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Show BITTER DENUNCIATION OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT ' . BY W1LLET Most Flagrant Attack Ever Made in House Upon Chief Executive and His Acts "Passing of Roosevelt" Is Theme New York Congressman Characterizes Him as a Gargoyle, Who Is Always Good to Laugh at CLOSING QUOTATIONS OF I WORLD'S MARKETS STRIKING GAINS IN THE OPENING PR1CEG New York, Jan. 18. Opening prices of stocks showed a number of r,trli;lng gains which were most amongst stocks not of the greatest prominence. Nor-lolk Nor-lolk & Western advanced 1 1-2, New York Central and American Cotton Oil 1 1-8. Kausas City Southern 1 and V. abash preferred, Third Avenue, Colorado Col-orado Fuel and Slors-SheEcld Stc?t large fractions, Amalgamated Copper uecllned 3-1. Opening gains were reduced when t!e traders sold to realize. Some ot he p.tron? low priced stocks tell below be-low Saturday's closing. Later support of the general market and a brisk advance ad-vance in Now York Central pulled prices up to about the opening Dgiiree. For a titnc United Slates Steel was In large demand, but at 53 offerings were in excess. Prices fell back a fraction . all around. Western Maryland Mary-land roao 2 Cleveland, C. C. Sc. St Loula 1 3-4 and St. Louis Southwestern Southwest-ern preferred 1. Chesapeake & Ohio, Atchison and American Agricultural Chemical declined de-clined 1, and Consolidated (las and New Haven 2. Bonds were firm. ject. After a good deal of sparring, the chair ruled that the words were offensive. By this time the house wag in a furore. Above the babel of voices, Mr. Gardner was heard to make the point that, a member having been found out of order in debate, he was no longer tnlitled to the floor. Messrs. Hepburn (Iowa) and Mann (Illinois), with copies of the rules in their hands, appealed for recognition. Mr. Hepburn Insisted that Mr. Wlllet ehould take his seat, Mr. Mann in tho Meantime, reading some rules on the case. The chlr directed Mr. Wlllet to take his seat, which he reluctantly ; did. Before tho chair passed on the j points of Messrs. Mann and Hepburn, Mr. Chandler (Mississippi) moved that Mr. Wlllet be allowed to "proceed in order." ! On that motion, a vote was taken with the rosult that by a party vote ot 78 to 126, the house refused further : to hear the New York member. In vain Mr. Fitzgerald of New York sought to have the chair construe the rules so that Mr. Wlllet might proceed, j Mr. Wlllet had practically concluded ' his remarks and he received the ver-j ver-j cict of the house with a Fnitle. I Washington. Jan. IS. Characterizing Characteriz-ing President Roosevelt as a gargoyle and as " this pigmy descendant of Dutch trades people," and charging Mm with having ' established a court in the White House which would have delighted the heart of his admirer. Alexander Hamilton," Mr. Willett cf New York, in the house of representatives represen-tatives today, made one of the most bitter attacks on the chief executive ever heard in that body. Mr. Wil-lc-lt took for his theme, "The Passing of Roosevelt," and in a speech of great length, dealt with numerous ot ihe President's acts since he carue into ofllce and scathingly denounced tuem. After declaring that in the face of all sorts of conditions, Americans were possessed ot a universal sense of humor. Mr. Willett said, "to such people, it must be confessed, a chief magistrate who has himself no seno ol humor, moving like a horse tender over the ha field of American activities; activi-ties; stlrrln; up every drying blad? of once green grass, to let It fall drier than before; quarreling one day with Ihe practical politicians, then with the part your-hair-in-ihe-middle reiorms, then with the socialists, then with the gieat Industrial corporations, wresting in agony over the spirit of Noah Webster Web-ster and our glorious English tongue; taking a fall out of nature fakirs; exhorting ex-horting our women to avoid race suicide, sui-cide, cannot be an unmixoi nuisance. "He plays (he tyrant to be sure, but he is a tyrant who fears the carnival car-nival tickler. He sees things that have a bad smell, but the fresh breeze ot Capitol Hill does not let the odor