Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-01-18
ROOSEVELT AN "UNM|XED NUISANCE"
DECLARES CONGRESSMAN WIILETT
New York Representative Bitterly At
tdCkS the President in Speech Before
the House Today, Designating Chief
Executive as "Pigmy Descendant of
Dutch TrddeSpeOple."

Washington, Jan 1S.-Characteriz-
ing President Roosevelt as a gargoyle
and as this pigmy descendant OF
Dutch trades people" and charging
him with having "esta blished court
In the White House which would aave
delighted the heart of his admirer,
Alexander Harnlltoa.'L Mr. Willett of
New York, i'm the House of Repre-
sentatives today made one of the
most bitter attacks On the chief exec
cutive ever heard in that body Mr..
Willett took for his theme The Pass
ing Of Roosevelt and in a speech of
great length. dealt with numerous
of the presidents acts since he came
into office and scathmgly denounced
them
Several times during the delivery
of his attack upon the president,
Wilett was interrupted by Hughes of
West Virginia, calling him to order.
Butler of Pennsylvania. who was in
the chair ruled that Wilett was
speaking under the license of general
debate and Willett proceeded amid
the cheers Of the Democrat colleagues.
His reference to the defamation of
Admiral Schley" caused Gardner Of
Massachusetts, to object. After a good
deal of sparring the cnair ruled that
the words were offensive.
BY this time the House was in
furore. Gardner made the point that
Willett, having been found out of or
der, was no longer entitled to the
floor. Others insisted that Willett
should take his seat. The chair so
decided and Willett retired. \ mo-
ton by Chandler of Mississippi, that
Wiuett be allowed to proceed was
lost by a strict party vote, rs to 12G,
and the House thereby refused to
further hear the New Yorker. VIII
lett had practically concluded his re-
marks and heard the verdict with
smile.
After declaring that in the fact of
al sorts of conditions Americans
were possessed of a universal sense
of humor, Mr.. Willett said to such
people 1t must be confessed chief
magistrate who has himself no sense
of humor, moving like a horse tender
over the hay field Of American ac-
tivties stirring up every dry blade Of
once green grass. to let II fall dryer
than before; quarreling one day with
the practical politicians, then with
the part-your-nair-in-t n-the-middle re-
forms, then with the Socialists, then
with the great Industrial corporations,
wrestling in agony over spirit with
Noah Webster and our glorious Eng
lish tongue; taking a fall out Of ma
ture fakrs-eXhorting our women TO
avoid race suicide, can not Oe an un-
mixed nuisance"
He plays the tyrant, to be sure,
but he is a tyrant who fears the car
nival tickler He sees things that have
bad smell. but the fresh breeze of
capitol nill does not let the odor
linger.
He tries our patience, but he is
always good to laugh at. Thank Heay-
en- for the things that make US laugh
Without them we might easily be-
come raw untamed Anglo-Saxous,
making much of Magma Charta bell
lowing about an effete bill of rights
or even ready 10 fight for freedom
for though freedom of speech and
freedom Of press, as did our unciyi-
lized ancestors at Lexington and
Bunker Hill"
Mr.. Wiuet gave a brief biography
Of Mr.. Roosevelt, beginning with
experiences as cowboy down TO tlo
present time, and accused him In his
early manhood Of having bad prepos-
ferrous 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
-aanadofarxr Of asoaszfng and Last and