The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-15
THE KENTUCKY REPRESENTATIvE
SCORES SECRETARY OF STATE
AND AMERICAN DIPLOMACY
DUBs HAY "PITIABLE FLUNKY''
Truculency and Sycophancy of Rep
resentatives of United States Have
Made Nation the Laughing
Stock of Europe.
GOOD WORD FOR ROOSEVELT

WASHINGTON, Feb 14.-The monotonv
OF private pension day of the house
was enAvened today by a sensational
speech by Mr.. Wheeler, of Kentucky. in
denunclatlon of what he denominated
'Hunkyism" to foreign countries. He
TOOK the recent statements emanatIny
from continental cabinets regarding the
attitude of Great Britain during the Span
lsh war as text for a wholesale attack
upon the trend of our recent diplomacy
He severely scored Secretary HAY and
declared that if Lord Pauncefote had
sought, as was alleged, to circumvent us
curing the war of 1888, the sooner he was
shipped across the seas the better. lie
also criticised the president for his re-
ported intention to send his daughter to
the coronation of King Edward, and pro-
tested against the official reception of
Prince Henry. He said in part:
Il have read with lively interest the re-
sent exposure and criticism in the press
OF the attitude of Great Britain and the
other European powers toward the repub-
TIC during the war of 189S Divisions of
pupl1c sentiment among the people of
the United States are to be desired. But
until the Inauguration OF the president In
1891, there never was any division of
sentiment upon one great question. and
that was the splendid isolation of the re-
aloof from all entangling alliances with
foreign powers. Then the belief and fixed
judgment of well-nigh every patriotic
cltlzeh was overturned and for the first
tlme we witnessed a president of the
United States, aided and egged on by a
pltiable f1unky in the state oepartment
stretching his arms across the water to
embrace the historic enemies of the
american people.
Laughing Stock of Europe.
From that hour until now, we have
made ourselves a laughing stock at every
court in Europe, because of our flunISv-
ism, our truculency and the disgracefu!
Sycophancy 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 pitiable spectacle
is presented that we have been hugging
to our bosom during the last five wears a.
nation that has Systematically and per-
sistently attempted to destroy the lib
critics "a the American people since the
battle of Yorktown. We find now, despite
the TACT that the present administration is
afraid, even in the face Of its great ma
Jority, to ask an appropriation of $6O, GOO
or 100000 to pay some shoulder pped
and goldlaced funky to cross the water
and bow the knee and kiss the hand of
SottA0 A1iiSl1oA c-SlS, lndI WnHe TINS V&1E
p1tidbIe spectacle is being presented to us,
1t is being heralded abroad that, in 1883,
when we were seeking to strike the shack
les OF serfdom from off the heels of Cuba,
that nation was then secretly in our own
capitol attempting to form coalition of
the great powers of the world to prevent
that interposition. And it has not caused
ripple in diplomatic circles. 1t has been
the boast of America, diplomacy to the
contrary notwithstanding, that when our
state department said no. we meant mo-
and When we said yes, we meant yes
1t remained for the present and the just
closed Republican administration to in
augurate a system of European dipfom-
acy, with a kid-gloved, velvet-tongued
gentleman, who had to travel out of his