The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-01-22
ROAST is GIVEN
THE PRESIDENT
TERRIFIC DENURclATIoN ADMIN
IsTERED BY Mr.. WiLLET OF
NEW YORK.
HOUSE CUTS SHURT HIS SPEECH
Republicans VIII rot Allow rim TO
Finish mis- emasNs.-otins-
my EpiIheIs.

WAShINGIO.N, Jan. ia sensa-
tionai and bitter attacA on President
Roosevelt Was maze III the mouse Oh
representatives tcday by Mr. Willet,
OF New IOrA. his remarks, which
were delivered under the license OF
general doDate OH tne pension appro-
puatiUn Dlll were cut short by vote
OF the l4Ouse that It would hear no
more OF nem.
The President was characterized as
CARGO le, tyrant, pigmy, descendant
OF Dutch trades people, nay Jedder,
fountain ot DhIingsgate, d POPULARITY,
imitation u a King, and bogus hero.
Mr. Valet had completed the read.
Ing OF about three-fourths Of his
speech, when, after repeated appeals
to tue Chair by numerous Republicans
that he be called to order he was
compelled 10 take his seat 1t was on
a motion by Mr.. Gambler, OF Missis-
sippi, that the New Yorker be allowed
to proceed in order that the House
voted him oil the floor, IS to l26.
Mr.. Willett remarked on the fioor
that the action Of the body put an
end to free speech.
After declaring that in the fact OF
all sorts OF conditions, Americans were
possessed Of universal sense of hui (
NOR, Mr., Willett said that to such
people 1T must be confessed Chief
Magistrate-who has himself no sense .
of humor moving like a householder
over the hay field of American actiyi-
ties; stirring up every drying blade of
one-green grass to let ii fall drier
than before; quarreling one day with
the practical politicians, then with the
part-your- hairin-the-middle reformers
then with the Socialists, then with the
great industrial corporations; wres-
Ting in agony of spirit with Noah
Webster and our glorious English
tongue; taking a fall out of nature
takers, eXhorting our women to avoid
race suicideca not be an unmxed
nuisance
He PLAYS the tryant, to be sure. but
le is a tTrant who fears the carnival :,
tckler; he sees things that have a
'sd smell but the fresh breeze of ,
'apitol Hill does not let the odor
niger. {
He tries our patience, but he is al :
avs good to laugh at Thank heaven ?
or the things that make us laugh! u
ithout them we might easily become u
7w, untaned AngloSaxon making of :.
lagna Charta, believing about an ef- =
tie Bill of Rights, or even ready to =
snt for freedom of thought freedom a.
speech, and freedom of the press, III
) did our uncivilized ancestors at -
and Bunker Hill" -
Mr.. Willett gave a brief biography ="
Mr. Rooseyelt's life, beginning with ne
$ experiences as cowboy down to w.
e present time, and accused him in we
$ early manhood of having had pre- On
sterous notions; of having knitted "
cretary Long; of being "a warrior ~
one in Cuba" of having won the
Of New York by a mere
Ike. when the false halo of San
An Hill was above his head of Col
ing the beneficiary of assassins,
4, last and browning piece Of
k" the nominee for President,
en- all the aggressive elements OF "T'
opposition wanted to see their own
ldidate defeated. THE mammoth for
ularity has got a laugh with every wei
oearance; the gargoyle has been ing
my from the hour it left its native alo
AIRY" Th'
Continuing, Mr. Willett said; l v
And, Mr. Chairman, should the gen or
men who view this curious figure Gal
h feigned admiration ask me how
son of Adam can be at the same
lie a hay-tedder, a popularity and