Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-02-21


CONGRESSMAN Wheeler Of kentucky
woke up the House yesterday by n SEN
sntional speech denounciug the attitude
OF the administration and the State De.
partment III connection with what he
termed die recent exposure Of the ntti-
tude OF Great Britain toward the emit.
ed States.
Mr.. Wheeler cycuriatcd what he term.
ed the modern disposition toward Euro
pem FlunkeyIsm." Until 1896, he said.
all members had gloried IN the splendid
isolation Of the republic and its Il, ter.
mination to hold alooi from foreign ell.
taDslrng alliances. Less than live years
ago. he declared, a President legged Oh
10y the pitiable turkey i'll the State
Department." had stretched his arms
across the seas in Rduia.ion to the peu-
pie Of Great Britain and today the Gov
WAS hugging to it, bosom a
nation that since the battle Of Yorktown
had systematically and pcrsistcnly plot.
ted our downfall.
He sueeTcd at the "sOldier-strappcd
gold-lace hunkcys' who we're to he die.
patched across the Atlantic Ia bend the
knee to aud kiss the hand OF the English
King, whose government. he declared,
had attempted to form Il coalition Of
European governments to thwart us
while We were seeking To strike the
sllacklcs from Cuba. Honest, straight.
forward American diplomacy, he de.
clared, had given way to Europe III iii
plomacy. He said he respected the
present occupant OF the White House
lie was. he said, too straightforward for
many of his party colleagues. slightly
QuiXotic, perhaps, and hasty tempered,
but honest und brave enough, he
thought. to "hoot out that man in the
State Department who had brought us
to this bumiliatiug position"
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.
cefotc.' was true, he declared he ought
to he shipped across The winter and "the
sooner the better
Referring to the report that II member
OF the Presidents family wns to attend
the coronation, Mr.. Wheeler said il was
perhaps unbeCOming to allude to It..
Nevertheless. he shid,r he considered
il "mOst unfortunate and unprecedented
and to he latncnted by every liberty.
loving American 1t was but one moro
link in the chain. Mr.. Wheeler then
turned to the prospective visit ot Prince
Henry. with a gesture Of contempt he
declared that the european Maniacs'
wore falling over each other to SEQ the
Little Dutchman.'
There wo:a Il thousand Americans
following the pillow. he said. VINO were ms
honest aud as noble ma he. "Why
should the American people give heed
to this Huukcyism OF the present admin.
istra'ion," he said.
awe should treat our visitors politely,
but why fall down and worship themY-
Tho whole House was aroused by Mr..
Wheeler's speech. Several times the
Democratic eide burct into applause.
Mr.. Grosvenor OF Ohio replied 10 Mr..
Wheeler. severely criticizipg him for
whai he termed the iattcr's "iuoppOrtuuc
speech" He RUid Whcclor's speech
would lie read at Kicl this morning on
the eve Of Prince Ueniy's departure na
the message Of the American people.
Mr.. Wheeler made mn impassioncd 70.
ply to Hrosvenor's Rpeach, protesting
against the Official reception OF Prince
Henry.