The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-04-29
GOES FOR TEDDY.
Kitohin Takes Fall Out of Roosevelt
a d Roasts Grosvenor.
WHAT REPUBLICANS SWALLOW.

Unpalntable Quotations from Presi-
dents Writings Expressing
Opinion of His Present
Champions Cited.
President Roosevelt was assailed
bitterly in the house Friday by Claude
Kitchin of North Carolina, who in
cluded in his castigation Gen. Gros-
venor, whom he charged with having
humiliated Theodore Roosevelt, the
vice presidential Candidate whom in
recent speech in the house he haC
glorified as the worthy successor OF
Mckinley. forgetting that during Nc
Kinley's last campaign as contribu-
tor to the New York Journal in signed
articles he (Grosvenor) had referred to
the president, then governor OF New
York, "as brilliant, erratic and
curious sort Of man." MIR. Kitchin
charged that Mr.. Roosevelt, as a
candidate for vice president, was dis
tasteful to Mckinley and challenged
Mr.. GroSvenor to deny 1t as we'll as
the statement that MIR. Roosevelt as
vice president was humiliated 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 yea dsie5 TaiaE he hand in memory
Of Mckinley" Mckinley had a right
to think that Roosevelt would be dis.
tasteful to him. Contemplate" he
said, the amazing spectacle Of any
Republican in the United States being
humiliated by Gen. Grosvenor and
contemplate this same man marshall
ing under his banner the hosts of Re-
publicans with Grosvenor the chief
bugle blower"
To say that Roosevelt filled Nc
kinley's place, he declared was a
dessecration of McKinley's name. 1t.
was, he said, a case Of ''the ant Fiji
taking the place of the mountain, the
owls screech taking the place Of the
tomb's eymphonies; the rrinnow TAX
ing the place ofathe .wEaIe."
HIS ATTACk5JN MIR. DAVIS.
The people of the south, he said.
knew that 70 years after Apponattox.
Roosevelt in one OF his publications
had declared that until out Of the die
tionary was stricken the word trca.
son Jefferson Davis would be an arch
traitor. That, he said, was a strike at
the whole south and the Confederate
soldiers. He also referred to another
publication Of MIR. RooSevelt's in which
he Is quoJed as saying that through
out southern character there ran a
streak ofcoarse and brutal barbarism.
He compared the kind, loving words
Of Mckinley" in an address to Con-
fsderate 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 If that book
did not have something to do with
stimulating the great people of the
north to lawlesSness. The people of
the south, he said, condemn lynchipg
for all crimes, because the hand of
civilization and Christianity had been
lifted against it. No man the civilized
world over, he salt, ~nuld condone
outrages against women "aud Jet we
don't preach lynching or teach it, but
knowing the weakness of human ma
ture mobS cannot be controlled in
sparSely settled communities where
we cannot get sufficient police force
on the spot at once" He believed
that eve1y Democrat and Republican
in the country would pause in shame
that the president OF the United
States had scattered books adyocatinp
lynch law.
Reading from speech made by MIR.
Roosevelt, governor of New York, he
declared MIR. Roosevelt had character
lzed the congress Of the United States
as 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 the Republican house as a
herd of cattle, and the most humilat-
ing thing about 1t was that the Re-
publicans allowed the president to
treat them as cattle and lay down be-
fore him in his green pastures. " He pro-
voked laughter when he said the presi-
dent looked upon congress as his
great ranch" with the Republicans as
his 'round-ups." Speaking deliber-
ately, he declared that any man who
had such profound contempt for the
legislative branch Of the government
was unfit to be its executive head and
was dangerous man.
FOR GRosvENoR's ENJOYMENT.
He closed by quoting from "Amcri-
can Ideals" in which MIR. Roosevelt, he
alleged, had denounced Gen. Gros-
vcnor by name as a champion of foul
government and dishonest politics. Z"
Then turning to Gen. Grosvenor, he
added: Read that and then read
your recent speech defending the presi-
dent and tell the house that you feel
like 30 cents"
Gen. Grosvenor admitted that four
years ago he opposed the nomination
of Mr.. Roosevelt for vice president,
but said Mr.. Roosevelt during the
campaign had conducted himself in a
digniied manner and had won the
confidence 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 heights
when he declared at Buffalo that he
would carry out the policies of Nc
kinley. 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