The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-02-20
ROAST FOR FLUkKEYS
representative Wheeler Creates
Sensation in the House.
ANGL0=MANIACS ARE FLAYED
Embassy to Coronation and Reception
Planned For Visit of Prince
Henry Savasely Attacked
BY kentuckian.

The monotony Of private pension
day in the house was enliveGed Fri
day by a very sensational speech
from Mr.. Wheeler, Of Kentucky, in de-
nunciatioD Of what he denominated
"funkeyisln" to foreign countries. He
took the recent statements emanating
from continental cabinets regarding
the attitude of Great Britain during
the Spanish war as text for whole
sale attack upon the trend Of our re-
/ cent diplomacy. In the course OF his
remarks he severely scored Secretary
Hay, and declared that if Lord Paunce-
fote had sought, as was alleged, to
circumvent us during the war OF
1898, the sooner ne was shipped across
the seas the better. He also took oc-
: casicn to criticise the president fof
/ his reported intention to send his
daughter to the coronation Of King Ed
ward, and to protest against the OIL
cial reception of Prince Henry.
His speech aroused the house to
high pitch Of excitement, and ELECTED
from Mr.. Boutelle, of Illinois, a spirit
ed defense of Secretary Hay, whom he
eulogized in highest terms. Severai
other other members of the republi-
can side took hand, and later in the
afternoon MI Grosvenor, of Ohio, III
a twenty-minute speech took Mr..
Wheeler to task for his "inopportune
! protest." and rehearsed the history OF
the visit of the prince Of Wales to
this country in 1860 and his reception
by President Buchanan.
Until 1896, he said, all Americans
had glorifed in the splendid isolation
of the republic and it's determination
to hold alcof from foreign entangling
alliances. Less than five years ago,
he declared, a president legged on by
the pitiable flunky in the state depart
Hent" had stretched his arms across
the seas in adulation to the people OF
Great Britain and today the govern
ment was hugging to its bosom a ma
ton that since the battle Of Yorktown
had Systematically and persistently
plotted our downfall. E.....
| He sneered at the "shoulder-strap
ped gold lace funkeys" who were to
be dispatched across the Atlantic to
bend the knee to and kiss the hand OF
the English king, whose government,
he declared, had attempted to form q
coalition of European governments to
thwart US while we were seeking to
strike the shackles from Cuba.
Turning to England's war in South
Africa, he denounced her tyranny and
the part we had in it in allowing war
material to be shipped from our
shores. If half that was said OF this
man Pauncefote" was true, he declar-
ed, he ought to be shipped across the
water, and "the soooner the better"
Referring to the report that mem
Der of the presidents family was to at
tend the coronation, Mr.. Wheeler said
it was perhaps unbecoming to allude
to 1t. Nevertheless, he said, he con-
sidered it "most unfortunate and un-
precedented and to be lamented by eV-
ery liberty-loving American"
It was but one more link in the
chain. Mr. Wheeler then turned to the
prospective visit of Prince Henry.
With a gesture of contempt he declar'
ed that European maniacs were fals'
ing over each other" to see the little
Dutchman." There were thousands OF
Americans following the plow, IA said,
who are as honest and as noble as he.
Why, he asked, should the American
people give heed to this funkeyism OF
the present administration. We should
treat our visitors politely, but why
"fall down and worship them" ,
The whole house was aroused by
Mr.. Wheeler's philippe. Several
times the democratic side burst into
applause.
AS he was concluding Mr.. Grosven-
or, of Ohio, asked if Mr.. Wheeler had
been living at the time of the visit OF
Lafayette, as the representative Of the
king of France, whether he would
have opposed the reception accorded
the Frenchman by washington.
81 should have been proud to receive
the Marquis de Lafayette" replied Mr..
Wheeler. "He helped to fight for our
liberties"