Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-25
ASSA|LS ROOSEVELT
k,7cHlN SHOWS THAT HIS ACSl-
DENCY HAS iNSULTED
SOUTH.
Quotas Rcosevelt's Eook to Show That
President Advocated Lynch
ing fer Small offenae.
HOUSE is TREATED as CATTLE,

In congress Mr. Kitchin delivered a
speech in which he went afte" Presi
dent Roosevelt III very vigorous style.
Mr.. Kitchin declared tai tie pres
ideut had iasulteli the people of the
south by saying in one ii his publ
cations that Throughout southern
character the1e ran streak OF brutal
barbarism. he openly charged the
president with being an advocate of
lynch law and quoted from one OF the
presidents books to sustain his as.
sertion.
Gen. Grosvenor admitted that four
years ago he opposed the nomination
of Mr.. Roosevelt for vice president,
but said that Mr.. Roosevelt during
theocampaign had conducted himself
in Gignifed manner and had won
the confidence and esteem Of the peo.
pie. Since then he has grown to be
one of the great men of the country.
The president, he SAID, was more
dangerous to the Democratic party
than any other man today. The Dem
ocrats in New York, he said, had
launched candidate for president
who did not know whether he stood
on his head or his heels.
Mr.. Kitchin, in beginning the de-
bate, said Gen. Grosvencr had glorl-
fled President Roosevelt as the worthy
successor of Mckinley, forgetting that
dur1ng McKinleys last campaign, as
a contributor to the New York Jour-
nal, in signed articles, he (G1osve-
nor) had referred to the president,
then governor of New York, as "a bril-
liant, erratlc and curious sort CT
man. Mr. Kitchin charged that Mr..
Roosevelt, candidate fer vice president.
was dstasteful to Mr.. Mckinley and
chalNenged Mr.. Grosvenor to deny it.,
rs we'll as the statement that Mr..
Roosevelt, as vice president, was hu-
inflated by the friends of Mckinley,
including Gen. Grosvenor himeslf.
"And yet" he said, " you men sit here
and gulp down everything Roosevelt
says, and not one of ycu dares raise
his hand in memory of William Nc
Kinley"
To say that Roosevelt filled Nc
SKinely's place, he declared, was a
Reservation of McKinley's name. He
! was, he said, case of 'the antAlll
) Staking the place of the mountain, the
owl screech taking the place of the
B tomb's symphonies, the minnow tax
ing the place OF the whale
: A5 The people of the south, lie said
knew that twenty-five years after
: Appomattox Roosevelt, in Cne of lis
publications, had declared that until
out of the dictionary was stricken the
. word treason Jefferson Davis Woule
be an arbitrator. That, he said, wa:
r. stroke at the whole south and the
; confed |erate soldiers.
= M He Halse referred to another publ
: 3cation CT Mr.. Roostvelt,s in whicl
4 he is quoted as saying that through
3 out the southern character there RAJ
, W streak of coarse and cruel barbal
= Nm. He compared "the kind and 10y
= Words Of Mckinley" in an address t
Z lt Confederate veterans to the II
( whiting words of Roosevelt" He sal
4 rat in one CT his books Preslden
4 Iposevelt deliberately teaches an
= Advocates lynching for the stealing
y ragtai: Texas pony" He asked
y that book did not have something
4 do with stimulating "the great peopl
q 0t the north to lawelssness."
X The people of the south, he sal
q condemn lynching for all crimes b
x cause the hand of civilization an
b Christianity had been lifted again
4 N No Nan the civilized world owe
q Kowever, he said, would condcne OF
u Ages against women, "and yet Y