When none but quacks offer their services to the State a selection must
be made, and the people cannot be held to account for choosing quacks
when there was nothing to choose from but quacks.
Whatever physical characteristics distinguishes the genius of leadership
from the ordinary man; whether it is long legs or short; long nose or
pug; big heads or little, one thing is certain - history tells you on
her every page that leadership is never found in combination with beef.
Cleveland and Reed! How they stew and swelter in positions they cannot
fill. How these Jonahs have grown till they have become the whale
itself. How their fat will spot the pages to come, and float on the sea
where the Republic went down.
And Ingersoll - let us not forget Ingersoll - the thumber over of past
woes, whose five hundred dollar opera ticket identifies the class to
which he now belongs, and proves his success as a fifteenth century
reformer. The people made and keep up the acquaintance of this man by
way of the ticket office, but instead of considering him as they would
any other footlight performer, who had struck a paying vein and was
working it for all it was worth, and who can only be heard at so much
per ticket, they have come to look upon the character he has been acting
as the man himself, and their friend who would make their cause his own.
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