The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-16
By EBERT HUBBARD.

| CHICAGO, June 15.-So here them
are the facts: ~
The forces of a king and those OF
pretender are encamped over against
each other. Each is waiting for q
chance to use the death dealing sharp
! nosed Mauser ballot.
| In the meantime they are making
good use OF the deadly literary and
oratorical lyddite. In the history OF
| the United States, there has been moth
ing just like tho political conditions
that now prevail.
| And SO far as I know, a like con-
dition has never occurred In the his
| tory OF any other republic, even in
those tropie of Capricorn near-repub-
| lies, where revolution is the normal
condition.
In the days agone. ii was no UNI
usual thing for two claimants to cons.
| test for the throne
According to the precedents estab-s
I!shed by George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson, two terms of thu
kingship are accorded to the president
who does his work faithfully and we'll.
| the second term being a recognitiou
| of his worth and a mark of graft
| tude or confidence on the part of the
| people. who of course. .rule-mehhe.
| In the minds of vast number OF
citizens. not to allow two terms to the
man who has served his country. ~
| to intimate that he has fallen shorta
| In we'll doing
| The accusations against our king all
| take a gaseous form. none forming
! into nebula or cAacrete shape. The
man has made mistakes. Also, It ~.
beyond dispute that ne Is fat. H.
I pushed for an answer, yes or no. -
might also be admitted that, he II fAk~
/ witted. The honesty, simplicity and
directness of the man, however, hayns
never been successfully assailed. Theirs
| is no fatty degeneration in his right
| intent.
| Impossible.
! The dictionary has been thoroughlY
exploited in order to find terms Of
contempt applicable to the case or
| our king. And the most damnine
count seems to be expressed In the
! word Impossible ~.
And then. the word |Tksty's hsIsIs
been coined, the meaning of which
Is slow, vactiiating. uncertain, softly
smiling. smirkingly beautific with
nothin dom as climax. Like the!
laughing hyena, no one has ever been
able to determine what tell he ~
laffIn' at
To fire this man from his kinxlt
scat aitd oSttS AIldt he tlhS stfiy CiAIHUEy
on the reservation for the next four
years. is the work of the pretender.
And so we get the struggle betwceu
the king and only living ex-king who
made the king, for IL Is he that hath
made US and rot We ourselves
And ex-King kazooks comes back
claiming the seat which the king pre-
tenn has kindly kept warm during a
period when the eX-kinG was taking
a much needed vacation and Killing
fauna in Africa for a demntion nIl1~
scum that refuses to be grateful 10p
hides. pelts and furs consigned Ill
10 the moth and rust or to any crax
belief that might break into the haaoN
ment OF the Smithsonian instituttous3
and steal that which he could haxl
for the asking. ss8
King Has Lost Power.
1t is universally admitted that thu
king has lost power IN the last fotiGs
months And what he has lost hs5Ei
been the gain OF the pretender.
Emerson says that no man In RE-
save through the stupidity OF t16
many. sy
Greatness and power are compa1I
tive terms.
And also it is said that while CT
king Is large, he Is not great 8$
Ex-king Kazooks is much Ir,nS
powerful now than he was tj113
months ago, simply through
weakness that our king ha& &c.
IN lighting the pretender with
kazook weapons.
The ability to fling the crate
stinkpot with accuracy IL net
the becoming province OF : kim. III
Our king h essentially ! f,6
nature. He becomes the w0ol