The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-21
MiRTtlNO's JOAN OF ARC
Schoolgirl PopuIist Challenged
Gorman 10 Debate.
BUT HE FAILED TO APPEAR
Then She Called Him paid Servant of
Monopoly" and Declared Cleveland
to He One of the BOSSES Who Are
Running the COuntry"-Says Gov
eminent Should Own All Mon0pOlies.

Baltimore, Nd, Jan. 21.-"Is Senator Ar
thur Pue German in the house?' asked Miss
Cleora Eugenia Cooke, the Maryland Joan
OF Are as she walked upon the platform
OF Music Hall last nigh t, and swept the house
from the floor to the ceiling, including the
galleries, with her dark blue eyes.
She paused for a reply, but receiving none,
took it for granted that the senior Senator
| of Maryland had flu;lked and had refused
her challenge to meet her in a joint debate.
"Ifhe is not here, why is he not here?'' she
asked, as II surprised that he should have
been so ungallaIt as to decline to enter a
talking contest with one OF her charms.
The question was a cue for young man
hidden behind a screen on the north side OF
the platform, and the announcement that
Hes afraid" came from the screen in
sepulchural tones.
SCORN IN HER WORDS.
aye exclaimed the Maryland Joan Of
Arc" $50 introduced by the Rev. Walter
Vrooman, manager OF Miss Cooke and the
company tgave the en.ertainment), ''the
paid servants of monopoly are afraid to
meet in open debate the speakers OF the
peoples party" whereupon there was APP
plause. Everybody seemed to appreciate
the singing scorn that was in her words,
and Senator Germans friends were not in
force at the meeting.
Miss Cook is very young. Her looks and
manner would show it, even IL II was not
announced on the show bills, which give her
portrait and announce that she is the ~
year-old school girl !" who challenged Scna
in EaSton. where she goes TO school when she
is not battling with the world in promu
eating Populistic doctrines. She has n
pleasant face and wore at the meeting n
dark plaid silk waist. with big puffed
sleeves and dark skirt. which reached TO
her shoe tops. Her hair hung down her back
in plait.
TWO CLASSES IN THE WORLD.
Ladies and gentlemen" continued Miss
Cook. there are two classes in this world.
They are the bosses and the bossed; the
strikers and the workers; the takers and
the makers. All over this world you will
find two men working that one man may
shirk. He's the boss; the workers are the
bossed.
You may have seen Boss German" she
right arm. land some of you have heard OF
.Rasin.' with a sweep of the left arm, like
wise Deisartean. land you all know of the
shape of Grover Cleveland" with down.
ward sweep of both arms together. in
tended to represent great corpulency-
These are a few OF the bosses who are rum
ming this country"
Miss Cleora then described the deteStab'e
character of the political boss who reaps
where lie has not sown and who holds his
sway over the very men whom he has
robbed. Their hearts are so perjured."
she announced. in n burst of enthusiasm.
that they are as black as Egyptian dark
ness"
WARD HEELERS AND BOSSES.
yet such as these are our ward heelers
and our bosses. and they dominate both
the Democratic and the Republican parties
! ask the men of this nation to vote these
monsters out of existence. and / appeal to
the women to cheer and 10 sing to the men
while this is going on"
II don't want to say anything about
Grover Cleveland rs man. for these bond
issues OF his are not so much the result of
his laundering rs the result of the country
being in the hands of the money power.
which he represents. If 1t hadn't been
Ctvc'and.' she added, with an apparent
desire to let Mr.. Cleveland down easily,
lit would have been John Sherman or Levi
P. Morton or some other tool of the million
aires. What we want is the government
ownership of all monopoles. and that can
only be brought a boIt by the triumph of the
Populist party
With that proclamation the Maryland
Joan of Arc ended her speech and walked
trumphantly off the platform. the orchestra
playing There's Only One Girl in This
World for Me-"