Progressive

is a hungry or unsuccessful person; hence, an explosive, quixotic fellow with empty pockets and a shallow pate.

A hungry or unsuccessful person; hence, an explosive, quixotic fellow with empty pockets and a shallow pate.

is a man who steals a label, and clapping it on himself, thinks that he is It.

A man who steals a label, and clapping it on himself, thinks that he is It.

is a plan for going forward by backing up to mob rule.

A plan for going forward by backing up to mob rule. (The first Progressive of whom we know was Judas. The next was Ananias. Lazarus was a Progressive, and had he married the Queen of Sheba he would have changed places with Dives. E. g., "This age belongs to the Progressives."—From Kazook's Confessions of a Popular Lick-Spittle.)

is a political piker, who will not play the game according to the rules which he himself devised.

A political piker, who will not play the game according to the rules which he himself devised.

is a politician who wears his opinions pompadour.

A politician who wears his opinions pompadour.

is a reactionary to whom movement and motion are necessary in order to keep warm, and secure gulps and guzzles.

A reactionary to whom movement and motion are necessary in order to keep warm, and secure gulps and guzzles.

is an obstructionist who grows fat on conservatism and conversation.

An obstructionist who grows fat on conservatism and conversation.

is one who has felt the slings and arrows of outrageous success that has come to others.

One who has felt the slings and arrows of outrageous success that has come to others.

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