The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-19
CHOICE BUNCH
OF NAMES FOR
Mr.. ROOSEVELT
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and said that the president had federation /
only for the Adamses, who stood for fed /
eraiist aristocraey. and admiration for
Alexander Hamilton the defeated cham /
piOn Of a limited monarchy
OF course" said MIR. Willett. these /
ing dove when compared with his denun- /
citation OF John Paul Jones as a pirate. /
or Napoleon the Great as utterly unscru- |
pulous. Of New Engiand's idolized Wen |
dell Phillips as always either misehieyous 1
OF ridiculous and usually both Of Thomas /
Paine. the first champion of American !
liberty as a filthy little atheist OF mir /
aele believing Roman Catholics as per- |
Quakcrs az quite as undesirable citizens |
as duelists.' But he has been frank enough |
IN abusing other presidents to shut the
lips Of his defenders on the dignity Of the
presidential office"
Mr.. wilIett declared that "consistence
Is a jewel which the gargoyle Is always
throwing IN the swine. No king he |
said. in any limited monarchy. was ever
BILE. For president" he added, YOU
must 60 back to Napoleon the Great, the |
oldest member Of the gargoylcs Ananias |
club, who used 10 ask tho wives Of MS
thrifty fsvorites whether they could only
afford one gown a year: VINO said once
to tie wife Of one Of his fighting mar
shals, Your dress is dirty and who in
sisted on doing all the matchmaking in
his official circles"
King and Court.
The democracy of Lincoln. he said. the
bluff Americsnism Of Grant and Cleve-
land. the equally American susvity of Ar
thur and Mckinley had passed into his
tory. "along with the jovisIity Of Car
field and the uon-cnuformist thrift OF
Rutherford p. HAYES.
We have a king and court now,
Mr. WilIett exclaimed "as good an imi-
saf of thing Evnrxp fup o.
biiity of mOnarchial countries as the scion
Of a family of trading Dutchmen can
coucoct"
At this juncture air. NiIlett called the
roll of the so-cailed Ananiss club, and
said:
'''The earth is intoxicated and reels
around cur POPULARITY. He alone Is the
Disqualification Of sobriety. temperatures
of statement. calmness in speech and ae-
ton The ever-moving hay tedder hUrries
over the field, throwing upward the clover
of politics. the timothy of zoology. the
bluegrass of history and letting each blade
fall little drier than il was before
A Jealous Gargoye.
Jealousy you can read in the gar
goyle's distorted features. You look on
these twisted lines and 1t Is easy, oh, so
easy to understand the insolenee toward
Democracy, the one great figure of the
Spanish-AmeTican war. the hero who took
Manila with the worst ships rotten bu-
reaucracy can find for him.
The persistent defamation of Admiral
Schley. who really fought the battle OF
Santiago bay.
"The insults heaped on General Miles,
whose counsel was ignored in the eX-
pensive blunders Of the land campaign at
Santiago"
The president Mr.. WilIett declared,
showed his teeth at all raj heroes, be
cause real heroes are gall and worm
wood to bogus ones
Fierce Denunclation.
Continuing his denuneistion. Mr. VIII
lett charged that the president had bull
dozed President Castro, had seen the Fill
pinos brutslly treated, had marooned
Colonel Stewart. whom he did not like
had kept a young woman from earning
an honest living by telling the truth, had
allowed 'scandal0uS conditions to exist
in the army and navy, had compelled his
subordinates to act as hunting dogs for
the car of Russia, In trailing down men
who have fought for liberty" had prae-
tieally re-established the John Adams
alien and sedition laws: had forced deser-
tons from the navy by allowing intoler-
able 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 mental
work. and had given Scotch verdict in
connection with the alleged Panama scan
daL
In conclusion he said among other
things,
You may say, then. that one individual
gargoyle does not count for so much
after all. No. not in the development of
the centuries, but he counts vitality and
continuously, affecting in the people
who have to live under him. And the
change from a Nero fiddling while Rome
is burning TO Nespasisn calmly devoted
to securing as good government as ten
denotes VIII permit. IL a change to be as
devoutiy welcomed b. US as by the an
cient Romans"