Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-26
A REMINDER OF BRowNLow.
(Sioux City Journal)

'KlCklNS.
A REMINDER OF BROWNLOW.
(Sioux City JournaD
The Nillett TRADE in the house Of
representatives the other day is spok-
en- of as unworthy of American states
manshiI,. The criticisms that have
been passed upon 1t seem disrespectful
to the memory of men who have pre-
ceded him in the activities Of our poll
tiles. There are those still living who
remember William Gannaway Brown
low "Farson Brownlow" was not
democrat. as he took occasion to make
known on all convenient opportuni-
ties.
In 1880 story was started that
Brownle,w had turned democrat. and
he was probed for the truth. His re-
ply was characteristic of his style in
dealing with live issues. A copy of 1t.
clipped from a newspaper. yellow with
age, has been furnished The Journal
by an Iowa man subject to. the charge
of having sympathy with Brownlow's
directness of speech. The present gen.
Grafton may find instruction in the
language Of the Knoxville man Of near
half a century ago, when politics was
politics, and when there was fighting.
tooth and nail; and therefore the
SCARED clipping is given fresh print,
to the end that history may be kept
straight as follows:
Knoxville. Tenn, July 6, 1860. - Mr..
Jordan Clarke-Dear Sir: have your
letter of June 30, and l hasten to let
you know the precise time when l ex-
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nounce that I have Joined the demo-
cratic PARTY. When the sun shines at
midnight and the moon at midday;
when man forgets to be selfish or DEM
ocrats lose their inclination to steal;
when nature stops her onward march
to rest or all the water courses in
America flow up stream; when flow
ers lose their odor and trees shed no
leaves; when birds talk and beasts OF
burden laugh; when damned spirits
swap hell for heaven with the angels
of light and pay them the boot In mean
whisky; when impossibilities are III
fashion and no proposition is too alb
surd to be believed-then you may
credit the report that / have joined
the democratic party.
/ Join the democrats! Never so long
as there are sects in churches, weeds
in gardens. f1eas In hog pens, dirt in
victualsi, disputes In families, wars with
nations, water in the ocean, bad men
| in America or base women IN France!
No, Jordan Clarke, you may hope, you
may congratulate, you may reason. you
may sneer but that cannot be true.
The thrones Of the Old World, the
courts Of the universe the government
Of men may crumble and fall into
ruin; the New World may commit the
national suicide of dissolving this UNI
ion, but all this and more must happen
before / join the democracy.
Join the democrats! Jordan Clarke.
YOU know not what you say. When
| Join the democracy the pope of Rome
will join the Methodist church. When
Jordan Clarke, of Arkansas, is pres
ident of the republic of Great Britain
by the universal suffrage Of con-
tented people; when Queen Victoria
consents to be divorced from Prince
Albert by county court In Kansas;
when congress obliges by law James
Buchanan to marry a European prin-
cess; when the pope leases the capitol
at Washington for his city residences;
when Alexander of Russia and Ma.
poleon Of France are elected senators
| in congress from New Mexico; when
good men cease to go to heaven and
bad men to hell; when proof is af-
I forded, clear and unquestionable, that
there is no God; when men turn to
ants and ants to elephants - then I
will change my political faith and come
out on the side of democracy.
Surprising that this full and frank
letter will enable you to fix upon the
period when will come out full
| grown democrat, and requesting you to
communicate the same to all whom 1t
may concern in Arkansas, 1 am, yours
truly, w. q. BRoWNLoW.
But all honor to "Parson Brown
| low" He saved the union in eastern
Tennessee!
1t is proper to add that the demo-
Gratis have reformed to a considerable
extent under the able leadership Of
! Mr.. Bryan, and the example of Mr..
Willett, tho he has the republican prec-
edent of Mr.. Brownlow before him, is
not to be commended. AS Mr.. Roose-
vent most persistently says, the time
has come for the most liberal cultiva-
ton of the square deal: and, more
over, it is everywhere recognized that
the union has been restored.