Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-18

crowning piece of luck, the nominee
for president when all the aggressive
elements of passion wantd to see their
own candidate defeated, the MANN 9th
1ocularity has got to laugh with every
appearance; the gargoyie has been
funny from the hour it left its native
quarry"
Continuing Mr., Willett said
And Mr.. Chairman should the
gentlemen who view this curious fig-
ure with feigned admirations ask me
how any son of Adam can be at the
same time a hay-Tedder, a jocularity
and gargoyle, | can only answer
that this particular hero is an eccen-
trio exception to all rules, a soleclsm
sui-genoris, a mixed-metapnor-v -vivant,
an impossibilty; a comet that roves at
will regardless of the limitations of
law and order that apply to earth and
moon, to stars and planets.
He boasts the Irish blood, but no
historic Irish man would have treated
an ly as he treated Mr.. Hartman.
''he eXults in a strain of the old
Hugenot, but the French gentleman
does not fly into a passion and lash
the horse of a timid young girl whose
only offense is inadvertently passing
the royal party in public highway.
Even Louis XIV was not tnat sort of
a tyrant, and Henry " Henry of
Navarro, the great Hugenot king.
wore the white plume of noblesse
oblige.
"He tells us that southern aristro-
Gratis are among polyglot ancestors,
but l can inform him that If the wife
of a Robert Tombs or of Jefferson
Davis had been treated by him as
Mrs. Miner Morris was, he would
have been called out or branded as a
coward if he had been a thousand
times a president.
"He is proud to insist that the fam
lily whose name he bears comes fIom
Holland; out his ready surrender to
bne politicians of his own party makes
1t clear enough that fat berghers who
put up their shutters at the hrst beat
of the war drum must have been his
progenetors. He beats the Dutch
however, as even his severest critics
must confess.
Are you shocked that a chief mag
istrate should justify such characteri-
zation? / am shocked, too. Do you
say that the place he holds should
make us all dumb before him? Hear
what this fountain of bulinEsgate has
said of his predecessors in that high
office and own that no mans tongue
should be stilled by such a considera-
tion?"
He quoted from President RoOse-
velt's books in which the president
is alleged to have attacked Washing
ton, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Ty-
Ter, Pierce and others and said that
the president had "toleratiou only for
the Adamses who stood for federal ST
aristocracy and admiration for Alex
ander Hamilton the defeated cham
pion Of limited monarchy"
"Of course said Mr. Wiuett,
these condemnations roar as gently
as any sucking dove when compared
with his denuncidtion of John Paul
Jones as a pirate Of Napoleon the
Great as utterly unscruplulous,' of
New Englands idolzed Wendell
Phillips as always either mlschlevous
or ridiculous ana usually both IF
Thomas Paine, the first champion Of
American liberty as "a filthy little
atheist of miracle believing Roman
Catholics as persons of arrested
mental development of Quakers as
quite as undesirable citizens as duel
lists But he has been frank enough
In abusing other president TO shut
the lips OF his defenders on the dig
nifty of the presidential office"
Mr. Willett declared that consist
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