The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-13
BILL KING.


1t looks very much as if Bill King
would be the nominee of the Republi-
cans. for Congress, in this District.
Gen. Averin does not seem to possess
either the money or the energy to fight
his able, reckless, desperate competitor.
If Bill King could be boiled down
and made over again, there is the ma
terial in him to make considerable of a
man; but Nature would have to kill a
half dozen first class ministers of the
gospel, and mix their moral qualities into
the compound; for Bill King has no
more moral nature than one of his own
bulls. He has untiring energy, uncon-
querable effrontery,' great vivacity.
many generous instincts, and an air Of
5onhon,ie that carries everything be-
fore it. But moral nature he is so
destitute Of it that he is not even con-
scious of the vacuum. The great poet
said:
''He that is robbed not wanting what is stol-
en-,
Let him not know it, he's not robbed at all. !"
King does not even know that he is
without it; and he is consequently as
happy as if he carried within him the
conscience Of Wilberforce.
Bulwer, in his ''Strange Story" and
a strange story it is indeed, drew a pic
ture Of curious creature who was
born without soul. He was the per-
lection Of manly beauty and intelli-
gence splendid animal; gay, vivaci-
Gus, frolicsome, happy and utterly UNI
conscious Of his great want. King has
often reminded us Of that character.
If he was rejected at the gate Of heav-
en-, he would telegraph Gibson to send
up some of his best bulls, and he would
proceed to buy St. Peter outright; and,
if this did not suffice. he would tele.
graph Fletcher to send up Mike Hoy
and Owen Keegan, and he would pro-
coed to fight his way in. He would
take heaven by storm; although he
is as little fitted to go to heaven as
he is to go to Congress.
In the hands of such man Averill
is like a Wall street broker in the arms
Of the Devil. There is kinship be-
tween them, to be sure, but there is
otherwise no comparison between the
little operator and the monstrous
demon.
Averill is good deal like Bill Nye
when he undertook to euchre the
Heather Chinee, All Sin. The Mime
apolis All Sin is too mnch for Averill
All Sin has his sleeves lined
with whole packs Of cards; and can lay
down ten right bowers while Averill is
wriggling in one poor greasy ace. And
we are sorry to say Bill Nyc is losing
his temper, and proposes ''to 60 for
that Heather Chinee.''
The other day Averill and All Sin
both went to Brainerd, to secure the
delegation from Crow Wing county.
The question was very simple one =
who should secure the saloons. In such
a contest the voice Of reason, the tongue
Of eloquence, the appeal of patriotism,
are all silent. The simple question is,
who will pay the most money! Averill
doled out some funds, but All Sin came
down like a wolf on the fold to the tune
Of $500, and swept the board. There
was joy in Brainerd as if Jay Cook had
revived. and the Northern Pacific had
been built through to Puget's Sound.
Men paid old debts, business revived,
the whisky flowed in odorous rivers,
the stores were crowded, the bummers
we're happy, and "there was sound Of
revelry by night yes all night, and
night after night.
For who can resist such a Caesar as
this
Historians tell us that the overthrow
of the Roman Republic really turned on
the question of Caesars finances. It
was question whether Caesar should
60 to prison for debt or Rome should
fall. He was the Bill King Of antiqui-
ty. He had run IN debt to obtain Office
to the amount of millions of dollars, and
ne had to seize upon the public treasu-
nv to reimburse himself. And that is
what Bill is after now.
And when such a man as King comes
forward ordinary men get out of his
road. He is willing to sacrifice every
thing to carry his point. When Averill
heard that Bill King had sold sl25. 900
worth Of bulls, he should quietly have
declined to be a candidate and have
taken summer trip to Europe.
His bulls! What are they to King!
He would mortgage the universe to sue
coed.
There is only one problem remaining:
If King truly represents the average
citizen of the Third District he will go
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