Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-02-15
WHEELER CREATES
SENSATION IN HOUSE
Modern Disposition Toward
European Flunkeyism." !"
TOUCHES UPON PRINCES VISIT
Denounces Attitude of Administration
and State Department In Connection
With Recent Exposure of EngIand's
Attitude Toward United States.

Washington, Feb. 14.-When the
house met today it was agreed that
when it adjourned today it be until
Monday next
Mr.. Payne, the floor leader of the
majority, gave notice that on Monday
he would call up the bill for the repeal
of the war revenue taxes. This being
pension day, the house then went into
committee of the whole and took up
the consideration of private pension
bills on the calendar.
During the debate upon a pension
bill Mr.. Wheeler, of Kentucky, Great
ed a sensation by a speech denounc.
ing the attitude of the administra-
ton and the state department in con
nection with what he termed the re-
cent exposure of the attitude of Great
Britain toward the United States.
Mr.. Wheeler excoriated what he
termed the modern disposition toward
European flunkeyism." Until 1895
he said, all Americans had glorifed
in the splendid isolation of the re-
alOof from foreign entangling alli-
ances. Less than five years ago, he
declared, a president legged on the
pitiable funkey in the state depart
ment," 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
tion that since the battle of Yorktown
had Systematically and persistently
plotted our downfall He sneered at
the shoulder strapped, gold lace fun
keys" who were to be dispatched
across the Atlantic to bend the knee
and kiss the hand of the English king,
whose government, he declared, had
attempted to form a coalition of Euro
pean governments to thwart us while
we were seeking to strike the shackles
from Cuba. Honest, straightforward
American diplomacy, he declared, had
given way to European diplomacy. He
said he respected the present occupant
of the White House He was. he said
too straightforward for many of his
party colleagues, slightly Quixotic per-
haps, and hasty tempered, but honest
and brave enough, he thought, to
boot out that man in the state depart
ment who had brought us to the hu.
initiating position
Turning to England's war in South
Africa, he denounced her tyranny and
the part we had in it in allowing war
al fn ch
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 sooner the better"
Referring to the report that a mem
Der of the presidents family was to
attend the coronation, Mr.. Wheeler
said it was perhaps unbecoming to al
lude to it. Nevertheless, he said, he
considered it most unfortunate and
unprecedented and to be lamented by
every liberty-loving American"
1t was but one more link in the
chain. Mr.. Wheeler then turned to
the prospective visit of Prince Hen
ry. With a gesture of contempt he
declared that European maniacs were
falling over each other to see the
little Dutchman." There were thou
sands of Americans following the
plow, he said, who are as honest and
as noble as he. Why, he asked, should
the American people give heed to this
fiunkeyism of the present administra
ton. We should treat our visitors DO
litely but why fall down and worship
them?"