Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1882 — Sketching the Democracy. [ARTICLE]

Sketching the Democracy.

The Democratic party has been scolding about this and about that for twenty years, and, after a thing has been finally debated and settled in the law and in the minds of the people, then Democrats come along and sav, now that is all right. You were right about that, but you are wrong about this. After the forests are felled, the clearings made, the land drained, the houses built and the pioneers have settled down to enjoy the very first fruits of their

toil, I have seen coming up the dusty road on a sunny day a wagon. It is being drawn by a pair of horses whose discouraging ears hang down to blind their eyes. Their lean necks rattle in their collars, and their hips stand, up like mountains on a rugged plain. The harness is made out of repe ends and the wheeis of the wagon wabble like a bowlegged man in a walking match. Looking from under a tattered-covered w-agon are a man and two sallow-faeed women. In the rear is a cow that needs milk given her rather than giving it, and last of all a pair of yallar dogs that would disgrace a tanyard. This team is the Democratic party. These people indorse the work the pioneers have done, and are willing to share the benefits of other people’s work. They are, doubtless, honest in this, but it would have been much greater to their credit if they had helped do the work that brought these results about. — From Senator Harrison’s Speech in Cincinnati.