The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-01-22
ROOSEVELT DENOUNCED.
tMr. Willett, of New York, Bitterly
Attacks The President in The
National House.

Washington, january l9.-Charac-
terizing President Roosevelt as gar
goyle and as ''this pigmy descendant
Of Dutch trades people," and charg-
ing him with having "established a
cc,It in the White House, which
would have delighted the heart Of his
admired Alexander Hamilton" Mr..
WiIlett, of New York, in the house Of
representatives today made one of the
most bitter attacks on the chief exc
cutive ever heard in that body. Mr..
Willett took for his theme 1.-The
Passing Of Roosevelt" and in a
speech Of great length dealt with
numerous of the PRESIDENT acts since
he came into office and scathingly de-
nounced them.
So severe was the attack of Mr..
Willett that after several efforts Re-
publican members were able to force
him to take his seat on call to order
before he had finished his speech.
After declaring that in the face of
all sorts of conditions Americans
were possessed Of a universal sense Of
humor, Mr.. Willett said that to such
people ''it must be confessed, 4
chief magistrate who has himself no
sense Of humor, moving like horse
tedder over the bayfield, Of Amer-
can activities; stirring up every dry
ing blade Of once green grass, to let
it fall dryer than before, quarrellng
one day with the practical politicians,
then with the Observation-Disclosures
reformers, then with the Socialists,
then with the great industrial corpora
;: tions; wrestling in agonyof spirit with
Noah Webster and our glorious Eng
lish tongue; taking fall out of ma
eare-fakirs, exhorting our women to
avoid race suicide, cannot be an un-
mixed nuisance.
He Plays Tyrant.
etHe plays tyrant, to be sure. he
is a tyrant who fears the carnival
tiekler. He sees things that have
bad smell, but the fresh breeze Of
Capitol Hill doesn't let the odor ling
er.
=. ."He tries our patience, but he is
always good-to laugh at. Thank
Heaven for the things that make US
laugh. Without them we might cas-
ily become raw, untamed Anglo-Sax-
ons, making much of Magma Charta
: belloWine about an effete bill OF
rights, or even ready. to fight for
freedom of thought, freedom of
speech and freedom Of the press, as
did our unciviized ancestors at Lex
ington and Bunker Hill.
>"And, Mr.. Chairman, should the
gentlemen who view this curious IL
cure with feigned admiration ask me
how any son Of Adam can be at the
same time hay7tedder, a Jocularlty
and a gargoyle, I can only answer that
!, this particular hero is an eccentric
exception to all rules, a soleclsm sui
genepis, a mixed metaphor vivant, an
impossibility, comet that roves at
swil regardless Of the limitations Of
ordered law that apply to earth and
moon, to stars and planets.
"He exults in a strain Of the old
Huguenot, but the French gentleman
doesn It fly into passion and lash the
horse of tined young girl whose only
offence is inadvertently passing the
royal party in a public highway. Ev-
en- Louis, XIV was not that sort of a
tyrant, and Henry, ", Henry of Nav
ARE, the great Huguenot king, wore
the white plume of 'noblesse obhge.
Mrs. Morris's Treatment.
"He tells us that Southern aristo-
crsts were among his polyglot ances-
tors: but can inform him that II
fthe wife of a Robert Toombs or OF a
jefferson Davis had been treated by
I'm as Mrs. Minor Morris was ne
Eould have been called out or brand
d as a coward if he had been thou
and times president.
"He is proud to insist that the
Family whose name be bears comes
from Holland; but his ready surren-
der to tile politicians Of his own par
tv makes it clear enough that tate
kburghers, who put up their shutters
at the first beat Of the war drum
must have been his progenltors. he
heats the Dutch, however, as even MS
severest critics must confess.
"We have a king and a court
[nov'' MI. Willett exclaimed. las
GOOD an intimation of the real thing
Known to the nobility OF monarehlcaa
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