Show t ROASTS S fOR Oi HIS CRITICISM Of GENERAL ft lEE S J I IV V WASHINGTON March 3 The The re- re tent criticism of of Virginia m made de by byi i sf 1 tor Heyburn of r Idaho on the floor v. v S f senate because of that states state's S Va r ion in ii placing the statue of at G Gen n. n I bert E E. Lee Leo Lee in statuary hall hail found cho at tb the banquet of or the Vaughn J when Sen Senator tor Robert flobert Taylor of r m made de a fiery speech uphold- uphold J lt that action Senator Taylor did 5 riot act specifically name Senator Hey- Hey r but no doubt was left eft in in the minds mind tir bis hearers that it was the Idaho to whom his bis denunciation was k directed 1 After looking at and admiring the i of General Grant said Senator layor Taylor I continued to the statue of 5 another great gleat American soldier and i S standing here I wondered how any American whether in the senate or ort t out put could be so ungrateful so-ungrateful and so ignorant ignorant ig ig- ig- ig I 1 rant of those Godlike qualities of mind and heart as to sneer at the statue I of of Lee bee The people of the south honor honorS S Lincoln not only for his great intellect intel intel- le leet lect t but for his his his' great humanity Th The Themen Themen men who wore wore- the tho gray are proud to honor the men who wore the blue and met them on op the field of battle to fight out a problem that began when the republic re re- S public was born But they have su supreme supreme su- su preme contempt for the tho cowards who fight those battles now and make attacks attacks at at- tacks upon the graveyards of the south and on the monuments and statues of her heroic dead |