Arizona republican., 1904-04-23
A Roasting and a Blasting
 of the President
THE ANCIENT LITERATURE
The North Carolina Congressman Calls Up the Things hr. Roosevelt and hr. Grosvenor Said and Wrote of Each Other in the Old Days.

eratton of conference reports on numer-
 ous private bills and the disposition of routine matters.
 Claude Kitchen, democrat of North l Carolina, strongly assailed Representa- l tive Grosvenor and President Roose- welt. General Grosvenor, he said. had glorified President Roosevelt as a
 worthy successor of President McKin- ley. forgetting that during McKinley's 1 last campaign General Grosvenor, as a contributor to the New York Journal, in signed articles. had referred to the president, then governor of New York, as brilliant. cratic and curious
 sort of man. Mir. Kitchen charged that Mir. Roosevelt. as candidate for vice president. was distasteful to MT. Mckinley and challenged MT. Grosyen-
 or to deny it. as we'll as the statement that MT. Roosevelt as vice president.
 was humiIiated by the friends of MT. Mckinley. including MT. Grosvenor "and yet" he said. you men sit here ! and guip down everything Roosevelt does. and not one of you dare raise your hand in memory of William Mckinley"
 MT. Mckinley, he said. had a right to think that Roosevelt would be distaste- full to him. Contemplate, he said
 the amazing spectacle Of any republi-
 can in the United States being humili- ated by General Grosvenor and con-
 template this same man marshaling un- der his banner hosts of republicans of which Mir. Grosvenor is the chief bugle blower"
 TO say that Roosevelt filled McKin- laY's place, he declared, was a desa- c-ation of McKinley's name. It was, he said, case of "the anthill taking the place of mountain. an owls
 screech taking the place of great sym phonies, a minnow taking the place of the whale" The people of the south, he said. knew that twenty-five years after AppomattoX Roosevelt, in one
 of his publications, had declared that
 until the word treason was stricken
 out of the dictionary, 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 Mir.
 Roosevelt, in which he was quoted as
 saving that throughout the southern
 character there ran a. strong streak of
 coarse and brutal barbarian. He con-
 pared the "kind and loving words of 1 Mckinley" in an address to Confeder- ate veterans. to the insulting words of | Roosevelt"
 
 Roosevelt deliberately teaches and ad- vocates lynching for the stealing of
 rag tail Texas pony" He asked if that
 book did not have something to do with stimulating the great people of the north to lawIessness." The people
 of the south, he said, condemned lynch ing for all crimes, because the hand of civilization and Christianity has been | iF Nn ofx- world, over, he said, would condone
 outrages against women, "and yet we don't preach lynching or teach it, but, knowing the weakness of human na- ture. mobs cannot be controlled in 1 sparsely settled communities where we cannot get a sufficient police force on ! the 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 a speech made by MT.
 Roosevelt while governor of New York he declared that MT. Roosevelt had characterized the congress of the ! United States as a herd of cattle" Laughter on the democratic side fol- | lowed. "A humiliating spectacle" he ! continued, ''is it that since he has been president of the United States he has | treated this republican house as a herd
 of cattle, and the most humiliating i thing about it is that the republicans
 have allowed the president to treat them as cattle and they lie down before him in his green pasture"
 He provoked laughter when he said the president looked upon congress as his great ranch" with the republicans
 as his round ups"
 Speaking deliberately, he declared that any man who had such a profound I contempt for the legislative branch of the government was unfit to be it's executive head and that he was a dangerous man.
 He closed by quoting from American Ideals" in which Mir. Roosevelt, he al- legged, had denounced General Grosve-
 nor as the champion of foul govern ment and dishonest politics." Then turning to MT. 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 it was unimportant what the president had written four years ago. He (Grosvenor) four years ago was the opponent of the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt and what he said then was
 printed all over the country. In this
 he had made a perfectly plain senti- ment at that time. And if the gentle man thinks he can make ne apologize for that statement, he has got, hold of
 the wrong man." added MT. Grosvenor MT. Roosevelt, he said, had written of
 him (Grosvenor) what he had right
 to say. Mr. Kitchen was only thresh- ing over old straw.
 T never said he was distasteful to me as a candidate" said MT. Grosve- nor. Roosevelt was put on the ticket with MT. Mckinley but it was Me