Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-01-20

consolate, through the columns Of his
paper. than this same. Whitelaw Reid;
he has mourned and refused to be
comforted at such times and he has
not hesitated to let his English friends
know in what ioleful dumps he was.
But let Kitchener kill few of Mr..
Roosevclts ancient relatives on the
veldt, no man so exultant as he. And
in his paper he has at all times
been the consistent apoogist of every
infamy and inhumanity which a just
history is going to lay at Lord Kitch'
ener's door, and which will constitute
the long and dark roll of his latter
day fame.
Therefore It is meet that this man,
this son-in-law of Mills, should want
to be train-holder, or serve in some
other menial calling, at the approach
ing ceremony in Westminster Abbey;
and It Is equally fitting that Kitchen
er's employers and patrons should de-
sire his presence on that occasion.
He goes to his own, and of course his
own will receive hm,--red plush
breeches and all,--with open arms,
albeit the wherewithnl to fill those
garments may have shrunken a little
since they first came off the bargain
counter.
But 1t Is scarcely credible that a
chief magistrate of n people the great
heart of which has gone out. SYM
pathy laden. to the two little repub-
lies in their unequal and unequalled
and heroic contest with the over
whelming ornaments hurled against
them, should choose such a man and
hold him out TO the world ns in any
sense a representative of the American
government, its genius, its insttu-
tions, or its citizens. What the latter
think of him may be gathered from
the election of 1892, when he ran for
Vice President, with the result-now
almost forgottcn--that he was made
TO think he had been sat down on by
the chairman of the fat mems conven-
| ton.
Such is the man chosen, and the
choice fits the occasion.
For what, after all, Is this coronation
that any American man should care
A mana man of very ordinary parts,
authority. We suppose he will be
anointed with holy oil, and in some
form or other the ancient fiction of
ruling by divine right will be brought
out and rcvamped, In forgetfulness
of the fact that the ancestors of those
who now invoke II cut off the head
! of one of the lords anointed' and
ran another out of his kingdom
choosing by vote of the people a
Dutchman in his place. This mar
will take an oath not only little short
of blasphemous, but which will be III
affront and mortal insult to some
millions of his subjects and to thou
sands who are marshalled under his
col0rs wherever the British morning
rum-beat follows the sunrise around
the globe Gorgeous pageantry and
barbaric splendor carrying the be
holder back In imagination to medic
val times which, and happily
for mankind are long ago past, and
parndcs and pomps will be seer
there, and American shoddyitcs will
push for high h-priced seats and Will be
bedizened with trappngs and jewels
galore. The American Congress will
1
contribute Its mite of the peoples
money, to the extent of $4,000 as our
assessment for the occasion; and, take
1t altogether, 1t will not he so Ill a
place Tor Mr.. Whitelaw Reid to display
his red plush unmentionables in.
hut II II were n place In which Our
people ought to be represented, If our
being represented there were a matter
OF moment and a fitting thing, for IA
Republican government, so that an
adequate and proper representative IA
really representative person, were cs-
sential to II In any way, then we
say that the man selected Is the last
man who should have been thought
OF at all.
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