Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1899 — Henry Waterson’s Warning. [ARTICLE]

Henry Waterson’s Warning.

Predicts Party Disaster-Result Will Close Bryan’s Open Grave. He says: “During forty years, 1860 to 1900, the democrats have oarried but two elections —those of 1894 and 1892. Both were accidents. In 1884 ii lock Burohard and Conkling, greatly assisted by Providence, to beat Blaine and to pull Cleveland thtough by the hair of his head, which was growing dangerously scant. In 1892 the Homestead riots revolutionized the vote of the labor unions and transferred it bodily to the democrats from the republicans, who were held responsible for the Woody intrusion of the Pinkertons and the repressive measures of the government. All the democrats got out of Cleveland was the slaughter house of the succeeding administration and the open grave in which in 1896 William Jennings Bryan walked. If the folly be continued in 1900, if it be sought to reproduce the ticket and issues of 1896, with an anti-expansion plank added, there will be nothing left for the monrners to do after the the event except to dose the open grave and to plant some flowers above the last remains of the democratic party, with the legend, “Gone to meet the federals and whigs,” and this inscription, “Whilst he lived he lived in clover, when he died he died all over.”