The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-18
HE CALLS NAMES.
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lands idolized Wendell Phillips as all
ways 'either mischievous or ridiculous
and usually both of Thomas Painee
the first champion of American liberty
as a filthy little atheist of mira Gle
believing Roman Catholics as persons
of arrested mental development of
citizens as duelists' But he has been
frank enough in abusing other presi-
dents to shut the lips of his defenders
on the dignity of the presidential Of
flee.
Mr.. WilIett declared that consist
ence is jewel which the gargoyle is
always throwing to the swine" No
king, he said in any limited mon
archy, was ever half so exigeant or
ever half so implacable. For prece-
dent" he added, you must go back to
Napoleon the Great, the oldest member
of the gargoyle's Ananias club, who
used to ask the wives of his thrifty
favorites whether they could only af-
ford one gown a year; who said once
to the wife of one of his fighting mar
shals. Your dress is dirty and who
insisted on doing all the matchmaking
in his official circles" The democracy
canism of Grant and Cleveland, the
equally American suavity of Arthur
and Mckinley had passed into history,
along with joviality of Garfield and
B. Hayes"
At this juncture Mr.. Willett called
the roll of the so-called Ananias club,
and said:
.eThe earth is intoxicated and reels
around our jocularity. He alone is the
personif1cation OF sobriety, temperate
ness OF statement, calmness in speech
and action. The ever-moving hay
tedder hurries over the field throwing
upward the clover of politics, the tim
othy of zoology, the blue grass of his
tory, and letting each blade fall lit
tie drier than it was before"
Continuing his denunciation Mr.. VIII
lett charged that the president had
bulldozed President Castro. had seen
the Fflipinos brutally treated had
marooned Colonel Stewart, whom he
did not like, had kept young woman
from earning an honest living by tell
ing the truth, had allowed ''scandalous
conditions to exist in the army and
navy, had compelled his subordinates
ito act as hunting dogs for the czar
of Russia, in trailing down men who
have fought for liberty had practical
ly re-established the John Adams alien
and sedition laws, had forced deser-
tions from the navy by allowing intol-
cradle treatment of sailors ''at the
hands of the aristocracy of Annapolis
officers" had permitted the degrading
of soldiers at West Point who had
been put to mechanical work, and had
given a Scotch verdict in connection
He QUoted from Presidents Roose-
velt's books in which the president is
alleged to have attacked Washington,
Jefferson Monroe, Jackson Tyler.
Pierce. and others, and said that the
president had federation only for the
Adamses who stood for federalist
aristocracy, and admiration for Alex
ander Hamilton, the defeated champion
of limited monarchy"
I'VE have a king and court now,
Mr.. Willet exclaimed. as good an im1-
tation of a real thing, known to the
nobility of monarchicaI countries. as
the scion of a family of trading Dutch |
men can concoct.
Jealousy you can read in the
garogyle's distorted features. You |
look on those twisted lines and it is |
easy. Oh, so easy to understand the
insolence toward Dewey, the one great
figure of the Spanish-American war. |
the hero who took Manila with the
worst ships rotten bureaucracy
could find for him.
The persistent defamation of Ad
miral Schley. who really fought the
battle of Santiago bay.
1.-THE insults heaped on General
Miles whose counsel was ignored in
the expensive blunders of the land
campaign at Santiago"
The president, Mr.. Willett declared.
showed his teeth at all real heroes.
wormwood to bogus ones
In conclusion he said. among other
things:
sYou may say. then. that one in
dividuaI gargoyle does not count for
% much after all. No. not in the de-
velopment of the centuries, but he
counts vitality and continuously as
affecting the people who have to live
under him And the change from a
hero fiddling while Rome is burning to