The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-22
ATTACKS WRITINGS
 OF MIR. ROOSEVELT
Senator Williams Bitterly
 Scores the Colonel
REASON FOR ACTION
Declares Colonel Is Unworthy to Untie Shoestrings of Long Line of Predecessors-Many
 Cases Mentioned

Washington. August 2l.-Colonel Theo- dore Roosevelt was attacked for his pub lished criticisms of Thomas Jefferson and other historical personages in .he Senate today by Senator Williams of Mississippi Senator Williams declared the former President had criticisetd a long line of predecessors, "the latckes of whose shoes his late excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, is unworthy to unite"
 Senator Williams declared that the edi- tor had characterized Jefferson as wac ciating, timorous" and the most incap- able executive that ever sat in the presi- oential chair. Tn one place" said the senator. "his late excellency. mad he prob ably shook his own right hand with his left when he formed tine phrase informs us that Jefferson was constitutlonally in capable of placing the proper value on truth Senator Williams declared that despite comments by Colonel Roosevelt, the picture of Jefferson had adorned the hall of the bull moose convention He asserted Colonel Roosevelt charged Presi- dent Madison with imbecie incapaclty and called him "a disgrace to America" Mon roe and Madison he said President Roose- welt had called "figurative figure heads. . 'If ever Jackson was dominated by any one person. Mir Williams said, The cer- tainly was never dominated by the money powers either through campaign contribu- tions or predatory wealth.
 Senator Williams declared he would not have attacked Colonel Roosevelt had not a general campaign had been started against Governor Woodrow Wilson based on every immature or abortivc expres- sion of opinion he ever wrote. MT. Will Hams said the republican national com mittee had gathered many quotations from Governor Wilson's books and was preparing to send them broadcast But Colonel Roosevelt never attacked any one so bitterly as he did the old popuists, although his new progressive party has stolen every one of it's blanks from the old ropulist platform" Senator Williams raid. He read certain works in which Colonel Roosevelt had character studies lnade into effiRies characterizing the ropulists as suspicious of any enc who bathed frequently.
 Senator Williams referred to Roose vefts criticisms of William Henry Harrison and "Old Rough and Ready" Zachary Taylor as small Presidents and of Fillmore and Tyler along sim m- far lines In his love of ultra ex- treme utterances the ex-President re- fers to Tyler as "a politician of mon umental smallness" and then as if to add perfume 10 the toilet articles, he says Ito call him A mediocre man is unwarranted flattery," said Senator Williams. Doub tless he swelled his head when he devised that phrase for the public he said.
 President Pierce. whom MT. Roose- welt criticised, had war record 10 times as great as any man at San Juan. Mir Williams said
 References 10 popnlists were read by the senator from Colonel Roosevelt's 2 works and from pamphlet he said the ex President had written. From one of these he quoted the phrase: Pay ments of debts. like the suppression of riots. is abhorrent to the populistic mind I should not doubt if 1t was his real opinion today, even of the people whom he is at present cooper a,ing with who are histronically and politically the receivers of popuiistlc goods, though called national progres- sives. The old Alexander Hamilton federalist contempt for the common people will crop out of him when he Is seeking their votes to placate an unsuitable sense of superiority"