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Graves' Estimate Of A Demagogue

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Day
22
Month
November
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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Jofal Temple P---"is ís ;ui vrntor. He kept im audienee ai same 2,000 people entrcmced tor over ira hour last Sa tu nía y alght, ly liis ünw f (lowery words and pleaslng ixpressiini oí Ideas. Be todk for liis text t.lic il'iiiMK"K''i'' ■ inl lie paiutod him so cO'nt?mptilU', so miuWy, so black, and so devoid of all jí'xxl and laudable qualitlec, tihat probably few witliin the hearing of lus vo4ce that night will care to play the ötexaagogxie - not on purpose, at least, perhaps soinc niay who are bom that way a ui', camiot help thenitn-lves. ra ves is a greal word arttet. He wouW roll out Bentencea composcmI oí worde ol abnormal HMijrth and sli-niiith wit the same e&M that Demosthenes must have utterrd them. Ilis appcuraii!1!' on the platform does not imprcss (me favovaUly at iirst, but as he prognionM ymi forget bis personal appearancé in wbat he is saying. Ut' ccrtainly made cvit.vbody desire t !■ anyfchlng else tlian a demauumic. Duriiiü' the leeture he grave the belifvcrs in a high tai-iíf a Bharp dig ; scoiH'd the McKtaley act but pald a fine tribute to MiKiiilcy as a man, and made the astoalehlng assertlon that he (McKmley) had a thouaand Menkta in ('orffia ! The ha tred of the colored race cropped out once only, in ffiíving wht purported to be an extract from a sermaa preóebed by a colored minister ust lefore the recemt election, in a clinrch in New York, urging the memlers of his congiregatLon to hold out for $25 a liead for thelr vot-es. Glowing eulogles were prouounced on George Waslitogton, Henry Clay, Gen. Grant, Grover GtVWdkad, Abraham I,inctln and Bobert E. Le, and tihe appbiu.-w' (riven last appeartnl to be extivmi'ly pltvisinjf, for he reniarkt'd tlliait it was indeed a noble tihlnff for people to do to applaud the name of one who had (OUght agatnst ttk'in . TJie addii'ss was fHled wltli grand anl pt.ritotic sentlments, noble outInirstis of eloquence In beihalf of this country aml its future. His views, howevcr, wpiv lacUned to be those o a pessimist, tHiough he elaimed tobeliiere that the world was no worse tiiian it had Ixjen Ln the past, nor was it any Ix't ber. The deniagogues vrere bamacli's, the parasttoe that wen' couitinualiy fastenteg tiaemselves to this grand Bhip ol state, and he (eared, uiilcss tbfi peopte wcvi' aliTt and untiriuu' in tlk'ir wati-hfnlncss tlicy wmild in tlic end dcstroy it. as the? had ao ii-iMiucinfy dom' before, by (ilhrr ïiations. Mr. cravcs is by tac tibie be1 speaker tihai lias appeared before the 8. 1,. A. in a toog tinii'. and kbCMlld he ever come here agate lic can be assuréd ni a muco wavnier welcome tlian received tiiis time.

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Ann Arbor Courier