Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-10-18

door to door, living on public and priv
ate charity and vainly seeking employ
ment of the most menial description
Some parts of the country were actual
ly terrorized as the Coxey army az
preached their localities. To the credi
OF these poor people be it said, little o
no violence took place. Most of then
had voted for the party which had re
duced them to such squalid poverty
They had sown the wind and wer'
reaping the whfrfwind Of their own fol
ly. The sorely impoverished peopk
were compelled to endure this state o
affairs until the next election, thel
they arose in their might, drove tn,
Democratic free traders from powe
and have not been foolish enough tt
trust thSm since and if their memories
have not utterly failed them, they will
not trust, them now.
Then came the Democratic free sill
yer lunacy which kept us in confusion
for eight years. | remember every
presidential campaign since 1848 and
can truthfully say that for ruffian
ism, turbulence, and un-American in.
| tolerance, these two exceeded them all.
Brickbats, stones, clubs, and general
mob violence were the favorite argu.
ments of the free-silverite free-traders.
Just as soon as they were defeated the
first time, they (under their favorite
leader, Bryan, who is the most influen-
tial leader in their party today re-
newed the struggle and kept us in con-
fusion and unrest for the next four
years. Now, my Democratic friends,
who saved you from the demoralizing
effects of free-silver, fifty-cent dollars,
debased currency and debts paid at
fifty per cent of their value? You could
not deny, even if you desired, that it
was the same party that saved the
Union for you. | am proud to confess
that we were aided by thousands of
honest, patriotic Democrats, of whom,
by the way, the present Democratic
candidate was not one, for he contrib
uted to the utmost to help the Bryan
ties to success, by voting for Bryan
every time he had the opportunity. To
be sure, he says he did so under pro-
test. Is not that ridiculous? What
effect did that have on his vote? If
enough citizens had done like Judge
Parker and voted for Bryan under pro-
test, he would have been elected
Wouldn't he? But there were enough
honest citizens who voted openly and
above board, without protest, for the
lamented Mckinley, elected him and
saved the country's honor.
But to come right up to date. If ever
there was a heterogeneous mass of
glittering generalities phrased with
intention to deceive and mislead the
people, the Democratic platform is just
that. 1t may have the desired effect on
people but will have the
contrary effect on intelligent citizens.
Take few of it's leading planks and |
examine them. Here is choice spec
linen:
eve demand the determination of |
polygamy within the jurisdiction of the |
United States and the complete restor.
alton of church and state in political
affairs" Now, isn't that virtuous?
Isn't that Christian-like? Isn't that
highly commendable? But think for
of it's brazen impudence and
It's assumption that the people are ig-
lorant of their own laws. Did the
writer's of that hypocritical sentence
.hink that we have forgotten that. the
Territory of Utah, which was settled
~ Brigham Young and his hordes of
,olygamous serfs, was admitted into
he Union by Democratic congress
Ind Democratic President, Cleveland,
Ind that simply because it was a Dem
,cratic Territory? If it had been Ma.
or Pagan, they would have
it just the same to strength
N their party. And now because they
hink the denunciation of polygamy
will gain them some votes the very
ame party that raised the original po.
ygamists to the honor of citizenship
md admitted them to statehood de-
udUuS Iuc cACC1 AAAnotAOA VI POAy SoAAy' |
Oh! shame, where is thy blush! The
men who wrote that plank and the
lupes who swallowed it, have forgot.
EN- all about blushing. Their cheeks
lave become so hard that bushes
would not show on them. Have these
men forgotten that the first anti-polyg-
my act was framed by Republican
senator, Judge Edmunds, Of Vermont;
hat it was passed by a Republican
and signed by Chester A. Ar
hur, who was certainly Republican
PRESIDENT? Under that Republican law
many a Democratic polygamist has
lone time in the penitentiary Surely,
wen the Democrats have not forgotten
hat Republican senate refused to
eat the Democrat, Reed Smoot, OF
Utah, for no other reason than that he
vas polygamist. Let any honest man
Examine the records of the two parties
md see for himself which Of them
las aided and assisted the Mormon po-
ygamists and which has opposed them.
)h, it is the old story:
When the Devil was sick, the Devil
saint would ha