Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-14
WHEELER SCORES RAY
Kentucky Member Makes a Sen.
sational Speech in the House
Of Representatives.
Calls Hay pitiable Flunkey Who
Fawns at the Feet Of King
Edward.
sneers at the "Flunkeys" Who
Are to Attend the Coming
Coronation.

Washington, Feb. 14.-When the
house met today Payne floor leader OF
the majority gave notice that on Mon
day he would call up the bill for repeal
of the war revenue taxes. The house
then went into committee of the whole
pension bills.
During the debate upon the pension
bill, WHEELER. of Kentucky. created a
sensation by speech denouncing the
attitude of the administration and the
state department in connection with
what he termed the recent Exposure
of the attitude of Great Britain" to-
ward the United States.
Wheeler excoriated what he termed
the modern disposition toward Eur
opean fiunkeyism. Until 1896. he said.
all Americans had gloried in the splen-
did isolation of the republic and its
determination to hold aioof from for
eign entangling alliances. In less than
five years. he declared, the president,
legged on by pitiable flunkey 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 the nation that since the battle
of Yorktown had Systematically
plotted our downfall. He sneered
at the shoulder strapped gold lace
fiunkeys" who We're to be dispatched
across the Atlantic to bend the knee
to and kiss the hand of an English
king, whose government he declared,
had attempted to form coalition OF
European governments to thwart us
while we We're seeking to strike the
shackles from Cuba. Honest, straight
forward American diplomacy, he de-
clared. had given way to European
diplomacy. He said he respected the
present occupant of the white house.
He was, he said, too straightforward
for many of his party colleagues.
slightly quixotic perhaps and hasty
tempered but he was honest and brave
enough. he thought, to boot out that
man in the state department who had
brought us to this humiliating pos
ition."
Turning to England's war in South
Africa he denounced her tyranny and
the part we had in 1t in allowing the
war material to be shipped from our
shores. If half Of what is said of this
man Pauncefote is true" he declared,
"he ought to be shipped across the
water and the sooner the better" Re-
ferring to the report that a member of
the presidents family was to attend the
coronation Wheeler said 1t was perhaps
unbecoming to allude to it, nevertheless
he considered 1t. most unfortunate
and unprecedented and to be lamented
by every liberty loving American" 1t
was but one more link in the chain.
visit of Prince Henry. With ges-
ture of contempt he declared that the
European maniacs were falling over
each other to see the Little Dutch
man. . Why he asked. should
American people give heed to this
funkeyism in the present administra-
tion. We should treat our visitors po-
litely. but why fall down and worship
then?" The whole house was aroused
by Wheeler's philippe. Several times
the democratic side burst into applause.
the head the state department. No
man In recent years had reflected such
credit upon our diplomatic affairs as
he. He referred especially to the Chi
nese crisis and said his acts thruout
that time had won the comnendation
of the world. The excitement then
subsided and consideration of the pen
sion bills was resumed