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 THE RISE OF A NEW DEMOCRACY 
 
 Rans Glouck v$. aiilliam 
 
 mcKinleyand Others ^ ^ 
 
 Jlimerlitz or Waterloo! 
 
 BUFFALO** THE PETER PAUL BOOK 
 COMPANY^420 MAIN STREETS J896 
 
SECOND COPY, 
 
 
 58963 
 
 Copyright, J896, 
 
 By 
 
 The Peter Paul Book Company. 
 
 PRINTED AND BOUND BY 
 
 TBI PKTKB PAUL BOOK COMPANY 
 
 BUFFALO, N. Y- 
 
If si 
 
 13? 
 
 
 New occasions teach new duties; Time makes 
 
 ancient good uncouth ? 
 They must up and onward who would keep 
 
 abreast of Truth ? 
 Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires I We ourselves 
 
 must pilgrims be, 
 Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through 
 
 the desperate winter sea, 
 Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's 
 
 blood-rusted key. 
 
 — Lowell. 
 
PRELUDE. 
 
 A NEAR neighbor of mine whom I 
 had observed with respect, but 
 sought no intimacy with, surprised me 
 one day with this bit of confidence : 
 
 " This fall all will turn on an If" 
 
 I observed with a smile that I saw 
 nothing startling in the statement, the 
 little word so often plays the leading 
 part. 
 
 " True" he replied ; " else had this 
 been a different world; not better, per- 
 haps ; but different. In an ancient gar- 
 den it revolutionized human destiny ; 
 saved civilization at Marathon ; changed 
 the face of Europe at Waterloo, and sent 
 the great Emperor to the rocks of St. 
 Helena. At Griffin's where it made 
 America Independent, and George Wash- 
 ington President. 
 
 " So much for the past. I speak now 
 of the present. I am gazing into the fu- 
 ture?' 
 
 " What do you see ? " I asked. 
 
Prelude, 
 
 "7 see Bliicherin the field and Grouchy 
 far away. Let our Napoleon look to it. 
 The Ides of November may be his Water- 
 loo:' 
 
 " You shroud yourself in mystery," 
 quoth I. " Who is BKicher ? " 
 
 " Ha?is Glouck ! " said he, with em- 
 phasis. 
 
 " I never heard of him." 
 
 "Probably not. He is new in politics, 
 but before another half year rolls roimd 
 his name will be in every mouth" 
 
 " Pray where doth he reside ? " 
 
 " Your finger on your lips ? Let it be 
 tenable in your thoughts only, then. In 
 
 the county of there is a charming 
 
 little tozvn nestlling at the foot of a 
 mountain. You reach it by crossing a crys- 
 tal lake that lies around the town lovingly 
 like a crescent. A slight sailboat ferries 
 you over. From the landing you ascend 
 to an altitude where you will pause in 
 admiration of the most picturesque sight 
 your eyes may desire to behold. 
 
 "My guide, a re spec fid youth, said 
 ' The hotel is there! pointing to a glimmer 
 of light that seemed hangi?ig out over a 
 crag. From the hotel the view was mag?iif- 
 
Prelude. 
 
 icent. The moonlight lay on the shimmer- 
 ing lake. A girding line of dark hills be- 
 yond, and far away in gray sillouette a 
 broken mountain range. The air frag- 
 rant with the odors of the blossoming 
 spring. 
 
 " How clean and sweet the hotel! The 
 table with its brown linen, pitchers of milk, 
 dainty wheaten rolls, and trout from a 
 mountain brook, — restful to the eye, but 
 scarcely equal to the emergencies of a 
 hungry traveler. 
 
 "Nevertheless I was content. 
 
 "Boarders not many, but distinguished. 
 
 " Lord Lounsville a7id family, and a Mr. 
 Perkins, M. P. It was their sixth year, 
 the clerk informed me. Do you know that 
 when you strike the best blood of the British 
 realm, you are apt to hit a gentleman ? 
 And where you find the gentleman, titled 
 or untitled, you have found a democrat f 
 I've had a number of experiences to bear 
 me out. Such a man was Lounsville. No 
 hauteur, but in great abundance that "en- 
 thusiasm of humanity" the English Mat- 
 hew Arnold declared was akin to pure and 
 unde filed religion. 
 
 " How did I happen to go there ? I 
 
Prelude, 
 
 am on the road, you must know. The 
 place was a resort long ago when people 
 summered where was found plain rural 
 comfort and re st. Travelers, as a rule, go 
 not there. But lately I was seized by a 
 strange desire to explore its possibilities 
 for myself . I would just go for luck. I 
 did nothing in my line, but I did discover 
 Hans Glouck. 
 
 "And now I know not but I have here in 
 my pocket both fortune and fame!' 
 
 I resolved at once to investigate the 
 commercial value of that pocket. One 
 must take advantage of all opportunities. 
 " It shows a will most incorrect to heav- 
 en " to let them slip. 
 
 " Tell me about your friend Hans 
 Glouck," said I. " Or would you loan 
 me your MSS ? " 
 
 "I had rather not" he replied, laying 
 his hand to his pocket caressingly, " but 
 I am at your service to read any portions 
 of it" 
 
 We had reached the neighborhood of 
 my office. I turned the key in the lock- 
 as we entered that we might enjoy an 
 undisturbed hour, remarking as I did so : 
 
 " The name of your hero has a certain 
 
Prelude* 
 
 fascination. Hans Glouck, Jack Cade, 
 Hugh Fritz, or some such name familiar 
 in the stories of the Black Forest." 
 
 " I have not spoken of him as my 
 friend" said he ; "I have thought of him 
 mainly as a deterring- factor in this fall's 
 campaign. I call him Bliicher, following 
 the thought of the Napolionic figure of 
 our candidate. ' This Hans Glouck seems 
 to have been! as Lounsville put it ' taking 
 stock of the Republic with a view to 
 enlarging or improving the political 
 business' Shall I read the story ? " 
 
 I wished him to take his time and 
 read it all. We dined late that day — he 
 and I, at the Marlborough restaurant. 
 
 Reader, it is for you to say if, in my 
 country's behoof, I have done well or ill 
 in introducing to your notice this story 
 of " Hans Glouck." 
 
 The Author's Friend. 
 
HANS GLOUCK,* 
 
 " T UDVIG vas a fine boy. He come 
 JL-' right close to his dwenty- first 
 
 year. But I dont vait. I took him in 
 
 business mit me right avay de first of 
 
 June. Vas dot all right — eh, moder? 
 
 Mebbe he gif his old fadder some rest." 
 " Frieda vill be glad to know about 
 
 dot." 
 
 " Frieda ? vat vas it to Frieda ? " 
 
 " You know right veil dey vas 
 
 offianced." 
 
 " I know he fool mit her a bit — " 
 
 " You know veil enough Hans dey 
 
 vas offianced more den a year ago. 
 " I know I hear some talk, but he 
 
 *Note.— It may be well to have it known that the author 
 of this book has frequently discovered himself in alarming 
 sympathy with the hero. He knows Hans Glouck to 
 be wholly wrong about many things, but he also knows that 
 Hans himself is, — he might say,— ignorant of his ignorance. 
 Sincerity often throws an influence which, like the net of 
 the ancient gladiators, emmeshes one in its folds ere he is 
 aware. One is the same man, but— one is caught. Here, 
 haply the parallel ends. The sword of the gladiator dis- 
 patched what he had entrapped, to the shades beyond the 
 Styx. Sincerity, if it slays, also, quickenth. One's own 
 sincerity grows apace, and one is safe with his own con- 
 victions. — Author. 
 
fians Glouck. 
 
 dont talk to his fader. Here he comes 
 now — alvays a vishtling." 
 
 " His vishtling, Hans, vas someting 
 bad. I tell him, hire a lot and vishtle to 
 yourself. I 'spose he got de street mit- 
 out hiring. But he vas singing now." 
 
 " Shust as vorse. I tink his tongue 
 got de vitus-dance." 
 
 Other people said Ludwig Glouck had 
 a genius for whistling. He could also 
 sing well. They liked to hear him. 
 
 His father's musical taste required 
 something less demonstrative. He re- 
 alized this and restrained himself, nearing 
 home. But he was a youth of vast flowing 
 vigor, and often his steeds ran away 
 with him. 
 
 There was a fair excuse this time. 
 He came bounding in. A wild unfettered 
 burst of — " varbling." The notes tumble 
 into instant confusion. He has seen a 
 look on his father's face; his tongue 
 cleaves to the roof of his mouth. But he 
 rallies : 
 
 " I beg pardon. I was so happy. 
 She has set the day." 
 " She ? who vas she ? " 
 " Frieda, of course." 
 
tDe new Democracy. 
 
 " Vat vas de day set for ? " 
 
 " Well — if I must explain everything, 
 father, — she has set the day for our 
 marriage." 
 
 " I didn't know but you vould like to 
 ask me someting about dat, but — " 
 
 "You will not object — you will give 
 us your blessing?" 
 
 " I will tink about it, Ludvig." 
 
 Having deliberately filled the bowl of 
 his pipe, he makes his exit. 
 
 The mother re-enters — she had 
 thought it prudent not to hear the con- 
 versation. "Your fader, Ludvig, vos 
 out mit Herman Starburger, now; de 
 politics got atween 'em." 
 
 " So he visits the sins of the father on 
 his daughter. Is that it ? " 
 
 "Veil, he dont quite like because you 
 dont tell him more about you being 
 offtanced to Frieda. But, you be 
 patient. He vas shust saying he vould 
 take you into business mit him soon." 
 
 " Was he. It takes two to make a 
 bargain. I dont know as I like the 
 business. Besides, what's business with- 
 out Frieda." 
 
 "Oh, veil, dont took it so much to 
 
fians Glouck. 
 
 heart — tings smooth out, if you vait." 
 
 " More than likely he will want to 
 drive that bargain. It depends on how 
 long he and old Starburger are at outs." 
 
 " You dont show goot respect to 
 fadder, or fadder-in-law, Ludvig." 
 
 " Well, that is the way it will be. It 
 will be business versus Frieda. Never 
 mind. But I thought he and Starburger 
 were like Siamese twins." 
 
 So dey vas. Only vonce avile, von 
 pull von vay, von de oder vay. Den it 
 hurts, und both got mad." 
 
 " I see. So it isn't so bad after all." 
 
 " You und Frieda shust haf patience. 
 It vill be as you desire. Off your fader 
 go wrong, he dont vorship himself for 
 it. His pride vasn't long lived." 
 
 "Right you are, mother; always 
 sensible. That can't be said of women 
 generally. I know of just two, and 
 only two." 
 
 " Foolish Ludvig ! who put all dose 
 nonsense in your curley head ? 
 
 11 You did — you, and Frieda ! " 
 
the new Democracy, 
 
 HANS Glouck and Herman Starbur- 
 ger landed at Castle Garden in 
 December, 1 860. They had been chums 
 in old Germany, and had come over the 
 ocean together, poor, but honest, it can be 
 said. 
 
 They were seeking employment. 
 There was then no law pronouncing 
 able bodied willing workers "paupers." 
 Hans was soon employed as porter in a 
 German hotel, and Herman was tempo- 
 rarily engaged in a saloon. 
 
 Hans was tall and stout. 
 
 Herman, medium height, broad- 
 shouldered, with premonitory symptoms 
 of corpulency. 
 
 What fortune might have befallen 
 Hans but for Lincoln's call for soldiers, 
 it were useless to surmise. He was en- 
 listed, and served through the war. On 
 picket duty one day, he espied three 
 Confederate soldiers, their guns stacked, 
 playing at cards. He stole in on them 
 and ordered them into camp — his pris- 
 oners. 
 
 This made him a sergeant. 
 
fians Glouck. 
 
 For a long time he was Sergeant 
 Glouck. 
 
 He was Sergeant Hans Glouck when 
 he married Katrina Van Tromp. 
 
 She had come at his bidding when the 
 war was over, bringing him a small in- 
 heritance from his native land. 
 
 He found Herman Starburger again. 
 He was still in the saloon business, but 
 now he was the proprietor. 
 
 The girl he had married, German 
 youth once thought the loveliest fraulein 
 in Weimar. 
 
 By her good influence he left the sa- 
 loon and followed Hans and Katrina to 
 
 the little town of . 
 
 There I found them, but what were 
 the inducements leading Hans to so 
 quiet a retreat, I was not informed. But 
 he was accounted an old resident and his 
 hardware store had been many years 
 established. 
 
 Herman Starburger on his arrival pre- 
 pared to open a saloon, not knowing 
 what else to do. But while there was 
 no prohibition by the town, there was a 
 decided feeling in favor of limiting the 
 sale of liquors to the needs of the hotel. 
 
tl>e Hew Democracy. 
 
 Herr Starburger said something about 
 the evil of monopolies of all kinds, and 
 then became partner in a small woolen 
 mill located a few miles down the valley, 
 in which business he thrived in a mod- 
 erate way for several years, and then, 
 the concern failed. Whether his change 
 of politics was the result of this disaster, 
 no one was willing to vouch, but it was 
 affirmed that for some reason or other 
 his republicanism had done him no harm. 
 To the surprise of everybody he was 
 able to purchase the small farm on 
 which the mill stood, and stock it with 
 fine cattle and some of the best horses 
 ever introduced into that part of the 
 country. In this business he flourished, 
 and had got so far along on the road to 
 importance and wealth, he was able 
 to open, in a small way, a brokerage 
 business as well, occupying an imposing 
 little office near the Court House. 
 
 As for Hans Glouck he had come to 
 this country a Democrat from principle, 
 and had followed the losing fortune of 
 the party he found here with that name 
 all the years up to Cleveland's adminis- 
 tration. His admiration for " Grover " 
 
8 fians Glouck. 
 
 had been very great. "He was a born 
 president/' he cried out to his old time 
 but now distrusted friend. Herman 
 Starburger laughed, and so, "politics 
 got atween dem," as Frau Glouck de- 
 clared, and for sometime each had gone 
 his own way without speaking. The 
 estrangement might have continued un- 
 til the end of their natural lives, but for 
 the unpleasant situation in which Glouck 
 one day found himself, at the end of a 
 little speculation he had been led into. 
 He was obliged to seek a temporary 
 relief, and since Starburger was the only 
 man thereabout with " money to loan," 
 he could not make an application else- 
 where. Contrary to his expectation he 
 was made to pay a high rate for the 
 favor, but the transaction put the two 
 men on speaking terms again, and a 
 gradual exchange of friendly courtesies 
 followed. 
 
