Show autocratic AND FLABBY A LIBERAL meeting wair wa hold held january 22 in armory hall judge powers presided in a character speech that slippery individual sounded a note of war against a large and respectable class of his own party those who are disgusted with the liberal ticket on account of its attenuated caliber he uttered a diatribe against sicken kickers giving the dissatisfied division of his bis party to understand that they had got to swallow that ticket whether they wanted it or note not no matter abou t their being sick at the stomach that was the prescription and it must be taken down that was the spirit of his spee chand not have spoken with greater arrogance if he had occupied the position of an autocrat whose remarks were directed to his serfs again he reminds one of the waiter who insisted that a guest of the hotel where he was engaged should take thin coupon the ground that that article of liquid nourishment was on the bill of fare the judge even indulged in figurative threats of total ostracism if the unsubstantial repast was waa not taken bolus ww bolus said the doaner if there is a single man training in our midst who hesitates to support the ticket let him rise and show himself that be may be marched by the he Zou aves the band or the drum corps into the ranks racks to the tune tons of the rogues mar march the man who re f eusea jostand to tand by the ticket should have hia name engraved vedon on the south aide of the mormon temple for the benefit of posterity men of mind in the party on whose stomachs the ticket sits heavily will not relish this dictatorial and lordly talk from the notorious manipulator whatever manhood there is in the breasts of those who object to the ticket will rise in rebellion against being treated as so many slaves whose sole political duty is to do as they are told anti and ask no questions from the air of a lordly autocrat the speaker made a sudden drop to the position of a flabby minded imbecile bacile as if he were a double individuality vi duality like dr Je kylland and mr hyde otherwise how could he have uttered the following unadulterated drivel davel the saints are becoming so afraid of the name of scott that they look under their e beds at night to see if he is there an and t try to fri frighten n refractory refractory refractor 6 children into en by telling 11 g them george eorge M scott is coming Now such chip is altogether too utterly utter any one would suppose that mr scott whom we understand to be a more or less mild mannered man was a second burke or hare who in the city of edinburgh a good many years ago supplied surgeons with subjects for experimental dissection by invading the graves of the dead and murdering people for the same purpose when the ordinary deathrage death rate was too light to meet the demand the former cry has been that the liberals intended to put up a candidate for the mayoralty that nobody even on the peoples side could object to but according judge powers a hobgoblin that women and children has been placed at the head of the tb ticket mr J M young candidate of the opposition for marshal made a few remarks which must have sounded to the listeners a good deal like where did you get that hat that is to say they could hardly do otherwise than inwardly ejaculate 1 I guess we have heard that a good many times before cant you give us just a little of something fresh the report says mr elmr young closed with an earnest appeal for independent speech and thought the thought part of the peroration may be dismissed peremptorily as even the pronounced liberals with all their arrogance and tyranny have as yet failed to invent a pro process that would stop the operations of a mans 11 thinker 11 the plea for independent speech was waa however well timed in view of the fact fac t that if anybody there had expressed any sentiment in opposition to the poor general quality of the liberal ticket he would have stood in danger of being drummed out according to the penalty prescribed by the man from michigan |