The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-17
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DOCUMENT NUMBER SIX
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in the. Ca1npaigr1C contains
Kittens Speech.
DOCUMENT NUMBER SIX

tFroni Our Regular Correspondent,)
sJ WASHINGTON, d. G., July Little
4 Democratic Congressional Committee Isl
overwhelmed with requests for copies Of.
the speech ma do by Representative Claude
Kitchin on President Roosevelt at tho
last session, and also for the ono made by
Representative Fitzgerald, Of New York,
attacking tho record Of the President. The
two speeches have been combined In ono.
document, known as No. 6. A half mil
I! lion copies have been printed by the COM
mittec and are being sent out. 1t was
stated by Secretary Edwards to-day that
this Immense number would probably not
meet the demand, and that another sup
ply would probably nave to be struck
off.
The Republicans are very bitter their
characterization OF the wide circulation
which the committee ia giving the spseela y
es. They denonnce them as personal and
/, cay that the Democrats arc finging mud
u IN using them. VI II S s8s &
What Grosvenor Said.
The joke Of the natter.is that Mr..
y kitchin devoted himself entirely to quot
Ing from the published works OF President
3 ing for horse stealing and denounced the
4 characters Sof the greatest Of our Presi-
s. dents. The remainder OF the speech Is
\ made up from the articles which General
Grosvenor, one of.the Republican leaders
K OF the House, wrote to the New York
journal. while acting as the corresponds
ent OF that paper. at the Philadelphia
s& Convention. which nominated Mckinley
4 and Roosevelt In 1901 Mr.. Kitchin al-5
Sludcd to the fact that there wa s no man
& In the country 50 willing to attribute all
the virtues to the President as General
4 Grosyenor now Is. and then proceeded ito
A quote from Grosyenor's newspaper arr,
A tlcles. Il Here Is one Of the letters to the
Is 3 ournal. which Is quoted In the speech,
There Is something new under the;
u sun. We have a brilliant, erratic. Curl
Y GUS sort Of a mar. hose friends are try
Ing to promote him. His enemies are;
a trying to destroy him and d great herd of
a selfish politicians are trying to use him
& for heir own selfish and shameful ends, !"
4 and apparently not one OF them n either
x friend nor selfish peraon. seems to have
the slightest care for his welfare That.
man is 7 heodore Roosevelt, Governor .of5
4 New York. $35 ~ s. ~ SSsss$3
It Is said that last tight he shouted
/. and screamedSa nd danced III the meet
ing OF the New York delegation and
said: 81 Y am saved / am saved = Saved
~ from whom 2 Saved from the men who
want to get rid OF him? Is that Il ?s$s
Saved from the men who iinjudic iously
.8 let their friends for him want to see ms
him nomina ted Is "a that It? Saved s
81 from the men who are fighting over II
& him as a bone of con tention-one for ~
NIX his defeat and another for his eleva- n
II ton. and neither one cares for him?
ssss$fI rs that 1t? It Is coolly' and calmly +
admitted. and not denied when i Is
n charged, by a certain grea t force In
i583s New York, and then In the New York
delegation. that they are opposed to %
4 Roosevelt for Governor CAUSE: they
81 Is n OF think he IS, the PROPER man for
the place. and because he does lot SUI
them. Therefore, they are Hing to s
push him orr and dump him upon the s&
presidential ticke.. upon the Sole and Il
sordid interest OF: themselves and Atheir Il
own schemes OF politics. Hore he ITS. M
Suppose he should be nominated for
Vice President tomorrow. w ha twill 8i
be said OF him That either he was q
dishonest man or else that he did not NJ
Is want the place, and In this last in
stance 1t would he said OF h IN that ne,
had no power Of his own. 10 vii no Ri
Il a voice !; that he was simply taken pos
a session OF by the men " no hat ted $hlnl,s
who were opposed 4 to him, and forced
into the position in order that they 4
w. might get rid OF him s|8SSi
Makes Them Vince. s3
may be. easily Imagined that the
& Iaepublcans winceiat tho wide circulation
OF such matter, coming as 1t does from
II a wheel horse of the party, but u was
& not expected that they would charge that
B it was OF too extensively personal nature
TO be used In the campaign General
cirosvenor said what almost any DEM M.
ocrat said. @Jis ~; AZ
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