The Teton peak., 1904-09-15
Hs Professions and Promises
Compared with Its
Performances.
breaches the Gospel Of Discomfort and
Wastes Time In Obstructing Wise
and Beneficent Republican
Policies.

Congressman J. Adam Bede tells Of
meeting a typical member Of the party
Of promises and calamity howlers. The
Democrat had just come out of saloon
when he told Bede he had been buying
some lining for his underclothes. In
reply to Bedes query as to how he was
getting on, the unfortunate desciple of
Jefferson answered.
That his horse went dead and his mule
went lame,
And he lost six cows In a poker game:
phen a hurricane came. on n summers day,
And blew the house where he lived, away;
And an earthquake came when that was
gone
And swallowed the land that the house
Then the tax collector soon came round
And charged him up with the hole In the
ground.
Bede said that his friend thought that
was carrying the single tax too far. But
II you could analyze his case aud those
OF all chronic complainers and kickers
sou would find that. out of a hundred
Of them, at least nnety-eight ought to
g out and kick themselves.
Short on Performance.
Democrats do not know the meaning
Of the word performance" when ap-
piled to doing anything for the gen.
sral good, the advancement Of the hui
man race, or the betterment Of man
kind As a party it has been trying
to write it for more than a full round
century, and yet it has not succeeded in
forming the first letter. To do anything
constructive or of permanent benefit
seems utterly beyond it's neral and
psychic conception, or physical capacity
to perform. Its normal attitude is with
IT. face to the past and its back to the
future. 1t never sees an opportunity un-
I'll the issue has been permanently set
tied by the Republican party and public
sentiment. Then it will stand up, with
anbushng and inconceivable effrontery,
and say: II did it,"
IL the question Of locomotion, with
Il, depended upon the two limbs Of prom
sse and performance, it would limp
through its course a loathsome deformity.
The promise leg would reach several
times around the earth and then to the
neon. while the performance member
could not be found, intact, with a pow
~ful magnifying glass. 1t has been a
helpless victim of promisephobia for
hundred and one years, and there is not
4 single symptom Of relief in sight. The
disease is conceded by the best author
sties to be fatal, but slow death car
f'es its own peculiar form Of retributiye
pHnishment.
Founded on q Mistake.
Jefferson, its father, while a man of
deep learning and consummate diplo-
macy, hated Washington, and early op-
posed the cardinal principles Of the Fed
eral Government. He organized the
democratic party to aid him in this op-
POSITION Washington and Hamilton
wanted strong protective government,
Jefferson wanted weak Government
that would govern the least" Founded
N the idea of resentment, resistance, ne
kauen, subverson and an academic and
raise conception of personal privilege,
ehe party has quite naturally been
torninst' all sane measures directed
coward the healthy progress of the coun-
uy and the real advancement Of its peo-
p'e Being party of opposition and
obstruction its policy has been to preach
calamity and foster discomfort; to prom
@e everything and actually do nothing.
PARTY odium Under jackson.
IL Jefferson was the founder of De
olocfacy, Jackson is its patron saint. At
ser the Jeifersonian period, 1SOl-25, came
ene Jacksonian. 1S25-4O. The signfi-
eahce of the Jackson era of Democracy
aes IN the fact that he was able to build
machine from the rabble or the less
euueated classes. that enabled him act
uaily to assert his claims in conflict with
'ae Constitution and against the idea
VI '. "epublicanism. He assumed posi-
avn between Congress and the, people, as
" were; as patriarchal ruler of the re-
pu"!ic' The curse Of Jackson's ad-
"'n'stration was that it weakened re-
'reet Tor law. The first clear symptom
u 'se decline of healthy political spirit
vas the election and reelection of Jack
son TO the Presidency. His admiuistra-
s "on paved broad way for the demor-
."4'is transforma ton of the American
peopie Under Jackson politics were
.usarized and American society was de-
p'Ned OF its rightful influence over gov
,rnment.
., Partisans, Not Patriots.
o. ine twenty years from the defeat of
n nah buren in 1910 to the defeat of
ous'as IN 1860 brought additional dis
m;' .J.er and odium upon Democratic ad
h'"istration. The strength of the party
."s s al"ays rested in the Solid South
o,. lhe uneducated riffraif of our great
Sa ,es During the years mentioned the
f...''h f'erh democracy pursued policy Of
t'ofial expansion, not out of patriotic
VI road motives. but for the sole pur-
ST. or increasing the uumher of slave
hes hes and thus preserve the sectional
maa ance In the Senate. These years are
fasniorable fns in history for the struggle
ova, "sritorial acquisition, the struggle
mss the Wilmot Proviso. the Compro-
Co. of 1880, the repeal of the Missouri
ssU"pron'ise, ~" for the long agony in Kan
c,;. 'or the sensational Dred Scott de-
n..n' and for the reconstruction Of the
on strictly sectional lines.
n Rapid Morai aecs~.
IN, urlhg all these weghty history-mak-
81 years, the Democratic party was