Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-01-19
HOUSE HALTS DlSGRACEFUL
ATTACK ON PRESIDENT


experiences as Il cowboy. down to the
present time. and accused him in his
early manhood Of having had prcpos-
ferrous notions, OF having knitted
Secretary Long, of being IA warrior
alone in Cuba" Of having won the
go%vcrnorship OF New York by a mere
fluke, when the false halo of san
Juan Hill was above his head; the
beneficiary of assassins, and last, ana
browning piece of luck, the nominee
for president when all the aggressive
elements of passion wanted to see
their own candidate defeated. the
mammoth popularity has got to laugh
with every appearance; the g~argoyyle
has been funny from the hour it left
its native quarry
Continuing, MIR. Willett said:
And, Mr.. Chairman, should the
gentlemen who view this curious Zig
urc with feigncd admirations, ask me
how any son of Adam can be at the
same time a hay-tedder, a popularity
and a gargoyle, ! can only answer that
this particular hero is an eccentric
exception to all rules. a solecism. sui
gcncris, "A neutrality-suspicious., an
impossibility, a comet that rOveS at
viii, regardless of the limitations of
law and order that apply to earth and
moon. to stars and planets
He boasts OF Irish blood, but no
lrishman In history would have treat
ed an ally as he treated Mr.. Harri-
man
He exults in a strain of the old
Ifugucnot, but the French gentleman
does not fly into a passion and lash
the horse of a timid young girl whose
only offensc is inadvertently passing
the royal party in a public highway.
Even Louis XIV. "a not that sort of
a tyrant. and Henry ~. Henry Of
Navarro. the great %Iluguenot king,
wore the white plume of noblessc
oblige.
He tells US that southern aristo-
Gratis are among his polyglot ances-
tors. but | can inform him that il
the wife of a Robert Toombs or of a
jefferson Davis had been treated by
him as Mrs. Miner Morris was, he
would have been called out or brand
ed as a coward. if he had been a thou
sand times president.
He is prone to insist that the fam
lily whose name he bears comes from
Holland. but his ready surrender to
the politicians OF his ~ party makes
Il clear enough that Fat Burghcrs who
put IN their shutters at the first beat
OF the war drum must have been his
-progenitors. He beats the Dutch.
however. as even his scvercst critics
must confess.
Are YOU shocked that a chief mag
istrate should justify such %eharacteri-
zationy | am shocked, too. DO you
say hat the place he holds should
make MS all dumb before him. Hear
what this fountain OF billingsgatc has
said OF his predecessors in that high
office and own that no mans tongue
should be stilled by such a considcra-
tion?"
He quoted from President Roosc-
yclt's books, la which the president is
alleged To have attacked Washington,
jefferson. Monroe. jackson. Tyler.
Pierce and others. and said that tho
president had federation only for the
Adsmscs. who stool for fcdcralist
arisiocracy and admiration fer Alex
andcr Hamilton. the defeated cham
pion of a limited monarchy"
"Of course said Mr.. Millett. these
condcmnations roar as gently as any
cooling dove when compared with his
dcnunciation Of John Paul Jones as
"A pirate OF Napoleon the Great. as
utterly INSCRIPTIONS. OF New Eng
lands idollzed Wendell Phillips as al
ways either mischicvous or ridiculous
usually both OF Thomas Paine.
the rst champion OF American liberty.
as a filthy little atheist. of miracle
loving Roman Catholics as persons
Of arrested mental Development OF
Quakcrs as quite as undesirable citi-
zens as duciists.' But he has been
frank enough in abusing other presi-
dents To shut thu ;ips 90 his defenders
on the dicnify OF the presidential Of
ice.
Mr.. wIlett declared that consist