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Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee...
...when your fellow-citizen was Republican candidate for President. I visited it again when we buried him, a man broken in the service of his country. I visited it again to dedicate the memorial you erected to his memory. There is no occasion for me to extol his great qualities of geniality, of friendship and devotion to his country ... to go into the sad disloyalties to him which crushed his spirit and brought humiliation to the American people...
...read "The English Constitution" by Walter Bagehot. These famous essays, it may be noted, first appeared in 1867; and most of the contrasts which the author made were to things American. In the essay entitled "Its Supposed Checks and Balances" I find the following words: "The Americans now extol their institutions, and so defraud themselves of their due praise. But if they had not a genius for politics; if they had not a moderation in action singularly curious where superficial speech is so violent; if they had not a regard for law, such as no great people have yet evinced...
Voters will be told that he is the very soul of courage and honesty?and that he cowers before the Tammany tiger. His friends will extol him as one of the most competent and successful administrators New York has ever had?and his critics will insist he has been only a poor imitation of Al Smith, the loose ends of whose vast
...Rascal. The spectacle of Mr. William Hodge in a bedroom farce will come as a great surprise to his enthusiastic admirers. Long have they been used to seeing him in dramas which rigidly observed, if indeed they did not extol, the principles of virtuous conduct. Now he appears as a chin-whiskered but frisky California lawyer who arrives in Manhattan bent on giving his wife grounds 'for divorce (among other things, she demolished his excellent wine cellar). His method involves a hotel room and a hired trollop, with whom he retires in full view of the audience. The farcical...