 But it required great tact for these 
 two German-American gentlemen to 
 avoid the vexing theme. There are 
 mischief-makers everywhere, and some 
 of them were in this little town, who, 
 aware of their strained political relations 
 
Ok new Democracy. 
 
 were well pleased could they but roll an 
 apple of discord along the picket line of 
 their armed peace ; as when, discovering 
 them together in any company, some 
 one would ask: "Well, Hans, how is 
 Democracy getting along ? " or, "Are 
 the Republicans going to carry the day, 
 Herman ? " Others hinted that it was 
 a " put up job " between the two, they 
 having well calculated the advantage of 
 being affiliated with opposite parties, 
 thereby being able to exchange " pulls." 
 There was nothing of the sort in evi- 
 dence, but : 
 
 " People do surmise and guess 
 A thing is so : nodding, yes," 
 
 on however slight a provocation. 
 
 Then, when " McKinley buttons" 
 began to circulate, and a " third term 
 for Grover," began balancing in mid-air, 
 there was fresh occasion for irritating 
 scenes. The ever-watchful Fraus of the 
 two men noticed symptoms which boded 
 ill for the good of the two households, 
 and for them surely it could not be said 
 the unexpected had happened. 
 
10 fians Glouck. 
 
 in. 
 
 ONE sunny afternoon Hans Glouck 
 was sitting in his barn with the 
 doors thrown wide open when out came 
 Ludwig displaying a McKinley button. 
 
 " Isn't it a beauty ? " he cried. 
 
 "Vat! " cried the father, in return. 
 
 That a son of his should put on the 
 tawdry display of the arch enemy was a 
 stride toward rebellion to more than 
 grieve over. 
 
 He had been shaving tobacco to fill 
 the bowl of his big pipe. In the tumult 
 of his emotion, pipe and tobacco disap- 
 peared on the floor. 
 
 It could not be said that Hans Glouck 
 was swift to anger, but when he did 
 reach the boiling point, he was, as 
 Ludwig described him, "something 
 fearful to behold." 
 
 Ludwig remained not long to take in 
 this vision of mighty wrath. He left his 
 father towering there alone in stupified 
 amazement. 
 
 Since the episode in the house the 
 name of Frieda had not been spoken. 
 Nor had Glouck, Sr. alluded to his new 
 business project. Matters had not 
 
tftc Hew Democracy. n 
 
 smoothed themselves out for him of late 
 in many directions. From a variety of 
 causes a gnawing irritation, quite inde- 
 scribable, kept him just enough ou": of 
 sorts with everything and everybody to 
 make the least provocation an excuse 
 for a passionate relief. 
 
 True, it was as Katrina Glouck had 
 said : he loved his boy with all his big 
 German heart, and because he loved 
 him, he longed to chastise him, suggest- 
 ing a passage of scripture often read in 
 church lessons. 
 
 Slowly he recovered his pipe, and 
 pressed the newly-shaved tobacco down 
 hard in the bowl. He would have 
 lighted it, and so repossessed himself, 
 but for a sudden squeeling and kicking 
 in the rear of the barn. 
 
 " Even de old horses was at it," he 
 muttered, and the idea touched his 
 humor. 
 
 " Whoa dere ! cant you let me do all 
 de kicking, you fools! " 
 
 He was the owner of a fine span of 
 horses, " sired on de Rhine," he often 
 boasted. 
 
 Putting down his pipe he sauntered 
 
12 fans Glouck. 
 
 back and patted them. "Here vas some- 
 ting vat I own myself, who play me no 
 tricks mit 'Kinley buttons." 
 
 The great beasts turned their big 
 necks and gazed at him contentedly; 
 they knew well enough their burly 
 master had a pride in them, and like 
 all well-mannered brutes, they were duly 
 grateful. 
 
 " Yah, you vas goot Cleveland horses, 
 you vas," he was ejaculating approving- 
 ly when the voice of Herman Star- 
 burger fell on his ear. He turned in 
 no good humor to meet the intruder. 
 
 " Sired on de Rhine, vas dey ? " cried 
 Starburger with a chuckle. 
 
 "You 'spose I lie?" came the quick 
 response. 
 
 " No ! oh no ! but off it vas so, dose 
 sire must of been dere great, great-grand- 
 fader." 
 
 " Vas dot so ! Dey vas imported 
 seven year ago, ven dey vas two year 
 old." 
 
 Only politics could very greatly 
 disturb Hans Glouck's temper. So he 
 walked sturdily down to the front and 
 pushed a stool over to his visitor. 
 
tbe new Democracy. 13 
 
 If there was some uncertainty hover- 
 ing over the pedigree of the horses, 
 there could be little doubt but that the 
 fashion of Hans' long pipe had come 
 down in lineal succession from the time 
 of the good Van Twiller who smoked 
 and governed his worshipful subjects 
 in New Amsterdam. And something 
 of that old time peacefulness was re- 
 stored to Hans as the wreathed pacify- 
 ing smoke spread many softening veils 
 between self and neighbor. And 
 when Herman remarked, "Dey vas goot 
 hosses, anyvay," as if concluding the 
 
 argument amicably, he was well restored 
 
 to his better self. 
 
 Starburger had come on business. He 
 
 would like a favor; the loan of a 
 
 hundred dollars for a few months, or 
 
 until after election. 
 Oh, unlucky man ! 
 Poor Hans ; he could not resist the 
 
 temptation. Not in anger now, but as 
 
 being the author of too good a joke to 
 
 keep, he flashed out the thought as it 
 
 came to him : 
 
 "You vant to go into de 'Kinley 
 
 button business ? " 
 
14 fians 61ouck. 
 
 IV. 
 
 HERR Starburger was not without a 
 praiseworthy pride in what he 
 termed his " everyday horse sense," but 
 his sense of humor had undoubtedly suff- 
 ered for that reason ; indeed it was at 
 very low ebb. And, as is ever the case, the 
 less humor, the more sensitive people 
 become to any covert aspersion or 
 ridicule. 
 
 Gravely enough he answered : 
 " I vas nit going into de McKinley 
 button business. I vas no fool, and you 
 might keep your button business in your 
 own family. I see dot boy of yours vas 
 spording a McKinley button. But he 
 vas no honor to de party, und ye will 
 much obleege me off you keep him to 
 home mit you. I vould be ashamed to 
 see dot booby my Frieda's man. He 
 vas a no-goot harrum-scarrum. I vas 
 ashamed of de button vat lets him wear 
 itself on his coat." 
 
 Now was Sergeant Glouck's cup of 
 wrath full. It ran over. Hardly were 
 the blistering words out of Starburger's 
 mouth when a pitchfork trembled in his 
 nerved hand ready for murderous work. 
 
tbc new Democracy, 15 
 
 Happy circumstance ! 
 
 Just at that moment did Frieda Star- 
 burger turn the corner and come in full 
 view of the scene. Her quick eye in- 
 stantly caught the meaning of the threat- 
 ning tableaux, and she ran to be a shield 
 to her father. The play-wrights are not 
 so far wrong in having succor always 
 arrive in the " nick o' time." 
 
 Horner sang : 
 
 Jove lifts the golden balances, that show 
 The fates of mortal men, and things below : 
 Here each contending hero's lot he tries, 
 And weighs, with equal hand, their destinies. 
 
 The fates of great Achilles and mighty 
 Hector were not in their own hands. 
 
 "What would you do, Herr Glouck ?" 
 
 " Noting dot would bring sorrow to 
 you." 
 
 He could not demean himself in the 
 presence of so fair a being,and he hurled 
 the vengeful fork deep into the loft above. 
 
 Then he turned to the father of 
 Frieda : 
 
 " I vas sorry about de buttons." 
 
 " You are very good," she said. 
 
 And Herr Starburger: 
 
16 Tjans Glouck. 
 
 " I vas sorry for vat I said about 
 Ludwig." 
 
 "Well, you better be, if you have 
 spoken against him," cried Frieda, 
 laughing. 
 
 Then she withdrew. 
 
 Ludwig's battle was won. 
 
 " Ve vill shake hands, den ? " 
 
 " Sure ! " Herr Starburger replied. 
 
 " You can hev de money tomorrow." 
 
 Hans pushed the stool over again, 
 and Herman sat down. 
 
 " Do you tink it will rain ? " he en- 
 quired, picking his pipe up once more. 
 
 "Cloudy like ; it may be." 
 
 They sat in silence after that. Neither 
 felt that he knew precisely what further 
 remark would be safe. 
 
 Finally Starburger rose, yawned, 
 stretched himself and said : 
 
 " I guess I go home." 
 
 "Vat for?" 
 
 "Oh, I got some meeting." 
 
 "Vat meeting? " 
 
 " Mc.Kinley meeting." 
 
 " Veil, you can go. I go myself to a 
 Cleveland meeting byme-bye." 
 
Cfte new Democracy. 17 
 
 "Veil, I don't care. He vas a dead 
 duck anyhow." 
 
 " Not much." 
 
 " You vait and see." 
 
 " I see now. I don't vait." 
 
 Sergeant Glouck knocked the ashes 
 off his pipe and forced the grimest of 
 smiles. He was contending hard with 
 himself. 
 
 "Vat for you get mad always?" asked 
 Starburger. 
 
 " I — me — mad ? You vas mistooken." 
 
 "Yes, you vas: you alvays go off like 
 a sky-rocket ven ve talk politics." 
 
 "By jimminy I tink it vas yourself, 
 more like. You don't understand not- 
 ing. Dat vas de reason you got loose 
 mit your temper. You talk like a fool 
 den." 
 
 "And you vas one if you talk or don't 
 talk." 
 
 " Vas I ? " 
 
 "And I could vip you for two cents." 
 
 " Veil, dere vas two cents." 
 
 " No, I vont spoil my hands. You 
 can go to de divil." 
 
 " No ; I stay vere I am. Off I go I 
 might be apt to meet you dere, getting 
 
is fians Gloticfc. 
 
 yourself posted in protection politics." 
 
 There was a cry from the house. 
 
 "Supper— father!" 
 
 " So soon ? Veil, I keep my promise, 
 alvays. You shall haf de money. Ha! 
 ha! ha! ve vas two fools — eh? Shake?" 
 
 For the sake of the " money," Her- 
 man Starburger was not adverse to the 
 compromise. 
 
 v. 
 
 WHAT is to be said of Ludwig 
 Glouck? 
 A tall, manly boy with deep blue eyes 
 like his mother. A prominent nose like 
 his father, and close curling light brown 
 hair. A large mouth that apologized 
 for itself with two magnificent rows of 
 pearly teeth. Often enough he has 
 been told he has awful (that is, large) 
 hands and feet. But this he takes kindly, 
 for one George Washington and other 
 great men had set the fashion. Twenty 
 years old and nearing his twenty-first 
 birthday. Yet he seemed a mere boy, 
 
tfte Hew Democracy. 19 
 
 loving all kinds of sport, the best all- 
 round athlete at the Turn Halle "Gym." 
 Care and sorrow — had not reached him. 
 His future— problematic. 
 
 " Vat you make of yourself? " 
 " I don't know." 
 
 The mother was anxious, but Hans 
 had said : 
 
 " If he vas, he vas ; if he vasn't, he 
 vasn't." 
 
 Yet he was more strenuous than Kat- 
 rina in insisting on the "vas," or the 
 " vasn't" If Ludwig would come out 
 all right, he must mind him. 
 
 " Come out to de barn," he said the 
 next morning. 
 
 " Frieda," he continued as they went 
 along, "told your moder you vould 
 make a lawyer some day." 
 
 " Well," cried Ludwig, laughing bois- 
 terously, "she has had a pretty good 
 exhibition of my pleading abilities." 
 
 Generally, politically speaking, "like 
 father, like son." But Ludwig had just 
 enough of his father about him to 
 prove the rule by being the exception. 
 He had met all the Democratic boys 
 and vanquished them in forensic con- 
 
20 fans Glouck. 
 
 tests. Hence, he prided himself not a 
 little on the extent of his information 
 and his good gifts as an arguer. He 
 had even whispered his ambition to 
 " tackle the old man." 
 
 When they had reached the barn, his 
 father asked : 
 
 "Vat de reason you go mit de Re- 
 publicans ? " 
 
 " Well, because I think they are 
 right." 
 
 " Vat you know about it ? " 
 
 "Why, if you want me to make a 
 speech, I can do it. There ain't any 
 Democrat boy around I am afraid of, 
 anyway." 
 
 " Veil, go ahead." 
 
 But there was not the same provoca- 
 tion. He needed to be pitched into. 
 
 " I wish you would say something, 
 and let me answer it," he pleaded. 
 
 Sergeant Hans laughed now. It was 
 his turn to be merry. 
 
 " Veil, I don't vant to talk politics mit 
 you, right avay, anyhow. I vant to 
 speak mit you about Frieda. 
 
 Ludwig was all attention. 
 
 "She vas all right, Ludvig." 
 
tbe new Democracy. 21 
 
 " Wha — do you mean it ? Come here 
 let me kiss your old face — " 
 
 " No — ve vasn't all done. I like 
 Frieda fust-rate. I don't see her till 
 yesterday for a long time. But I don't 
 approve of de marriage till you vas of 
 age — next November some time." 
 
 " And if we wait till then, you con- 
 sent ? " 
 
 " Yah, on von condition." 
 
 " Name it." 
 
 " Dot you don't vote against your 
 fader. If you don't do dot, I let you 
 marry right avay den, and took you into 
 business mit me." 
 
 " Well, you are a pretty hard father, 
 I must say. You mean I am not to 
 vote at all ? " 
 
 " Oh, no ; dot vould not do. I vant 
 you to vote de Democratic ticket for 
 President." 
 
 " Oh no, father ; you don't mean that. 
 Vote against my own opinions ? " 
 
 " Oh, you vas not old enough to haf 
 opinions." 
 
 " Wasn't I ? If I am old enough to 
 vote, I am old enough to have opinions. 
 Voting and opinions go together." 
 
22 i>an$ 61oucK. 
 
 " Veil, I don't argue. Vat you say ? " 
 " If I vote with you, you will take me 
 into business with you, and we (that is, 
 Frieda and I) can marry in November," 
 " Yah, you can marry us both." 
 " I might be arrested for bigamy." 
 " Veil, no matter ; I bail you out." 
 " Well then—/ don't do it" 
 " Don't you ? Take care ! " 
 " No ! I'll run away with Freida, 
 first, and let the old business go to — the 
 old Harry." 
 "Vill you?" 
 " I will." 
 
 " Den come to my arms. You might 
 kiss your old fader now, off you vant 
 to. I vas shust tryin'you. I know you 
 vouldn't— but I vas foolish — I vanted to 
 see. 
 
 " But now I vill told you someting 
 more. You can marry us both, but you 
 vill vant a separate house for her. Off 
 you can convert me to de Republican 
 side before de election, I vote rnit you, 
 und build de house. Off I convert 
 you, you vote mit me, und build your 
 own house." 
 
Cfte new Democracy. 23 
 
 " Agreed ! Now then, I will kiss you 
 and hug you, too." 
 
 " Dot vas de vay. You couldn't loan 
 your fader a kiss on credit; you must 
 -haf de cash down." 
 
 " House down, ye mean. No. I was 
 n't so stingy as that ; but a feller cant 
 help feeling good when he does feel 
 good." 
 
