The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-23
KITCHIN ROAST
FOR ROOSEVELT
THE PRESIDENT is SCORED
BY CONGRESSMAN, WHO RAE<ED
OVER THE ASHES OF THE PAST.

North Carolina Member Reminded
GrOsvenOr, Who So warmly Sup
ports Roosevelt Now, of the Differ
ent Attitude He Took Four Years
AgO-Kitchin shows That ROOse-
welt Expoundcd Lynching Doe
trine-AdVOcated Lynch Law.
Washington. April 22.-President
Roosevelt was bitterly assailed in the
House to-day by Claude Kitchin of
North Carolina, who included in his
castigatlon Gen. Grosvenor. whom he
charged with having humiliated Theo-
dore Roosevelt, the vice presidential
candidate, whom, in a recent speech In
the House, he had glorhied as the,
worthy successor of Mckinley, forget
ting that during McKinley's last cam
paign, as a contributor to the New
York Journal, in signed articles. he
(Grosvenor) had referred to the Pres
ident then Governor of New York, "as
a brilliant, erratic and curious sort of
a man."
Mr.. Kitchin charged that Mr.. Roose-
welt as candidate for Vice President
was distasteful to Mr.. Mckinley, and
challenged Mr.. Grosvernor to deny ii,
as we'll as the statement that Mr..
Roosevelt as Vice President was hu-
inflated by the friends of Mckinley,
including Gen. Grosvenor himself.
And yet" he said, you men sit here
and gulp down everything Roosevelt
says and not one of you dares raise
his hand in memory Of William Nc
Kinley. Mckinley had a right to
think that Roosevelt would be dis
tasteful to him.
Contemplate" he said. "the amaz-
ing spectacle of any Republican in the
United States being Inundated by
Gen. Grosvenor and contemplate this
same man marshalling under his ban
ner the hosts of Republicans with
Grosvenor the chief bugle blower"
To say that Roosevelt filled McKin-
| leys place, he declared. was a desc
Grafton of McKinley's name. 1t was.
| he said, a case of the ant hill taking
| the place Oh the IlOulldlils lIlS owl .
screech taking the place of the tomb's
syphonies; the minnow taking the
place of the whale"
An Advocate of Bynching.
The people of the South. he said,
pomattox Roosevelt, in one of his pub
locations, had declared that until out
of the dictionary was stricken the word
| treason, Jefferson Davis would be an
arch traitor That he said, was a
! strike at the whole South and the Con-
| federate soldiers.
He also referred to another publi-
cation of Mr. Roosevelt in which he is
quoted as saying that throughout
| Southern character there ran a streak
of coarse and brutal barbarism. He
compared 1.-The kind loving words Of
Mckinley" IN an address to Confed-
crate Veterans to 'the insulting words
of Roosevelt"
He said that in one of his books
President Roosevelt deliberately
teaches and advocates lynchings for
the stealing of rag tail Texas pony"
He asked II that book did not have
something to do with stimulating the
great people of the North to lawless-
ness" The people of the South. he
said. condemn lynching for all crimes.
because the hand of civilization and
Christianity had been lifted against.
No man the civilized world over. how
ever. ha said, would condone outrages
against women. land yet we dont
nreach lynching or teach it, but know
ing the weakness of human nature,
mobs cannot be controlled in sparsely
settled communities where we cannot
get sufficient police force on the spot
at once.
He believed that every Democrat and
Republican in the country would pause
in shame that the President OF the
United States had scattered books ad-
vocating lynch law.
Congress n Herd of Cattle.
Reading from a speech made by Mr.
Roosevelt Governor of New York, ne
declared Mr.. Roosevelt had character
lied the Congress of the United states
as a "herd of cattle" Laughter on
the Democratic side followed. The
humiliating spectacle" he continued,
'is that since he has been president
of the United States he has treated
this Republican House as nero OF
cattle. and the most humiliating thing
about 1t was that the Republicans al
low the President to treat them as
cattle and laid down before him in his
green pastures.
He provoked laughter when he said
the President looked upon Congress as
"his great ranch" with the Republt-
cans as his "round ups" Speaking
deliberately, he declared that any man
who had such profound contempt for
| the legislative branch of the govern
ment was unfit to be its executive
| head and was a dangerous man.
He closed by quoting from 'Amert-
| ran Ideals" in which MIR. Roosevelt,
he alleged had denounced Gen. Gros-
venor by name "as a champion of foul
government and dishonest poltles.
Then. turning to Gen. Grosvenor, he
added:
"Read that and then read your re-
cent speech defending the President
and tell the House that you feel like
thirty cents"
says He Has Improved.
Gen. Grosvenor admitted that four
years ago he opposed the nomination
of Mr. Roosevelt for Vice president,
but said Mr.. Roosevelt during the cam
p9ign had conducted himself in a dig
nified manner and. had won the cCnfi-
dence and esteem of the people by his
acts from the time he was elected to
preside over the Senate, and that he
reached the supreme nights when he
declared at Buffalo that he would car
ry out the policies of Mckinley. Since
then the President had grown to be
one of the great men Of the country.
The President. he said, was more
dangerous to the Democratic party
than any other man to-day. The Dem
ocrats in New York, he said, had
! launched a candidate for President
who did not know where he stood. on
his head or his heels.