Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-22

tain would get the four new mem
oers OF the council yet to be selected
Great Britain would then be in 9
position to twist the tail of tho
world" At this juncture the speak.
er flung himself into n paroxism OF
oratorlcal rage, painting the League
covenant in colors that made Dantes
nell seem like summer picnic. Over
the entrance to the League he in
scribed with letters of fire "All hope
apondon, ye who enter here" Wo-
men were weeping, hard headed men
ooked solemn and for moment.
overwhelmed by the avalanche of
words this reporter lost his moor
,ngs; but emerging from the golden
log OF vocal vapor he reflected: While
Great Brltain's six members of the
assembly. are voting, what will the
thirty six representatives of the
other thirty six nations be doing !?
Not even straw man here: sheer
dam foolishness.
Playing to the gallery was one of
hev. Hills favorite pastimes while
entertaining his audience. "Now if
you think that is sophistry 1.-THE word
'ophlstry seemed to haunt him) come
up here and answer me. Don't wait
Till l leave" he said more than once
which was indeed brave challenge
to bunch of democrats, most of
them women, not one of whom per-
haps ever had done more than hold
up a hand in public assemblage. A
cheap orator with message of bun
come must necessarily resort To clan
trap methods.
Inc solemn occasion, as might have
been expected, could not pass with
out bit of comedy to relieve the
tension. When the speaker said the
election of Harding would mean a
reduction of taxes large black lady
wearing a Harding button, who was
conspicuous part of the color
scheme, and who apparently had been
led somewhat beyond her depth by
the League discussion, brought her
two pink palms together with n
whack that could have been heard
on the street.
The peroration was u beautifully
phrased piece of eloquence that would
have done credit to Blaine or ingalls,.
1t was no doubt prepared in by
gone campaign and used in eulogy
OF some dead republican giant like
Mckinley. But it was used once too
often. The audience did not know to
whom he was referring until he men,
toned Harding's name. In this in
stance it was wasted gem; for it
placed plain, modest Senator Hard
ing ON pedestal so dazzling and
high rs to make him appear as re-
diculous as scare crow on the edge
of a Stony Ridge cornpatch. 1t in
vested him with attributes az far re-
moved from that genial Ohio gen
tleman, as the hair of the first bald
Caesars head. 1t paraded him as
an intellectual COLOSSUS in compar-
ison with whom Shakespeare would
appear on brain level with Theodore
Roosevelt's guinea pig, following
are some of the sparks from Rev.
HIPS anvil of eulogy "He has a
back bone, not a wish bone" Now
that would seem superfuous en-
comium for Lodge, Taft, Borah and
Hiram johnson have been playing
see-saw on that same backbone ever
since last June. ale does not wobblc,
he. walks" This was the apex of the
eulogy, and scored heavily with an
audience that has vainly tried to fol-
low the zigzag trail of Senator Hard
ing, who wriggled and wobbied and
straddled and lodged from the con-
vention hall at Chicago to Des Moines
and who from that fateful city,
where he touched ground for the
first and only time, has straddled
and lodged and wobbled and wigpled
to this good hour. Kipling wrote of
"the bear that walks like n man"
and evidently this highly imagina-
tive and poetic orator confused Sen
ator Harding with Kipling's bear.
In conclusion, it may be added
that the prevailing note in Rev. Hills
harangue was an intense partizan
hatred of Woodrow Wilson. 1t ran
like rope of slime throughout the
address. The republicans of this gen
Grafton were taught in their poll
tical primmer that no democrat is
capable of running the affairs of gov
ernment, and they can never. forgive
President Wilson for having disprov-
ed that fallacy. His only offensc
against the republican party is that
he not only superbly made good as
president, but his genius for states
manship raised him to the heights
where all mankind Germans ex-
cepted) crowned him with "glory and
honor" Envy and jealousy in the
high places and petty spite in the
rank and file-that, in the main, is
the Presidents reward from the re-
publican party.
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