The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-26
1T WAS WARM
Plucky Claude Kitchin Assailed
Roosevelt and Grosyenor Straight
From the Shoulder I'm the House
Yesterday-Said the Forme Had
Been Distastcfu1 to Mckinley-De-
nounced Roosevelt Bitterly For His
Vile SANDER Against the Immortal
jefferson Davis.

W~aShlngtOn, Aprll 2Z.-PreS1dent
Roosevelt was assailed bitterly in the
House by Claude Kitchin. of North
Carolina, who included in his casti-
CATION General Grosvenor, whom he
charged with having Inundated The
odore Roosevelt, the vice-presidential
candidate, whom in q recent speech
in the House he had glorifed as the
worthy successor of Mckinley, for
getting that during McKinley's last
campaign as a contributor to the
New York Journal in signed articles,
he (Grosvenor) had referred to the
President, then Governor of New
York, as a brilliant, erratic and Gu
rious sort of a man."
Mr.. Kitchin charged that Mr..
Roosevelt, as a candidate for vice
president. was distasteful to Mr..
Mckinley, and challenged Mr.. Gros-
n to deny it, Is we'll as the state
ment that Mr.. Roosevelt. as vice
president, was Inundated by the
friends of Mckinley. including Cen
eral 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 Mckinley"
Mckinley had a right to think that
Roosevelt would be distasteful to
him"
Contemplate" he said, 1.-The amaz-
ing spectacle Of any Republican in
the United States being Inundated
by General Grosvenor, and contem-
-Intz tbSo nr0 nan n Sha1InO mn
der his banner the'hosts of Republic
canism with Grosyenor the chief bugle
blower"
To say that Roosevelt filled Mckin-
ley's place, he declared, was a desc
Grafton Of McKinley's name. 1t was,
he said. a case of 1.-The ant hill TAX
ing the place of the mountain; the
owls screech taking the place of the
tomb'S symphonies; the minnoW TAX
ing the place of the whale"
The people Of the south, he said,
remembered that twenty-five years
after AppomattoX Roosevelt, in n
of his publications, had declared that
until out of the dictionary was strick-
en- the word treason, 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
Mr.. Roosevelt's, in which he is quoted
as saying that throughout southern
character there ran a streak OF coarse
and brutal barbarism.
He 1.-The kind and loving
words of Mckinley" in his address to
Confederate veterans, to the insult
ing words of Roosevelt"
He said that in one of his books
President Roosevelt deliberately
teaches and advocates ~lynchings 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 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
it. Nc man the civilized world over,
however. he said, would condone out
rage against women, land yet we
don't preach lynching or teach 1t,
but knowing the 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 thu country would pause in shame
that the President of the United States
had scattered books advocating lynch
law.
Reading from a speech made by
Mr.. Roosevelt while Governor of New
York, he declared Mr.. Roosevelt had
characterized the Congress of the
United States as a herd of cattle
Laughter on the Democratic side fol-
lowed. 1.-The h~umiliating spectacle
he continued, lis tina since he has
been President of the United State:
ne has treated his House as a hero
of cattle, and the most humiliatins
thing about it was that the Repubh'
cans allow the President to treat then
as cattle and lay down before him IL
his pastures"
He provoked laughter when he sait
the President looked upon Congress
las his great ranch" with the Repub
licans as his round ups" Speaking
deliberately, he declared that an.
man who had such profound contemp
for the legislative branch of the gov
!, eminent was unfit to be its executive
head. and was a dangerous man.
He closed by quoting from Amer
fcan Ideals" in which Mr.. Roosevelt
ne alleged. had denounced Genera
Grosvenor by name las champion o
foul government and dishonest poll
tics"
Then. turning to General Grosve
nor, he added: Read that and the
read your recent speech defendin
the President. and tell the House tina
you feel k thirty cents"
General Grosvenor admitted thu
four years ago he opposed the nomins
ton OF Mr. Roosevelt for President, b,
said Mr.. Roosevelt during the a
paign had conducted himself in a dign
fled manner and had won the confident
and esteem OF the people by his &C
from the time he was elected to presto
over the Senate n that he reache
the supreme heights when ne declare
at Buffalo hat he would carry out RI
policies OF Mckinley. Since then I'll
President had grown to be one Of II
greatest men of the country. The Pre-
ident. he said. was more dangerous