The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-20
The Judge and the Demons.

There was a pile Of oratory in Minneapolis
t tn other day and distinguished young
cords Of It. It would not be right. however.
to call him the orator of the day He was
neither perfervtd nor fervid. He struggled
hopelessly and dryly, In his usual way, with
other speaker. Judge Willis, hurled words in
that frantic manner which turned the Chi
cago convention into Bedlam. The financial
and economic views of Mr.. Bryan are toleraby
well known. In Judge Willis he has found a
worthy successor in the plutocrat-palsying
style. Raising both arms and all his voice
as far toward heaven as he could get them,
Judge Willis acclaimed that the Republican
party has linked its fortunes with the
monopoly Of special privileges. 1t laughs
with those baleful demons. it laughs with
mockery and scorn at the miseries of the
people. The followers of Alexander HamlI-
ton, John Sherman and Marcus A. Hanna
have in these latter days polluted the sacred
temple Of liberty; In that august sanctuary
Of that modern Baal, plutocracy"
Baal is old but good and baleful demons
are excellent good. The followers of the
demons come to, the temple every day, ex-
cept Sundays, Chanting the praise of the
gold standard and boasting of the victims
which it has slain" By this time the judge
a strong piece Of chanting himself:
The times are out of joint the miasm
CT sordtd despotism fills the air once redolent
with the balmy doors of freedom. Humanity
mourns. The cry goes forth. How long D
Lord, how long,! Anguish has usurped the
throne OF mirth, poverty stalks side by side
with progress, values shrink, bankruptcies
multiply, and desClatlon abdes at the hearth
toll"
This sounds as though It was left over
from 1896; but to gentlemen who earn their
bread by vocal toll and who are fellow
stalkers with poverty and throne-rCom at
tendants of anguish time is nothing They
assume that all time is out OF joint and
they propose to have it set; and 'the miasm
OF Sordid deSpOtism" will never interfere with
their vocal circulation, mourning and cry
ing for the setting to- be begun.
The fracture will soon be repaired If Judge
Willis Is right. The baleful demons, will
have notice to quit and Baal will be thrown
down:
MANY signs appear daily betokening the
renaissance of liberty and the overthrow Of
plutocracyH To throw down the golden idol
to purge the temple of its votaries, to end
monopolistfc lure and restore the government
of the plain people, to return to the consti-
tutional system of the fathers, to establish
Justice, to promote the general welfare
these are, l am confident. to be achieve
ments Of the immediate future. In the day of
rejoicing have succeeded present lamenta-
lions, the mandate formerly given by the
Roman people Of old to their consuls Let
not the republic suffer harm, will be accepted
from the American people and will be execut-
ed with fidelity and honor by the hero of the
the advocate CT popular rights, the gifted,
Bryan" %
Hurrah and Hooray! But the gifted, gal
liant, and irreproachable Willis is the boy
for our money AS temple purger and
Bryan cards. spades, big and little casino,
and three aceS.-New York Sun.