 " Dot vos so." 
 
 " But, father, we wouldn't have much 
 time in which to build after election, not 
 \{ we wanted to move into it right away." 
 
 " Dot vas true enuff. Ve vill begin de 
 house tomorrow, und off I lose, it vas 
 all right ; off you lose, I hold a mortage 
 over your head." 
 
 "Tomorrow! Heavens! I'll go 
 crazy if ye dont stop." 
 
 " Vel, run avay den un' tell everybody. 
 Dot vill stop you going crazy." 
 
 VI. 
 
 SERGEANT Qouck sat alone in 
 silence. Somehow his boy was 
 escaping him. Ludwig was fast getting 
 
24 i>an$ Glouck. 
 
 
 
 to be a man. The last 
 
 day 
 
 had 
 
 transformed him. He had 
 
 never 
 
 held 
 
 other than a loose rein 
 
 over 
 
 the 
 
 youth, yet he had not 
 
 until 
 
 that 
 
 moment supposed he had not a reserved 
 right to tighten it when he chose. But 
 now, suddenly there was a line of de- 
 markation : he on one side, and Ludwig 
 on the other. Suddenly there had come 
 a flash of enlightment, and the situation 
 was revealed to him. 
 
 As a drowning man is said to find in 
 an instant the whole panorama of his 
 life passing before him, so he viewed 
 instantaneously all his dealings with 
 Ludwig from the cradle to this last 
 crucial moment. He saw himself as be- 
 fore a bar of judgment, and himself 
 also in the judgment seat. And he 
 said silently to himself: 
 
 " Ludvig vas not mine so much vat I 
 thought. He vas not mine like my 
 horse. But I could vhip him into it, 
 und I did. Now I see I must have 
 respect to him as to a king in his own 
 right. Now must I say ; dere vas mine 
 son Ludvig as goot as anybody, und my- 
 self as goot as he." 
 
tfte new Democracy. 25 
 
 Matters were now in due course of 
 adjustment. At least, some things were 
 taken for granted. 
 
 Hans Glouck went about with a lighter 
 heart. He even entertained a kindlier 
 feeling toward Herman Starburger. Re- 
 calling the promised loan, he was about 
 to dispatch Ludwig with it. Then he 
 reflected it was as well Ludwig did not 
 know of the matter. That evening his 
 " von vorst enemy " felt the shock of an 
 agreeable surprise. Hans had called in 
 person, and once more there was a 
 " shake." 
 
 He also surprised Katrina. 
 
 " Next November I vas to be married 
 again." 
 
 " Vont ye vait till I was dead ? " 
 
 "Oh no, moder; dot dont cut no 
 figure. Dere vill be two marriages den. 
 Und de names of de firms vill be : — 
 
 " ' Ludvig und Frieda ! ' 
 
 " ■ Hans Glouck und Son ! ' " 
 
 But he could not concede everything 
 So he said to Ludwig : — 
 
 " I gif you to de last day of October 
 to make me over into a Republican. 
 
26 fans Glouck. 
 
 But de house can go on anyvay. Only 
 you remember de bargain.' 
 
 "The bargain is all on my side anyway; 
 but I'll have some fun putting you through 
 your Republican sprouts; see if I dont." 
 
 " Dot vas all right." 
 
 " But it is hardly a balance of things 
 as Starburger says, for him to furnish 
 only the furniture." 
 
 " Dere vas his Frieda, too — " 
 
 " And there was your Ludwig, too ; 
 but I suppose / dont count." 
 
 " Not against de voman. De voman 
 alone vas more dan house and all — no 
 matter how much you vos besides. Love 
 vasn't come to drive does bargains." 
 
 "You are right. You generally are 
 I begin to think." 
 
 Hans Glouck had a tender memory. 
 When he left Germany, he left also Kat- 
 rina. He had a picture of her on board 
 the ship. He kept it covered. But when 
 the storms came and the winds were 
 high, he uncovered the face, because it 
 did him good to see her smile, tallying 
 the experience of one Capt. Ryk who 
 brought Lafayette to this country in '25, 
 as related by Quincy. 
 
C!k Hew Democracy. 27 
 
 VII. 
 
 NEITHER party to the great debate 
 had bargained for notoriety, 
 But somebody had eavesdropped, and, 
 lo, the result ! 
 
 Political documents — party literature, 
 under the frank of U. S. senators and 
 representatives, began to increase the 
 daily mail, a part addressed to Sergeant 
 Hans Glouck, and a part to Herr Lud- 
 wig Glouck. Several anonymous letters 
 came with suggestions, thoughts, etc. etc. 
 
 " Vat does it all mean, Ludvig ? vas 
 you playing some trick ? " 
 
 " Oh no ; I assure you. I know 
 nothing about it. But its mighty con- 
 venient : Say ! I've got a bright idea." 
 
 " You vill need it." 
 
 " You read all those Republican docu- 
 ments — and save me trouble." 
 
 " You vant to kill your fadder out- 
 right ? Oh, no, you read your own. I 
 got my enlightment from you." 
 
 Hans Glouck had a scheme that 
 would serve him better for a time, at 
 least, than pouring over Congressional 
 party-colored speeches. His democ- 
 
28 ijans Glouck. 
 
 racy was, at heart — though he had not 
 so expressed it to himself — something 
 more than the mere triumph of the party 
 by that name. 
 
 He was on intimate terms with a 
 young German lawyer, an authority 
 among German people of Democratic 
 persuasion. This lawyer lived in an- 
 other town,but Hans could conveniently 
 drive over and consult with him. 
 
 " Ludvig will haf to be pretty sharp 
 iff he got ahead of does lawyer," he 
 chuckled to himself. 
 
 But this lawyer was not a politician, 
 he was a student of politics, a scholarly 
 young man, whom Emerson might have 
 taken to heart, as filling out his own 
 definition, " The scholar is one who 
 raises himself from private consider- 
 ations." 
 
 Said this lawyer : 
 
 "The ballot is a symbol of democracy, 
 a weapon that makes the citizen formid- 
 able without a bayonet. But we must 
 not make its importance cheap by too 
 much balloting against one another. 
 In my hand this ballot means the public 
 shall not count me out ; but it does not 
 
the Hew Democracy. 29 
 
 arm me to go into the business of law- 
 making to manage everybody's else bus- 
 iness to suit some pet notion of my own. 
 It is defensive, not aggressive. The 
 history of the world up to date is written 
 on this ballot. It sums up all the past 
 has struggled for. It is prophetic, also. 
 You and I, Hans, holding this ballot, 
 are put into friendly relations with all 
 mankind. It is a great privilege to feel 
 the thrill of this wide relation. 
 
 'Mankind are one in spirit,and an instinct bears along 
 Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of 
 right or wrong.' 
 
 " It is time democracy was alive to its 
 privileges." 
 
 Sergeant Glouck proved no inapt 
 scholar. He sat at the feet of this young 
 lawyer, Felix Baumgarten, and became 
 as a little child. 
 
 He was gone on these visits on some 
 occasions far into the evening. Katrina 
 wondered, and would have Ludwig use 
 some little detective vigilance, for Hans 
 was uncommunicative. How could he 
 say, " Katrina, I vas going to school." 
 Katrina must trust him. 
 
30 fans GioucU. 
 
 As for Ludwig, he still wore his 
 McKinley button, and now and then as 
 he went about town dropped a nimble 
 defence of "protection and prosperity," 
 but for the most part, the building of the 
 house was his theme. 
 
 But it was arranged that he should 
 meet his father the next Saturday after- 
 noon in a private debate at the store 
 after business hours. He would make 
 it as lively as he could for Sergeant 
 Hans Glouck, but he took no thought, 
 never doubting but it would be given 
 him on the occasion what to say. 
 
 Punctuality was Hans Glouck's petted 
 virtue. He fretted a little when the hour 
 came and Ludwig did not appear. But 
 when he had gathered up his disappoint- 
 ments and gone home, Katrina was 
 sick, and Ludwig was with her. 
 
 Two weeks later, " one woe so treads 
 on another," there was a further disap- 
 pointment. 
 
 There was Ludwig pacing the floor in 
 a desperate mood, trying to collect his 
 thoughts. He began : 
 
 "Well, I'm a Republican, father, be- 
 cause — because, first — " 
 
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 Alas ! and yet, not alas. 
 
 Germany had sent Hans Glouck a 
 brother. Thirty-six years ago they had 
 parted in the village of Weimar, the 
 home of the great German poets, Goethe 
 and Schiller. 
 
 Poor Ludwig ! 
 
 Would he ever again be so near an 
 inspiration ? 
 
 " I would have demolished you," he 
 whispered close to his father's ear. 
 
 "I guess de gig vas up," Hans replied. 
 
 Nevertheless the joy of meeting Prof. 
 Carl Glouck, brother of Hans, and uncle 
 of Ludwig, put a happy phase on every- 
 thing. All else could be relegated to 
 those tomorrows that might never come. 
 
 The Professor did not come speaking 
 a broken English. The " sweet German 
 accent " which so delighted brave Gen. 
 Scott in the days of his candidacy, 
 lingered just enough to add richness to 
 his perfect English. He was a man not 
 unknown to the best circles of English 
 society. His "Socialism" was of so 
 profound and Christian a sort, the wise 
 men of Britain were willing to sit, if not 
 at his feet, very respectfully in his pres- 
 
32 Bans GloucU. 
 
 ence. Members of parliament crowded 
 his lectures in London, and the " grand 
 old man " had him with him at Hawar- 
 den Palace. 
 
 But he did not come saying this. He 
 came in all simplicity to see Hans, his 
 brother, and to see America ! 
 
 It has not taken Hans long to dis- 
 cover that in the arrival of this brother 
 he has received a great reinforcement. 
 
 The "great debate" was tacitly de- 
 clared off. 
 
 Ludwig interested his uncle in the 
 plans of the new house. One morning 
 he is surprised by this uncle-professor 
 who brings him plans of his own, ex- 
 plaining an addition he had drafted in 
 order that he might have the pleasure of 
 a home with them during his stay in 
 America. He would contribute the 
 extra cost. 
 
 Frieda and Ludwig carried the good 
 news to everybody and beseiged the 
 architect anew. 
 
 Meanwhile Hans had a new vision. 
 
 He would leave Ludwig to his task, 
 and take the debate to a larger audience. 
 
 It was an inspiration. 
 
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 VIII. 
 
 A MAN," it has been written, "is like 
 a bit of Labrador spar, which has 
 no lustre as you turn it in your hand un- 
 til you come to a particular angle, then it 
 shows deep and beautiful colors." Ser- 
 geant Hans Glouck had caught this 
 " particular angle" of himself, and hence- 
 forth he was a new man. 
 
 He was about to go out and declare 
 that the old parties were dead. Parties 
 are like churches. " Every church is 
 sufficiently alive to resent being told 
 that it is dead." So Hans had read in a 
 book Lawyer Baumgarten had loaned 
 him. And he did not expect to escape 
 this " resentment " when he told political 
 parties they were dead. Nevertheless 
 he would go into the Town Hall on a 
 certain. night, and declare himself. He 
 had, like his lawyer friend, become a 
 " scholar." " Action is with the scholar 
 subordinate, but it is essential." 
 
 Now, Hans Glouck, being a Demo- 
 crat, was not above his work. He 
 could do all pertaining to that with a 
 proud independence, even as the great 
 Lincoln could black his own shoes. 
 
34 fjans GloucU. 
 
 He wanted a poster. He set about 
 it with the store's marking pot, and 
 made one. It read as follows : 
 
 The undersigned, hans 
 glouck, will address his 
 fellow citizens in the 
 town hall, monday even- 
 ing, democrats and re- 
 publicans are invited. 
 
 That Sabbath day following will long 
 
 be remembered in the little town of- . 
 
 Crowds hung about the Town Hall 
 scrutinizing the "poster" of Hans 
 Glouck. And people as they went to 
 and fro through the village asked, 
 " Have- you seen the poster ? " A 
 wag remarked, " The town is on a broad 
 grin." 
 
 Yes, everybody smiled. Hans Glouck 
 will address his fellow citizens on De- 
 mocracy / Who did not know Hans 
 Glouck? But who dreamed he could 
 " address his fellow citizens ? " The 
 Mayor, smiling with others, said: "I 
 was not aware that Hans had political 
 aspirations." And the equally aston- 
 
€fte new Democracy. 35 
 
 ished gamin of the town, as they lounged 
 about in go-to-meeting clothes, asked : 
 
 " What's he runnin' fer ? " 
 
 It did not require the intervening 
 Monday to carry the news to every 
 hamlet in town and far into the sur- 
 rounding country. 
 
 Hans was right. 
 
 One poster was enough. He was the 
 prince of advertisers. Would he prove 
 himself also a Demosthenes or Cicero ? 
 
 During the day he kept well in hid- 
 ing. Neither the Professor nor Ludwig 
 were taken into confidence. The Frau 
 only asked : " Do you suppose you can 
 make a speech, Hans ? " 
 
 " Veil, Katrina, I can shust try vat I 
 can do. Mebbe, yes ; mebbe no." 
 
 IX. 
 
 WHEN the clock on the Town Hall 
 struck eight, Hans Glouck 
 walked out alone on the squeaky plat- 
 form, and stood quietly by the old 
 battered stand on which many worthy 
 mayors and chairmen had " restored 
 
36 Bans Glouch. 
 
 order," with historic gavels. There 
 was a shaded lamp and a glass by a 
 pitcher of water standing there. It 
 was Frieda who had added a vase 
 holding a beautiful cluster of red 
 and white peonies. 
 
 Katrina had placed a carnation in the 
 buttonhole of his coat. And she had 
 slipped an extra white kerchief in his 
 pocket. He himself had taken a like 
 precaution. 
 
 Alas ! why did he bring forth those 
 three kerchiefs all trailing together ? He 
 knew not. He had no immediate use 
 for even one of them. "He comes well 
 armed " cries some fiend in the gallery. 
 The audience had gathered with some 
 suspicion that a somewhat mirthful 
 experience was in store for them, and for 
 a moment the humor of the situation 
 had full swing. 
 
 But Hans stood there sturdily, undis- 
 mayed. He knew he had come " well 
 armed," and ere the evening was gone he 
 would show a winning hand. He had 
 returned two of the handkerchiefs to 
 separate pockets, and stood with the 
 other, Katrina's gift, in his two hands, 
 
the new Democracy, 57 
 
 much after the manner of revered Horace 
 Greeley. 
 
 Gradually the audience observing 
 him, hushed into respectful silence, 
 waiting on his first words very much as 
 one will listen with attent ear to catch the 
 first syllables of some star actor to gage 
 the style and hope of the performance. 
 
 It was noticed by all that Hans looked 
 quite imposing as he stood there waiting 
 calmly his opportunity. His massive 
 brow, his deep set eyes, his broad 
 shoulders and generally massive figure 
 began to impress people. There was a 
 reminder of the portraits of Webster in 
 his mien. A buff vest and blue coat 
 with gilt buttons were alone needed to 
 produce a very Websterian impression. 
 
