The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-12-13
WHAT OUR FRlENDS-THE ENE-
MY-SAY OF US

tl6 uSHIOCIdIlC party Is Oh the NUM-
for jobs rather than fighting for bet
ter and more definite policies; all of
our republican friends predict more
or less disaster for President Will
sons administration, and rather joy
fully announce that the democratic
party is as hopelessly divided as the
republican party. We hope that this
is not true, as the condition of the
republican party today shows that
house divided against itself cannot
stand" Let us disappoint our friends,
the enemy, by laying aside all bick-
erings and holding up President Will
sons hands in carrying forward posi-
tive and definite policies of reform
along lines that will lessen the bur
dens of the people and add to the
glory of the republic. Let US disaD-
point the Tulsa World in the article
that we append hereto:
Suddenly and without much effort
on their part, it says that the demo
Gratis find themselves in control Of all
branches of the national government.
They are not sure they know how TO
run the big machine of which they
have control. The fact is already be-
coming evident that winning the cleo
ton meant getting the jobs" more
than carrying out definite policies Of
government. Most of them are far
more interested in getting themselves
or their friends comfortably seated at
the pie counter than they are in pro-
mitigating altruistic or alluring alter
atiOns in the great science of govern
ment. Getting democrats into office
is evidently the paramount thought
in the mind of the average democrat.
They are a hungry, half-starved lot OF
partisans, struggling for place. This
is the stumbling block which will be-
set the new administration every
time it tries to get its bearings and
arrive somewhere. 1t has more TO
fear from within than from without.
1t was only the division among the
opponents of democracy that enabled
the donkey part to break into the ma
tional pasture. Like the Klondyke
miner who returned from years of
prospecting in the frozen north, and
70 in, rxrirn
all his pockets bullying with gold
dust, and a choice menu from which
to select, his first order to the waite
was for forty dollars worth of ham
and eggs" the democrats first
thought is for a job. Give us the
jobs is the chorus that goes up from
every quarter of the globe The clam
or for place had become so great even
before the returns were all in that
the worries of statecraft have been
lost in the shuttle. Not a wheel can
be turned until the lineup for the
center rush for the job counter has
been attended to. So it appears that
our democratic friends aren't going
to be able to do much of anything
until after the boys" have been TAX
en- care Of A feast that has been
waiting for half a century has got to
be a pretty fine spread if the hungry
horde is to be restrained from upset
ting the table and sptlling the Wet
uals in the laps of the guests. How
can anything rational be expected out
of such a mOb?. Apparently the
thought uppermost in the minds Of
the democrats is that the government
is run for the purpose of furnishing
jobs for the party in power. The sue
cessful candidate for president and Il
number OF governOrs-elect have been
compelled to hide out to avoid the
job seekers. Democratic papers are
playing up the number Of jobs to be
had in preference to any other news
1t is a mighty interesting story The
government blue book is the best
seller and most popular volume in ex-
istence Democrats thought they
might win, but they had been beaten
so often that most of them regarded
it as being too good to be true In
stead of finally achieving a great vic
tory over desperate odds they fell
into it like a bleer-eyed tramp rolling
off haystack in his sleep and light
ing in the midst of a picnic spread
momentarily deserted by its rightful
owners off chasing buffalo gnats that
had become so annoying that the par
~ concluded to suspend all other OPP
erations in order to get rid of them.
There is the pie and cake and other
good things, and they are hungry,
just as hungry as can be. The thing
of most Importance is to fill up and
think about how to keep the ship Of
state from running onto the rocks.
Possibly if they fight over the fishes
and loaves as they are starting in to
fight thev NAV NOT haVa time m null