Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-04-26
MAKES ATTACK
ON PRESIDENT
SOUTHERN CONGRESSMAN USES
BITTER LANGUAGE.
CALLS HIM A DANGEROUS MAN
Says He Has Offered Insults to the
South, and Is an Advocate Of
Lynch Law - Gen. Gros-
venor's Response.

Washington, April 23.-Late Friday
President Roosevelt was assailed bit
terly by Mr.. Claude Kitchen, of North
Carolina, who included in his castiga-
ton Gen. Grosvenor, whom he charged
with having Inundated Theodore
Roosevelt, the vice presidential oandi-
date, whom in recent speech in the
house he had glorified as the worthy
successor of Mckinley Mr.. Kitchen
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's
symphonies, and to the minnow taking
the place of the whale. He declared
that the president had insulted the peo-
pie OF the south by saying in one Of
his publications that throughout South.
ern character there ran streak Of bru-
tai ,barbarism. He openly charged the
president with being the advocate Of
lynch law, and quoted from one Of the
presidents books to sustain his asser-
ton. In his opinion the president,
whom he said while governor OF New
York, had styled the members OF con-
gress as herd of cattle, was unfit to
mold Office, and a dangerous man.
Grosvenor Replies.
Gen. Grosvenor admitted that four
years ago he opposed the nomination
of Mr.. Roosevelt for vice president, but
said Mr.. Roosevelt during the cam
paign had conducted himself in q dig
nified manner and had won the coz
fidence 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 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 dan
gerous to the democratic party than
any other man to-day. The democrats
in New York, he said, had launched
candidate for president who did not
know whether he stood on his head or
his heels Preceding this episode the
house debated the bill to create COM
mission to investigate the merchant
marine, but took no action on it.
In the Senate.
The general deficiency appropriation
bill occupied the major portion of the
senate's time Friday, but before it was
taken up Senator Gallinger spoke at
some length on the tariff policy Of the
republican party. While the reading of
the deficiency bill was in progress.
Senator Cullom delivered speech on
the house Chinese exclusion rider. He
expressed the opinion that there should
be explicit legislation reenacting ex-
listing exclusion laws, but opposed the
remaining portion of the house pro-
vision and moved to strike 1t out. Dur
ing the day the attention of the SEN
ate was brought to the amendment Of
the house to the bill for the govern
ment Of the canal zone, and some en-
barrassment was created by naming
Senator German as democratic conferee
on behalf of the senate in place Of Sem
ator Morgan, who is the senior demo-
cratic member of the committee on in
teroceanic canals, with the result that
both senators declined to serve.