The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-23
Charges the President of Be- ing an Open Advocate
 of Lynch Law
ALSO PAYS HIS RESPECTS
 10 GENERAL GROSvENOR
Says President InsuIted People of the South By Saying Streak of Bar barism Runs Through
 Their Character.

Washington, April 22.-Late today Presi- dent Roosevelt was assailed bitterly by Mir. Claude Kitchin of North Carolina, who included in his castigation General Gros- venor whom he charged with having hu- initiated Theodore Roosevelt the vice presidential candidate, whcm in a recent speech in the house he had glorified as the worthy successor of Mckinley. MT. Kitchin likened President Roosevelt in this connection to the ant hill taking the place of the mountain; the owls screech taking the place of the tomb 5 symphonies, and to the minnow taking the place of the whale.
 He declared that the President had in- suited the people of the south by saying in one of his publications that throughout southern character there ran a streak of brutal barbarian. He openly charged the President with being the advocate of lynch law and quoted from one of the Presidents books to sustain his asser- tion.
 General Grosvenor admitted that four years ago he opposed the nomination of MT. Roosevelt for President. but said MT. Roosevelt during the campaign had con- eucted himself in a dgnified 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.
 The house proceeded to the consider ation of private pension bills and two hundred and thirty-three were passed in forty-fve minutes. A conference was ordered on the bill to provide a tempo rary government for the Panama canal zone Messrs. Hepburn of Iowa, Lowering of Massachusetts and Adamson of Geor- gia being appointed conferees on the part of the house. Mr. Gresyenor of Ohio called up the bill creating a commission to investigate the American merchant marine.
 kitchln Makes Attack.
 Mr Claude Kitchin, democrat, of North Carolina, strongly assailed Representa- tive Grosvenor and President Roosevelt. General Grosvenor, he said, had glorified President Roosevelt as the worthy suc- cessor of Mckinley, forgetting that dur ing McKinley's last campaign as a con- tributor to the New York Journal, in signed articles. he (Grosvenor) had re- ferred to the President, at that time gov ernor of New York, as a brilliant, erat- tic and curious sort of man." MT. Kitchn charged that MT. Roosevelt, as a candi- date for vice president, was distasteful to MT. Mckinley and challenged MT. Grosvenor to deny 1t, as well as the state- ment that Mr Roosevelt, as vice pres ident was humilated by the friends of Mckinley, including General Grosvenor himself.
 And yet" he said, you men sit here and gulp down everything Roosevelt says and not one of you dare raise his hand in memory of William Mckinley. Me- Kinley had a right to think that Roose- welt would be distasteful to him.
 Consider" he said, 'the amazing spec tacle of any republican in the United States being humiliated by General Gros- venor and contemplate the same mar shalling under his banner the hosts of republicanism with Grosvenor the chief bugle blower"
 To say that Roosevelt filled McKln- ley's place, he declared, was a desecra- tion of McKinleys name. It was, he said a case of "the ant hill taking the place of the mountain; the owls screech taking the place of the tomb's sympho- nies; the minnow taking the place of the whale"
 Refers to RooseveIt's Writing.
 The people of the south, he said, knew that twenty-five years after Appomattox, Roosevelt in one of his publications 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 Confederate soldier. He also re- ferred to another publication of MT. Roosevelts in which he Is quoted as say ing that throughout the southern char acter there ran a streak of coarse and brutal barbarian. He compared the kind, living words of Mckinley, in an address to Confederate veterans to the insulting words of Roosevelt"
 He said that in one of his books Presi- dent Roosevelt deliberately teaches and advocates lynching for the stealing of a 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 con- dem lynching for all crimes because the hand of civilization and Christianity had been lifted against it. No man. look the world over, he said, would condone out rages against women, and yet we don t preach lynching or teach it: but knowing the weakness of human nature, mobs can not be controlled in sparsely settled com munities, where we cannot get sufficient police force cn the spot at once"
 He believes that every democrat and every republican in the south would pause in shame that the President of the United States had scattered books advo .ating lynch law.
 Congress a Herd of Cattle.
 He read from a speech made by Mir. Roosevelt while governor of New York in which he declared Mir. Roosevelt had characterized the congress Of the United States as a herd of cattle" Gaughter on the democratic side followed this re- mark) '"rhe humiliating spectacle" he continued, Ifs that since he has been President he hts treated this republican house as a herd of cattle. and the most humilitating thing about it was that btne republicans allowed 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 on congress 'as his great ranch" with the republicans as his ..-ex-d~sps
 Speaking deliberately. he declared that