The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-23
MIR. KITCHJN AFTER II GCALPS Excoriates syaooseyelt and zosvenor. THEIR vrEWoF EACH OTHER President and Congressman
 Not Always Friends. Ohio Man Rises in His Seat and Says What Was Written in Past
 Does Not Apply to
 Present.
THEIR vlEW0F EACH OTHER

Washington. April 22.-Late today President Roosevelt was assailed by Claude Kitchin (N. O who included in his castisation General Grosvenor, whom he charged with having humiliated Theo. roosevelt, the Vice-Presidential candi- date. whom. in a recent speech in the House. he had glorified as the worthy successor of Mckinley
 Mir. Kitchin likened President Rooseve,t Tn this connection to the ant hill taking the place of the mountain; the owls screech taking the place of tomb.s sym phonies. and to the minnow taking the place of the whale. He declared that the President had insulted the peopie or the South by saying in one of his publi- cations that throughout Southern char acter there ran streak of brutal bar barism. He openly charged the Presi- dent with being the advocate of lynch law and quoted from one of the Presi- dents books to sustain his assertion.
 General Grosvenor admitted that four years ago he opposed the nomination of Roosevelt for President. but said Mir Roosevelt during the campaign had con- ducted himself in a dignified 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.
 MT. Kitchin's Speech.
 Claude Kitchen Dem.. N. C.) strongly assafled Representative Grosvenor and President Roosevelt. General Grosvenor he said had glorifed President Roosevelt as the worthy successor of Mckinley forgetting that during McKinley's last campaign as a contributor to The New York Journal in signed articles, he (Grosvenor) had referred to the President at that time Governor New York as a brilliant. curious sort of man.
 Mir. Kitchin. charged that Mir. Roose- welt, as candidate for Vice President, was distasteful to Mir. Mckinley. and chal- lenged Mir. Grosvenor to deny if, as welt as the stntesnent that Mir Roosevelt as Vice-Prcsident was humillated by the friends of Mckinley, including General Grosvenor himself.
 "And yet" he said. ''you men ait here and gulp down everything Roosevelt aays and not one of you dare raise his hand in memory of William Mckinley. Mc- Kinley had right to think Roosevelt would be distasteful to him.
 Contemplate" he said, 'the amazing spectacle of another Republican in the United States being humiIiated by Gen eral Grosvenor and contemplate this same man marshalling under his banner the hosts of Republicanism with Grosvenor the chief bugle blower"
 Ant Hill and Mountain.
 To say that Roosevelt filled McKinley's place, he declared, was a desecration of McKinley's name. It was he said a case of ''the ant hill taking the place of the mountain; the owls screech talk ing the place of the tomb's symphonies; the minonw taking the place of the whale"
 The people of the South, he said. knew that twenty-five years after Appomatox, Roosevelt in one of his publications had declared that until out of the dictionary was stricken the word treason Jeffer- son 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 quoted as saying that throughout Southern character there ran a streak of coarse and brutal barbarism He compared 'the kind. loving 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."
 Lynchings in South.
 The people of the South, he said com demn lynching for all crimes because the hand of civilization and Christianity has been lifted against 1t. No man in the world, however. he said, would condone outrages against women, and yet we don't preach lynching or teach it; but Knowing the weakness of buman nature, | mobs cannot be controlled in sparsely set tied communities where we cannot get sufficient police force on the spot at once"
 T believe that every man, every Re | publican in the country, would pause in l shame that the President of the United | States had scattered books advocating | lynch law He read from a speech made by Mir. | Roosevelt while Governor of New York, | In which he stated Mir. Roosevelt had | characterized the Congress of the United | States as "a herd of cattle" Laughter | on the Democratic side, followed this re marl). ''The humiliating spectacle" he con- tinued. lis that since he has been Presi- | dent he has treated this Republican | House as herd of cattle and the most | thing about 1t was that the | allowed thePresident to treat them as cattle and laid down before hir In his green pastures.
 The Presidents Ranch. He provoked laughter when he said the | President looked or Congress 'as his | great ranch" with the Republicans as his round up."
 Speaking deliberately, he declared that | any man who had such profound con | tempt for the legislative branch of the | was unfit to be its executive | head and was a dangerous man. He closed by quoting from American | .N.G- G-l. E .T legged, had denounced General Grosyenor | by name as a champion of profiigate | and dishonest methods"
 Then. turning to General Grosvenor, he added: Read that and then read your recent speech defending the President.and | tell the House that you feel like thirty | cents"
 Replying, General Grosvenor said that | 1t was unimportant what he had written | four years ago ! He (Grosvenor) four years ago was an opponent for the nom- Ina tion of Mr Roosevelt At that time