 And now the rich deep chest tones of 
 his well modulated voice still further 
 increase the resemblance to the great 
 senator. Through his strong English 
 vernacular plays the Rip Van Winkelian 
 brogue made so pleasing to the 
 ear by America's well beloved actor. 
 
 Before him are his honor, the Mayor, 
 and the rest of the town. 
 
38 fans 01ouck. 
 
 All feel that somehow Hans Glouck 
 is master. 
 
 The local paper is represented, but 
 the reporter, unequal to the occassion, 
 indulges himself in the novelty of the 
 scene, and permits a young lady who 
 thinks it an opportunity for testing her 
 skill, to make the complete and admir- 
 able report here used. The speech was 
 long, but of interest throughout. 
 No one left the hall with the osentsible 
 purpose of catching a train. 
 
 THE SPEECH. 
 
 I vill make no apologies because I in- 
 vite you here, but I vas much obliged 
 for your coming, It vas de privilege of 
 every citizen to express his thoughts to 
 his neighbors, especially on dose sub- 
 jects dot are political. I might say still 
 furder dot, it vas a dooty all citizens 
 ought to perform more often dan dey 
 do. Ve got de habit of hiring some- 
 body, or of supposin' we must alvays 
 got some one who vants an office to do 
 our speakin' for us. Now, I don't vant 
 any office. I only vants to say to you 
 some of dose tings I haf got on my 
 mind, vich vas, I tink, important for 
 your goot, und de goot of the country. 
 
Che Tim Democracy. 39 
 
 It vas true dot I vas not born in dis 
 country. My fadderland vas not here. 
 I come here thirty year ago because I 
 wanted to. I hear much about America 
 as a goot place to got vork, und as de 
 land of liberty. It vas both togeder 
 dot brought me here. I like de liberty, 
 but off I got no vork, vay go my liberty 
 and I bring up in some vorkhouse. Dot 
 vas so everyvhere ; a man mitout vork 
 vas a tramp, und a nuisance. But I vas 
 told America vas big, und room enough 
 for all vas over de ocean. I found some 
 vork right avay, but off I got no vork den 
 I vould not been in de fix same as some 
 countrymen of mine vas in New York 
 de oder day so soon as dey vas on 
 shore. I vould not of been put in a 
 pound as dey put cattle dot vas lost or 
 strayed, and kept pretty hungry till a 
 ship vould take me back home again. 
 In dose days it vas different, und ex- 
 pected dot de poor und downtrodden 
 vould come here und look about a little 
 till dey find someting ; und dot vas de 
 vay de country vas built up. 
 
 I would speak a vord of de differ- 
 ence in de native und de foreigner — 
 about the patriotism of de von und de 
 oder — off any ting vas to be said for 
 eider above de oder, I vould say de 
 foreigner had de vantage. He vas here 
 because he vishes to be, und de native 
 
40 [jams Glowck. 
 
 cause he could not help himself. De 
 one choose for himself, und de oder, 
 his fadder or grandfadder choose for 
 him. He love his native land und he 
 stay dere. But de man who vas emi- 
 grated here, love his native land no less, 
 but dis land more. He like humanity 
 und vas at home alvays vere people vas 
 left free mit life, liberty und pursuit of 
 happiness. I do not speak very goot 
 English, but for all dot vat I say vas 
 shust as goot. I vas not born in dis 
 land, but I vas shust as goot American 
 as off I vas. I claim dot. I see de same 
 sun und moon and stars over here I see 
 in Germany. Dey vas mine over dere, 
 dey vas my own here. I see vat vas 
 right und goot over dere. I see it here 
 shust the same. It vas all mine, verever 
 I be, verever I go. Und it vas shust de 
 same mit everybody. Dot vos de vay 
 ve vas all equal. 
 
 But over dere I see no Republic. 
 
 I look across de vater und see von 
 here. 
 
 So I come. 
 
 Und ven I come I find two parties, 
 de von Republican, de von Democrat. 
 
 Veil, I vas puzzled. I like de name 
 Republican because it sound like stand- 
 in' up for de Republic. I like de vord 
 Democrat, because it tells me vat kind 
 of a Republic. 
 
tbe flew Democracy. 4i 
 
 Dere vas everything in de name. 
 
 Ven I vas a boy in Germany I study 
 some Latin, und I remember sometings 
 now. 
 
 Res publico, vas de Latin of Republic. 
 It means de public goot. Und so Re- 
 public vas a goot name for de country. 
 But res publico, don't show in vat vay 
 the pirtilic goot vas got. Only so you 
 don't have a born king, you may say 
 you haf got a republic. It may be 
 ruled by an aristocracy or oligarchy, or 
 by straight-out democracy. I mean dot 
 has been de custom. So you don't got 
 a " reigning family," " a divine right " 
 family, you haf a republic. But it vas 
 not so sure but de public goot vas as 
 veil off mit a king as mit an aristocracy. 
 So ven I say I vas a Republican I don't 
 say plainly vat I am. I may be aristo- 
 crat, tinking I know better dan de people 
 vat dey vant or vat dey ought to haf for 
 dere goot, or I may be shust one of the 
 people, dot vas, a democrat. 
 
 So you see I must define myself 
 closer. 
 
 True democracy abolishes not only 
 de divine-right king, but de divine-right 
 aristocracy, too. (applause). 
 
 And dotvasvere I stood, (applause.) 
 
 It vas put in de Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence dot all men vas created equal. 
 It vas done in a moment of enthusiasm, 
 
42 Bans GleucK. 
 
 but it vas a bitter pill even for de sign- 
 ers and defenders of de Independence. 
 Dere vas a whole race dot vasn't counted 
 in. Und so it vas true dot it vas so far 
 a " a glittering generality " den. Today 
 dere vas a goot deal of de generality 
 left, but it don't "glitter" so much. 
 Now, off all vas equal, den dere vas no 
 one man, and no set of men, dot had a 
 " divine right," or better right to rule 
 dan all oder men. No von has de right 
 over anoder. The power of rule vas 
 mit all citizens. 
 
 Off you go back to de time of Greece, 
 you vill find how dey had de idea shust 
 right, but for one ting. Dere vas a 
 class of men who vasn't citizens, but 
 slaves. Ven dey said " de people," dot 
 ought to mean everybody. But,it didn't 
 mit dem, and so dey founded not dere 
 institutions on de rock of de whole pub- 
 lic goot y and great vas de fall dereof. 
 Dey don't know de true vay. Ve don't 
 know it yet pretty goot ourselves, 
 (laughter). 
 
 In Germany, in early times, all de 
 tribes vas free, und no one mit better 
 right dan anoder. De plain pecple 
 everyvere doing vat dey vant, mit no 
 select class, privileged to do for dem. 
 
 Vat vas de meaning of democracy ? 
 
 De rule of all de peeple. 
 
 Put together de two vords, Repub- 
 
the Hew Democracy. 43 
 
 lican and Democrat, and you haf — de 
 public goot " of de peeple, by de peeple, 
 for de peeple." (great applause.) 
 
 If you read de history you vill see 
 how everyting starting right,got changed 
 about, und began going wrong. De 
 peeple mit more cunning brains got de 
 upperhand und called demselves de 
 " nobility." Dey run de vars, and got 
 de power. Dey put de oder poor peeples 
 down and called 'em " serfs," shust no 
 better dan slaves, so dey became de 
 " common " peeple, de canaille mit out 
 any rights left. Dat vas de vay dey 
 turned everyting toder end foremost. 
 First, de vord " peeple " meant de equal 
 rights of all citizens. Den it vas made 
 to mean dose who had no rights at all. 
 Out of disrespect dey was called some- 
 times " persons," shust as ve yet got de 
 habit of saying " dot person," ven ve vas 
 a goot deal disgusted. 
 
 Und now de fight vas to got back de 
 first meaning of " de peeple," vich vas 
 everybody, und den go ahead. 
 
 De old Roman life, und old Greek 
 life, could not be crushed out of de 
 peeple altogeder. 
 
 Vy? 
 
 Because dere vas a little flame of lib- 
 erty in every human breast, no amount 
 of tyranny could extinguish ! (loud 
 applause.) Dot make him a man und 
 
44 fians Glouck. 
 
 not a beast, (applause and cries of 
 good.) 
 
 You may vip him into de traces, but 
 he vill alvays be cocking his eye one 
 side for de chance of escape. He vill 
 tink about it all day, and dream about it 
 all night, and some fine morning, he 
 springs de trap,and de tyrant vas caught, 
 (applause). You can lead a horse to 
 vater, but you can't make him drink, 
 (loud laughter and applause.) A man 
 vas more dan a horse, (applause.) Ven 
 de American und French revolutions 
 come, dot vas de beginning of de end, 
 let us hope. Democracy begun climb- 
 ing to de top. De feudal lord vas under 
 de sod. De Bastile prison vere Liberty 
 lay chained und starved, und tortured, 
 und dying, was level mit de ground; und 
 de old rusty key of dot home of inhu- 
 manity, was sent for your George Vash- 
 ington to gaze at in horror. Dot key in 
 dis country should be kept alvays shust 
 for a curiosity. Ve don't vant to make 
 any more like it. Von was enough — 
 und dot mitout a lock. Liberty vants 
 no big key,de peeple vant no big prison. 
 Res-publica vants de whole free continent 
 und de blue heaven above it. (applause.) 
 
 But de fight vas not over. If it vas, 
 I vould not be talking here. Dis vas a 
 new vorld. But de old world got here, 
 too, somehow. De old world divil stole 
 
CDe Hew Democracy. 45 
 
 a march on de Pilgrims und vas here 
 ven dey landed. De " Mayflower " only 
 brought de seed. De tree has had to 
 grow. As soon as it begun to sprout 
 almost, de peeple demselves begun to be 
 afraid of it. Und today dey vas got so 
 practical, some of dem, dey vas a mind 
 to cut it up for fire-wood, (laughter.) 
 But,for one, I don't believe in de danger. 
 Dot vould make history go all wrong 
 again. I believe in progress — America 
 vas not going to tumble over yet avile. 
 She vill not stop her great career to 
 commit suicide, (great applause.) 
 
 Ven de government of dis country 
 vas being formed under Vashington, 
 dere vas at once two parties ; de Feder- 
 alist, vich vanted a strong government, 
 and de Anti-Federalists who vas jealous 
 of too much power. It vas dose Anti- 
 Federalists who got into de Constitution 
 de XV Article of dot instrument. " De 
 powers not delegated to de United States 
 by de Constitution, nor prohibited by it 
 to de States, vas reserved to de States 
 respectively, or to de peeple." It was a 
 limitation of de general government in 
 favor of de States or de peeple. De 
 Constitution told vat government was 
 needed, vat government should do, and 
 all it vas not told to do, vas left to de 
 States dot made de Union, or to de 
 peeple vat made both States und Union. 
 
46 Ijans Gtoucfe. 
 
 Now, no vone can but rejoice in Feder- 
 alist and Anti-Federelist both. Devone 
 said government must be strong enough 
 for its purpose ; de oder vas particular 
 to define vat dot purpose vas. 
 
 Thomas Jefferson who vas Anti-Fed- 
 erelist, und led de opposition to Vash- 
 ington, said : " De only point on vich 
 I ever differed mit him vas, dot I had 
 more confidence dan he had in de natur- 
 al integrity and discretion of de people, 
 und to de safety und extent to vich 
 dey might be intrusted mit de control of 
 dere own government/' 
 
 Now, vat vas being done at dot time? 
 A new government, a new kind of gov- 
 ernment on de earth vas being made. 
 It did not come full born like Minerva 
 out of de brain of Jove. It had come 
 out of de brains of de people, und vas 
 put down in fitting vords by dere greatest 
 men. Of course dere vas two sides, off 
 not more. It took de two millstones to 
 grind out de best idea. Und I vos tank- 
 ful for vone dot dose millstones vas grind- 
 ing ever since, und now. (laughter and 
 applause.) 
 
 Times vas pretty bad before de Con- 
 stitution. Mit de end of de var, mit no 
 British enemy in sight, de Colonies had 
 no strong bond for Union. Dere vas no 
 nation, no agreement, no noting. Dey 
 could not regulate de foreign commerce, 
 
tftc Bc;v Democracy. 47 
 
 for every vone of de thirteen States could 
 make dere own commerce. Und be- 
 tween demselves everyting vas at loose 
 ends. Everybody felt some change vas 
 needed. But everybody felt some fear. 
 Vas it so safe for Liberty to belong to a 
 union of all de states, as to a single 
 state ? Could dere be vone free nation, 
 as veil as vone free state ? Both Jefferson 
 and Vashington thought yes. Dey vas 
 right. For vat vas de difference? Petty 
 tyrants vas more trouble den big ones. 
 Off liberty vas to be destroyed in de 
 country, a little state could do it better 
 dan a big nation. For all de people are 
 wiser and better and stronger dan part 
 of de people. 
 
 As I look at it, it vas not de size of de 
 country, but de size of de government, 
 de temper und spirit of de time. Mr. 
 Vashington und John Adams thought 
 government should always go in full 
 dress, und ride behind four white horses. 
 Mr. Jefferson, it vas said, vent to de 
 Capital to give his Inaugural on horse- 
 back, and tied de animal to de fence, 
 shust as if he vas going on business to 
 a store, or to a meeting-house for wor- 
 ship, (applause.) 
 
 It vas de true democratic-republican 
 idea. It vas holding de people in respect, 
 confessing dot de sovereignity of de 
 peeple vas better shown in de laws dere 
 
48 ijans Gleucfc. 
 
 servants made, dan in any parade dose 
 servants could make of demselves. 
 (applause.) 
 
 Dis vas vat Jefferson wrote : " An 
 honest man can feel no pleasure in de 
 exercise of power over his fellow-citizens. 
 Power is not alluring to pure minds, und 
 is not mit dem, de primary ting in a 
 contest." Derfore it vas his idea, dot de 
 less of government de better. Vashing- 
 ton or de Federelists vould not say, de 
 more government de better. Dot vould 
 land dem back into de old despotism. 
 
 Vel, anyvay, between 'em, dey started 
 a new nation for Res publico.. Und, 
 however you may criticise, dey both vas 
 great souls of whom de whole earth may 
 be proud. 
 
 Follow along rapidly now. 
 
 In time de Federelist party become de 
 Vhig party, de Anti - Federelist, de Re- 
 publican, or Democratic- Republican. 
 Den came de slavery agitation und de 
 Vhigs split, und de democratic-republican 
 party split. In de south de Vhigs all vent 
 mit de democratic party, vhich for short 
 had dropped the vord Republican. In de 
 north, part of de Vhigs went mit a part 
 of de democratic party of de north ; a 
 part went mit de oder part of de demo- 
 crats, and picked up de name of Repub- 
 ican. 
 
