Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-15
.NAEEL[R'S v 5 ATTACK ON HAY.
The Theme Being the Exsposure Of the
Attitude Of Great Britain Toward
United States.
Condemns What He Terms Modern
Dispersion Toward European
{. Flunkeyism''.
Honest Straightforward American Di-
plomacy had Given Way to
I ssS% :. European Diplomacy.

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 pension
bill Mr.. Wheeler (Ky.) created SEN
sation by a speech denouncing the at
titude of the administration and the
state department in connection with
what he termed the recent exposure of
the attitude of Great Britain toward
the United States.
Mr.. Wheeler condemned what he
termed the modern disposition toward
European flunkeyism." Until 1896,
he said all Americans had gloried in
the splendid isolation of the republic
and it's determination to hold aloof
from foreign entangling alliances.
Less than five years ago, he declared,
q president, egged on by the pit;able
funkey in the state department, had
stretched his arms across the seas
In adulation to the people of Great
Britain and today the government was
hugging to its bosom nation that
since the battle of Yorktown had sys-
tematically and persistently plotted
our downfall He sneered at the.
should gold lace funk
eys" who were to be despatched
across the Atlantic to bend the knee
to and kiss the hand OF the English
king, whose government, he declared, ),
had attempted to form a coalition Of
European governments to thwart us
while we were seeking to
Strike the shackles From Cuba.
Honest, straightforward American di-
plomacy, he declared, had given way
to European diplomacy. He said he
respected the present occupant of the
White House. He was, he said, too.
strai ghtforward for many Of his party,
colleagues, slightly quixotic, perhaps,
brave enough, he thought, to boot.
who had brought us to this humiliat-,
Ing 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. If half that was said of this
man Pauncefote" was true, he de-
clared, he. ought to be shipped across
the water and 4:the sooner the better"
Referring to the report that member
of the presidents family was to at
tend the coronation Mr.. Wheeler said
1t was perhaps unbecoming to allude
to it. Nevertheless he said he consid-
cred it most unfortunate and unpre-
cedented and to be lamented by every
liberty-loving American" It was but
one more link in the chain. Mr..
Wheeler then turned to the proposed
visit Of Prince Henry. With gesture
Of contempt he declared that the
European maniacs were falling over
each other to see the little Dutch
man. = There were thousands Of
Americans following the plow, he said.
who were as honest and as noble as
he.''
Why" he asked, Should the Amer
lean people give heed to this funkey-
ism 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.. Grosvenor
Coz asked If Mr.. Wheeler had been
living at the time Of the visit Of La
fayette as the representative of the
king of France, whether he would
have opposed the reception accorded
the Frenchman by Washington.
should have been proud to re-
ceive the Marquis de Lafayette" re-
piled Mr.. Wheeler. He came to fight
( for our liberty. democratic APP
plausel. ss
Mr.. Gillett (Mass. called attention
Z to the fact that President Buchanan, q
Democrat, had received the Prince Of
Wales. i
"That was different thing re.
torted Mr.. Wheeler amid Republican
4 ieers. He came In an official ca
pacity as the heir to the. British
throne 4S,5
This statement Mr.. Grosvenor de-
MED. declaring that the prince came
fncognito and was received and enter
tanned at the White House by Dem
Dcratic president.
If the gentleman is correct an
nounced Mr.. Wheeler, then con-
denim the action Of President Buchan-
an. ."s
Mr.. Boutell fIlls.) vigorously de-
tended the head Of the state depart
ment, No man In recent years had
reflected such credit upon our dipIo-
matte affairs as he. He referred es-
pecially TO the Chinese crisis and said
his acts throughout. that time had won
the commendation Of the world. Mr..
Roufell said ha could not sit silent