The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-14
Term Applied by Congressman
Wheeler to Attitude
OF United States to European
Countries in Recent Times.
SPEECH AIMED AT HAY.
Has Faith That Roosevelt VIII
"BOot Him Out"
Refers to Prince Henry as q
Little Dutchman.'

Washington, Feb. 14.-When the
house met today it was agreed that
when it adjourn today it De 20 meet
Oh Monday next.
Mir. Payne, the floor leader of the
majority, gave notice that on Monday
he would cali 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 on a pension bill,
Mr.. Wheeler lHy.) created a sensation
by speech denouncing the attitude of
the administration and the state de-
partment in connection with what he
termed the recent exposure" of the at
titude of Great Britain towards the
house Mr.. Wheeler eXcoriated what
toward European fiunkeyism." Until
1896, he said, ALI Americans had glo-
ried in the splendid isolation of the re-
public and its determination to hold
aloof from foreign entangling alliances
Less than five years ago, he declared,
a president legged on by the pit1able
hunkey in the state department" had
stretched his arms across the seas in
aduIation to the people of Great Britain
and today the government was huggtng
to its bosom a nation that since the
battle of Yorktown had systematically
and persistently plotted our doWnfdtl.
He sneered at the shoulder-strapped,
gold lace fiunkeys" who were to be dis
patched across the Atlantic to bend the
knee to and kiss the hand of the Eng
liSh king, whose government, he de-
clared, had atten pied to form coal-
ton of European governments to
thwart us while we were seeking TO
strike the shackles from Cuba Hon
est. straightforward American diplo-
macy, he declared, had given way to
European diplomacy. He said he Ie-
spected the present occupant Of the
a
straightforward for many of his party
colleagues, slightly quixotic, perhaps,
and hasty tempered, but honest ana
brave enough, he thought, to boot out
that man in the state department who
had brought us to this humiliating po-
sition.s,
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 Tthis man
Pauncefote" was true, he declared, ne
ought to be shipped across the wafer,
and 1.-The sooner the better"
Referring to the report that {. MEM
Der of the presidents family was to at
tend the coronation, Mr.. Wheeler sd1d
it was perhaps unbecoming to allud9
to it. Nevertheless, he said, he consld-
cred it most unfortunate and unprece-
dented and to be lamented by every
liberty loving American" 1t was oue
one more link in the chain.
Mr. Wheeler then turned to the pros
pective visit of Prince Henry. With a
gesture of contempt he declared that
the European maniacs were falling over
one another to see the little Dutch
man." There were a thousand Amerl-
cans following the plow,' he said, who
were as honest and as noble as he
Why he asked, "should the American
people give heed to this tiunkeyism or
the present administration? We should
treat our visitors politely, but why fdlA
down and worship them?"
The whole house was aroused by Mr..
Wheelers philippe. Several times the
Democratic side burst into applause.
AS he was concluding Mr.. Grosvenor
(Ohio) asked if Mr. Wheeler had been
living at the time of the visit of Lafay-
ette. as the representative of the king
of France, where he would have opposed
the reception accorded the Frenchman
by Washington.
Il should have been proud to receive
the Marquis de Lafayette" replied Mr..
Wheeler. HE helped to fight for our
liberties" Democratic applause.)
Mr. Gillett CMass.) called attention to
the fact that President Buchanan, q
Democrat, had received the Prince or
Wales.
That was a different thing" retorted
Mr. Wheeler amid Republican jeers.
Continued on Sixth Page.)