 Off you vould trace de origin of dis 
 
the Hew Democracy. 49 
 
 new Republican party, you vill find dot 
 at de beginning dere vas few in it who 
 vas not Democrats. The two Van Bur- 
 ens, fader und son, John A. Dix, 
 Samuel J. Tilden, und oder New York 
 Democrats, who vanted de Vilmot 
 proviso to keep out slavery in de terri- 
 tories, left de old Democrat party vich 
 vas like de Vhig at dot time, mostly run 
 by de South for the benefit of its pecu- 
 liar institution. De oder issues vas lost 
 to sight, de black image of slavery ris- 
 ing up und hiding all tings else. Dot 
 vas in 1848, ven de Democrats nomin- 
 ated Lewis Cass for President, who vas 
 villing de territories got by de Mexican 
 var should haf slavery if dey vanted it. 
 Den it vas dot dose dissatisfied Democrats 
 invited all opposed to extending slavery 
 to meet at Buffalo, and Martin Van Buren 
 vas nominated as dere candidate on a free 
 soil platform. De Vhigs elected Gen. 
 Taylor. Most of de party voted for 
 him, Conscience Vhigs und all, for 
 no Vhig much liked Van Buren in any 
 shape. But finally de Conscience Vhigs 
 und de Free Soil Democrats came to- 
 geder in 1856 und de Republican party 
 vas born. John C. Fremont, de man 
 who put de Stars und Stripes first time 
 on Pike's Peak of de Rocky Mountains 
 vas de candidate. He vas called the 
 " Pathfinder." He could go to de peak 
 
50 fians Glouck. 
 
 of de mountain, but he couldn't reach 
 de White House. He vas de "path- 
 finder " for dot greater man, Abraham 
 Lincoln, (great applause long con- 
 tinued.) Den came de Var, und de Re- 
 publican party has had its own vay for 
 thirty yaars. 
 
 Now you see dot dere vas thirty or 
 more years ago, dis mixing up of parties 
 — Vhigs und Democrats — to make a 
 new party to save de Union and emanci- 
 pate de slaves. Lincoln und Douglas 
 und Seward und General Butler come 
 togeder und shake hands, until de Dem- 
 ocratic party in de north got to be 
 pretty small. 
 
 But ven de cruel Var vas over und de 
 states vot tried to leave de Union come 
 back, tings begun to take anuder shape. 
 De Republican party outdid de old 
 Federalist idea of a strong government, 
 and the Democrat has got, ven it vas in 
 power, pretty much de same notion. 
 Grover Cleveland, who for some tings I 
 much admire, vas a better Federalist 
 den ever George Washington vas. States' 
 rights vas as dead to him as to Benjamin 
 Harrison. Und ve all vas quite recon- 
 ciled to de idea dot no government 
 should be weak. It must haf all de 
 strength needed to do vat it vas meant 
 to do. De only question vas, vat vas it 
 meant to do ? Or, better still, vat do ve, 
 
the Hew Democracy. 5i 
 
 de people, mean for it to do. For every 
 generation must consider for itself vat 
 vas for Res public a. 
 
 De issues of Union und Slavery vas 
 over und gone. Dey drop avay und vas 
 forgotten. All dot vas gained we keep. 
 
 But, mine frients, ve vas come to a 
 new time. The century vas dying. 
 Like de phoenix it vill rise from its 
 ashes new-born. Most everybody now- 
 a-days vas more or less a " mug- 
 wump." De voter vas becoming inde- 
 pendent like de nation, more und more 
 every Fourth of July, (laughter and 
 applause.) Und it looks very much 
 now as if dere vould be a new cast of 
 parties, a crossing over from one camp 
 to anoder. De varriors in de Eastern 
 camp, vearing helmits und bucklers of 
 shining gold, de varriors in de oder 
 Vestern and Southern camp covered all 
 over mit shining silver. 
 
 It vas a fine sight, but let us not be 
 arTrightened. It vas de fate of King 
 Midas dot vas before dem. Off dey turn 
 to gold or to silver, de old parties vas 
 both going to find demselves famishing. 
 Dey must live on oder tings den pre- 
 cious metals — off dey live. 
 
 Now, I vas not a politician. It vas 
 not my business. I vant no office. 
 Dont hunger for power. Power over 
 ourselves vas goot. Power over tings, 
 
52 fians Glouck. 
 
 ven mind triumphs over matter, vas 
 goot. Power of great and goot minds 
 over oder minds to show de truth, und 
 persuade, vas goot. But power dot takes 
 men out of dere own hands and forces 
 dem to obey anoder's vill, dot vas never 
 goot. (great applause). 
 
 I believe dere vas growing up in de 
 Republic a party of gentlemen who vill 
 vin for themselves de title by scorning 
 power over oders dey vould not haf 
 oders haf over demselves. Dey seek 
 de power dot serves, not de power dot 
 enslaves. 
 
 Dey look for a time, dey believe it vas 
 near, ven it shall not be said. — 
 
 " Right forever on de scaffold, 
 Wrong forever on de throne." 
 
 (long continued applause.) 
 
 Gentlemen, as I say, I vas no poli- 
 tician ; no statesman, in, at any rate, dot 
 usual sense. But I haf done some 
 tinking — of late; und I haf some 
 thoughts. In my imagination I haf seen 
 some new ideas for de party rising dere 
 out of the dawn of de new century, 
 dot hold fast to de goot of both de old 
 parties, und add someting dot vas origi- 
 nal, (laughter and applause.) 
 
 I say to myself, I am one of seventy 
 million people whose business it vas to 
 consider public affairs, und I now bring 
 in my report. Dot 1 vas new in de 
 
the new Democracy. 53 
 
 business, you vill soon discover. I am 
 avare dot it vas a minority report, — 
 very much in de minority, it may be; 
 but dot vas vat I cannot help. I haf to 
 speak pretty strong, as vas my nature ; 
 but I know veil enough, too, dot strong 
 vas often wrong. I can only claim I 
 haf tried to tink straight. It vill take 
 us all togeder a century more, no doubt, 
 to get out of de woods mit our tinking. 
 All ve can do vas to use, like Vashing- 
 ton, " de language of freedom und sin- 
 cerity mitout disguise." I vill read my 
 preamble und platform. 
 
 PREAMBLE. 
 
 Whereas, — to quote Mr. Daniel Web- 
 ster, — ven de mariner has been tossed 
 for many days in tick weather on an 
 unknown sea, he naturally avails him- 
 self of de first pause in de storm, de 
 earliest glance of de sun, to take his 
 latitude and ascertain how far de ele- 
 ments have driven him from his course : 
 so now, ve, like true mariners aboard a 
 good old ship ourselves, do take advan- 
 tage of de present opportunity ven de 
 people vas vonce more vaking to de 
 importance of de first principles of free 
 institutions, — vich vas like de sun break- 
 ing through dere adversity, — to take our 
 latitude und ascertain how far de politi- 
 cal elements haf driven de Republic 
 from de Declaration of Independence 
 
54 ijans GioucK. 
 
 vich proclaimed de equality und fra- 
 ternity of mankind. In order to do 
 dis mit de most practical result, ve do 
 enroll ourselves as de party of de New 
 Democracy of America, inscribing on 
 our banners de motto of de Free Soilers 
 of '48: Free soil! free speech! free 
 labor ! free men ! 
 
 PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES. 
 
 Article i. — Ve vould recall to de 
 minds of our fellow-citizens everyvere 
 dose memorable vords of Vashington : 
 
 " Dere are four tings vich I humbly 
 conceive vas essential to de veil-being of 
 de United States : 
 
 First. — An indissoluble union of de 
 States under von federal head. 
 
 Second. — A sacred regard for public 
 justice. 
 
 Third. — De adoption of a proper 
 peace establishment. Und, 
 
 Fourth. — De prevalence of a pacific 
 und friendly disposition among de 
 people of de United States." 
 
 " Dese vas de pillars," said he ; " Lib- 
 erty vas de basis." 
 
 To-day ve re-echo his vords. (ap- 
 plause.) 
 
 May de Union be indissoluble. 
 
 May ve haf public justice, justice be- 
 tween all sorts und conditions of people : 
 no von so poor, or humble, or common, 
 but dey shall haf equal protection mit 
 
the new Democracy. 55 
 
 de exalted und de rich : und ve recom- 
 mend dot de courts of justice be admin- 
 istered free like de public schools, (ap- 
 plause.) 
 
 May ve haf a proper peace estab- 
 lishment at home und abroad, for peace 
 should haf her victories far more re- 
 nowned dan war. 
 
 May ve have a friendly disposition 
 von towards another : de north mit de 
 south, de south mit de north ; de east 
 mit de vest, de vest mit de east. 
 
 Und may ve altogeder see to it dot 
 dose pillars rest firmer und firmer on de 
 basis of human liberty, (loud applause.) 
 Article 2. — Ve recognize dat Free- 
 dom must haf limited governments. 
 Ve therefore revere de Constitution of 
 de United States, because, first, it vas a 
 chart of vat vas delegated by de people ; 
 und of vat vas reserved to de people ; 
 second, unlike de kings, it provides for 
 its own amendment und improvement, 
 to suit de enlarging ideas und growing 
 needs of de new generations. 
 
 Und, revering it, we declare dot de 
 federal government is superior over dose 
 tings dot vas of general concern to de 
 people of de whole country : de Repub- 
 lic leaving to each state vat belongs to 
 each state; de state to de county vat 
 belongs to de county, de county vat be- 
 longs to town or city ; und all togeder 
 
56 Rans Glouck. 
 
 to de citizen vat belongs to de citizen : 
 de mission of all free government mainly- 
 being, to prevent invasions dot de people 
 may live out freely dere own lives. 
 
 (Ve recognize dot it may not alvays 
 be clear shust vere to draw de line 
 separating dese various governments, 
 but de purpose shall be to draw de line, 
 und not to rub it out, as vas de tendency 
 of ambitions lawgivers to do, — de repub- 
 lican party being in dis respect, perhaps, 
 de greatest sinner.) 
 
 Article 3. All important changes in 
 de laws of de country should be referred 
 to de people : Congress und de president 
 proposing, de people ratifying or reject- 
 ing. Section 7, Article 1, of de Consti- 
 tution should be amended accordingly. 
 
 Article 4. Ve do solemnly demand 
 dot de right of trial by jury shall in all 
 cases involving life und liberty be re- 
 spected by de civil, military und judicial 
 branches of de government, in peace or 
 in war. 
 
 " Congress shall haf power to raise 
 und provide a navy," de Constitution 
 says ; but nowhere vas Congress given 
 authority to create military or naval 
 courts mit power to set aside its solemn 
 decree dot: "De trial of all crimes, 
 except in cases of impeachment, shall be 
 by jury." 
 
 De proper business of de court 
 
Cbc new Democracy. 
 
 martial vas, like dot of de grand jury, to 
 hand over citizens charged mit misde- 
 meanors to a jury of dere peers : no 
 citizen any more ceasing to be a citizen 
 because he vas in de military business, 
 dan ven employed in de post-office or, at 
 any oder governmental occupation. 
 
 Ve demand dot dis same principle 
 shall be applied to de courts of de 
 country. No citizen placed under 
 " contempt " should be subject to fine 
 und imprisonment at de vill of de 
 judge. Dis vas also an arbitrary power 
 in violation of de constitutional provision 
 for de trial of all crimes by jury, und 
 cannot be defended on any plea in behalf 
 of dignity und " order in de court." De 
 judge has as much right to take a pistol 
 und shoot de " contumacious " citizen, as 
 to imprison him. (loud applause) 
 
 Article 5. De police of society 
 should be gentlemen. Dey vas to keep 
 de peace, und not disturb it. 
 
 Dere duty vas not to enforce laws as 
 off dey vas both judge und jury. Dey 
 shuld be instructed to conduct arrested 
 citizens to court in a respectful manner, 
 every person so arrested being innocent 
 in de eye of de law until proven guilty by 
 competent authority. Any persecution 
 or unnecessary injury snstained by a 
 prisoner should be compensated for to de 
 prisoner, and de offending officer be 
 
58 ljans GloucK. 
 
 properly punished. De practice of ex- 
 torting incriminating testimony from 
 arrested citizens vas to be condemned 
 und discontinued. So also vas de 
 practice of imprisoning citizens charge- 
 able mit no crime, but being desireable 
 as witnesses. De ends of justice vas 
 not served by dose violations of justice, 
 (great applause) 
 
 Article 6. Off it vas a problem vat 
 to do mit de criminal class, dere can be 
 little doubt but dot from an economic 
 standpoint de purpose shuld be not to 
 furder degrade und debase dem, for it 
 seems of but little advantage to de 
 prisoner to graduate from de prison- 
 college vorse off dan ven he entered ; or 
 to society. 
 
 Ve favor de abolition of capital 
 punishment. Society should not itself do 
 vat it condemns in de prisoner. 
 
 Ve also favor de change of imprison- 
 ment for life, or for a specified term of 
 years, to probationary - imprisonment. 
 Ve are not unmindful of de fear such a 
 suggestion avakens, lest dis leniency 
 should put a premium on crime. Ve can 
 understood it, but we do not share it. 
 On de contraiy, ve haf all faith dot de 
 administration of justice will proceed 
 mit quite as much of intelligence und 
 regard for de velfare of all concerned in 
 de future as it vas possible for de present 
 
Cbe Hew Democracy. 59 
 
 time to show. No judgment affecting 
 de velfare of a human soul should be 
 made final und irreversible. De best 
 prevention of crime vas de improvement 
 of the social environment. Evil vas dis- 
 armed not by resisting, but by over- 
 coming it mit goot. The apostle de- 
 clared de greatest ting in de vorld vas 
 Charity. All de vorld approves de 
 vords Portia addressed to de Venitian Jew 
 haggling for his "pound of flesh,"— 
 " Earthly power does den show likest 
 God's ven mercy seasons justice." Und 
 den, " It blesseth him dot gives und him 
 dot takes." Society takes no risks ven 
 in charity und mercy it holds its edicts 
 tentative, und constitutes itself as a 
 " Salvation Army " not for vengence but 
 for rescue. Dis vas economy of de 
 social forces ; it vas also religion und 
 humanity. 
 
 Article 7. De "prevalence of a 
 pacific and friendly disposition " should 
 be cultivated among de differing religi- 
 ous persuasions. Ve deprecate social 
 or political boycotting of any person or 
 persons on account of religious or theo- 
 logical differences. All persons should 
 be respected for dere deference to dere 
 own consciences. In dis respect, Chris- 
 tian, Jew, or Infidel are free und equal 
 citizens, entitled to complete freedom in 
 de propogation of dere own views at 
 
60 fians Glouck. 
 
 dere own expense. De practice of exemp- 
 ting church property from taxation, — 
 being in effect so far as it goes, de estab- 
 lishment of religious institutions, — vas 
 contrary to de Constitution, und should 
 be discontinued. 
 
