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Show What Happened? The past is the only measure we hac of the futuie. , Parties, like Individuals, aie always Judged b their iccords and not their promises A certain hot place Is said tobei imedwlth nood Intentions and, It Is claimed by some, that It takes money to buy whiskey; and thotiKh this may or tna) not be tine, ecry student of Atnei lean history knows that the demociatle dem-ociatle partj Is a party of shattered pledges and abandoned platfotm. Koi halfn centtny democracy has been teat Ink' own, trruinbllni: and Kiow link' and braj Ink' t t,1( ifpnl'll-can ifpnl'll-can party for Its really uloilotis wotk, and that patty has simply k'one on k'lowltik' sttotik'ei. elinibhik' hik'her, j aihleMiijr. cxpandi ii,', clvlll.ltik' until i tudiu its tccoid-the thltik'we must mltfe It by s aids k'leamliiK I" t'-' siinliKht as thouk'h written In k'old by the ureal hand of Providence, and It Is at once t le nation's jrlory and Its ptldc In lsj democracy found the coining coini-ng moie prosperous tlian it had ever been hemic, and promised to increase that prospetlty. What happenedV Cleveland was elected, capital went on a strike, hard times became fashionable, fash-ionable, banks by the scoie failed, mil' and factories all over the land shut down, larmeis lost the r markets, mechanics lost their Jobs, women and children lost their means of support and millions of people in this k'teat land all but lost hope. I'nder President Harrison's title this whole btoad land was wteathed in the smile I hat comes only wlthtfood times The sotik' of tlie people fiom east to west and fiom north to south was the soitk' of plenty, the sotik' of icjoichik' over a county's k'leatness and k'loiy and the souk's accompaniment was the music made by the machinery of the mills ltinnlnk' full blast. Peace and contentment walked aim In arm thiotik'h the land attiactliik' Hie ad-lulling ad-lulling k'a?e of eciy nation under the sun. Thomonster.hydra-headed want wasdricn out and over on the other side of our frontier it sat, jriecn-cjcdi and aitetl for democracy to let down the bars. What happenedV 01e eland was elected and demo-ciacy demo-ciacy letdown the bars, the monster cnteicd and begun to devour left and right. Capital, always timid, sought sheltei at once from the destruct!e storm sine to follow democracy's attempt at-tempt to icgulate the tarlll. Our ex-potts ex-potts fell away and our liupotts in-ctcascd, in-ctcascd, tut ning the balance of tiadc against us and staitlng that yellow stieam of gold out of the country to pty forotu imports. In less than six mouths after Mi. Cleveland's last election the whole aspect of our national na-tional existence changed. In place of .smiles weie ltownstln place of songs there weie sighs, in the place of rejoicings there weie lamentations. lamen-tations. Want dcouied plenty and famine stalked through the country and cast Its black shadow over a million mil-lion luiiies. What happened' Kotti years passed and then the people, peo-ple, sick and disgusted with the Democratic Dem-ocratic regime, turned Cleveland out of the White House and elected Mc-Kinley. Mc-Kinley. Contidence was restored at once. Capital came forth from Its iton vaults and began its work of ics-toiation. ics-toiation. The dead corpse of our coininetce was resurrected, and by means of the new blood of republican methods and strenuoslty that was poured into Us quicksand veins, it grew to the giant vvc llnd it today. Mills and factories started up and hundreds of thousands of men went to vvoik, binging piaiscs to the party of protection, and the rarmcis and cattle raisers got back their matkets and have been accumulating and giovvlng more prosperous ever since. All this happened. It is all a matter mat-ter of rccotd; It is something we all remember re-member and it is one of the reasons why it is perfectly safe to bet ten to one on Hoosevelt. Truth. |