The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
VitrioIic Wrath Is Poured Out In Such Volume That the House Votes to Stop
 the OutburSt
WHOLE VOCABULARY OF EPITHtT Is EXHAUSTED
 IN BITTER ADDRESS
Congressman Willett Calls the Presi. dent Everything Under the Sun But His Right Name, Which Arouses His
 Hearers.


 Hearers.
 Washington, January 1S-Character- izing 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 de- lighted the heart of his admired Alex ander Hamilton" MT. Willett of New York, in the House of Representatives today made one of the most bitter at- tacks on the chief executive ever heard In that body. MT. Willett took for his theme, "The Passing of Roosevelt" and in a speech of great length dealt with numerous of the Presidents acts since he came into office and scathingly de- nounced them.
 After declaring that in the face of all sorts of conditions, Americans were possessed of universal sense of humor, '1t must be confessed chief magis- trate-who has himself no sense of hu- nor, moving like a horse-tedder over the hay 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 practical politicians, then with the part your hair in the middle reformers, then with the socialists, then with the great industrial corporations wrestling in agony of spirit with Noah Webster and our glorious English fc9ss<de; taking a | fall out Of nature fakirs; exhorting our women to avoid race suicide--cannot be an unmixed nuisance.
 Plays the Tyrant.
 "He plays the tyrant, to be sure, but he Is a tyrant who fears the carnival tickIer, he says things that have a bad smell, but the fresh breeze of Capitol Hill does not let the odor finger.
 'He tries our patience, but he is al- ways goodto-laugh- at. Thank heaven for the things that make us laugh.
 Without them we might easily be- come raw, untamed Anglo -Saxons mak- ing much of Magma Charta, believing about an effete bill of rights or even ready to fight for freedom of thought. freedom of speech and freedom of the press, as did our uncivilized ancestors at Lexington and Bunker Hill"
 MT. Willett gave brief biography of MT. Roosevelt's life, beginning with his experiences as a cowboy down to the present, and accused him in his early manhood of having had preposterous notions; of having 'knifed" Secretary Long; of being "a warrior alone in Cuba" of having won the governorship of New York by mere fuke, when the false halo of San Juan Hill was above his head; of being the beneficiary of as- assians, and last and growing piece of luck, the nominee for President, when all the aggressive elements of the opposition wanted to see their own can didate defeated "The mammoth iocu- larity has got laugh with every ap pearance the gargoyle has been funny from the hour 1t left itsnative quarry"
 Hay-Tedder and eargoyIe.
 Continuing MT. Willett said:
 And, MT. Chairman, should the gen tlemen who view this cufious figure with feigned admiration ask he how any son of Adam can be at the same time A hay-tedder, jocularty and a gargoyle I can only answer that this particular hero is an eccentric exceItion to all rules. solecism sui generis, mixed metaphor vivant, an impossibityI a comet that roves at will regardless 4 the limitations of order and law that apply to earth and moon, to stars and planee.
 ''He boasts of Irish bltod but no his- toric Irishman would havk treated an ally as he treated MT. Hartman.
 "He exults in a strain ot the old Hugue- not, but the French gentleman does not fly into passion and lash the horse of a timid young girl whose dly offense is in- advertently passing the royal party in a public highway. Even Luis XVI was not that sort of a tyrant and Henry VI. Henry of Navarro. thelGreat Huguenot King wore the white 1ume of noblesse oblige. ''He tells us that southern aristocrats were among his polyglol ancestors. but can inform him that if ie wife of Rob- ert Toombs, or of Jeferson Davis had been treated by him as frs Minor Morris was he would have ben called out or branded as a coward I he had been a thousand times a Presdnt.
 Proud of Fimily.
 ''He is proud to insi9 that the family | whose name he bears tomes from Hol- l land, but his ready surfnder to the poli 1 ticians of his own paHy makes 1t clear | enough that fat burglers who put up l their shutters at the frt beat of the war | drum must have been hs progenitors. He | heats the Dutch, howver, as even his | severest critics must ctnfess. Are you shocked tht a chief magis- | trate should justify sud characterization? | I am shocked. too. Di you say that the | place he holds should make us all dumb | before him? Hear whit this fountain of | Bilingsgate has said | his predecessors | in that high office and kwn that no mans | tongue should be still& by such con slderation." <raNrgNTTp1n x DAGn eN