 Article 8. Modern civilization vas 
 a civilization confessing de dignity of 
 labor ; but de performance vas not equal 
 to de precept. We believe dot de 
 laborer vas everyvere worthy his hire, 
 und no more, be he de employed or de 
 employer. De reason dot de products 
 of labor vas not more equally and 
 equitably distributed vas dot, a certain 
 few mit de advantage of position like de 
 robber-chief or bandits, compel de 
 laborers in dere power to surrender de 
 lion's share to dem. Dere should be no 
 lion in de case. " Stand und deliver," 
 vas de old command. De modern vone, 
 vas : " Vork und deliver." Dere must be 
 a new reckoning. Equity und justice 
 come in somevere to make de scale 
 balance, to render equivolents, to give 
 labor for labor. 
 
 Ve look for dis Industrial Emanci- 
 pation to follow on de heels of de civil 
 and religious emancipation of vich ve 
 boast. De industrious citizen mitout 
 power to lay by bread und butter enough 
 to keep him safe against humilation und 
 wrong, vas not free. He dare not vote 
 
Cbc Hew Democracy, 6i 
 
 or say his prayers honestly ; for a gaunt 
 spectre of starvation vatches greedily to 
 devour every symptom of his rebelling 
 manhood, (long continued applause) 
 
 Article 9. — Democracy implies de 
 ability of all people to become self- 
 sopporting und equal to all pecuniary 
 demands for private needs or as citizens 
 of de Republic. De spectacle of a few 
 monied kings bestowing ill-gotten gains 
 in charity to de people dey have de- 
 spoiled, in de shape of telescopes, foun- 
 tains, institutions of learning, libraries, 
 hospitals, churches, organs, vidows' 
 homes, old men's retreats, etc., etc., as 
 memorials to demselves, vas not von 
 edifying to look upon. Free und pros- 
 perous citizens should evolve dere own 
 public institutions und know de pleasure 
 of contributing to dere erection und 
 mainteuance. Vat vas for de public 
 goot, useful or beautifying to city or 
 country, de public should buy, accepting 
 gratefully, neverdeless, gifts dot come 
 from clean hands und represent some 
 loving sacrifice vich vas a blessing to 
 both giver und receiver, (applause.) 
 
 Article 10. — "All persons born or 
 naturalized in de United States, und sub- 
 ject to de jurisdiction dereof, are citizens 
 of de United States, und of de State 
 wherein dey reside," are vords of de 
 Constitution. Also it vas written, " De 
 
62 Bans 61ouck. 
 
 right of citizens to vote shall not be 
 denied or abridged." Seeing no reason 
 to dispute dot women vas persons, und 
 so citizens, und so (of right) voters, ve 
 demand dere equal franchise mit men. 
 
 Article ii. — Let it be understood 
 dot de people haf no rulers but dem 
 selves, (long continued applause.) " A 
 public office vas a public trust." Legis- 
 lators, executive officers und justices of 
 de United States are de public's hired 
 servants. Dey should be required to 
 vork faithfully for specified rewards. 
 Dere should be a public book-keeping 
 by vich de people may know how de 
 account stands between demselves und 
 dere servants. Off dose servants at any 
 time shall deem dot dey are not suffi- 
 ciently paid, let dem not put dere heads 
 togeder to raise dere own salaries, — 
 taking eider "back pay" or forvard pay 
 mitout consulting de people who hire 
 dem. Democracy means business und 
 not vorship of delegated power. Ve do 
 not enough realize de sweep of de 
 Revolution. Tings vas in reverse order. 
 Sovereignty has passed from de throne 
 to de people. It vas quite pertinent 
 now for de people to say to dere public 
 servants : " You vill go about your busi- 
 ness like oder citizens, und not expect 
 us to draw you about in carriages, cheer- 
 ing you till ve vas hoarse because we 
 
tbe Hew Pettiocracy. 63 
 
 gif you a big job. But ve vill hold your 
 names in goot repute und honor off you 
 do veil, as ve do our own names in vat- 
 ever business ve undertake und do hon- 
 estly, wronging no von." 
 
 Article 12. — Fifty years ago Dr. 
 Wm. E. Channing said : " De crying sin 
 of all governments is dot dey inter- 
 meddle injuriously mit human affairs 
 und obstruct de processes of Nature by 
 excessive regulation." Dis true saying 
 has abundant illustration in our various 
 tariff systems. 
 
 Tariffs of all kinds are taxes on de 
 industries of de country, violating by 
 dere unequal bearing, de spirit, if not de 
 letter, of de Constitution. 
 
 Tariffs for "protection" are survivals 
 of old-vorld paternal tyrannies, not at 
 all suited to de free energies of govern- 
 ment-emancipated people. Dey are in- 
 imical to de- spirit of our democratic 
 civilization. Dey are destructive of en- 
 nobling, generous, courageous impulses. 
 Dey preach de low gospel dot every 
 man liveth unto himself alone, und lure 
 de nation into doing de same. Democ- 
 racy denounces dem as superstitions of 
 a past age, whose only outcome vas de 
 building up of monied aristocracies, dot 
 hold de fate of de " common people " in 
 de hollow of dere hands, and are 
 especially ruinous to de farmer who 
 
64 fians 6!ouct<. 
 
 must sell his grain abroad at a low 
 price und buy de necessaries of life in 
 his own country at high tariff prices. 
 De same freedom of trade prosperously 
 maintained between de forty or more 
 states of de Union, may in goot faith 
 und mit assured expectation be extended 
 to de rest of mankind. 
 
 De country needs no better protection 
 dan vas guaranteed by its natural 
 growth und expansion to meet de recip- 
 rocal vants of mankind, following de 
 law of ascertained supply und demand. 
 
 De free citizen may regulate his own 
 prosperity, but he may not jeopardize de 
 prosperity of oders by calling to his aid 
 de strong arm of government. 
 
 Tariffs for " Revenue " vas cunning 
 devices for hoodwinking de people so 
 dey shall not " feel" (because dey do not 
 know) de extravagances of government ; 
 doing covertly vat ve lack de courage 
 und honesty to do openly. Dey are de 
 cloaks under vich political jobbers 
 hide dere spoliations. 
 
 A self-respecting people should face de 
 music und pay for vat dey bargain for 
 openly. Let us haf done mit dis round- 
 about delusion, trying to make ourselves 
 believe we run our government at de 
 cost of oder nations, vich ve do not 
 und should not do. 
 
 De Custom-house vas de robber-house 
 of civilization. 
 
the new Democracy. 65 
 
 Let it be stormed like de Bastile. 
 
 On its site let dere be erected de 
 Industrial Exchange of de Nations, (long 
 continued applause) 
 
 Article 13. Democracy requires 
 stable, honest, solvent, economical, 
 sufficient money. To secure dose 
 attributes in its circulating medium, it 
 declares for solvent paper money, based 
 on vendable property of all descriptions, 
 measured by a single gold or best 
 standard. Und it believes dot dese 
 desirable qualities will best be obtained 
 by a system of free banking vioh vill 
 require no special laws, either of license, 
 prohibition or regulrtion : bankers 
 being like oder men free to make dere 
 own contracts, und like oder men, puting 
 dere private property in fee for dere 
 debts ; de people being as competent to 
 judge de value of money offered dem, 
 as de men who offer it are to judge de 
 value of de commodities dey receive in 
 exchange for it. 
 
 Vere banking vas free, und de private 
 property of de bankers vas holden for 
 de debts of de banks, de business of 
 banking naturally falls into de hands of 
 men of known wealth whose notes 
 challenge de scrutiny, und command de 
 confidence of de whole community. 
 Dese men are alvays ready to supply de 
 market mit de greatest amount of notes 
 
66 fjans Glouck. 
 
 dot can be kept in circulation. De 
 public derefore haf no temptation to 
 accept doubtful notes. 
 
 Such a currency has not only de 
 advantage of undoubted solvency, it vas 
 in its very nature self-regulating, cor- 
 responding in its volume alvays to de 
 volume of business. 
 
 It vas economical because it does not 
 withdraw expensive commodities from 
 dere legitimate uses as articles of manu- 
 facture, to be locked up as securities. 
 
 It vas honest because based on proper- 
 ty measured by de standard coin, it vas 
 at all times equal to de standard coin. 
 
 Dis coin may or may not circulate as 
 money. It vas not necessary dot it 
 shuld do so in order to remain de stand- 
 ard : for it vas as commodity und not as 
 money dot de standard value can be 
 maintained. 
 
 Its competition mit oder money can 
 haf only de desirable result of keeping 
 it at par mit itself as standard. 
 
 Considering de present state of affairs, 
 it vas plain dot de plea for maintaining 
 de standard vas but a pretext for main- 
 taining somevat else, namely : a mon- 
 opoly of money by de owners of gold 
 und silver commodities ; de desire being 
 to deprive de holders of all oder commo- 
 dities, so far as can be done, of all circu- 
 lating medium oder den dey dem- 
 selves provide. 
 
tbe Hew Democracy* 67 
 
 Dis vas tyrany, usurpation, robbery, 
 fraud. It vas equivolent to de pro- 
 hibition of all business except such as 
 dese monopolists choose to licence, 
 condemning all persons else to de con- 
 dition of tributaries, dependents, servants, 
 paupers, beggars, slaves. 
 
 In vich predicment de people of de 
 United States find demselves today 
 
 De real " gold-bug " vas not de man 
 who vants a gold standard, but de man 
 who vants de monopoly of money by 
 vich to create vat he calls a "purchasing 
 power" — a power for his privileged 
 money above its true, natural, und dere- 
 fore honest market value in exchange 
 mit oder commodities. 
 
 Und de clamor of silver to be counted 
 in for a double standard, vas, ven fairly 
 analyzed, but de determination of silver 
 bugs to be counted in mit gold bugs for 
 a share of de spoils. 
 
 If dis vere not so, producers of silver 
 metal vould be content to let dere silver 
 products flow into de natural markets of 
 de vorld at dere true und natural value, 
 vich, as disciples of honesty, dey ought 
 to do ; vich, as disciples of honesty, de 
 producers of gold metal ought to do; 
 vich, de producers of vatever oder com- 
 modity/ought to do. 
 
 Ve derefore declare dot de var of de 
 metals now raging over de country has 
 
68 fians tilouck. 
 
 only a misleading significance, und can 
 speedily be quieted by removing de re- 
 strictions placed on de use of oder com- 
 modities or property as de basis of a 
 circulating medium. Maintaining de 
 monopoly of eider von or of both vas 
 continued und inevitable disaster. Mon- 
 opoly vas de door vere de lion enters 
 for his share. Competition vould close 
 it und slay dis beast of prey, (applause.) 
 
 America, vast und resourceful, mit a 
 superabundance everyvere of natural 
 vealth und goot common sense, sits at 
 de feet of money kings, idling avay its 
 own opportunities. Dere vas needed a 
 new Declaration of Independence. De- 
 mocracy must again arise und assert its 
 own sufficiency. 
 
 Article 14. — Arbitration in matters 
 of opinion or of merely pecuniary inter- 
 est should be satisfactory to both par- 
 ties. But ven great und cherished con- 
 victions involving human rights or 
 national honor are at stake, dey can not 
 be surrendered to avoid var. Ve could 
 not do odervise on such occasions dan 
 maintain our cause against de aggressor. 
 At de same time ve may not provoke 
 de shedding of blood by cultivating any 
 vain glorious "jingo " sentiment vich ve 
 vas mistaking for patriotism. 
 
 Article 15. Noting vas more de- 
 sirable dan dot all people should be able 
 
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 to ride in dere own conveyances und 
 travel over und become acquainted mit 
 dere own country. It vas derefore im- 
 portant dot public avenues of travel 
 should be controlled by de people ; also, 
 all avenues of communication. Vere 
 dere vas common interest dere should be 
 common management. 
 
 Article 16. Dose people who haf 
 better brains or more ability in any 
 direction dan dere neighbors, are request- 
 ed to use dere gifts not to devastate 
 und plunder de rest of de vorld, but to 
 discover und point out de most econom- 
 ical und blessed vay for all to travel 
 toward de higher civilization. 
 
 Ve recognize joyfully de many pur- 
 suits tending in dis direction. Science, 
 literature, art, und all our increasing 
 institutions of learning are proclaiming : 
 
 " There is no darkness but ignorance." 
 
 Article 17. De foregoing declara- 
 tions, demands und suggestions are 
 meant to fit de condition of affairs at de 
 present time. But ve look forward to a 
 better time coming ven much of all dot 
 vas now deemed necessary shall be out- 
 grown und left obsolete as landmarks in 
 history. Ve velcome de thought of a 
 world-wide Republic. Ven Res publico, 
 vill mean de goot of universal man, 
 de goot of all de earth. For ve 
 
70 Bans GloucU. 
 
 — doubt not through de ages vone increasing pur- 
 pose runs. 
 
 Und de thoughts of men vas videned mit de process 
 of de suns. 
 
 Long continued applause, and then, 
 a general uprising and cheering is said 
 to have greeted this closing article of 
 Hans Glouck's new yet old platform of 
 principle and faith. The good mayor, 
 sharing the general excitement, sprang 
 to his feet and cried, " Down ! all down ! 
 Will the house please come to order ? " 
 
 Then his honor, addressing Glouck, 
 said : 
 
 " Permit me sir, on behalf of the 
 people here assembled to express at 
 once their deep appreciation of your 
 noble words and inspiring faith, (loud 
 applause) We could not wait, sir, for 
 your concluding remarks. For myself 
 I can say with great sincerity that, I 
 have heard not for many years a speech 
 so stirring to my manhood or renewing 
 to my loyalty as an American citizen. I 
 can not say, Lam in agreement with all 
 your startling propositions and demands, 
 but I bear willing testimony that each 
 and all of them breathe only the true 
 democratic-republican American spirit, 
 and could only have been uttered by a 
 patriot. Sir, you have surprised me. 
 (laughter and applause) We of this 
 little town have not known you ; per- 
 
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 haps you have not known yourself, nor 
 yet do realize the full meaning of your 
 being here before us this evening. I am 
 an old man. I voted for Fremont. I 
 am carried back to the enthusism of that 
 period, to the bitter strife of those early 
 republican days. I thought all that had 
 passed forever. But the old spirit seems 
 sweeping all over the intervening years 
 to lift our country again into the atmo- 
 sphere of true principles. I have shared 
 the thought others have expressed, 
 concerning both of the two great parties, 
 namely, that they have become mere 
 machines for running elections and keep- 
 ing control of offices, (loud applause) 
 A thunder storm in the upper air of 
 principles sending forth forked lightning 
 to terrify and alarm us into living souls, 
 may now be in order. God knows. I 
 do not fear or shrink. That a crisis be- 
 yond that of gold and silver is approach- 
 ing I am led by many a sign to believe. 
 But, pardon me. I did not think of 
 taking more than a moment of your 
 time." 
 
