The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-18
In Speech Replete With Fiery lnvcc-
tive Representative NilItt of
New York Assails the
President.
CALL MANY HARD NAMES
House Calls Him Down and Votes Him
Out on Point of Order
1876 to seventy.Eieht
Votes.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-In a.
speech marked by fiery invective, Rep
resentative William Willitt, Jr., Demr
ocrat, Of New York, attacked Roose-
velt in the house today. His theme
was the passing of Roosevelt though
he did not mention the President by
name. Among the picturesque desig-
nations for the President were Gar
goyle, tyrant, pigmy, a descendant Of
the Dutch trades people, hay-tedder,
fountain of billingsgate, imitation of
king, bogus hero. He says though the
must be confessed the chief magis-
trate is moving like hay-tedder over
a hay field of American activity, stir
ring up every drying blade Of grass,
quarrelling one day with politicians,
then with part-your-hair-in-th -the-middle
reformers, then with industrial corpol-
ations, wrestling in the agony OF the
spirit of Noah Webster exorting WON,
en- to avoid race suicide-cannot be-
an unmixed nuisance.
"He plays the tyrant but he's tyr
ant fearing carnival ticker. He sees
things having bad smell but fresh
breeze on Capitol Hill does not let the
odor linger. He tries our patience but
he's always good to laugh at. I thank
heaven for the things that make us
laugh. Without them we might easily
become untamed Anglo-SaXons a COW
boy in youth and never outgrown that,
an unimaginable assemblyman with
preposterous notions of early man.
hood Candidate for mayor of New
York running third Henry George
second Police commissioner, soaring
members of the force with his Ssher-
lock Holmes entrances, exits and per-
ambulations. Assistant secretary of
the navy knitting a high minded chief
in the back Warrior alone ii Cuba
and saved San Juan hill by black SOL
diers Signer of the insubordinate
round robin which any dignified war
department would punish with cort-
martial. Candidate for governor of
New York and victoriously a mere
fluke with a false halo of San Juan
hill above his head. BENEFICIARY as
sassination the crowning piece of luck
of the nominee of the president when
all aggressive elements of opposition
desired their own candidate defeated:
mammoth jocularity has got laugh
with every appearance of gargoyle
it has bee funny from the hour he
left its native quarry We have
king at court while the house is now
as good an imitation Of the real thing
as is known to nobility on the mon
archial court
Willett reviewed the formation Of
the Anninas club He charged the
president treated Dewey. Schley and
Miles badly. He said: AT all the real
heroes he shows his teeth because
tho real heros are gall and wormwood
10 the bogus ones He referred 10
the alleged Panama canal scandal and
said: 1T was q Scotch verdict un-
pr ed but may fit these charges Of
corruption"
He declared its president had gone
about the -ork of curbing trusts like
man looking for a gas leak with a
lighted candle"
Concluding he said: "Gargoyle is
about to grin his last grin; the Nero
/, who fiddled while Rome was burning
will be out OF power March A.
The house vote was 126 to IS on a
point of order that Willett, villifying
the president, be refused TO allow him
TO proceed.