The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-18


 Compares Heroes and Re-
 views Ananias Club
 Sense of Humor the Safe
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 Was Villifying the Presl-
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 Washington, Jan. 1S.-The House this afternoon, by vote of 126 to 58, LOOK Repr esentative Willett off his feet on a point of order that he was -villifyins the President of the United States and refused to allow him to proceed.
 willett had given out in advance cop les of his speech for publication in the press. All that portion following his reference to Admiral Schley where he was interrupted was cut off by the action of the House. Early during the course of MT. Willett's speech 1t was apparent that some members or the House were opposed to the tone or his remarks, upholding the President.
 Finally particularly strong remark made the point of order that MT. Will lett's remarks were out of order. He is reading a lot of rot to the House" {" said MT. Hughes, which the House does not care to hear. He is unneces- earily violating the privileges"
 Representative Butler of Pennsyl- vania, who was in the chair, ruled that Willett was in order. Later Represen- tative Gardner, Republican, Massa- chusetts). made a similar point and was uphelld. Willett took his seat and then Representa- tive Bowers, Oemo- crat, Mississippi. moved that he be allowed to proceed In order. This was voted down. 126 to 7S.
 Washington. Jan. 1S.-In a speech marked by fiery invective and strong epithets. Representative William Will lett Democrat. New York.) attacked President Roosevelt in the House to- day. His theme was, 'fTke Passing of Roosevelt" though he at no time men -tioned the President by name. Among his more picturesque presentations of the Chief Magistrate were:
 "Gargoyle. tyrLri. pigmy descendant of Dutch tradespeople, hay-tedder, fountain of billingsgate, imitation of king. a bogus taro.
 We strong browed and keen-fgur- ing Americans" said Willett in begin ming. "are a people. patient to the point of pesttience, negligent to the point of nausea, self confident to the very bor- der of slavery and saved from pestil- ,ence, nausea and slavery alike, only by a universal sense Of humor.
 ITO such a people. 1t must be con- fessed. 8 Chief Magistrate who has himself no sense of humor. moving like @ horse-tedder over th2 hayfeld of American activities: stirring up every drying blade of once green grass. to lot it fall drier than before: quarreiling one day with the practical politicians, then with the part-your hairin the middle reformers and then with the Socialists. then with the great indus trial corporations; wrestling in agony Of spirit with Nathan Webster and our glorious English tongue; taking fall out of nature fakirs; exhorting our women to avoid e-suicide-cannCt be an unmfxed nuisance.
 "He plays the Titan, to be sure, but he is a tyrant who fears the carnival ticker. He sees things that have a bad smell. but the fresh breezes of capitol hill do not let the odor finger. He tries our patience but he is always gcod-to laugh at. Thank Heaven for things that make us laugh. Without them we might easily become raw, un- tanned Angio-Saxons, making much of magma charta, believing about bill of rights or even ready to fight for freedom of thought. freedom of speech and freedom of the press. as did our ullcivilized ancestors at Lexington and Bunker Hill.
 ''The beginnings of the mammoth jocularity which has driven dull care away for more than seven years, the Imposing gargoyle, grinning above the entrance of national temple of place and power, have a humor all their own.
 "A cowboy in his youth, he has never altogether grown out of that. An un- lnaginab ble assemblyman. with prepos- teFouS notions in his early manhood. A candidate for mayor of New York, running third, to Henry Georges sec ond: police commissioner, soaring the members of the force with Sherlock Holmes exits, entrances and preambleS, 1 national civil service commissioner en- gagged in bitter war of ccrrespond- i ence with the editor of the Washington Post, a man whom Arthur had delight ! ed to honor and whose character was to his own-well, as Hyperion to a | Satyr.
 An assistant secretary of the navy, 1 knif1ng his high-minded chief in the | back. A warrior alone in Cuba, saved l at San Juan Hill by black soldiers.
 Candidate for Governor of New York. victorious by mere huke when the false halo of San Juan Hill was above 1 his head. A nominee for Vice-Presi- dent against his will 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 has got a laugh with every appearance: the gargoyle has been funny from the hour it left it's native quarry"
 "He boasts of Irish blood" Willett continued, "but no historic Irishman would have treated an ally as he treat ed MT. Hartman. No Irish gentle man would fly into a passion or lash ! the horse of a t:mid young girl whose only offense is inadvertently passing the royal party in public highway.
 Hear what this fountain of billings gate has said of his predecessors in that high office:
 Tn his various writings he points out the errors Of George Washington. m the life of Morris he alludes to the utter weakness and folly of Thomas erferson's second term and the pit iable incompetence shown by him and his successor He declares that James Monroe was 'as great figure as his Andrew Jackson he calls Ignorant and headstrong.' Mar
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