Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-09-16
hts Professions and Promises
Compared with Its
Performances.
veRiTABLE CALAMITY PARTY
breaches the Gospel Of Discomfort and
Wastes Time Ia Obstrueting Wise
and BeueTicent Republican
Policies.

Congressman j. Adam BrIe tells OF
meeting a typical member Of the party
of promises and calamity howlcrs. The
Democrat had just come out of saloon
hshen he told Bcde he had been buyln:
some lining for his unicrclothes. In
reply to Be,ie's query rs 10 how he was
getting on. the unfortunate desclple OF
Jefferson answered:
THAT his horse wea, dead and his mule
And b. io,, sis cows In q poker game:
Then huriieanr cane; on q sninm,Fs DAY.
Aud blew th. hogs. where he lived, away:
And an earthquake eaInr when that was
And swallowed the land that the house
Jh-n the ias collector soou came round
Aud CHARGED him W with the hole Ia the
ground
Bede said tha, his fricai though, that
WAS carrying the single tax too far. But
~ you could analyze his case and those
- all chronic comriainers and Eicscrs
YOu would find that. out of hundred
- them. at least nine,y.clsht ought to
- out and kick themselves.
III Short on Performance.
Democrats do no, know the meaning
Iof tho word performance" wien ap-
Diied TO doing anything for The gen
{srai good. the advancement u tho hu'
ihd.-. phfc hni'.Gsss II Gsss esiis ,iyhfs
Ito write Il for more than a Euli round
century. and yet Il has not suN Nrcdcd In
forming the first letter. To do snythinE
cons;ructivc or OF permanent benefit
seems utterly beyond Its moral and
psychic conception. or physical capacity
TO perform. Its normal attitude IL with
Its face 10 the pas; and Its back to the
future. II never sees nn opportunity un-
I'll the issue has been permanently set
tied by tho Republican party and public
sentiment. Then II will stand up. with
unbiushinS and inooncclyable efIrontery.
and say: II did It."
II tho question OF iocomo;ion. with
4, depended upon the two limbs of prom.
be and performance. II would limp
ehrough Its course ioathAomc dcformity.
The promise leg would reach several
hines around the Garth and then to the
noon. while the performance member
could not be found. intact. with pow
erfui maSnifyinE glass. II has been a
helpless victim OF promiscphobia for
Anndrcd and one years. and there Is not
, single symptom of relief In sight. The
Glscasc Is conceded i,y the best author
ltics to be fatal. but slow death car
sics Its own peculiar form OF rctributivc
punishment.
-
Jefferson. its father, while man OF
dccp learning and consummntc diplo.
macy, hated Washington. and early op.
posed tho cardinal principles of the Fed.
sral Government. lie organized the
Democratic party to aid him in this op-
position. Washington and Hamilton
wnntcd a stron. protective government.
Jefferson wanted n weak Government
That would govern the least" Founded
' IN the idea OF resentment. resistance. ne
gntion, subycrsion and an academic and
lalsc 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 party OF opposition and
obstruction its policy has been to preach
calamity and foster discomfort; to prom
be everything and actually do nothing.
Party odium Under Jackson.
II Jefferson was the founder Of De-
mocracy. Jackson is its patron saint. Az
| ter tho Jeffersonian period, 1SO1-25. came
| thc Jacksonian, 1S2J-IO. The signifi-
eance of the Jackson era OF Democracy
lies In the fact that he was able to build
d machine from the rnbblc or the less
educated classes. that enabled him act
ually to assert his claims in conflict with
the Constitution and against the idea
of 1tepublicanism. Ho assumed posi-
tton between Congress and the people. rs
e were; as n patriarchal ruler of the re-
pahiic. The curse of Jackson's ad-
mlnistration was that 1t weakened re-
opect for law. The first clear symptom
Of the decline Of healthy political spirit
was the election and reelection of Jack
con to the Presidency. His administra-
Hon nayod hrnnd xyny for fho dpmnr-
alizing transformation of the American
people. Under Jackson, politics were
vulgnrizcd and American society was de-
prived Of its rightful influence over gov
ernmcnt.
Partisans, Not Patriots.
The twenty years from the defeat of
Van Buren In 1910 to the defeat of
Douglas In 1860 brought additional dis
hster and odum upon Democratic nd-
ninistration The strength of the party
has always rested In the Solid South,
and the uncducated riffraff OF our great
cities. During the years mentioned the
Southern Democracy pursued policy OF
Territorial expansion, not out of patriotic
or broad motives, but 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
over the Wilmot Proviso. the Compro.
mise OF 1850, the repeal OF the Missouri
compromise, for the long agony in Kan
sns, for the sensational Dred Scott de-
csion, nns for the reconstruction OF the
party on strictly sectional lines.
"a Rapid Moral Dccny.
NJ During all these weghty history max
Ing years, the Democratic party was