The San Francisco call., 1909-01-19

ISCALLED
GARGOYLE
Representative Willett Charac-
terizes President as ''Pigmy
Descendant
Chief Executive Subjected to
One of the Most Bitter
Attacks Ever Heard
e.
Member of Lower House
ScathingIy DenOunces Acts
of the Nations Leader Z.
Speaker Calls Him to Order
When Tirade Is Nearly .sl
{. Finished

w WASHINGTON, JAN 1S.-Charac~
NA/ terizing President Roosevelt as
w a gargoyle. and as 'this pigmy
descendant OF Dutch trades
people," and charging him with having
established court In the White House
which would have delighted the heart
of his sdmirer. Alexander Hamilton
Willett OF New York, in the house OF
representatives today made one OF thu
most bitter attacks on the chief execu>
tive ever heard in that body. Willet1
took for his theme. 'The Passing of
Roosevelt and in a speech Of great
length dealt with numerous OF ths
presidents acts since he came into OF
fee and scathingIy denounced them
"The Passage of Roosevelt
wEl1ett took for his theme. "The
Passage OF Roosevelt" and in a 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 were
possessed OF a universal sense OF hu-
must be confessed. chief magistrates
who has himself no sense OF humors
moving like horse tedder over the
hayfeld OF American activities; stirring
up every drying blade OF once green
grass, to let 1T fall drier than befores
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 indus
trial corporations wrestling in agony
over the spirit with Noah Webster and
our glorious English tongue; taking
a fall out OF nature takers; exhorting
our women to avoid race suicide-can
not be an unmixed nuisance.
HE plays the tyrant. to be sure. but
he is a tyrant who fears the carnival
tickIer He sees things that have a
bad smell, but the fresh breeze Of Capt.
toI hill does not let the odor hnger.
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
without them we might easily become
raw, untamed Anglo-Saxons, making
much OF magma charta. believing about
an erete bill OF rights or even ready
to fight for freedom. for thorough
freedom OF speech and freedom OF the
press, as did our uncivilized ancestors
at Lexington and Bunker HILL"
wiIlett gave a brief biography oe
Roosevelt, beginning with his experi-.
ences as a cowboy down TO the presenE
time, and accused him in his early man
hood OF having had preposterous no.
tions, of having knitted Secretary
Long. of being a warrior alone i'm
Cuba" OF having won the governorship
OF New York by a mere huke, when a
false halo OF San Juan hill was abova
his head; the beneficiary OF assassins.
and last. and crowning piece of luck.
the nominee for president when all thu
aggressive elements OF passion wanted
to see their own candidate defeated Thu
mammoth jocularity has got to laugh
with every appearance; the gargoyle has
been funny from the hour it left its na-
tive quarry"
An Eccentric Exception
Continuing. willett said: 'And. Mr.
Chairman, should the gentlemen who
view this curious figure with feigned
admiration ask me how any son OF
Adam can be at the same time a hay
tedder. jocuIarity and gargoyle.
can only answer that this particular
hero is an eccentric exception TO all
rules. soIecism sui generis. a mixed
metaphor vivant. an impossibility; a
comet that roves at Will regardless OF
the limitations Of order and law that
apply to earth and moon to stars and
planets.
HE boasts OF Irish blood. but no his
toric Irishman would have treated an
ally as he treated Hartman.
He exults in a strain OF the old
Huguenot. but the French gentleman
does not hy into passion and lash the
horse of timid young girl whose only
offense is inadvertently passing the
royal party in public highway Even
Louis XIV was not that sort of a ty-
rant. and Henry Nv. Henry of Navarro.
the great Huguenot king, wore the
white plume of noblesse oblige.
He tells US that southern aristocrats