Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-19


President Roosevelt as Il gargoyle and
as "ti.i# pigmy descendant OF Dutch
traGesneopie," and charging him with
having established a court in tins
White House which would have de-
lighted the heart of his admirtc
Alexander Hamilton Mr.. Willett o
New York. in the House of Representa-
tives today made one of the most BIZ
ter attacks on the Chief Executive ever
heard in that body. Mr.. Willett took
for his theme 1.-The Passing of Rouse-
volt" and iii 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 wer;
possessed of a universal sense of hu-
NOR, Mr.. Willctt said that to such a
people lit must be confessed, Chief
Magistrate who has himself no sense
of humor, moving like a householder
over the bayfield, of American actlVi-
ties; stirring up every drying blade o.
once green grass. to let it fall dryer
than before; quarreling one day with
the practical politicians. then with the
then with the Socialists, then with the
great industrial corporations; wrestling
i'll agony of spirit with Noah Webster
and our glorious English tongue; tax
ing a fall ont of nature fakirs; ex-
horting our men to avoid race suicide
cannot be an unmixed nuisance.
He plays the tyrant, to be sure, but
he is a tyrant who fears the carnival
ticker. He tries our patience, but he
is always good to laugh at. Thank
Heaven for the things that make us
laugh"
Mr.. Willett gave a brief biography
of Mr. RoOsevelt's life, beginning with
his experiences as q cowboy down to
the present time, and accused him, in
his early manhood of having had pre-
posteroEs notions of having knitted
Secretary Long. of having won the
governorship of New York on mere
tluke, when the false halo of San Juan
hil was above his head; the beneficiary
OF assassination. and last and crowning
piece of luck. the nominee for PreSi-
dent when all the aggressive elements
of the opposition wanted to see their
own candidate defeated, the mammoth
iocularity has got to laugh with every
appearance; the gargoyIe mas been
funny from the hour it left it's ma
tive quarry" Continuing, Mr. Will
lett said:
"And Mr.. Chairman, should the gen
tlemen who view this curious figure
With urfeigned admiration ask me
how any son of Adam can be at the
same time. a hay-tedder, jocuiarity'
and gargOye, I can only answer
that this particular hero is an eccentric
exception to all rules, a so!esism
suigeneris, INSTRUMENTATION vivant,
an impossibility, a comet that roves at
will regardless of the limitations Of or
dered law that apply To earth and
moon, stars and planets.
He boasts of irish blood, but no his
toric Irishnlan would have treated an
ally as he treated Mr.. Hartman.
"Hc exults in strain of the old HUI
guenot, but the French gentlemen
doesn't fly into a passion and'lash the
horse of timid young girl whose only
offence is inadvertently pressing the
royal family in a public highway.
"He tells us Southern aristocrats
were among his polyglot ancestors, but
I can inform him that if the wife of a
Robert Toombs or of Jefferson Davis
had been treated by him as Mrs. Minor
Morris, he would have been called out
or branded as coward if he had been
thousand time President.
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