The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-27
TEDDY ROASTED
aaE. WIlIstt, ofNew York FiercsIy
Attacks Roosevelt
ON FLOOR OF HOUSE

"The Passing Of Roosevelt" His
Thene-CaIls Him 8 Gargoyle, a
Pigmy Descendant Of Dutch Trades
People, and 8 Fountain Of Billings
sate-Denunciation halted.
Washington, Jan. 1s.-Character-
izirg President Roosevelt as a gar
goyle and as this pigmy descendant,
OF Dctch trades people - and charg-
ing him with having established
Court in the White House, which
would have delighted the heart OF
his admired Alexander Hamilton,
Mr.. Wil1et, Of New York, in the
house Of representatives today made
one Of the most bitter attacks on the
chief executive ever heard in thai
body. Nr. Willett took for his
theue"The Passing of Roosevelt. .
and in speech Of great length dealt
With numerous OF me Presidents
acts since he came into Office and
scathingly denounced them.
So severe was that attack OF Mr.
Willett that after several efforts
Republican members were able to
force him to take his SCAT on a call
to order before he had finished his
speech.
After declaring that ia the face
of Eli sorts Of conditions Americans
were possessed Of universal sense
Of hunor, Mr.. Willett said that to
such people "it must be confessed,
q Chief Magistrate who has himself
no sense Of humor, moving like a
horse-tedder over the bayfield, OF
American activities; stirring up every
drying blade Of once green grass,
to let IL fall dryer than before, quar-
reling one day with the practical
politicians, then with the part-your-
hair-in-the-middle reformers, then
with the Socialists, then with the
great Industrial corporations; wrest-
ling in agony Of spirit with Noah
Webster and our glorious English
tongue; taking a fall out Of nature
fakirs, e1horting our women to avoid
race suicide, cannot be an unnixed
nuisance.
'.Ee plays tyrant, to be sure, ne
Is q tyraat who fears the carnival
ticker. He sees things that have a
bad smell, but the fresh breeze OF
Capitol Hill doesn't let the odoI
linger.
..Ee tries our patience, but he is
always good-to laugh at. Thank
Heaven for the things that make us
laugh. without them we migh'
easily become raw, untamed Anglo
Ssxons, making much of Magma
Chsrta believing about an effete
bill or rights, or even ready to fght
FOR freedom Of thought, freedom o:
speech and freedom Of the press. as
did our uncivilized ancestors at Lex
ington and Bunker Hill.
'.And Mr.. Chairman, should the
gentleman who view this curious
figure with feigned admiration ask
me how any son Of Adam can be at
the same time a haytedder, jocu-
larits and a gargoyle, I can only
ansver that this particular hero is
az eccentric exception to all rules.
soleciem sui generis, a mixed
metaphor vivsnt, an impossibility OF
the limitations Of ordered law that
apply to earth and moon, to stars
AID planets.
''Ee exists in strain of the ole
Eugueuot, but the French gentle
man doesn't fy into passion and
lash the horse of a tirid young girl
whose only offence is inadvertentl;
passing the royal party in public
highway. Even Louis, XIV, was not
that sort OF a tyrant, and Henry,
", Henry OF Navaree, the great
Euguenot King, wore the white
plume Of noblenesse oblige.
"Ee tells US that Southern aristo-
Gratis were among his polyglot ances-
tors, but ! can inform him that II
the wife Of a Robert Toombs Or Of
q Jefferson Davis had been treated
BY his as Mrs. Minor Morris was he
would have been called out or brand
ed as coward if he had been a
thousand times president
''Ee IS proud to insist that the
family whose name he bears comes
from Holland; but his ready sur
render to the politicians Of his own
party makes it clear enough that
fate burghers, VINO put up their
shutters at the first beat Of the war
drum must have been his progeni-
tors. He beats the Dutch, however,
as even his seyerest critics must
confess.
Mr.. Willett charged that the Pres
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had seen the PHILIPPINES brutally
treated, had marooned Col. Stewart,
whom he did not like, had kept 8
young lady from earning an honest
living by telling the truth, had al
lowed "scandalous conditions to ex-
ist in the army and navy, had
compelled his subordinates Ito act
as hunting dogs for the Car OF
Russia in trailing down men who
fought for liberty" had practically
re-estab ablished the John Adams alien
and sedition laws, had forced deser-
tions, from the navy by allowing in
tolerable treatment Of sailors "at the
hands OF the aristocracy Of Anna
polls officers" had permitted the
degradation of soldiers at West
Point, who had been put to mental
work, and had given Scotch YER