The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-19
HOUSE STOPS
BITTER SPEECH
Mr.. Willett Of New York At
tacks the President.
HIS TALK INTERRUPTED

guage Offensive and Permission to
Continue Is Refused-Refers to
Roosevelt as Gareoyle and Pigny
Descendant of Dutch Trades People.
Washington, Jan. 19.-Characteriz-
ing President Roosevelt as 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 admired
Alexander Hamilton" Mr.. Willett
(Dem., N. W, in the house of repre-
sentatives, made one of the most bit
ter attacks on the chief executive ever
heard i'll that body. Several times
during the course of his remarks Mr..
Willett was called to order by Repub-
lican members and finally the chair
ruled his remarks offensive and he
was ordered to take his seat.
A motion to permit him to "pro-
coed in order" was defeated by
a party vote. Mr.. Willett took
for his theme "The Passing Of Roose-
welt" and in a speech of great length
dealt with number of the president s
acts since he came Into Office and
scathingly denounced them. He said
the president was "quarreling one
day with the practical politicians;
then with the part your hair in the
middle reformers; then with the So
cialists; then with the great indus
trial corporations; wrestling in agony
of spirit with Noah Webster and our
glorious English tongue; taking a fall
out of nature takers and exhorting
our women to avoid race suicide"
WiIIett's Biography Of Roosevelt.
Mr.. Willett gave brief biography
of Mr.. Roosevelt's life, beginning with
his experience as cowboy down to
the present time, and accused him, in
his early manhood, of having had
preposterous notions, of having
KNITTED" Secretary Long, of being "a
warrior alone in Cuba" of having won
the governorship of New York by a
mere fluke, when the false halo of
San Juan hill was above his head !;
the beneficiary OF assassins and, last
and browning piece of luck, the NOM
inee for president when all the ag-
gressive elements of passion wanted
to see their own candidate defeated.
Continuing, Mr.. Willett said:
"And, Mr. Chairman, should the
gentlemen who view this curious fig.
ure with feigned admiration ask me
how any son of Adam can be at the
same time hay tedder, a POPULARITY
and gargoyle can only answer that
this particular hero is an eccentric
exception to all rules, a mixed meta
phor vtvant, an impossibility, comet
that roves at will regardless of the
limitations of order and law that ap-
ply to earth and moon, to stars and
planets.
Analyses RooseveIt's Ancestry.
"IIe boasts of Irish blood, but no
historic Irishman would have treated
an ally as he treated Mr.. Hartman.
''He exults in strain of the old
Huguenot, but the French gentleman
doesn't fly into passion and lash
the horse of timid young girl whose
only offense is inadvertently passing
the royal party in a public highway.
Even Louis XIV. was not that sort of
tyrant and Henry w., Henry of Ma
varre, the great Huguenot king, wore
the white plume of noblesse oblige.
"He tells us that Southern aristo.
Gratis were Among his polyglot ances-
tors; but can inform him that if the
wife of Robert Toombs or of JEFF
ferson Davis had been treated by him
as Mrs. Minor Morris was he would
have been called out or branded as a
coward if he had been a thousand
times president. 49,
"He is proud to insist that the fam
lily whose name he bears comes from
Holland, but his ready surrender to
the politicians of his own party makes
it clear enough that fat burghers,
who put up their shutters at the first
beat of tho war drum, must have been
his progenitors. He beats the Dutch,
however, as even his severest critics
must confess"
Refers to Ananias Club.
At this juncture Mr.. Willett called
the roll Of the SO called Ananias club
and said:
1.-THE earth is intoxicated and reels
around our POPULARITY. He alone is
the personification of sobriety, tenn
perateness of statement, calmness in
speech and action. The ever moving
hay tedder hurries over the field,
throwing upward the clover of poll.
tics, the timothy of zoology, the blue
grass of history and letting each
blade fall little drier than it was
before.
Jealousy you can read in the gar
goyle's distorted features. You look
on those twisted lines and it is easy,
Nh, so easy, to understand the in
science toward Dewey, the one great
figure of the Spanish-American war,
the hero who took Manila with the
worst ships a rotten bureaucracy
could find for him.; the persistent
defamation of Admiral Schley, who
really fought the battle of Santiago
bay: the insults heaped on General
Miles, whose counsel was ignored in
the expensive plumbers of the lard
campaign at Santiago"
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