Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1909-11-04
A Democrats Prayer.


dreamed the other night that l
heard Democrat pray. l will write
down his prayer and hope you will al
low me space for it in your paper;
mighty, heap wonderful William
Jennings Bryan, great issue hatcher
and paramount maker, listen to us a
minute. Listen to the salty supplica-
tions of batch of thy handy legged
legions. Honorable master, we are in
a most terrible fix. We are all mixed
up and still mixing Come get us,
oh most mighty runner. Stretch out
thy fatherly hand and haul us in out
of the wet and sleet of political de-
spair. Our hands and feet are cold,
our backs are almost naked, and our
bellies are in measure empty, all
from standing out here in the mud and
sleet of democratic discord. Blessed
Bill, we candidly confess that we have
been running after too many political
advisers We have hearkened to so
many calls and run in so many direc-
tions that our feet are sore, and our
legs are wabbly. We come now ask
ing thee to teach us the way to run
We humbly beseech thee to mark out
the road Thou knowest we have been
wanderers. Our policy was to get in
the thing that appealed strongest to us
to stir up the greatest excitement, and
cause the most noise to be made, but
we learned to our sorrow that noise
would not always win. We learned to
our hurt that excitement would not al
ways do us good. At last we discover.
ed that folks demand something be-
sides hot air. We used to have every
thing our way in the south when we
hollered "Nigger." We could elect
members to the legislature with that
battle cry. We could put democrat
in the governors chair with that slo-
gan. With it we could send members
to Congress, but the voters won't rally
at this cry any more. We have got to
talk sense or our name is Dennis
What are we to do? 1t seems that the
G. O. P. elephant has the democratic
donkey by the tail and down-hill
pull We are the worst confused set
of land lizards that you ever saw.
Some of us have been trying to follow
Bailey. We thought he was coming
it, but 10 and behold we heard from
thee and all was wrong. We discover
ed to our surprise, that Bailey was
preaching republican gospel. AS soon
as thou saidst that Bailey was wrong
we turuel somersault We lit on
our feet running toward thee. We are
10 at thy feet We ask thee to kick
II, for re-uming to think that Joe
Eailey had any sense. We couldn'
afford to go after Bailey no way, be-
cause we expect to be ready to fall
down and worship thee as our candi-
ata for President in 1919 Master
Bryan, we want to get right down Oh
our all tours aud have thee kick us
good for daring to listen to Bailey
foolishnass and republicanism. We
know it is wrong to get our minds
poisoned up with protection doctrine.
We know it is such stuff as that leads
many of our boys off into the republi
can camp. Now, worshipful master,
tell us what thou wilt have us do.
Stick out thy little toe that we may
kiss it in token of our great love fol-
thee. We are ready to do thy bidding.
Hew out a tariff platform and watch
us crawl on it, Don't ask us what We
want. If it suits thy pleasure it viii
be all right with us. If we grumble
thump us on the conclusions, for dar
ing to have any discretion. Worthy
Boss, we confess that we have been {
wicked and perverse party. We havr
done all sorts of dark and dirty deeds
We have called the republicans al
sorts of ugly names. We have howlet
down their speakers and pelted then
with stale eggs, We are willing to d.
these things again if it will land us OF
the pie wagon. We are willing to b
anything or do sanything for pie w
IL fuss with the pops, swallow the So
cialists, steal the vote from the repub
licans, or allow the niger to vot
again if it will but assure us of plac
at the federal pie counter. We ar
willing to be any thing or do any wa,