Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-04-23
MR.. KITCHENS SPEECH.


in the House yesterday assaulted repre-
sentative Grosvenor and President Roose-
welt. General Grosvenor, he said, had
glorifed President Roosevelt as the
worthy successor of Mckinley, forget
ting that during McKinley's last
campaign, as contributor TO "a New
York paper in signed articles, he
(GrosvenoD had referred TO the Presi-
dent, then Governor OF New York, ''as a
brilliant, cratic and curious sort of a
man." Mr.. ktchin charged that Mr.
Roosevelt, as candidate for Vice Presi-
dent, was distasteful to Mr.. Mckinley,
and challenged Mr.. Grosvenor to deny
it, as well as the statement that Mr.
Roosevelt, as Vice-President, was humi l.
ated by the friends of Mckinley, includ-
ing General Grosyenor 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"
Mckinley, said Mr.. Kitchin, had a
right to think that Roosevelt would be
distasteiul to him. Contemplate" he
said, the amazing spectacle Of any re-
publican in the United States being
Inundated by General Grosyenor and
contemplate this same man marshaling
under his banner the hosts of republican
ism, with Grosyenor the chief bugle blow
err"
To say that Roosevelt filed Mckinley S
place, he declared, was a desc Grafton of
McKinley's name. 1t was, be said, a case
of "the anthill taking the place of the
mountain, the OWLS screech taking the
place of the tomb ssymphouies, the min
now taking the place of the whale"
The people of the South, he said, knew
that 25 years after Appomattox Roose-
welt in one Of his publications had declar-
ed that until out of the dictionary was
stricken the word treason Jefferson
Davis would be an arbitrator. That,
he said. was a strike at the whole South
and the Confederate soldiers. He also
referred to another publication of Mr..
Roosevelts in which he is quoted as say
ing that throughout southern character
there ran a streak of coarse and brutal
barbarism. He compared "the kind, low
ing words of Mckinley" in an address
to Confederate veterans to "the insulting
words of Roosevelt" He said that in
one of his books President 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, condemn lyDching
for all crimes, because the hand OF
civilization and Christianity had been
lifted against it. Norman the civilized
world over, however, he said, would
condone outrages against women, "and
yet we don't preach lynching or teach
it, but knowing the weakness of hu-
man nature mobs cannot be controlled in
sparsely settled communities where We
cannot get sufficient police force on t e
spot at once" He believed that every
democrat and republican in the country
would pause in shame that the President
Of the United States had scattered books
advocating lynch law.
Reading from speech made by Mr..
Roosevelt while Governor of New York,
he declared Mr.. Roosevelt had character
lied the Congress OF the United States as
"herd of cattle" Laughter on the
democratic side followed, "sThe huml-
iating spectacle" he continued, sis that
since he has been President of the
United States he has treated this repub-
lican House as a herd of cattle, and the
most humiliating thing about it was that
the republicans allowed the President
to treat them as cattle and lay
down before him in his green pas
lures" He provoked laughter when he
said the President looked upon Con-
gress Gas his great ranch" with the re-
publicans as his "round-ups." Speaking
deliberately, 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.
He closed by quoting from american
Ideals" in which Mr. Roosevelt, he al
legged, had denounced General Grosvenor
by name "as a champion of foul govern
ment and dishonest politics" Then
turning to General Grosyenor, he added {;
''Read that and then read your recent
speech defending the President, and tell
Tho Hnnse that Won feel Ike 30 cenfs.O