The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-19
CHOICE BUNCH
0F NAMES FOR
MR.. ROOSEVELT.
Now York Member Talked Un-
fl His Remarks Aroused
Republican Colleagues.
FLOOR TAKEN AWAY
AFTER HE FINISHED
,seslpENT HELD UP TO RiDi-
cuLE AND HIS ACTIONS ARE
FIERcELY DENOUNCED.

,,.--,,Bgtol. Jan. S-Cbaracterizing
r...iIs,t Roosevelt as d gargOyie and as
80 picuv descendant of Dutch trades
...,ls - and charging him with having
.-.,,tlsbed g. court in the White house
.tisb would have delighted the heart OF
esulirer Alexander Hamilton Mr..
,,.r7-t al New York. in the house of rep
.W...rtstives. today made one of the most
t...g-- attacks on the chief executive ever
"a in that body. Mr.. Wiiiett took for
NJ theme THE Passing of Roosevelt,
--sina speech of great length dealt with
-r,sTous OF the presidents acts since he
20 into office and scathingly denounced
tgsr declaring that in the face of all
It's of conditions Americans were pos
sod of a universal sense Of humor Mr..
WiTatt said TO such people, 1t must De
.,-feSsad a chief magistrate VINO mas
tir,salf no sense Of humOF. moving like
Forse tender over the bayfield, of Amer
I'm activities. stirring up every drying
iisde of once green grass, to let 1t fall
srier than before, quarreiing one day with
the practical politicians, then with the
-4rt-vour- hsir-in-t he-middle retOrmerS,
fben with the Socialists, then with the
great industrial corporations. wrestling in
srouv with the spirit Of Noah Webster
md our glorious English tongue; taking
IAN out Of nature takers, eXhOrting our
women TO avoid race suicide, cannot be an
nmixed nuisance.
ne niays the tyrant, to be sure, but he
is a tyfant VINO fears the carnival tick
De-. re sees things that have baa
smell. but the fresh breeze of Capitol Hill
does not let the odor finger.
Good to Laugh At.
He tries our patience, but he is always
good TO laugh at. Thank heaven for the
.. hos rzr4Eh Without them
We might easily become raw, untamed An
glo-SaXons, making much of Magma Char
Ga. believing about al effete bill of rights
or even ready TO fight for freedom of
thought, freedom of speech, and freedom
Of the press. as did our unciviiized an
eestors at Lexington and Bunker Hill.
Mir. Wjllett gave 4 brief biography of
Nj Roosevelt, beginning with his expert
guce as a cowboy. down to the present
time. and accused him. in his early man.
hood. Of having had Preposterous notions
of having knitted" Secretary Long, of
being "a warrior alone In Cuba Of hav-
ing 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
cTowning piece of luck, the nominee for
president when all the aggressive elements
VI passion wanted to sec their own candi-
date defeated. the mammoth POPULARITY
has got 20 laugh with every appearance:
I1e gargoyle has been funny from the
hour Il left its native quarry"
Roosevelt All Sorts of Things.
continuing. MIR. Willett said:
And. Mr.. Chairman, should the gentle
men who view this curious figure with
iegncd admiratiOns ask me how any son
o. Adam can be at the same time, a horse
tender, a iOculaTity and a gargoyle. l can
emily answer that this particular hero is
HH7I Ill
usm sui generis. observation-disclosures
want an impOssibiiity; a comet that roves
AZ viii regardless Of the limitations of or
do' and law that apply TO earth and moon,
20 stars and planets.
He boasts Of Irish blood, but no historic
lriSlmsn would have treated an ally as
be treated Mr. Hartman.
lie exults in a strain of the old Hugue-
not but the French gentleman does not fly
INTO passion and lash the horse of a
umid young girl whose only offense is
inadvertently passing the royal party in
~ mat kind of tyrant, and Henry ",
henry OF Navarro. the great Huguenot
Aias wore the white plume of noblesse
obige.
Not d Southerner.
Tie tells us that southern aristocrats
were arlong his pOlyglot ancestors: but
gan INFORM him that if the wife of a Rob
@l io0mbS or of a jefferson Davis had
oen treated by him as Mrs Miner Nor
-s vas. he would have been called out or
u ahdeG as 81 coward. if he had been a
"essand times a president.
ne is proud TO insist that the family
NH57e name he bears comes from Hol-
,--l' out his ready surrender 70 the poll
l--anS OF his own party makes it clear
stY.sn mat tat buTEhers who put up their
--llers az the first beat OF the war drum
.'sl nave been his progenitors. He beats
~ Dulch. however, as even his severest
Niles must confess.
are You shocked that a chief magis-
Tle should Justify such Characterization
-f an shocked too. Do you say that the
80 ne holds should make US all dumb
t.,He him. Hear what this fountain OF
G lssgate has said Of his predecessors
~ nat nigh office and own that no mans
ssle should be stilled by such a con-
Rooseveit's Opinion of Others.
quoted from President Roosevelt $
y, - ID which the president is alleged
ave attacked Washington. jefferson,
iue' jackson. Tyler. Pierce and others
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