 Of course Mayor Brightmen sat down 
 amid great applause; and, of course, 
 "Three cheers for the Mayor" were 
 called for and uproariously given. 
 
 Then Hans Glouck resumed, modestly: 
 " I am sure I vas much obliged." 
 
72 fians Glouck. 
 
 It was evident he had more to say, but 
 be stood fumbling with his notes, as if 
 in doubt whether to go on or end there. 
 The Mayor, observing this, rose again 
 and said : 
 
 " There was a query in my mind as 
 to whether you had fairly taken the 
 meaning of the XV amendment. As I 
 have understood the matter the reference 
 was simply to persons or citizens of a 
 certain race and color who had been 
 previously in a state of servitude. 
 Nothing is said about sex. But I 
 suppose you have considered the matter 
 more thoroughly than I have." 
 
 Hans was himself again now and 
 ready with a reply : 
 
 "I suppose you vas right about de 
 meaning intended by de framers of de 
 amendment. It vas de anxiety of de 
 time to make no mistake about negroes 
 being persons und so citizens, und so, 
 voters. 
 
 But ve cant go reading into de Con- 
 stitution vat de framers might haf in- 
 tended. It vas not a scroll of intentions. 
 It vas an instrument of vords, und as 
 such vas severed from all oder vords or 
 intentions not derein sot down. It vas 
 vat ve to-day find dere. Off you go 
 sailing avay for intentions you vill find 
 your balloon of a Constitution collapsing 
 
Ok Hew Democracy. 73 
 
 somewhere in mid-ocean. Goot inten- 
 tions may be used to pave some place 
 below, but dey dont make a solid floor 
 for anyting on dis earth, (laughter and 
 applause) Off de makers of de XV amend- 
 ment builded better dan dey knew, ve 
 vas much obliged, und ve vill not fail to 
 reap de benefit. 
 
 I vould rader say de ommision of de 
 vord " sex " meant dot dere vos no 
 question about vomen being persons, 
 und citizens, und so, voters ; vile dere 
 vas an uncertainty about vat opinion 
 some prejudiced judge might render con- 
 cerning de negro, (applause) I suppose 
 de vomen haf already been bright enough 
 to agitate dis point, but I vould like to 
 haf dem gif some judge a chance to say 
 dey vas not " persons." 
 
 Den dere vas von oder point ve might 
 consider. De same clause says : " on 
 account of previous condition of servi- 
 tude." Now, de women could easily 
 show dot dey vas und haf been in a 
 " condition of servitude," inasmuch as 
 dey have no voice, or rader, vote, in 
 making de jurisdiction dot vas over dem. 
 Dey vas imprisoned und taxed shust 
 like men, und " taxation mitout repre- 
 sentation " vas a crime in dis country, at 
 least since 1776. De faders vould not 
 be reduced to such a servitude. Dey 
 began de fight for de rights of free per- 
 
74 flans Glouck. 
 
 sons at Bunker Hill and won it at York- 
 town. But de vomen haf had now 
 more dan a century of such servitude 
 as de faders would not submit to." (up- 
 roarious applause.) 
 
 Someone in the audience here called 
 out, " Do you think it would benefit 
 women to have suffrage? Would it not 
 take them out of their sphere, and — in 
 fact, unsex them ? " 
 
 " Unsex dem ? " cried Hans Glouck, 
 with a twinkle in his eye, " Don't ye be 
 fraid, mine frient. De vomen und de 
 Lord vill look after all dot. (great 
 laughter and continued applause.) As 
 to dere sphere, dot vas vat King George 
 thought about de men of de Revolution. 
 Dey vas getting out of dere sphere. 
 But dose men thought de sphere of 
 self-government, — mit dere honest bal- 
 lots falling like snowflakes — vas de 
 sphere dot showed dere manhood to de 
 most advantage. Und I don't see vy de 
 same rule don't apply to vomen. I may 
 be mistooken, but I vould very much 
 like to see de experiment of dere poli- 
 tical vomanhood." (applause). 
 
 A voice in the audience: 
 
 " Do you object to both gold and 
 silver money ? I mean, would you pro- 
 hibit them ? " 
 
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 " Oh, no ; I vould prohibit noting." 
 " Would you go for free coinage of 
 both metals ? " 
 
 " Yes, off anyboay had gold or silver 
 und vanted dem coined, Government or 
 any private coining firm might do it. It 
 don't matter who, except dot de govern- 
 ment stamp might be more readily ac- 
 cepted abroad. But dot vould be for de 
 owners of de bullion to find out. You 
 must remember dot it vas not de stamp 
 dot makes de value of de gold in de 
 foreign market or in our home market. 
 De stamp vas vorth vat it cost to put it 
 on, und no more." 
 
 It was now plain that Hans Glouck 
 could stand there all night answering 
 questions. He was making that dis- 
 covery himself. 
 
 " I see, my frients, dot I have launched 
 myself on a sea of troubles dot bids fair 
 to overwhelm de night, if not me. So I 
 vill bring my speech to a close. 
 
 Dere vas no doubt but de money 
 question vas uppermost at present, but I 
 expect dot off Mr. McKinley goes to de 
 White House he vill haf a fader's 
 concern in dot very tall tariff boy of 
 his, und vill not feel at all goot to see 
 him going over de country on de 
 maimed und stump legs de Democrats 
 haf given him. (laughter.) He vill 
 
76 fians Glouck. 
 
 vant to piece him out again. I shall 
 not be much sorry off he try it. For it 
 vill give de country more agitation to 
 help it on de path to freedom, (ap- 
 plause.) 
 
 But, I must really stop. I see de 
 hour on de clock und I find I vas get- 
 ting tired, if you vasn't. (Cries of " no, 
 no," "go on," "we won't go home till 
 morning.") Veil, I shall haf to ; but I 
 vas much obliged, all de same. Some 
 oder time. I tink ve haf made a goot 
 beginning, much better dan I vas afraid 
 it vould be. (applause.) It has come 
 home to me very strong de past month 
 dot somebody vould soon make the 
 start off ve didn't. It vas in de air. De 
 common people must vonce more take 
 up de great and dear republic as a giant 
 vould in his arms und carry it onward 
 und upvard to greater usefulness und 
 greater glory, (applause.) 
 
 Ven I vas a boy in Germany I used 
 to make vooden shoes und vhistles out 
 of villow stalks, und sometimes I made 
 verses. I had not seen any of dose 
 tings for a goot many years, but de oder 
 day I picked up a piece of old yellow 
 paper out of an old trunk, und found 
 some lines I vrote vonce to suit de time 
 und de situation dere in de dear fader- 
 land, ven I vas eighteen year old. Und 
 ven I read dem over dey almost bring 
 
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 de tears, for dey seemed to fit shust as 
 veil today und here in America as dey 
 did dere in old Germany. 
 
 I sat down und added two more 
 verses to gif a leetle more point to dem 
 now. Und veil I vas leaving de house 
 to-night I picked dem up und said to 
 myself, I vill take dem along, und off it 
 comes in all right I vill read dem to de 
 meeting, (applause.) You haf been so 
 encouraging to me so far, I vill make de 
 venture, und trust you a little furder. 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 From de long night more ven Liberty sleep ; 
 See up de dark valley her childern creep. 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 Vake to de dawning dot heralds de day, 
 Vake und hear vat de Lord to his childern say. 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 De time vas full ripe for de people to rise, 
 Vake mit a strength de old tyrant defies, 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 To de plain common sense dot liberty brings, 
 To de joy und de peace of nobler tings. 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 
 Vake, faderland, valae ! 
 Dere vas much to be done to shake out de chains 
 De old tyrany's rusted into our brains. 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 
78 Ijans Gloucfc. 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 Ve vill tink out de vay dot our freedom go wrong, 
 Und de goot vay obey vile ve sing de glad song. 
 
 Vake, faderland, vake ! 
 
 Vake, broderland, vake ! 
 For de high und de low, de old und de young, 
 De banner of stars to de blue sky vas flung. 
 
 Vake, broderland, vake ! 
 
 Vake, broderland, vake ! 
 Till o'er de vide ocean, on every green isle, 
 De people all greet der God mit a smile. 
 
 Vake, broderland, vake ! 
 
 Cheers and demonastrations of approv- 
 al greeted these closing lines. Every- 
 body rushed forward. Everybody 
 must shake hands with the new orator. 
 
 Presently some one was struggling 
 through the crowd and the crowd was 
 giving way with a deference that said to 
 the youth, " it is your right." 
 
 Hans raised his eyes. 
 
 Then he took Ludwig by the hand 
 and said : — 
 
 " My son, you shall haf a palace." 
 
 "No; a plain cottage is good enough 
 for a democrat. You have won. Let 
 me sign quick ! " 
 
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 And so it was that Ludwig's name led 
 all others, after his father's, on that 
 enrollment of the New Democracy. 
 
 Prof. Carl came with his approving 
 smile and word.— only: " You will have 
 to go farther and weld your America 
 into the Grand Social State, recognizing 
 a solidarity of interests." 
 
 " I recognize the solidarity, but I vas 
 some afraid of de velding business," 
 replied Hans with a smile. 
 
 And now Katrina put forth her thin 
 hand, her face beaming : 
 
 " I know veil enough alvays already 
 dot my Hans vas only haf himself." 
 
 And then Lord Lonnsville's great 
 hand had to be shaken : 
 
 "I congratulate you, sir! I know 
 now that the world moves in America, 
 if nowhere else." 
 
 x. 
 
 NOTHING else was talked of at the 
 street corners, stores, or wher- 
 ever the people congregated. The people 
 had caught afire. They were aflame 
 
80 nans GloucK. 
 
 with now convictions. If they did not 
 feel themselves led captive by every 
 article of the great platform, they could 
 not escape from its facinating power as 
 a whole. They were ready for a grand 
 crusade. Politics had become a religion 
 to them. 
 
 Mayor Brightman had gone home 
 saying to his wife, " I dont know but 
 this is the beginning of the new era." 
 
 Mayor Brightman had much admini- 
 strative ability. 
 
 The morning dawned and he said. "I 
 have lain awake thinking how to carry 
 on this great work. ' As John Adams 
 I think said, if this be a revolution, it 
 may as well start here as elsewhere.' " 
 
 This mayor was the owner of an un- 
 occupied store-room. He fitted it up 
 with desks and chairs. At once he 
 began the collection of books and 
 pamphlets bearing on political issues. 
 In the rear of the room he placed his 
 grandson in charge of a free circulating 
 library. He was the fortunate possessor 
 of the Congressional Record from its 
 earliest issues. All these volumns he 
 caused to be removed to headquarters ; 
 
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 also a fine collection of biographies of 
 American Statesmen; speeches of 
 Webster, Clay, Seward and others. 
 
 It was not a partizan collection. "All 
 sides were represented. "Read every- 
 thing interesting and dont be afraid. 
 While it interests you it is healthy food. 
 Digest it, and be your own man." 
 
 So he talked, and so he had all 
 through life acted. 
 
 Two side rooms were put in order, one 
 for Hans Gluck, and one for himself, 
 
 The whole town became interested : 
 and thither evenings the whole town 
 came. Discussions and spontaneous 
 meetings were every night in order. The 
 women of the town, at first timid as to 
 political issues, and as to feeling at home 
 in M political headquarters ;" and, it must 
 be confessed, not a little afraid of grow- 
 ing " strongminded," all at once, found 
 their bashfulness and indifference wear- 
 ing away. Their prescence tended 
 largely to keep the new rooms cleanly 
 and inviting. Think of rocking chairs, 
 and flowers, and cookies, lemonade, ice- 
 cream and sandwiches at a political 
 headquarters. But it was a most accept- 
 
82 fians 61o«cH. 
 
 able contribution. It helped to raise 
 funds and it smoothed out the hard lines 
 in many a male face, lent cheer to the 
 new endeavor. 
 
 The first fruits of the new agitation, 
 were the granting of female suffrage for 
 that town, and a woman's committee to 
 " discover the causus of poverty." 
 
 Installed in their comodious quarters 
 sat Sergeant Glouck and Mayor Bright- 
 man, afternoons and evenings : Hans 
 answering intorogattories, the Mayor 
 planning the campaign. 
 
 The reader must be content with the 
 report of a single evening. 
 
 It was a , Saturday evening. The 
 farmers from round about had heard the 
 " tidings," and come in with wives and 
 children prepared to spend the evening 
 with the " Glouck- party," — either to be 
 amused, or edified, or instructed; they 
 were in some uncertainty which. 
 
 The meeting was quite informal. 
 Sergeant Glouck sat in a comfortable 
 arm chair on a platform raised but a foot 
 or so from the floor, looking hearty and 
 happy, and every inch a man ! 
 
 " What will we farmers do without 
 protection? " 
 
the Hew Democracy. 
 
 It was farmer Glenrich who spoke, 
 a county officer and aspiring leader in 
 all county concerns. 
 
 " Vat are you doing mit it ? You vas 
 selling your grain in cheap foreign 
 markets, und buying your living here at 
 home at high tariff prices. Dot accounts 
 for de mortgages vat hang over so many 
 farms. 
 
 But, farmer Glenrich no more than 
 George Hanna could push the tariff 
 question in ahead of the money question, 
 and the discussion thus begun ended 
 with Hans Glouck saying : 
 
 " I vonder vy someone dont see how 
 veil free trade has been doing between 
 de states of de Union. Off it vas be- 
 gun at home like charity, und does veil, 
 vhy not go over de borders of oder 
 states und nations. Humanity vas all 
 de same. De state-lines, und limits und 
 divisions, vas artificial, after all Ve 
 pinch ourselves ven ve plot und plan 
 to pinch de foreigner. Off you trow de 
 boomerang you know vere it vill land." 
 " I hear you dont want gold or silver 
 money, but paper money ; free banking 
 and wild cat money." 
 
 " Vat one hears he must hear mit his 
 own ears to be alvays hearing de truth, 
 I suppose. Vat I cay vas : Ven you 
 use gold or silver to measure goots, it 
 
84 Bans Glouck. 
 
 vos not necessary dot dis gold or silver 
 stick should be carried about de country, 
 off a piece of paper vould tell everybody 
 de length of it shust as well. 
 
 "But it gives confidence," some one 
 cried. 
 
 " Vat it really shows vas de evidence 
 of a lack of confidence. But de progress 
 of civilization vas toward greater und 
 greater confidence based not on de 
 shining slug one carries about mit him 
 in his pocket, but on de improving 
 integrity of de people. It is faith in 
 man, more dan in metal." 
 
 A lady asked : 
 
 " Why is your proposed paper money 
 not like the Populist's fiat money ? " 
 
 " Because your fiat money vas a 
 promise to pay noting novere und 
 never. My money, or de solvent paper 
 money I vould advocate, vas a promise 
 to pay a definite someting, somevere, 
 und at a specified time." 
 
