Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-09-16
rs Professions and Promises
Compared with It's
Performances.
vERITABLE CALAMITY PARTY
Prseches tie Gospel Of Dfscesteat asd
Wastes Time In Obstrucing Wise
sd Beaeficent Repubiicaa
Policies.

Congressman ]. Adam Beds tells o.
meeting typical member Of the party
u promises and calamity hewlers. The
Democrat had just come out OF 4 saloon
when he told Bede be had been buying
some lining for his unaerclothes. In
reply to Bede's query as to how he was
getting on, the unfortunate disciple OF
Jefferson answered.:
THAT his horse went dead and his mule
went lame,
And he lost six cows In poker game:
Then q hurricane came on summers day.
And blew the house where he lived, away;
ADD an earthquake came when that was
gone,
rhen the tax collector soon came 'rouad
Aod charged him up with the hole In ths
ground"
Bede said that his friend thought that
GAS carrying the single tax too far. But
Il rou could analyze his case and those
Of an chronic complainers and kickers
yeu would find that, out Of a Hundred
u them, at least ninety-eight ought to
20 out and kick themselves
Short on Performances
Democrats do not know the meaning
1t the word performance, when ap-
pied to doing anything for the gen
sxaa good, the advancement of the hui
nan race, or the betterment Of man
kind. As q party it has been trying
70 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 its moral and
psychic conception, or physical capacity
10 perform. Its normal attitude is with
ifs face to the past and Its back to the
future. 1t never sees an opportunity an
I'll the issue has been permanently set
ae1 by the Republican party and public
sentiment. Then it will stand ap, with
unblushing and inconceivabls sfrontery,
and say: 81 did it."
Ii the question of locomotion. with
It, depended upon the two limbs Of prom
We and performance, it would limp
ehssugh is course a loathsome deformity.
xhs promise leg would reach several
dimes around the earth and thea t. the
0sen, while the performance member
could not be found, intact, with pow
erful magnifying glass. 1t has been a
helpless victim Of promisePhobia for 4
Aundred and one years, and there II net
. single symptom Of relief In sight The
disease is conceded by the best author
ls1es to be fatal, but { slew death car
ries it's own peculiar form Of retributivs
punishment
Founded or q Mistake.
Jefferson, its father, while . nan Of
deep learning and consunmate diplo-
macy. hated Washington, and early eP-
possd the cardinal principles Of the Fed
eral Government. He organized the
party to aid him in this ep-
position. Washington and Hamilton
wanted 4 strong protective government,
Jefferson wanted a weak Government
chat would govern the least" Founded
"a the idea Of resentment, resistance, me-
cation, subversion and aH academic and
false conception Of personal privilege
the party has quite naturally been
Hferninst" all sane measures directed
toward the healthy progress Of the COM
tyy and the real advancement of its pec-
pie Being a party of opposition and
its policy has been to preach
saA nifty and foster discomfort; to prom
'se everything and actually de- nothing.
PARTY Odium Under Jackson.
Ii Jefferson was the founder of De-
Jackson is. its patron saint At
Ter the JeRersonian period. 1o01-25, came
she Jacksonian, 1S25-40. The signisi-
lance Of the jackson era Of Democracy
les In the fact that he was able to build
machine from the rabble or the less
,ducated classes. that enabled him act
,ally to assert his claims in conflict with
he Constitution and against the idea
u Repubicanism. He assumed posi-
ion between Congress and the people. as
I were: as a patriarchal ruler Of the re-
,sbiic. The curse of Jacksss's sd-
was that 1t weakened re-
poet for law. The first clear symptom
Il the decline OF healthy political spirit
vas the election aud re-electisn Of Jack
on to the Presidency. His adniristra-
ion paved broad way FOR the demon
lining transformation Of the American
eople. Under Jackson. politics were
ulga rixsd and American society was de-
rived Of It's rightful influence over gov
rnneut
Psrtssa~s. Nat Patriots
= y
Tan Buren, in 1870 to the defest of |
douglas in 1850 brought additional dis
ster and odium upon Democratic sd-
The strength OF the party /
as always rested in the Solid South.
nd the uueducated riffrsf OF our great
tiles. During the years mentioned the
outhern Democracy pursued policy OF
lrritorixl expansion. not our OF patriouc
T broad motives. but for the sole ?ur-
ose Of Increasing the number OF slave
tstes. and thus preserve the SECTIONAL
alance In the Senate. These years are
honorable in history COR the struggle
'r territorial acquisition. the struggie
rer the Vilmot ProviSo. the CSmpro-
Use OF 1850. the repeal Of the Missouri
for the hong sSooy IN Nan
IS. for the sensational Dred Scott de-
sion. aud Tor the reconstruction or the
,rty on strictly sectional lines.
Rand Moral eesS.
During all these weishiy h'stcry-maN-
Z years. the Democratic patty was
~ wiilinv areo,pphce OF the Southern