People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — A Sufficiency. [ARTICLE]

A Sufficiency.

If ever there was a crowd that suffered from getting too much of a good thing it was the Democrats, who captured the presidency, the senate, the house, and thus secured absolute control, accompanied with . indisputable responsibility. Not enough of the Republican party had been left to hang, an excuse on. The People’s party was not big enough to hold in front of a screen. Democrats after a generation of lies, evasions, shufflings and denials had to face the music and tote the whole responsibility for everything done and not done. And In all the history of party polities there has never been so complete a smash-up. Never since the "Wonderful One Hoss Shay” went to pieces tn one comprehensive, simultaneous and complete smash-up—an epic of utter annihilation—has there been such an all-round It not only managed to do nothing it has pledged to do, but it also contrived to do everything its leaders have fought the Republicans for doing.—Tom Watson.

The shrinkage in the value of property as returned by the assessor for the year 1894 amounts to over $19,000,000 in Kansas alone, and in all of the western and southern states to nearly $500,000,000. This is a part of the price the people are paying for blind partisan prejudice. But then all you have to do is to say it has always been the way and always will be and go right on voting tor the two old frauds.