 "Why is not one kind of money as 
 good as another if government makes it 
 a ' legal tender ? ' " 
 
 " Noting so surprises me like de faith 
 some Americans haf in de omnipotence 
 of dere government. Talk of living 
 under a limited government! Vy, dere 
 vas no such z^zlimifcd, irresponsible 
 government on de whole face of de 
 earth as de American, in some people's 
 
tl>e Yiw Democracy. 8 5 
 
 minds. It vas equal to anyting. Unlike 
 de old king who vent down to de shore 
 und commanded de tide not to come in, 
 dis American government could roll dot 
 tide all up in. a heap und sell it for 
 ' legal tender,' off it only took de notion. 
 " My frient, I dont believe in any kind 
 of 'legal tender.' People must make 
 dere own contracts, dere own tender, und 
 pay as dey agree. Dot vould be ' legal ' 
 enuff. Off you haf goot money you 
 can got rid of it fast enofif mitout de 
 ' legal.' De ' legal ' vas a sure confession 
 of guilt." 
 
 ""What do you think of single tax ? " 
 
 " George's plan ? Veil, I must say I 
 dont got to dot yet. Dere seems some 
 confusion. It seems like a tax on land 
 values shust out of spite, or to right a 
 wrong mitout doing it directly. It may 
 do in de extremity as de only means of 
 killing out land monopoly. It has de 
 virtue of proposing something for raising 
 de expense of government direct. As 
 I understood it, Mr. George vas not in 
 favor of de tariffs. But I haf not read 
 him. I must." 
 
 A voice : 
 
 "Will some one speak for the gold 
 bugs ? " (laughter.) 
 
 " Farmer Thompson ? " said the 
 Mayor. 
 
 Farmer Thompson, looking surprised : 
 
86 Bans GloucK. 
 
 " I am no gold bug." 
 
 " No ! " said Hans. " But you vas a 
 stiff Republican— McKinley man ? " 
 
 " Not so very. The bugs I know most 
 about are potato bugs and such, but I 
 suppose bugs of all sorts have some- 
 thing in common ; they are a devouring 
 set. As a matter of theory, or principle, 
 if you will, I am satisfied free trade is 
 right. But when a country like ours is 
 exposed to ruinous competition from 
 outside pauper labor, it has seemed to 
 me some sort of safeguard of home in- 
 dustry was imperative. However, I 
 admit it is a sort of national hugging of 
 selfish interests, which, everything con- 
 sidered, at long range, or over periods of 
 time, may prove suicidal rather than 
 self protective. The subject is almost 
 inexhaustible, and I am not trained to 
 defend even my own views. One thing 
 is probably true : if we could settle 
 down to either policy, free trade or pro- 
 tection, we would so adjust business 
 that we would prosper. But we limp 
 now on one leg, now on the other ; and 
 the consequence is, we never stand 
 squarely on our feet. 
 
 " We are told panics are inscrutible. 
 We never know whence they come or 
 when they will come. All is serene at 
 sunset; at sunrise we are facing a com- 
 mercial crack of doom. There is no 
 
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 reason can be given, it is said, why this 
 is so — how it happens that 
 
 "On night so fair such awful morn could rise. 
 
 "Now, I have long felt that nothing 
 happens ; everything is an effect of a 
 cause you can discover." (applause.) 
 
 " Shust so." 
 
 " And, if t-he agitation into which you 
 and others have thrown this county 
 shall in any way contribute to a little 
 enlightenment on this and other points, 
 you have not lived in vain. 
 
 " I am a party man ; but I am a 
 country man, — in a double sense. I 
 place country before party, and when 
 party ceases to mean country and ser- 
 vice of country, it has gone to seed. 
 Let it perish, and its seed perish with it, 
 lest in the course of nature it be repro- 
 duced to plague an after age." (great 
 applause.) 
 
 Mayor Brightman rose and said : 
 
 "I think, Serg.eant Glouck, we shall 
 have to enroll Farmer Thompson in our 
 movement, and all like-minded country- 
 men, whether they live in rural districts 
 or in towns and cities. Our movement, 
 Farmer Thompson, is not a cast-iron 
 one. We are not crystalized into even 
 Hans Glouck's remedial specifics. We 
 are seekers still after more light. You, 
 sir, have in times past called my atten- 
 
88 Hans tilouck. 
 
 tion to the words of Reverend Robin- 
 son, uttered when the Pilgrims sailed : 
 "There shall more light break out of 
 this Bible." 
 
 " And indeed there has." 
 
 " Yes, truly ; and more yet will break 
 for the guidance of the ages. But light 
 is breaking out of everthing and every- 
 where today. Let our cry be : ' Light / 
 more light / ' 
 
 " But, we cannot wait and lie supinely 
 on our backs, or stand around listless till 
 all the world is ablaze with light. No ! 
 We must follow our instincts, our in- 
 spiration, our rational conception of 
 things from day to day. What if we 
 err ? To err is not the worst thing in 
 the world! Indeed, it is a blessing, 
 when it stands for a search after truth 
 and fact. We have to choose between 
 sailing with the craft we have, or perish- 
 ing where we are. To ride forth trust- 
 ing the light we have is what I call good 
 faith, and it may be applied not only to 
 religion or politics, but to all concerns 
 of life. That is what I call 'sailing the 
 seas with God.' We have always to 
 pray : Forgive our errors ; forgive our 
 virtues, too. 
 
 " Only a word more : in this move- 
 ment I take new courage, for there is 
 not an iota of party domination in it. 
 All is sincerity. 
 
 L«rc 
 
 P 
 
the Hew Democracy, 89 
 
 " We drift away again from moorings old, 
 
 Yet drift we where God's tents unfold: 
 
 We cannot go amiss of Him, 
 
 But as we drift, our eyes, long dim, 
 
 Accustomed are to growing light, 
 
 Till shores of truth rise on our sight." 
 
 (sensation and applause.) 
 
 Hans Glouck now rose : 
 
 " My frients, I never thought to see 
 dis day. I vas affected more dan I dare 
 to own to myself. I feel so goot I could 
 embrace my vorst enemy." 
 
 "Mebbe you vas tinking of me," 
 spoke a voice in the rear of the hall. 
 All eyes turned on Starburger. 
 
 " No, I vasn't, Herman. You und I 
 vas boys togeder. Ve haf had some 
 buffetings und saucy vords back und 
 forth, but I forget 'em all. I love you 
 full veil again now, und it should be so. 
 Our children, it vas known, haf sot de 
 example. Many times ve 'shake' und 
 it don't last. But I tink ve vas beyond 
 dot now." 
 
 " I tink / vas. Ve von't shake any 
 more, but behave mitout it." 
 
 Here Hans felt in his pocket, and 
 drew forth a yellow crumpled paper. 
 
 " In oder days dere in our Weimar I 
 wrote verses about almost everybody. 
 Here vas a poor ting I addressed to you 
 
90 fians Glcuck. 
 
 dot summer ve vas both fifteen. Do you 
 remember, Herman ? 
 
 " It vas poor, but it vas rich, too, for 
 it holds all my heart for you at dot time, 
 und now it may do so again. 
 
 " Ve vas two boys togeder, 
 
 Play in all sorts of veder. 
 
 Ve fight und lofe, und lofe und fight 
 
 Und den ve lofe mit all our might. 
 
 Ven ve grow up to be great men, 
 
 Shall ve be fighting, lofing den ? 
 
 I doubt it not, 
 For I do know, 
 
 Ven boys vas men, 
 Dey do shust so. 
 
 " I vas indebted to my broder Carl for 
 bringing dot." 
 
 " Gif it to me, vill you ? " 
 
 " You come und took it" 
 
 Hermann Starberger walked forward, 
 applause greeting him at every step. 
 
 The ruling fashion yet strong, these 
 estranged and once again reconciled 
 friends enjoyed their inevitable " shake." 
 
 " Now, I have but one ting more to 
 say tonight, und it vas vat I rose to say 
 ven Hermann Starburger had de courage 
 to interupt — heaven bless him ! 
 
 " Somevere I haf read of a noble 
 tree dot used to grow straight und tall 
 und spread its branches on de mountain- 
 
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 top. Den came de terrible ice flood und 
 swept de tree down into de valley below. 
 De tree had goot sap und fiber und 
 plenty of life up dere on de mountain, 
 vere it breathed de free air und vas 
 made strong und hardy vrastling mit 
 de vinds of heaven. Down in de 
 valley all dot vigor und life vent down 
 into de roots, und de tree become short 
 und crabbed und ugly to look at. It vas 
 perishing for vant of air. Gradually de 
 roots in sympathy mit de tree above, 
 turned demselves up und made a great 
 circle all about de trunk some foot or 
 two above de ground. Und each end of 
 dose roots opened like a mouth to suck 
 in de air. Und after more time dere vas 
 tousands of dose suckers of air hard at 
 work to save de tree. Dey did manage 
 to keep de tree alive, but it vas still cross, 
 crabbed und ugly, unbeautiful und 
 ashamed of itself. Oh, could it got 
 back on dot mountain top! Den might 
 it grow up vonce more tall und straight 
 und beautiful. 
 
 Veil, one day dere come along some 
 Natural Science men, und dey heard de 
 plaintive moaning, und dey took council 
 togeder und vas amind to take de tree 
 up roots und all, und carry it back vere 
 it vas born. Dey didn't believe but de 
 poor tree perishing dere in de valley, 
 could be saved if it could vonce more 
 
92 Fians Glouck. 
 
 breathe its native mountain air. But as 
 dey vent to vork raising it out of de 
 ground, de old trunk broke off, for it vas 
 only a holler shell, und toppled over. 
 Dey vas sure now all dere labor vas 
 lost. But, not so. Dere in de center 
 stood slender und beautiful a baby tree, 
 looking as fair undlofely as off noting had 
 happened. Und it vas for de life of dot 
 sapling tree all dose tousand roots had 
 been fighting, though dey dont know it, 
 dot it might be kept alive dere in de 
 heart of dot moder-tree. Carefully 
 dose men carried dot new born tree up 
 on de mountain, und planted it, trusting 
 to de god of de mountain dot he vould 
 protect und bless it. Und dere trust 
 vas not in vain. For dot new tree out 
 of de heart of de old lifted its head und 
 singing birds came und made demselves 
 happy homes in its spreading branches." 
 
 Much affected Hans Glouck sat down. 
 
 The meeting was over. But the 
 people stayed shaking hands. 
 
 Even Farmer Thompson said : 
 
 " I FEEL LIKE A NEW MAN !" 
 
tbe new Democracy. 93 
 
 XL 
 
 IT is interesting to hear that two new 
 campaign journals, — The Patriotic 
 Republican and The New Democrat, — 
 have been started in Hans Glouck's 
 town. It is interesting and it is signi- 
 ficant. These are not perilous, but earn- 
 est, times. It is the awakening of the 
 masses. 
 
 Let there be no alarm. 
 
 The Republic is not on the shoals. 
 
 It is sailing the turbulent but provi- 
 dential seas of popular intelligence. 
 
 Fear is disloyalty. 
 
 Whichever party rides into port with 
 colors flying, no patriot need despair. 
 
 « If any bark goes down, 'tis to some deeper sea." 
 * * * * 
 
 — From The Patriotic Republican : 
 
 Hans Glouck runs the town. A pass- 
 ing craze has swept all but seven wise 
 men off their feet. This is sad, but not 
 alarming. 
 
 If the Glouck worshippers are not 
 soon restored to sanity, a new asylum 
 must be erected at the town's expense. 
 
 A new firm, Hans Glouck & Son has 
 been established, and political excite- 
 
94 i>an$ 6louck. 
 
 ment, bringing so many farmers into 
 town who have yet a few pennies, has 
 measurably advanced their trade. 
 
 Good cheer! Col. Jacob Pierce leaves 
 his retirement at the call of his imperiled 
 country. He comes to the front with a 
 challenge. Herr Glouck will find him a 
 foeman worthy of his steel. 
 
 " To the Public. — On Monday even- 
 ing next, at the Town Hall, I will main- 
 tain against all comers the following 
 propositions : 
 
 i. — " On the face of it the 16 to I craze 
 is a proposal for a debased and therefore 
 fraudulent currency. It is legalized rob- 
 bery. 
 
 2. — " Hans Glouck's free banking 
 ' wild-cat ' scheme would cause a rever- 
 sion to the dark ages. Progress will 
 never reach it, for progress has long ago 
 passed by that mile-stone of ignorance. 
 
 3. — "The money question is a false 
 issue. The country is not languishing 
 for the lack of good money. It is the 
 tariff-tinkering of a Democratic adminis- 
 tration that has destroyed business con- 
 fidence and wrecked prosperity. There is 
 immediate need of a return to a strong 
 and stable tariff schedule for the protec- 
 tion of American labor, and sufficient 
 for the government's revenue. 
 
 4. — " The election of William McKin- 
 
the Hew Democracy. 95 
 
 ley over all competitors is the next and 
 only practical move on the political 
 chessboard." 
 
 * * * * 
 
 — From The New Democrat : 
 
 On a recent count it was ascertained 
 that the g. o. p. of this town has been 
 depleted to seven voters. Of this num- 
 ber is Col. Jacob Pierce, familiarly 
 known in days gone by as " High Tariff 
 Jacob." Formerly a lawyer of repute, 
 he has been compiling recently a politi- 
 cal history. Rumor says it will be of 
 universal interest. We do not doubt it. 
 The Col. is eminently qualified for such 
 a task. He can write history, but as an 
 old-time Republican, he cannot make 
 history. But the g. o. p. is in need of a 
 handsome valedictory, and Col. Pierce 
 is qualified to do the subject justice. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 Col. Pierce speaks Monday night, 
 Hans Glouck Tuesday night. Every- 
 body go to both meetings. 
 Hans Glouok will maintain : 
 1— The right of individuals to do 
 banking as they do other business, on 
 their own liability as stockholders — the 
 same system that for eighty years gave 
 Scotland the best system of banks for 
 stability, solvency and utility ever 
 known in Europe. 
 
96 Bans Glouck. 
 
 2. — He will maintain at some length 
 his objections to tariffs. 
 
 3. — He will not much concern him- 
 self with the game on the political chess- 
 board as now being played by the two 
 parties ; but, on the whole, prefers Mc- 
 Kinley's being " mated," — the success of 
 Bryan carrying with it a greater assur- 
 ance of healthful mental activity among 
 the masses. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 Gold and iron are good 
 
 To buy iron and gold. 
 All earth's fleece and food 
 
 For their like are sold. 
 
 * * * # 
 Nor coin nor coinage buys 
 
 Aught above its rate ; 
 
 Fear, Craft, and Avarice 
 
 Cannot rear a State. 
 
 * * * * 
 When the Church is social worth, 
 When the State-house is the hearth, 
 Then the perfect State is come, 
 The republican at home. 
 
 Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
 THE END. 
 
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THE RISE OF A NEW PARTY 
 
 Hans Glouck vs. 
 William McKinley 
 and Others 
 
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