Show DEMOCRATS DONT DENY IT one year 3 ear ago the public f funds were being squandered with a lavish hand giving to this nation that air of prosperity which always surrounds the spendthrift even eveia when nearing the end of his rope if this is what the new york press means no democratic paper will vill i deny it but the year eighteen hundred and ninety two was the eve of a crisis brought on oil by thirty years of republican le legislation i during tho the twelve months ending at midnight ni night 0 lit on the thirty first of last december there occurred more strikes more trouble between labor and capital and more bloodshed resulting than in any other two bears or of history and remember that all this was under republican rule after thirty years of republican legislation and while tho the mckinley bill was in full force the storm which lias has been gr under harrison s administration breaks forth in all its f fury ur y while cleveland is at the I 1 lead head airs therefore republicans blame cleveland and democracy for it it was always a favorite argument ment with the liberals in ill utah that whatever crime was committed coln bitted while the mormon people were in the majority should bo charged barged against the mormon ormon church republicans take to this tyle style of reasoning 0 very readily the press ignores the financial question altogether lt leaves silver out of ortho the controversy and a assert sarte explicitly and directly that eliat the prevailing 0 conditions of disaster have been brou brought 0 lit about by the threat of democratic free trade the press desires to distract attention from the silver quee question tion now on and favor the eastern gold bugs 0 by charging cliar ging these hard times to contemplated legislation and strange to say some western papers fall into the trap the press asks Is there one democratic org organ 0 a n that dares to assert that the disaster which lias as come upon the country pince march ith would have occurred if the republican publican party had bad contin D a i aft 1 altu i rt it w would 0 have occurred li had a d ilar arieon been re rc reelected elected and the republican party continued in power that party was in power during durin the panic of 1873 1870 it was in power during 0 the labor riots of 1892 its laws are still in force |