The New York herald., 1920-01-25
Bv OWEN CONNER.

T the heels of the lion in the animal
~ kingdom snarl the jackals, waiting for
the King of Beasts to show sign of
deadly wound that they may spring
upon him and tear from him the spoils of his
prowess Certain types of human beings pear
startling resemblance to the jackals They are
those who envy the glory of heroes and who
lurk ever in cowardly waiting for the moment
when the object of their jealousy may falter Tot
= moment so that they, too, may spring
forward and seize the spoils rightly won by
him they hate.
With the startling. sensational deieat Oh
Georges Clemenceau for the office of President
NJ France there disappears from active govern
mental affairs the greatest and most romantic
figure of the world war. With his tail from
mower there remains but one of the chief per-
sonaccs Of the conflict still in real control
David Lloyd George, the British Premier-ano
already his enemies arc eagerly at work to cast
him from his high place
Others who at times between 1914 and 1919
were high in popular acclaim and who nave
been cast down by the Vaccinations OF the en-
vious are Vttoro Orlando. ltalys Premier OF
Victor I" Lord French who was hailed as the
creates of British commanders. and. in some
what different way but none the less effectu-
ally President Wilson.
The efforts to drive Winston Spencer Church
III from, the s,xitish Cabinet and to deprive Mar
shall Joffre of honors due to him failed but the
influence of both has been sadly reduced from
the tremendous power they once welded. only
after a storm of indignant protest from the
orix.ap a MIA n honor
in the Victory Parade at Paris. t.
Bismarck's Fall.
There would be temptation TO decry all these
instances of ingratitude as peculiar to democ-
racies were it not for the brutal manner ip
which Prince Won Bismarck. the organizer OF
Germany's victory in 1871. dismissed from
office by the then Kaiser Wilhelm H., the pres
ent day refugee in Holland. In spite of his
most unusual hold upon the affections OF the
German people Bismarck was oblterated just
as Clemenceau has been obliterated. Perhaps
though we may find later that Clemenceau
has not been completely destroyed as ms
enemies now would like to believe.
Clemenceau was refused the supreme honor
Of election to the Presidency of France so the
Paris despatches assert because he too
strong man" France feared the elevation or
so dynamic a personality and so energetic an
intellect to the highest office. There was dam
ger so the French politicians thought that The
Tiger" would refuse to be bound by the tradi-
tion that the occupant of the Elysee Palace was
to be mere fgurehead to receive foreign Wis
itors of distinction and to make pretty speeches
when he conferred the Legion of Honor upon
those recommended for that token of merit
Then too his ssailants brought another very
serious charge against Clemenceau. charge
that was totally overlooked in the days when
the thunder of German cannon was heard in
Paris. Just before the Americans went into bat
tie AT Chateau Thierry. Now some one has dis
covered that Clemenceau cannot dance And
apparently that is a very serious matter indeed
in the ewes of his detractors Why, how could
the dignity of France be upheld if ii were to
become known to the world that the President
Of the nation would never be able to kick heel
in a fox trot or wiggle his shoulders in rhyth-
mic unison with the "shimmying" of some
highborn lady at. the Elysee?
The Tigers Snarl.
Ignoring the probability that Clemenceau
never even heard of the ''shimmy' and wouldn't
waste any of his precious brains upon it if he
did his enemies. nevertheless. actually gave Sc
rious import to the accusation that he was lack