New-York tribune., 1896-10-07
ANARCHIST AND TOADY.

II you scratch demagOgue you are reason
ably sure to find snOb just under the surface.
The man who passes half his time abusing the
aristocracy grows pale with rapture if he acci-
dentally meets duke. The beery champion OF
human rights who thunders AT riches and pluto
Gratis over his Book generally cringes Ike
sDanel In the presence OF q millionaire Inc
ordinary citizen Is too busy with his own aflars
TO waste time either in hating or worshlpplng
the rich or the great. But to the orator OF the
gutter these classes are Of such transcendent III
terest and importance that he comes near regard
ing them with both these emotions. ms phe-
nomenon has often been observed among the
small fry Of agitatOrs: for the hrst time III our
history It has been made evident this year IN
q candidate for the Presidency of the United
States.
There Is nothing which so excites the scorn OF
Mr.. Bryan and his like as the idea or paying
any respect to European opinion in matters OF
finance He Is never 80 heroic as when ne throws
back his hyacinthine locks and roars his dehahce
at European statesmen, telling some stevedOrc
in the audience that he understands ilnanclal
questions better than all the fnancierS on the
continent and tickling the ears OF the ground
lings by screaming that this country is great
onoupb 10 have its own financial policy, indie
pendent of foreign influence. According to hin'
yra sbould have an American calendar. an Ameri-
can Bible an American procession OF the equi
nox Rut under all this screaming a toad
eater lurked. as naive and unsophls'ica'ed as
any shopboy in London who worshlps III MS
chamber photograph OF the Prince OF Wales
An the opplause he has received from his fel
,ow.citizens has not seemed to delight him so
much as the receipt by Governor CulbcTson OF
n brief. cOntemptuous note from Prince BIS
marck TO the effect that-althOugh he, while III
of3ce demone,Zed silver-he thought II might
no a good thing for the United States to try the
experiment of silver coinage. His ingenious JOY
over this bit of princely impertinence can only
no compared to that Of the loyal Briton Of the
last generation who was boasting that the Prince
Regent once spoke to him. and when asked what
he said replied with honest exutation: HE
"said. Get out Of my way. you laundering DOCK
head"
Rut II is not only princes who have the power
tn move the springs Of Mr.. Bryans facile sensl-
bilities. We might have been sure. from the
manner in which he has jumped from his sleep
inc.berth in the gray dawn and deprived himself
of his beauty sleep at midnight to abuse ana
yilify rich men, that they lay very near his
heart. and occupied more than was reasonable.
his thoughts and lmagnations. III would nave
been safe to bet that if ever he came into the
bodily presence of n man worth million ne
would metaphorically speaking fall instantly
on his marrow bones before him and ofer MN
the incense Of his adorlng heart. The chance
came the other day~in West Virginia, when tx
Senator Davis gentleman OF large wealth. pre-
sided at meeting in Mr.. Bryan's honor. The
Boy could moi restrain his rapture. He called
hat ho m 10
spectacle forever. Mr.. Davis was an Eastern
man and did not scorn him, though ne came iron
the West; an elderly man, yet admitted that the
Boy was clever; most OF all, he was a Hich Nan
and yet was willing that Poor Boy should o<