Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-26
A CANDIDATE FOR The PRESIDENCY.

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AS he comes upon the stage and as the
applause breaks forth he smiles. 1t
is a pleased smile properly speaking,
grin. The grin of one to whom the
yells of Murray fur Bill'' and the APP
plause Of a gallery is food and drink
and raiment. Applause, of what kind
it does not matter, is what the ma
ture of the man thrives upon. The rec
ognition of him as q great man, hero,
deliverer cannot but make him smile.
He appreciates the joke.
He composes his features as he re-
members what is expected of him. His
the understandable tank show. He
looks this way, then that, and then to-
which comes the most hilarious demon
stration. He grins again, as he thinks
of his side of it. If the noise continues,
he turns to those about him and smiles
naively. But he is not afraid of it.
The eyes glow and qualification shows
in every movement, glance and action.
again grins. 1t is not the pleasing, dig
nified Acknowledgement in keeping with
the honor to which the man aspires, but
the smile of the magician to the audience
that cheers because it is mystihed. He
raises a restraining hand to hush the
demonstration. The movement is grace
he makes. it lacks strength. The hands
are weak, hopelessly So If the applause
Il Waits Is sa PSsns d feP 6ef
statesman's very presence would COM
mand silence after the first burst of ap-
plause. 1t would not be necessary for
the great man to wait until every I'M
couth wit had made his joke, but this
man lacks the dignity of the position.
He plays for the gallery, and the gallery
whistles. stamps and claims him for its
He begins his address with a we'll
turned sentence, which he knows will
ra1a audience fact.
to last. it is his effort by skillful re
treats never to offend. He is capable of
fair flight in words but at no tune Is
a known fact to the notice of his hear
ers; then an argument, then one condi-
ton and still another, and then, as a
climax as one indisputable, unanswera-
BILE declaration, rounded and full, guard
ed and protected by logic, launch it forth
at his listeners. His flight of words
alleged to be oratory-are made to divert
the mind from questioning his asser-
tions. He scars in an outburst, the
ground work of which is as old as the
listeners and keep their thoughts on the
wing These flights appeal to all that
is emotional. They are seldom original;
they express no new thoughts. and they
bear his trade mark. He makes asser-
lions while the audience is under the in
fiuence of his heroics. He pours forth
what he thinks, and declares it to be
true but when the time arrives in the
course of his remarks when the facts to
back his assertions should be heard,
behold another fight in Fourth of July
fireworks.
Labor applauds itself. and this man
knows it. He recognizes that sacrifice"
''crucified,'' ''down-trodden, the peo-
ple' sweat of the face, and similar
audience an imperative desire TO appiauo.
For logic he uses heroics, for argument
words used by truly great men, but
which no more apply to his subjest than
to the crucihNion-
He compares himself to the Man of
Galliee without a blush
He defies facts as Ajax did the light
He declares that something can be got
out of nothing: that miner VIII be able
to get 53 cents worth of metal coined in
to 81 and in the same breath insists that
the miner will sell that metal to anyone
who viii buy. it for 53 cents and give the
buyer the ehanee to 1b make Ike THAT 1eI profit I
sell at 50 cents and lose the coined profit,
he explains by a highly colored account
of ''crime" which has nailed labor to
cross of gold.
He refuses to believe that capital is of
any use except to starve and grind down
mankind.
Insinuations, that every man should
have more than enough in spite of his
hibits his drunkenness or his IMPROVE
dence he lavishes upon his hearers.
Declarations, that country is all
wrong which gives every man who will
work with head and hands chance to
be above those who will not, he belches
| forth in torrents
those to whom he applies the term a
sane man would hesitate to advise his
worst enemy.
He distributes chaff, coolly predicts a
panic. quotes the words of Christ as
| glibly as the rowdy uses his name, and
having directed the eyes of his hearers
upon a bubble which floats ,pleasingiy
about he says: II thank you
Paul Armstrong.