The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-19
ROOSEVELT A GUTTER SPOUT So Characterized by Mr..
 Willett. DENOUNCED BY NEW YORKER Congressman Severe in Arraign- X ment. Republicans Declare That Such Harsh Word. Against the President
 Is Out of oraer--sensa-
 ton in House.
DENOUNCED BY NEW YORKER


 Washington. Jan. 1s.--characteriz- Ing President Roosevelt as a gar- goyle and as ''this pigmy descendant of Dutch ades-people" and charging him with having established . court in the White House which would have delighted the heart of his admired Alexander Hamilton" Mfr. willett. of New York. in the House of Represen- tatives to-day made one of the most bitter attacks on the chief executive ever heard in that body.
 MT. 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 possessed of a universal sense of hu- nor. Mir. Wiilett said that te spch people. cit must be confessed. a chief magistrate--wh himself, has no sense of humor, moving like horse todder over the field of American activities: stirring up every drying blade of once green grass, to let 1t fall drier than be- fore; Quarreling one day with the prae- tical politicians, then with the part your hair in ., the middle reformers, then with the socialists. then with the great industrial corporations; wrestl- ing in agony of spirit with Noah Webster and our glorious English fakirs; exhorting our women to avoid race suicide-cannot be an unmixed nuisance.
 "He plays the tyrant. to be sure. but he is a tyrant who fears carnival tick Ter: he sees things that have q bad smell, but the fresh breeze of Capitol Hill does not let the odor finger.
 Good to Laugh At.
 "He tries our patience. but he is al- ways good to laugh at. Thank heaven for. the things that make Us
 awithout them we might easily be- coma raw, untamed AnElo-Saxopz, making much of Magma Chafta. beIg lowing about an esxste biu of rights or oven ready Co fight for freedom of thought, freedom of speech. and free- dom of the press, as did our uaciviliz- ed ancestors at Lexington and Bunker HILL"
 Mir. Willett gave O brief biography of MT. Roosevelt's life, beginning with his experiences as a cowboy down 10 the present time, and accused him Tn his early manhood of having had pre- nosterous notions; of having "knifed" Secretary Long; of being "a warrior alone in Cuba"; of having won the Goyernorship of New York by mere fIuke. "when the false halo of San Juan Hill was above his head; Of being the beneficiary of assassins, and, last and crowning piece of luck, the norni- nee for president, when all the aggres- sive elements of the opposition wanted aondf6afa dafaQtan.
 ''The mammoth jocularity has got a laugh with every appearance; the gargoyle has been funny from the hour if left its native quarry"
 Continuing Mir. Willett said:
 And, Mir Chairman. should the gentlemen who view this curious fig- ure with feigped admiration ask me how any son of Adam can ne at the same time, a hay-tedder tocularity and a gargoyle. I can only answer that this particular hero Is an eccen- tric exception to the All Ruler, a solecism sui generis, a mixed metamor- phosis, an impossibility. a sonnet that roves at will regardless of the limitations of order and law that apply to earth and moon to stars and planets
 Roosevelt Eecentricities.
 He boasts of Irish blood, but no historic Irishman would have treated AllY aS nG ITC6ICN NAAs 4A1AA
 He exults In Q strain of old Hugue-' not but the French gentleman doesn't fly into a passion and lash the horse of A tImid young girl whose only of- fense Is inadvertently passing the Royal party in public highway. Even Louis the Fourteenth. was not that sort of a tyrant. and Henry The Huguenot King. wore the white plume OF pohleasa Ohlige.
 "He tells us that Southern aristo- crats were among his polyglot ances- tors. but can inform him that if the wife of a Robert Toombs. or of Jef- ferson 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 a 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 1t clear enough that fat burg hers who put up their shutters at the first beat of the war drum must have been his progenitors. He beats the Dutch however, as even his severest critics must confess.
 "Are vou shock ed that a chief magis- trate should justify such characteriza- lion? I am shocked. too. 90 you say that the place he hQids snould make ',s au dumb before him? Hear what thts fountain of billingsgate has said of bis predecessors in that high offlce and own that no mans tongue should he stilled by such a consideration"
 Mir Willett here quoted from Presi- dent Roosevelts books. in which the President is alleged to have attacked Washington. Jefferson, Mon roe Jackson, Tyler. Pierce and others and said that the Presblent had "tol- ation only for the Adams's who stood for Federalist aristocracy. and Alexander Hamilton, the defeated champion of a limited monarchy"
 "Of course" said Mir. Willett, these condemnations roar as gently as any cooInK dove when compared with his Pronunciation of John Paul Jones as Q 'pIrate.' of Napoleon the Great as ut terlv unscrupulous.' of New England's idolized Wendell Phillips as always either mischievous or ridiculous and usually both;' of Thomas Payne, the frst champion of American liberty as 'a filthy little atheist of miracle-be- lIevlnR Roman Catholics as persons of arrested mental development of Quak- CTS as quite as undesirable citizens as duelists.' but he has been frank enough in abusing other Presidents to shut the IIpa of his defenders on the dignity of presidential ofice."
 Ancient and Modern TyrantB.
 Mr Viuett declared that "cOnRis-