People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Et Tu? [ARTICLE]

Et Tu?

And Henry Watterson! The once great and gallant leader of Democracy! He whose white plume always danced in the fore-front of battle, whether the fight was against goldbuggery or high tariffs—he, too* has rallea! A few months ago if one had asked us to name the foremost champion of the free coinage of silver in the United States, we should have answered “Henry Watterson.” Today if we were asked to name the most subservient slave that crawls at the feet of the Money Devil, we should think the name of Henry Watterson, but we should not say it. Henry Watterson supporting W. O. Bradley for governor of Kentucky! Henry Watterson, no longer captain of Democratic hosts, but a Hessian in the ranks of the enemy! Henry Watterson no longer wielding his trenchant blade against the Republican foe, but using the dirk and the dagger on the backs of his friends! And this is—nay, let us say this was — Henry Watterson! Shades of the mighty! Can it be That this is all remains of thee?— Memo his Commercial-Aspenl.