Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1909-01-22
THE s EN tt N Ell.
Friday Morning..mJauuary %. 1909.
u7,HE PASSING OF ROOSEVELT"

White House which would have delighted
the heart of his admired Alexander Hamil-
ton" Representative Willett, of New York,
last Monday made one of the most bitter
attacks on the Chief Executive ever heard
in Congress. Mr.. Willett, took for his theme
THE Passing of Roosevelt" and in speech
of great length dealt with numerous OF the
Presidents acts since he came into Office.
and scathingly denounced them.
After declaring that. in the face OF all
sorts of conditions, Americans were pos
sessed of universal sense of humor, Mr..
Willett said that to such people lit must
be confessed. Chief Magistrate who has
himself no sense of humor. moving like
householder over the bayfield, of American
activities, stirring up every drying blade of
once green grass, to let it fall dryer than
before quarreline one day with the practi-
cal politicians, then with the part-your-
hair-in-the- middle reformers. then with the
socialists. then with the great industrial
corporations; wrestling in agony Of spirit
with Noah Webster and our glorious Eng
lish tongue taking fall out of nature
takers, exhorting our women TO avoid race
suicide cannot be an unmixed nuisance.
He tries our patience, but he is always
GOOD to laugh at. Thank heaven for the
things that make us laugh Without them
we might easily become raw, untamed
Aneo-Saxons, making much of Magma
Charta. believing about an effete bill OF
rights, or even ready to fight for freedom
of thought. freedom Of speech and freedom
of the press, as did our uncivilized ances-
tors at Lexington and Bunker Hill"
Mr.. Willett gave brief biography OF
Mr.. Roosevelts life. beginning with his ex-
perience as a cowboy down to the present
time, and accused him. in his early man
hood, of having bad preposterous notions.
of having knitted" Secretary Long, OF be-
ing "a warrior alone in Cuba" Of having
won the Governorship of New York by a
mere fiuke when the false halo of San
Juan Hill was above his head the bene-
ficiary of assassination and last and
crowning piece of luck, the nominee for
President when all the aggressive elements
of the opposition wanted to see their own
candidate defeated the mammoth ocular
ity has got to laugh with every appear
ance. the gargoyle has been funny from
the hour it left its native quarry"
HE boasts of Irish blood. but no his
toric Irishman would have treated an ally
as he treated Mr. Hartman.
HE exults in strain Of the old Hugue-
not, but the French gentleman doesn't fly
into a passion and lash the horse of a
timid young girl whose only offense is in
advertently passing the royal party in a
public highway.
HE tells us that Southern aristocrats
were among his polyglot ancestors. but
can inform him that il the wife of Robert
Toombs or of jefferson Davis had been
treated by him as Mrs. Minor Morris was
he would have been called out or branded
as a coward if he had been thousand
times President.
HE is proud to insist that the family
whose name he bears comes from Holland
but his ready surrender to the politicians
of his own party makes it clear enough
that fat burghers who put up their shutters
at the first beat of the war drum must have
been his proeenitors. He beats the Dutch
however, as even his severest critics must
confess.
Are you shocked that Chief Maeis-
trate should justify such Characterization
] am shocked. too Do you say that the
place he holds should make us all dumb
before him? Hear what this fountain ol
billingsgate has said of his predecessors in
that high Office and own that no mans
tongue should be stilled by such consid-
Grafton"
He quoted from President Roosevelt's
books in which the President is alleged to
have attacked Washington, Jefferson, Mon
roe, jackson, Tyler, Pierce and others, and
said the President had federation only fol
the Adamses, who stood for FederalisI
aristocracy, and admiration for Alexander
Hamilton. the defeated champion of lin.
tied monarchy.
"Of course" said Mr. Willett. these con-
demnations roar as gently as any cooling
dove when compared with his denuncia-
ton of John Paul Jones as a pirate : OF
Napoleon the Great as utterly unscrupu-
lous: : of New Eneland's idolized Wendell
Phillips as always either mischievious Oh
ridiculous, and usually both of Thomas
Paine, the first champion of American lib
erty. as "A filthy little atheist of miracle
believing Roman Catholics as persons Of
arrested mental development; of Quakers
as quite as undesirable citizens as duel
lists. But he has been frank enough in
abusing other Presidents to shut the lips
of his defenders on the dignity of the
Presidential Office.
I'VE have a king and court now" MIR
Willett exclaimed-"as good an imitation
of a realizing known to the nobility Of
monarchical countries as the scion of a
family of trading Dutchmen can concoct.
At this juncture Mr.. Willett called the
said:
THE earth is intoxicated and reels
around our jocularity He alone is the
personi6cation of sobriety. temperatures
of statement. calmness in speech and ac-
ton.
Jealousy you can read in the eargoyle S
distorted features.
you look on those twisted lines and it
is easy to understand the insolence toward
Dewey. the one great figure Of the Spanish
American war--the hero who took Manila
with the worst ships rotten bureaucracy
could find for him.
The persistent defamation of Admiral
Schley. who really fought the battle of
Santiago Bay.
.sTbe insults heaned nm Ceneral Miles