The evening world., 1909-01-18


follows:
Mr., Wile,t who represents tho Four.
teenth District OF the Empire State
and resides at Far Rockaway, took for
his theme The Passing Of Roosevelt"
Like a Horse TeGder.
After declaring that in the face of all
sorts Of conditions Americans were pos
sessed of a universal sense of humor
Mr.. Willett said that to such a people,
ut must be confessed, Chief Magis-
tratc who has himself no sense Of
humor moving like horse todder over
the bayfield, of American activities; stir
ring up every drying blade OF once green
grass, to let II fall dryer than before;
politicians, then with the part your hair
In the middle reforms, then with the
SOCIALISTS, then with the great industrial
corporations; wrestling in agony Of
spirit with Noah Webster and our glor.
ious English tongue; taking fall out
Of nature takers; exhortng our women
to avoid race suicide. cannot be an I'M
mixed nuisance.
He plays the tyrant, TO he sure; but
he is a tyrant who fears the carnival
ticker. He secs things that have a bad
smell, but the fresh breeze of Capitol
Hill doesn't let the odor linser.
Good to Laugh At,
He tries our patience but he is al
ways good to laugh at. Thank heaven
for the things that make us laugh.
ithout them we might easily become
raw, untamed Anglo-Saxons making
ruch Of Magma Charta, believing
about an effete bill of rights or even
ready to fight for freedom OF speech,
and freedom of the press, as did our
unclvilzed ancestors at Lexington and
Bunker HIM.
MIR. Willett gave a brief biography OF
Mr.. Roosevelts life. beginning with his
experiences as a cowboy down to the
present time and added: The gargoyle
has been funny from the hour it left
its native quarry"
And, Mr.. Chairman, should the gem
tlemen who view this curious figure
with fe!gned admiration ask me how
any son OF Adam can be Al the same
time a hay-tedder, a POPULARITY and
gargoyle, can only answer that this
particular hero is an eccentric eXCep-
ton to all rules a sole cism sui generis,
q mlSed-mStaphor vivant, an impossi-
bility, a comet that roves at will re-
CARELESS of the limitations of ordered
law that apply to earth and moon, to
stars and planets.
HE boasts of Irish. blood, but no
historic Irishman would have treated
I'm ally as he treated Mr., Hartman.
"He exults in a strain Of the old HUI
guenot, but the French gentleman doesn't
ny into Il passion and lash the horse of
timid girl, whose only oAense is in
ndvertently pressing the royal party in
was not that sort OF tyrant. and
Henry ", Henry Of Navarro, the
great Huguenot King, wore the white
plume OF Noblesse Obllge,
Would Have Been Called Out.
He tells that US Southern ar!stocrats
were among his polyglOt ancestors; but
I can inform him that II the wife OF
Robert looms, or Of jefferson Davis,
had been treated by him as Mrs Minor
Morris was, he would have been called
out or branded az a coward, II he had
been a thousand times a President.
Congressman Willett quoted from
President Roosevelts books in which
the President is alleged to have at
tackled Washington, jefferson. Monroe
Jackson. Tyler, Pierre and others. and
said that the President had federation
only for the Adamses who stood for
Federal!st ar,stocracy, and admiration
for Alexander Hamilton, the defeated
champion of limited monarchy"
Mr.. Willett declared that Consistency
10 jewel which the gargoyle IS always
throwing to the swine" No king, he
said, in any limited monarchy was ever
half so exigeant or even half SO i'm
placable.
the Oldest member OF the gargoyle's
Aranias club, who used to ask the
wives of his thrifty -avorltes whe' her
they could only afford on gown year
who said once 10 TIE wife OF one of h..
lighting marshals Your dress IS dirty,
and who insisted on dong all tic
matchmaking In his official circle"
The Democracy OF Lincoln, he said
the bluff Amerlcansm II Grant and
Cleveland, had passed into history
'along with the joyalIty Of Garfield
and the non-conformst thrift Of Ruth
erford b. Hayes"
A King and a Court.
I'VE have a king and a court now. -
Mr. Willett exclaimed, "a, good an m.-
tation Of a real thing known 10 tho
nobility Of monarchcal countries as the
scion of family o; trading Dutcnmen
can concoct."
At this iuncture MIR Wlllett called the
roll OF the so-callcl Ananias CLUB, and
said:
The earth Is Intoxicated and rnelf
around our Jocu1r!.y H. alone Is Tho
personifcation o; sJIriaty. temperate @.
ness cf statement, c1!mrus In speoc!
and action"
The President, Mr.. W!llett declared