The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-01-19

he added "You must go back to Ma
poleon 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 year; who said once
to the wife of one of his fighting
marshals, Your dress is dirty, and
who insisted on doing all the match
making in his official circles"
The democracy of Lincoln, he said,
the bluff Americanism of Grant and
Cleveland, the equally American
suavity of Arthur, and Mckinley had
passed into history, "along with the
joviality of Garfield and the non-con-
formist thrift of Rutherford B.
Hayes.
I'VE have king and a court now,"
Mr.. Wfllett 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 socalled Ananias club
and said:
THE earth Is intoxicated and reels
around our jocularity. He alone is
the personification of sobriety, tenn
perateness Of statement, calmness in
speech and action. The ever moving
hay tender hurries over the field,
throwing upward the clover of poll
tics and timothy of zoology, the blue
grass of history and letting each
blade fall little drer than 1t was
before. You look on those twisted
lines and it is easy, oh, so easy, to
understand the insolence toward
democracy, the one great figure of the
Spanish American war, the hero who
took Manila with the worst ships a
rotten bureaucracy can find for him.
The persistent defamation Of Ad-
miral Schley, who really fought the
battle of Santiago bay. the insults
heaped on General Miles whose coun-
sci was ignored In the expensive
blunders of the land campaign at
Santiago"
Showed His Teeth.
The president, Mr.. Willett declared,
showed his teeth at all real heroes,
because real heroes are gall and
"olii"OOQ 10 bogus ones.
Continuing his denunciation, Mr..
Willett charged that the president
had bulldozed President Castro had
seen the Filipinos brutally treated, had
marooned Colonel Stewart, whom he
did not like, had kept young wom
an from earning an honest living by
telling the truth, had allowed scan
dalous conditions to exist in the army
and navy, had compelled his subordi-
mates ito act as hunting dogs for the
Gear of Russia, in trailing down men
who have fought for liberty had
practically re-established the John
Adams laws; had forced desertions
from the navy by allowing intoera-
BILE treatment of sailors "at the hands
of the aristocracy of Annapolis Off
GERS; had permitted the degrading of
soldiers at West Point, who had been
put to menial work, and had given a
Scotch verdict in connection with the
alleged Panama scandal.
In conclusion he said among other
things:
you may say, then, that one indi-
vidual gargoyle does not count for
much after all. No, not in the de-
velopment of the centuries, but he
counts vitally and continuously, as af-
fecting the people who have to live
under him. And the change from a
Nero fiddling while Rome is burning
to Vespasion calmly devoted to Sc
curing as good government as ten
denotes will permit, is a change to be
as devoutly welcomed by us as by the
ancient Romans"
Called to Order.
Several times in the course of Mr..
Willetts remarks he was called to
order by Mr. Hughes of West Virgin
la. Il call him to order" Mr.. Hughes