The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-18

Washington, Jan 1S.-Characteri2-
INC President Roosevelt as a garGoyle
and as this pigmy descendant of
Dutch trades people" and charging
him with having established a court
IN the White House which would have
delighted the heart of his admirer,
Alexander Hamilton" Mr. Willett Of
New York in the house of represen-
,stives today, made one of the most
hitter attacks on the chief executive
over heard in that body. Mr.. Will
Ieit took for his theme, THE Passing
nj Roosevelt" and in speech Of
erea, length. dealt with numerous OF
Tho Presidents acts since he came
into office and soathlngly denounced
them.
After declaring that In the face OF
all sorts Of conditions, Americans
we're possessed OF a universal sense
of humor, Mr Willett said, TO such
rconle il must be confessed. a chief
magistrate who has himself no sense
OF humor. moving like horse tender
over the bayfield, of American activl-
tics. stirring up every drying blade
of once green grass, to let 1t fall drier
than before; quarreling one day with
the practical politicians, then with the
part.your- -hair-in-the- middle reforms,
then with the socialists, then with the
great industrial corporations. Wrestling
In agony over the spirit OF Noah Web
ster and our glorious English tongue;
taking q fall out of nature takirs; eX'
horting our women 10 avoid race sui
eide, cannot be an unmixed nuisance,
He plays the tyrant to be sure.
lut he is a tyrant who fears the car
nival ticker. He sees things that have
a bad smell, but the fresh breeze OF
Capitol Hill does not let the odor In
ger
He tries cur patience, but he is al
ways good to laugh at. Thank say-
en- for the things that make us 4Ign.
without them. we might easily become
raw untamcd Anglo-Saxons, making
much of Magma Charta, believing
about an etfete bill OF rights or even
ready TO fight for freedom of thought,
freedom of speech. and freedom ot
press, as did our uncivilized ancestors
at Lexington and Bunker HILL
Dir. Willett gave a brief biography
# Mr RooSevelt's beginning with
his experiences as cowboy, down 10
the present time. and accused hinl,
in his early manhood, OF having had
notions. OF having "knif-
ed" Secretary Long. OF being "a war
rior alone in Cuba. Of having won the
of New York by mere
luke when the false halo of San Juan
Hill was above his head; the bene'
ficiary of assassins, and last. and
piece of luck. the nominee
for president when all the aggressive
clements of passion wanted TO SEQ
heir own candidate defeated, the
jocularlity has got to laugh
with every appearance; the gargoyle
has been funny from the hour 1t left
It's native quarry"
Continuing Mr.. Willett said:
And MT Chairman. should the gen
tlemen who view this curious figure
With felgned admiration ask me how
any son Of Adam can be at the same
a gargoyle, ] can only answer that
this particular hero Is an eccentric
exception to all rules, solecism sui
ceneris, a mixed-metaphorviya an
a comet that roves at
VII regardless of the limitations Of
order and law that apply to earth and
moon, to stars and planets
He boasts of Irish blood but no
historic Irishman would have treated
an ally as he treated Mr.. Hartman.
He exults in strain of the old
IIugenot. but the French gentleman
does not fly into passion and lash
The horse of timid young girl whose
only offense is Inadvertently passing
the royal party in a public highway.
Even Louis XIV was not that sort of
2 tyrant and Rnry w, Henry OF Ma
varre, the great Hugenot King, wore
the white plume of noblesse oblige.
"He tells us that southern aristO
Gratis we're among his polyglot ances-
LOIS; but can inform him that II the
wife of a Robert Toombs or OF a Jei-
ierson Davis had been treated by him
as Mrs. Minor Morris was, he would
have been called out OF branded as a
coward il he had been a thousand
times a president.
HE is proud to insist that the fam
llv whose name he bears comes from
Holland: but his ready surrender to
the politicians of his own party make
II clear enough that fat burghers VINO
put I'D their shutters at the first beat
OF the war drum must have been MS
progenitors. He beats the Dutch
however, as even his severest critics
must confess.
Are you shocked that CHIEF mag
istrate should Justify such characteri'
cation? am shocked. too. Do you
say that the place he holds shoui1
make us all dumb before him? Hear
what this fountain of Billingsgate has
said of hts predecessors In that hign
Office, and own that no mans tongue
should be stilled by such considera'
tlon?
He quoted from President Roose'
yelt's books in which the President Is
alleged to have attacked Washington
Jefferson, Monroe. Jackson. Tyler
Pierce and others. a1d said that the
President had "toleratioD only ios
The Adamses who stood for federalis,
3ristOcracy and admiration for AlnN