The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-23
WARM SPEECH
BY Mr.. KITCHEN
Theodore Roosevelt and Gen
eraI GrOSvenor Shaken Up,
LATTER ATTEMPTS TO REPLY
AWKWARD SITUATION FOR OHIO
WAREHOUSE.

Washington, April 2e.-In the house
late today President Roosevelt was as
sailed bitterly by Claude Kitchen OF
North Carolina. who included i'm his
cdstigatiOn' General Crosvcnor. whom
| ne charged with having inundated
theodore Roosevelt. the vice preSiden-
tlal candidate, whom in recent speech
I'D the house ne had gloriied as the
worthy successor Of Mr.. Mckinley.
General GrOsvenor admitted hat four
years ago he opposed the nomination
of Roosevelt for vice president. but said
Mr. Roosevelt during the campaign had
conducted himself in dignifed man
neT and had won the confidence and
esteem Of the people by his acts from
the time he was elected To preside over
the senate. The Democrats in New
York. he said. had launched a candi-
date for president who did not know
whether he stood on his head or his
heels
Preceding this episode the house de-
bated the bill to create a commission
TO investigate the merchant marine. but
took no action on it.
Kitchens Hot Shot.
Mr. Kitchen strongly assaiIed Repre-
sentative GrosvenOr and President RooSt-
Welt. General Grosvenor. he said. had
glorified President Roosevelt as the
worthy successor Of Mckinley. forgetting
that during Mckinley's last campaign
General GrCSvenOr. as a contributor 10
the New York Journal in signed articles,
mad referred 10 the president. then gov
eruor OF New York, as brilliant. Cr-
ratio and curious sort Of man Mr..
Kitchen charged that Mr. Roosevelt, as
q candidate for vice president. was dis
tasteful to Mr.. Mckinley, and challenged
Mr.. Grosvenor 20 deny it. as well as
the statement that Mr.. Roosevelt as vice
president. was Inundated by the friends
of MCKINLEY, including General eros
Nehor. And yet he said You men sit
here and gulp down everything Roosevelt
says. ana not one Of YOU dares raise his
hand in memory of William Mckinney
Mckinley had right TO think that
Roosevelt would be diStaSteful TO him.
Contemplate he said. the amazing
spectacle OF any Republican in the Unit
"a states betn= Inundated by General
Grosvenor and contemplate this same
man marshalling under his banner the
hosts of Reoublicanism with Grosven0r
the chief bu-ie blower
Minnow and Whale.
To say that Roosevelt filled McKin-
ley's place. he declared. was desecra-
tion Of Mckinley's name. II was, ne
SAID. a cass of the anhill taking the
place Of the mountain. the owls ScreeCh
taking the place Of the tomb's sympho-
mes the minnow taking the place Of the
The people Of the south knew he said.
that twenty-five years after -Appomatt1X
roosevelt i'm one of his publications. had
a+ciared th3t until the work treason was
LricEen from the dictionary jefferson
Davis would be an arch traitor. That.
he said. was a strike. at the south and
me Confederate soldier. He also To-
RooSeVeits in which he said that through
O4I southern character there ran strpak
OF coarse and brutal barbarism. He COM
pared the kind. loving words of McEiu-
ley IN an address 10 Confederate Veter-
ans. TO THE insulting words of Roose-
n 1rl,. lie said that in one Of his books
- ESlaent Roosevelt deliberately teaches
ana advocates lynching for the stealing
OF a raE-tatl Texas pony" He asked If
that book did not have Somtihug to Go
with stimulating the great peOple of fhs
north-to lawlessness.'' The people of The
south, he said. condemned lynching for
an crimes. because the hand Of CiVilizd-
i'h anu Christianity had been lifted
against u No man the civilized world
over. he said. would condone outrageS
against woman. and vet we don't
preach lynohng or teach it, hut know
luS the weakness of human nature mobs
cannot be controlled in sparscly settled
communities where We cannot get Suffi-
lent police force on the spot at once"
lie believed that every Democrat and
republican in the country would pause
IN shame that the president of the United
states had scattered books advocating
Cattle in Congress.
Reading from A speech made nv Mr.
roosevelt while governor Of New York
ne declared Mr.. Roosevelt had character
IZed me members OF congress as "a herd
OF cattle. Laughter on the Democratic
sac followed The humilating spec
tdcle. he continued "iS that since no
mas been president of the United States
ne mas treated this Republican house as
a herd Of cattle. and the most humiIi-
Jung thing about il is that the I}p-
republicans allowed the president 20 treat
in mem bi IS little and lie. down before him
lie provoked laughter when he said
m! .l.e president looked upon congress as
ans as his ''round-uoS "
Speaking deliberately. he declared that
any man who had such profound CON
tempt Tor the legislative branch Of tho
government was unfit to b. rs cxacu
i've head and was dangerous man.
Tie closed by quoting from american
i iutais' II which Mr.. Roosevelt. ne al
ieged mad denounced General Grosveuor
10y name as a champion of foul govern
inent and dishonest politics" Then Turn
tL- 20 GENERAL Grosvenor. he said Read
'udi, ana then read your recent sr,ascn
ntiendlng the president aud tell tLe
mouse that YOU feel like thirty cents. -
Grovesnor's Weak Attempt.
?. replying. General GrOsvenor said that
u was unimportant what he had written
IunF years ago. lie (CirOSvenor) forr,-
wears ago was an opDonont az -,e 49,
nation Of Mr.. Roosevelt At that zinc
~, M "role a popular opinion OF Mr. Roose-
country. In this he made pe-fecfI, Main
inc sentiment at thar time.
And If tho gentleman thinks he can ]
make me apologize for that statement
ne mas got hold Of the wrong man.
ADDED Mr. Grosveuor.
Mr- Roosevelt had written of hin,
I@roSyenor) what he had right to saw.
stra--. - wv
Il never said he was distasteful to mo
rs a candidate said Mr.. Gro~vpnOr
Alr Roose.alt was put ON the ticket .
with Ny Mckinley. but 10 WAS Mckinley
vs. no got az the abuse" General ETosye- .
nor SAID that no man on the sfinp ever
made q better impression on the country
mat did Mr. Roosevelt i'm the CAMPAIGN
N 1900 His diguified manner Of presid /
ug over the senate and his mOdesty with
senator's was cOmmendable. Then came
.he crisis in his life-the death of Presi- .
ieut. Mckinley
Eats Former Words.
And then ii was said Mr.. Grosvenor.
that the tears of the Democrats began
10 flow The statement Of Roosevelt {
AZ the bier OF Mckinley that ne would
AIRY out the policies Of Mckinley saved
untold money losses in this country L /
stand here today friend of Mckinley.
and / say that there is not one Of Nc
I\inley's friends willing to say that they
nave not always been treated with kind I