The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-15
A LOT OF FLUNKEYS
OUR COURTEsIES TO ROYALTY
HOTLY ATTACKED.
WHEELER'S WARM REMARKS
SENSATIONAL SPEECH IN HOUSE
YESTERDAY.

Secretary Hay Charged With TOady-
ism and Lord Pauncefote Roasted.
sooner He Is shipped Back Across
the Seas the Better, Declared the
for His Permission to His Daugh-
ter to Attend King Edwards Cor
Onation and Prince Henry Ridi-
cuIed as a Little Dutchman."
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE monotony
OF private pension day in the House
was enlivened to-day by very SEN
sational speech from Mr.. Wheeler of
Kentucky in denunciation of what he
denominated "flunkeyism" to foreign
countries. He took the recent state
ments emanating from continental
cabinets regarding the attitude of
Great Britain during the Spanish war
as a text for a wholesale attack upon
the trend of our recent diplomacy. In
the course of his remarks he severely
scored Secretary Hay, and declared
that if Lord Pauncefote had sought as
was alleged, to circumvent us during
the war of 1898. the sooner he was
shipped across the seas, the better. He
also took occasion to criticise the Presi-
dent for his reported intention to send
his daughter to the coronation of King
Edward, and to protest against the
official reception of Prince Henry.
His speech aroused the House to a
high pitch of excitement and elected
from Mr. Boutell of Illinois spirited
defense of Secretary Hay, whom he
eulogized in high terms. Some other
members of the Republican side took
a hand and later in the afternoon Mr.
Grosvenor of Ohio, in a twenty min
ute speech, took Mr.. Wheeler to task
for his 'inopportune protest" and re-
hearsed the history of the visit of the
Prince of Wales to this country in
1860 and his reception by President
Buchanan.
Our Splendid Isolation.
Mr.. Wheeler said:
Until the inauguration of the Pres
ident in 1897. there never was any divis-
ion of sentiment upon one great ques-
tion, and that was the splendid isola-
tion of the republic and its fixed de-
terlnifasttton TO held aloOf from all en-
tangffng alliances with foreign pow
ers. Less than five years ago, the
most sacred traditions of the republic
were disregarded. For the first time
we witnessed President of the United
States, aided and egged on by a pitia-
BILE fiunkey in the State Department,
stretching his arms across the water
to embrace the historic enemies of the
American people. From that good hour
until now we have made ourselves a
laughing stock at every court in Eu-
rope because of our flunkeyism, our
truculency and the disgraceful syco-
phancy of the representatives of the
republic at the feet of Great Britain,
and now. when it serves the purpose
of some other great nation, the
not only to the liberty-lov-
ing people of the republic, but to
the world that we have been hugging
to our bosom, during the last five
years, a nation that has Systematically
and persistently attempted to destroy
the liberties of the American people
since the Battle of Yorktown. 1t is be-
ing heralded abroad that in 1898, when
we were seeking to strike the shackles
of serfdom from off the heels of Cuba,
that nation was then secretly, in our
own capital, attempting to form a coal
ition of the great Powers of the world
to prevent that interposition. l have
respect for the present occupant of
the White House, 1 frankly avow;
think he is too honest to be palatable
to the average Republican partisan. A
little quixotic, it is true, hasty tenn
pered, full-blooded and not exactly de-
sirable to many of our citizens, and
indulge the hope that that lingering
element Of Americanism will induce
him at the first opportunity to boot
out that man in the State Department
who, in my judgment, has brought US
to this humiliating condition.
England n friend of the United
States2 l would to God she were, but
what a spectacle have we presented in
order to be able to boast that we have
the friendship of Great Britain and
have become a world power. Never
before in the history of the republic
has there been a struggle for freedom
on the part of any people, that repre-
sentatives in this chamber did not
hasten to declare that we regarded
with Solicitude the endeavors and ef-
forts of a people to obtain their own
liberty. For more than four years
we have witnessed Great Britain main
tanning military stations inside the
borders of the republic. We have seen
her agents going up and down this
country enlisting men and buying ma
terials OF war.
Swinging the Wrong Way.
Afraid of shocking the delicate sem
sibilties of Great Britain, wanting to
be a world power, wanting to inaugu-
rate this new system of diplomacy in
our country! / want the people Of the
United States to understand distinctly
who is responsible for the humiliation
and disgrace that have been brought
TO the American people. The Repub-
lican party has sanctioned and does
sanction the attitude not only OF this,
but of the previous administration, IN
it's conduct of our foreign affairs. We
have swung further away from Demo-
cratic traditions. from Republican
ideas and from Republican principles
I'm the last five years than I'm the pre-
vious hundred years. Things are now
acceSted, as a matter OF course. that
would have tested the endurance and
shocked the intelligence Of our fore
fathers. all growing out Of this striving
TO lock arms with the great European
powers and become a world power, to
foster this new idea OF diplomacy. sit
ting quietly by and allowing a repre-
sentative Of one great power 10 assem-
bic IN his residence IN the capital Of
the republic the representatives OF
every other great nation and make the
cold-blosded and deliberate demand or
request that they join with him in n
determination arbitrarily and with
force 10 prevent the American people
from accomplishing what they had de-
termined 20 accomplish. IN may be
we'll enough 10 treat the representa- fives
of foreign powers with courtesy and