Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-20
Saturday, November 20, 1915.
The Detected Democratic Dog.

The Detected Democratic Dog.
When a dog looks at one with ears
dejectedly dropping. with tail at a
saggy curve expressive of deep. deep
gloom, and with eyes that are be-
sceching in their excessive doggone-
ness-when one notes these symptoms
one cannot help plying the dog.
Well, that is fairly accurate des-
cription Of the Democratic party at
this time. The worries of Democracy
in these days are doggone pitful. The
administration typifies the dropping
ears; the press the gloomy tail; the
candidates the beseeching eyes.
The only remedy seems to lie in an
end to the suspense. What relief in
the next election.
The administration dejectedly rumi-
mates upon it's haste in reversing plat
form professions, and in putting into
operation its hobbies against which "a
great majority of the people are his
torically opposed. The wages of in
experience and bigotry are being
reaped. Cold rejection of the sugges
tons Of experience and solid facts has
cost dear. Do YOU wonder that the
ears droop-and burn?
The press tail says under the forced
admission that the hasty work of in
competence and geographical selfish
ness must be halted and revised. The
advice which was spurned must be
grudgingly accepted in humiliation.
The sugar tariff not vet in effect will
never be allowed to become operative.
Other revisions must be made. and
then, unless the whole crow is swal-
lowed without grease or seasoning
the country must be again outraged
with new and additional war taxes
Revenue receipts are about S125, o0O-
coo sho:, of the good old days of Re-
publican management. and the Demo-
cratic Congress exceeded all records
Of authorized expenditure by more
than one hundred millions. Are you
surprised that the press tail shows
iorlornness?
The candidate eyes are seeing how
the people are receiving their paroN's
faiiure-failure, AFFECT and humiliat
ing in Mexico: failure to live up to
party claims or pledges; failure in
diplomatic dealings with warning ma
tons that have overridden American
:shts and laughed at our protests;
failure to grasp the magnitude of the
lob Of administering a nations az.
fairs; failure to hold even the respect
of the masses: FAILURE TO OFFER
ANY HOPE OF BEING ABLE TO DO
BETTER.
Can we help but pity the candidates
who typify the eyes of the detected.
Democratic dog?
One little wag of the press tail is
our mournful and bilious up-river
neighbor who bemoans the unhappy
possibility of a great popular demand.
without regard to party. for the skilled
and steady hand of Justice Charles E.
Hughes, in this crisis of the nations.
This little wag dolorously dopes that
the Republican party must be in sore
straits" when the people urge it to call
ii man that all the people of all the
parties admire and respect and trust,
ard who is known to be above politi-
cal subterfuge or game. Indeed it IS
sore straits when a party has such
men and the people call. We are not
surprised that the little wag of the
depressed Democratic dog fails to
grasp its meaning
The same little wag wags again in
tears and sackcloth because the Re-
number of Progressives who will join
hands and work with it to relieve the
country of the weight of Democratic
inefficiency. Here is one little waglet:
He who undertakes to maintain that
the Republican party is showing progress
sive tendencies today makes himself
ridiculous.
1t Is ridiculous country just now,
maybe. and it is quite likely to become
increasingly SO until the dog is hitched
in corner to gnaw the bone a nation
has given it to pick.