The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-23

ma, VINO included IN his caStlgatlOn
General Grosvenor, whom he charged
with having Inundated Theodore Roose-
welt, the Weep Presidential candidate,
whom in recent speech in the House
he had glorifed as the worthy successor
of Mckinley, forgetting that during Nc
Kinley's iast campaign as d contributor
to the New York Journal in signed ar
ticles he (Grosvenor) had referred 20 the
President, then governor of New York
las a brilliant, erratic and curious sort
of a man" Mr.. Kitchin charged that Mr..
Roosevelt as a candidate for Vice -Presi-
dent was distasteful to Mr.. Mckinley and
challenged Mr.. Grosvenor to deny it, a.
well as the statement that Mr.. Roosevelt
as Vice-President was Inundated by the
friends of Mckinley including General
Grosvenor himself
And yet," he said, ''you men sit here
and gulp down every thing Roosevelt
says and not one OF you dares raise his
hand in memory of William Mckinley"
Mckinley had a right to think that Roose-
welt would be distasteful to him. Con
template he said, 1.-The amazing spec,
tacle of any Republican in the United
States being Inundated by General Gros'
venor and contemplate this same man
marshalling under his banner the hosts
of Republicanism with Grosyenor, the
chief bugle blower"
To say that Roosevelt filled McKlnley's s
place, he declared was desecration ol
McKinley's name. 1t was he said a case
of 1.-The ant hill taking the place OF the
mountain; the owls screech taxing tne
place of the tomb's symphonies; the
minnow taking the place of the whale.
Twenty-Five years after AppomattoX,
Roosevelt in one of his publications had
declared that until out of the dictionary
was stricken the word treason, JeHersoh
Davis would be an arch traitor. That, ne
said, was a strike at the whole Soutn
and the Confederate soldiers. He also
referred to another publication OF MT.
Rooseyelt's in which he is quoted as
saving that throughout Southern charac-
ter there ran a sreak of coarse and brutal
barbarism He compared 'the kind, low
ing words of Mckinley" in an address to
Confederate veterans, to the insulting
words of Roosevelt He said that in one
of his books, President Roosevelt "deliber'
ately teaches and advocates lynchngs
for the stealing of a rag-tail Texas pony.
He asked if that book did not have some
thing to do with stimulating the great
people of the North to alwlessness.' The
people of the South, he said, condemn
lynching for all crimes, because the mana
of Civilization and Christianity had been
lifted against it. No man the civilized
world over, however, he said, would con-
done outrages against women, Hand yet
knowing the weakness OF human nature
mobs cannot be controlled in sparsely set
tied communities where we cannot get
sufficient police force on the spot at
once" He believed that every Democrat
and Republican IN the country Woui
rause in shame THAI the President OF the
United States had scattered DOCKS ad-
vocating lynch law.
Reading from speech made by Mr.
Roosevelt while Governor of New York,
he declared Mr.. Roosevelt had character
ized the Congress of the United States
as a herd of cattle" Laughter en- the
Democratic side followed. ne huIhil-
iating spectacle" he continued, is tnat
since he has been President OF the UNI
tod States he has treated this Republican
House as a herd of cattle and the most
humiliating thing about it was that the
Republicans allowed the President 10
treat them as cattle and lay down be-
fore him in his green pastures. he pro
voked laughter WHEN he SAID the Presl-
dent looked upon Congress 'as his great
ranch" with the Republicans as his
nro,,nd ms Speaking deliberately, he
declared that any man who had such pro
found conte,/pt for the legislative branch
of the government was unfit to be It's
executive head, and was d dangerous
man.
He closed by quoting from American
Ideals in which MI. hooSekell, NC Oh
Legged had denounced General Grosvenor
by name las a champion of foul govern
ment and dishonest politics Ihen turn
ing to General Grosvenor he added
.sRead that and then read your recent
sneech defending the President and tell
the House that you feel like thirty
cents -. c
General Grosvenor admitted that lour
years ago he opposed the nomination cl
Mr. Roosevelt for Vice-Presldcnt, bus
said Mr.. Roosevelt during the campaign
had conducted himself in a dlgnlfied man
ner and had won the confidence ana
esteem of the people by his acts from
the time he was elected TO President over
the Senate and that he reached the SUI
preme heights when he declared at Bur
Ialo that ne would carry out the poilcles
of Mckinley. Since then the President
had grown to be one of the greatest men
of the country. The President, ne sad,
was more dangerous to the Democratic
parry than any other man today: Inc
Democrats in New York he SAID, mao
launched a candidate for PreCident VINO
did not know where he stood, on ms
head or his heels. -
Preceding this episode, the House de-
bated the bill to create commission 10
inyestigate the merchant marine but tooa
no action on it.
The House adjourned until tomorrow.