Middletown transcript., 1909-03-06
CLOSING HOURS or coN0REss
TillmaH and Offers Fire PaFting Shots at
Roosevelt. Which Amase His Friends

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Roosevelt, Which Amnse His Friends
/ WAsHINGToN, d. @, February 26th.-
PTesident.baising continues in the House
Fand Senate. Every Congressman with {
I'Rrieyance tries tn get into the record al
attack upon Mr., Roosevelt. To-day Till.
man, ia The Senate, and Williams, in the
Honee, eaeit,a,t in shot Tillman intro.
dnced trsoIntion directing the Commit.
tee on Post Offices and Post Roads TO re-
port whether the report Of the Presi.
dents Homes Commission is unfit to be
sent through the mails. Williams, of
Mississippi, read q few doRgerel verses
expressive Of supposed joy that within
week TEDDY" will have left the White
House.
In the House to-day q committee was.
appointed TO report upon the speech made
yesterday BY Representative Cook, Of Col
oradO, with view Of determining whether
il should be expunged frOmthe record.
Compared WITH Warrington
Representative Cooper. Of Wisconsin,
yesterday, compared the abuse Of the
President BY Mr.. Cook With that Il fPresi-
dent lincoln by ''copperheads, and to-
day the comparison was carried still
further aud she abnssof George Washing
ton quoted. Visitors at the White House
to-day recalled the President what the
"Aurore, = published III P Philadelphia, he'd
TO say at the time President Washington
retired to private life.
II is understood that the President and
come Of bis friends we're greatly amused
at the similarity Of phrases used by the
'tAufora'' ii speeding General Washing
ton TO private life to expressions that are
noS made upon the retirement Of Mr..
Roosevelt. A member ofthe Cabinet se-
cured full transcription Of an article in
the Aurora" Of March 6, 1871, and ID un-
to have read it With great effect |
at to days meeting.
The "Aurcrs'g' Article
The article will probably appear in the |
Congressional Record along with Will
llama poems and other matters in criti-
cisns Of the President. Il reads:
Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant
depart in peace, Was the pious ejacula-
ton OF o pious man who beheld food |
Of happiness rushing In upon mankind. |
II ever there was 9 time that would /
license the restoration OF the ejaculation,
that time has now arrived, for the man |
who is the source OF all the misfoFtunes
OF our country is this day reduced to q |
level with bis fellow.citizens, and is no
longer possessed of power TO multiply /
evils upon the United States. II ever
there was period OF rejoicing, this is
the moment. Every heart 10 unison
with the freedom and happiness OF the
people ought to b5at high with exulta.
tion that the name Of WASHINGTON
ceases fr0m this day to give currency 10
political insults aud to Iegalixe corrup-
iion.
A new era is now opening upon Us,
an era which promises much to the
people, for public measures must now
stand upon their own merits, and nefar-
ious projects can no longer be supported
By name. When FetToepect had
been taken Of the Washingtonian ad-
ulinistration for eight years, ii is 6 snb-
Ject OF the greatest Advertisements that q
single individual should have Cankered
the principles Of Repubiicanism ID an
enlightened people lust emerged from
the gulf OF despotism, and should have
Carried his designs against the public
liberty 90 Tar as to have putin jeopardy
It's very eQistenee. Such, however, are
the facts, and with thess staring % in
the laos. the day ought 70 be jubilee
in the TInitad Skafee