The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-18

pion of limited monarchy
"Of course" said Mr. Willett, these
condemnations roar as gently as any
cooling dove when compared with his
denunciation of John Paul Jones as
pirate of Napoleon the Great as
utterly INSCRIPTIONS, of New Eng.
lands idolized Wendell Phillips as a.
ways either mischieyous or ridicul-
Gus and usually both of Thomas
Paine, the first champion OF American
liberty as "A filthy little atheist Of
Miracle believing Roman Catholics rs
persons of arrested mental develop.
ment.' of Quakers as quite as undc-
sirable citizens as duelists.' But ne
has been frank enough In abusing 9th
er presidents to shut the lips of his
defenders on the dignity of the presi-
Dental Office"
Mr. Wnlett declared that "consis-
tence is jewel which the gargoyle IS
always throwing to the swine" No
king. he said. In any limited monarchy
was ever half so eXigent, or ever halt
so implacable. For president" he
added. you must go back to Napol-
con the Great. the oldest member of
the gargoyle's Ananias club who used
IL ask the wives of his thrifty fav-
orites whether they could only afford
enc gown 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 OF Lincoln, he said.
the bluff Americanism of Grant and
Cleveland the equally American suay-
ity of Arthur and Mckinley had pass
ed into history, along with the jo-
viality of Garfield and the non-con-
tormist thrift Of Rutherford B. Hayes
We have king and court now"
Mr. Willett exclaimed, "as good an
imitation of a real thing known TO
the nobility of monarchial countries
as the scion of family OF trading
Dutchmen can concoct."
At this juncture Mr.. Willett called
the roll Of the so-called Ananias club.
md said:
THE earth is intoxicated and reels
around our jocularity. He alone is the
personifcation of sobriety, temperd-
teness of statement, calmness in
speech and action. The ever-movi1g
hay tedder hurTies over the field.
throwing upward the clover OF politics,
the timothy of zoology. the bluegrass
of history and letting each blade tall
a little drier than II was before.
Jealousy you can read in the gar
eoyles distorted features, You look
on those twisted lines. and it is easy.
oil, so easy to understand the insol-
epce toward Democracy. the one great
figure of the Spanish-Amcrican war,
the hero who took Manila with tho
worst ships a rotten bureaucracy can
find for him.
"The persistent defamation of Ad.
miral 0chley, who really fought the
bat Santiago bay, the insults
hea, 4 General Miles. whose coun-
sci was ignored in the expensive blum
ders of the land campaign at Santi-
ago"
The President, MI Willett declared.
?howed his teeth at all real heroes.
because real heroes are gall and
wormwood to bogus ones.
Continuing his denunciation. Mr..
Willett charged that the President had
bulldozed President Castro, had seen
the Filipinos brutally treated, had ma
Iuoned Colonel Stewart, whom he did
not like. had kept a young woman
from earning an honest living by tell
ing the truth, had allowed scandal.
Gus conditions" to exist In the army
and navy. had compelled his subor-
dinates Ito act as hunting dogs for the
Car OF Russia, In trailing down men
who have fought for liberty" had
practically re-established the John Ad
ANS alien and sedition laws; had fore
cd desertions from the navy by allow
Ing intolerable treatment Of sailors
eat the hands of the aristocracy Of
Annapolis officers had permitted the
degrading OF soldiers at West Point
Who had been put to menial work. and
had given a Scotch verdict in connec-
ton with the alleged Panama scandal
In conclusion he said, among other
things:
You may say then. that one indt-
vidual gargoyle does not count for so
rluch after all No. not in the deve!-
opment of the centuries. but he
counts vitally and continuously. as af-
tecting the people who have to live
under him And the change from a
Nero fiddling while Rome Is burning.
To VespasIan calmly devoted to secur
ing as good government as tendencies
will permit, is change to be as de.
voutly welcomed by us as by the an
cient Romans"
Several times, in the course of Mr..
Willett's remarks, he was called to OF.
der by MI Hughes OF West Virginia
Il call him to order" Mr Hughes
exclaimed 'He is going ahead with
lot Of rot that neither the house nor
the country is interested in
Mr. Butler OF Pennsylvania, in the
chair, ruled that Mr.. Willet was speak
ing under the license OF general de-
bato and that he was not called upon
- Indicate IN advance the subject OF
hla remarks. Mr. Willet then pro-
ceede1 and frequently elected ap-
ulause from his Democratic col
leagues.
Mr. Willets reference TO ."the de-
famation of Admiral SchleyI caused
l.