnu .. Auum beue teiiS oi
meeting typical member Of the party
OF promises aud calamity howlers- The
Democrat had just come out Of a saloon
when be told Bede he had been buying
soIne lining for his underclofhes. In
reply to Bede's query as to how he was
getting on. the unfortunate desciple OF
Jefferson answered:
That his hone went dead and his mule
And be lost si1 cows in q poker game:
Then hurricane came. GU summers day.
And bl-w the house where be lived away:
And an earthquake came when that was
And swsiiowed the land that the house
Then the tax collector soon came round
And charged Kim up with the hole In the
ground"
Bede said that his friend thought that
was carrying the single tax too far. But
IL you could anaiyze his case and those
OF all chronic complainers aud kickerr
you would hud that. out of = hundred
OF them. At least ninety eight ought TO
60 out and kick themselves
shsrt 0u Perfovasses.
Democrats do not know the meaning
Of the word performance" when APP
piled TO doing anything for the gen
srai good. the advancement OF the hu-
man race. or the bcttermcnt Of msn-
kind Az q party IL has been trying
to write Il for more than full round
CENTURY. and yet IL has not succeeded in
forming the 6rst letter. To do anything
constructive or of permanent benefit
seems utterly bcyond its moral and
paychic conception. or physical capacity
70 perform. Its normal attitude is with
Its face to the past and It's back to the
1nf ttr,ie, kxsx-
eli the issss has been permanently set
tied BY the Republican parry and public
sentiment Then IL will stand up, with
cnblushins and tnconccisabis eErontery.
and say: Il did it,
II the question OF Iocomotion, with
Il. depended upon the two limbs Of prom
lee and performances. u would limp
through itz course = Ioathscme deformity.
The premise i<g would reach several
simn srouad the earth and then to the
moon. while the performance member
could not be fouDd. intact with pow
erful magnifying giass- Il has been
helpless victim Of promisephobia for
hundred and one years, and there 10 not
Q single symptom Of relief In sight The
disease IL conceded hy tne best author
tiles 70 be fatal. but = slow death car
riea ts own peculiar form OF retributve
punishment
rsssdsA - . nGissske.
Jefferson. Its father. while 4 man of
deep learning and consummste diplo-
macy. hated Washington. and early op-
posed the cardinal principles Of the Fed
ernl Gevernment- He organized the
Democratic party to aid him In this op-
position. Washington and Hamilton
wanted q strong protective government
Jefferson wanted q weak Government
that wceid Eovcrn the least" Founded
on the idea Of resentment. resistance. ne
cation. subverrion and an academic and
falss 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 peo-
pie. Being a party of opposition and
obstruction Its policy has been to preach
calamity and foster discontent; to prom
ise everything and actually do nothing.
Party sSdssa usds~ Jseksea.
II Jefferson was the founder Of De-
mocracy, Jackson In its patron saint. Az
ter tho Jeffersonian period. lS01.25, came
the Jacksonian. 1Sc5-4O. The signifi-
csncc Of the jackson era Of Democracy
lies Ia the fact that he was able to build
. machine from the rabbic or the iess
educated cinrrcs. that enabled him act
unliy TO assert his claims In conflict with
the Constitution and against the idea
Of Rcpublicanism. He assumed q posi-
tion between Congress and the people, ms
1t were; a. a patrisrchni. ruler Of the re-
public. The cur~e OF Jackron's ad-
ministration was that It weakened re-
spcct for law. The first clear symptom
of the decline Of healthy political spirit
was the election aud reelection Of Jack
a. h. -.
ton paved broad way for the dcmor-
alixing tranaforma ton Of the American
people. Under jackson. politics we're
vulxarised and American society was de-
privcd II ita rightfui influence over gov
sTlSasas
fsrtsssUs. Net Patvi~s>
The twenty years from the defeat OF
Van Burcn In 1910 to the defeat or
Douglas Ia 1880 brought additional dis-
aster and odlum upon Democratic ad-
mlnlstration. The strength OF the party
has always rested In the Solid South,
and the uneducated riffraR Of our great
citiea During the ysars nentioned the
Southern Democracy purrued . policy Of
territorial expansion, not out Of patriotic
or broad motives. but for the snle pur-
pose Of incrsaainx the number of slave
States, and thus preserve the sectioual
balaacs In the Senate Thsns ysars 'ars
memorable In. hIstory for the struggle
for territorial acQuiaItIoa, the strugsie
over the Wilmot Proviso. the Coupru-
mise Of 1850 the repeal Of ths Arissessi
Compsolniss. for the long agony In Kan
- fpf Tie ssnaational Drsd 0cutt de-
eisiea an for IL Fsconstruetlon Il ~
party - ssricsly ssctioaal uass-
uapeA 1e~val Nosov.
Dur1ns an thees vsishty hlstsry-0ak-
lag years, The -Dsoocratie party was
~ vtlifae aseemDiiaa = ~ oea&Aesn