Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-19
THE HOUSE.
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"Are YOU shocked that Chief Mag
istrate should justify such characteriz-
alton! 1 am shocked, too. Do you say
that the place ne holds should make
US all dumb before him? Hear what
| this fountain of billingsgate has said
OF his predecessors in that high office.
and own that no mans tongue should
be stilled by such a consideration"
He quoted from President Roosevelt's
books in which the President is alleged
to have attacked Washington. Jeffer-
son. Monroe and others, and said that
the President had federation only for
the Adalnses, who stood for Federal
list alistocracy and admiration for AL
eXander Hamilton, the defeated cham
pion of a limited monarchy
"Of course said Mr. Willett, "these
condemnations roar us gently as any
cooling dove when compared with his
denunciation of John Paul Jones as a
pirate of Napoleon as utterly 'un-
scrupulous.' of New E.ngland's idoliZcd
Wendell Phillips as always either mis-
chevous or ridiculous and usually
BOTH of Thomas Paine, the first cham
pion of American liberty as filthy lit
tie atheist OF miracle believing Ro-
man Catholics as persons of arrested
mental development of Quakers as
quite as undesirable citizens as duel
lists"
Wilett declared that consistency is
a jewel which the gargoylc is always
throwing to the swine
No King. he said. in any limited
monarchy was ever half so impiacable.
For precedent" he added. you
must go back to Napoleon the Great
the oldest member of the sargoyle's
Aranias Club, who used to ask the
wives Of his 80 favorites whether they
could only afford one gown year: who
SAID once to the wife of one of his fight
ing nIarshais: Your dress is dirty and
who insisted on doing all the match
making in his official circle"
Eve have a King and q court now"
Wlllett exclaimed. las good an imita
ton IF d real thing known to the no.
bility of monarchical countries. as the
scion of family of trading Dutchmen
can cDncoct."
Willett called the roll of the so-called
Ananias Club, and said:
THE earth is intoxicated and reels
| around our jocularity He alone is tht(
personification of sobriety. calmness in
speech and action. jealousy you can
read in the gargoyle's distorted fea-
lures. You look on those twisted lines
| and it is easy, Oh, so easy, to under
stand the insolence toward Dewey. the
one great figure Of the Spanish-Ameri-
| can war, the hero who took MAMMA
with the worst ships a rotten bureauc-
| racy could find for him; the persis-
| of Cob Law,
| who really fought the battle of San
eral Miles, whose counsel was ignored
| in the expensive blunders of the land
| campaign at Santiago"
The President, Mr. Willett declared,
| showed his teeth at all heroes because
real heroes are gall and NORWOOD to
! bogus ones"
He said among other things: "You
may say then, that one individual gar
goyle does not count for so much after
| all. No, not in the development of the
| centuries: but he counts vitality and
continuously as affecting the people
who have to live under him. And the
change from a. Nero fiddling while
Rome is burning to Vespasian calm
| ly devoted to securing as good gov
/ eminent will permit, is a change to be
| as devoutly welcomed by us as by the
| ancient Romans"
Severaltimes in the course Of his re-
marks. Willett was called to order ny
Hughes, w. Va.
| Il call him to order" Hughes ex-
claimed He is going ahead with a
lot Of rot that neither the House nor
the country is interested in"
| Butler. Pa, in the chair, ruled that
Wilett was speaking under license Of