linger. lin-ger. "He tries cur patience, but he is al-ways al-ways good to laugh at. Thank av- i en for the things that make us u.ign. Without them, we might easily become j jhw untamed Anglo-Saxons, making much of .Magna' Charta. bellowing about an etTete bill of rights or even ready to fight for freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and treedom ot press, as did our uncivilized ancestors at Lexington and Bunker Hill." Mr. Willeit gave a brief biography -A Mr. Roosevelt's beginning with his experiences as a cowbo, down to the present time, and accused hint, 1 in his early manhood, of having had preposterious notions, of having "knifed" "knif-ed" Secretary Long, of being "a warrior war-rior alone in Cuba." of having won the governorship of New York by a mere lluke "when the false halo of San Juan Hill was above his head; the beneficiary bene-ficiary of assassins, and last, and crowning piece of luck, the nominee for president when all the aggressive elements of passion wanted to seo vheir own candidate defeated, the mammoth jocularlity has got to laugh with every appearance; the gargoyle has been funny from the hour it left its native quarry." I Continuing Mr. Willett said: I "And Mr. Chairman, should the gentlemen gen-tlemen who view this curious figure with feigned admiration ask me how ?iiy son of Adam can be at the satno time, a hay tedder, a jocularity and a gargoyle, I can only answer that vthif particular hero Is an eccentric exception to all rules, a solecism siji-generis, siji-generis, a mixed-metaphorvlvant, an impossibility; a comet that roves at will regardless of the limitations of order and law that apply to earth an l ander Hamilton, the defeated champion cham-pion of a limited monarchy." "Of course," said Mr. Willett, "these condemnations roar as gently as any cooing dove when compared with his denunciation of John Paul Jones as a 'pirate,' of Napoleon the Great as "utterly unscrupulous,' of New England's Eng-land's Idolized Wendell Phillips as always al-ways 'either mischievous or ridiculous ridicul-ous and usually both,' of Thomas Paine, the first champion of American hbcity as 'a filthy little atheist.' of Miracle believing Roman Catholics as 'persons of arrested mental development.' develop-ment.' of Quakers as 'quite as unde-Mr3ble unde-Mr3ble citizens as duelists.' But he has been frank enough in abusing oth- er presidents to shut the lips of his i defenders on the dignity of the preni- ; hernial office." Mr. Willett declared that "consistence "consis-tence is a jewel which the gargoyle is always throwing to the swine." No king, he said, in any limited monarchy was ever half 60 exigent, or ever halt so implacable. "For a president." h3 added, "you must go back to Napoleon Napol-eon the Great, the oldest member of the gargoyle's Ananias club who used to ask the wives of his thrifty fav- . orites whether they could only afford cnt- gown a year; who said once to ihe wife of one of his fighting mar- slials. 'Your dress is dirty' and who nisisled on doing all the matchmaking ! in his official circles." ! The Democracy of Lincoln, he said. the bluff Americanism of Grant and i Cleveland the equally American suavity suav-ity of Arthur, and McKinley had passed pass-ed into history, "along with the Joviality Jo-viality of Garfield and the non-con- j tormlst thrift of Rutherford B. Haye V 'We have a king and a court now," Mr. Willett exclaimed, "as good an j imitation of a real tiling known to the nobility -of mcmarchlal countries 1 as the scion of a family of trading I Dutchmen can concoct." i At this juncture Mr. Willett called the roll of the so-called Ananias club, and said: , " "The earth is intoxicated and reels r.round our Jocularity. He alone is the i ;ersonificatIon of sobriety, tempera-teness tempera-teness of statement, calmness in ' speech and action. The ever-moving , hv.y tedder hurries over the field, ' throwing upward the clover of politlcn, the timothy of zoology, the bluegrass ot history and letting each blade tall a little drier than it was betore. "Jealousy you can read In the gargoyle's gar-goyle's distorted features You look on those twisted lines, and it is easy, eh, so easy to understand the Insolence Insol-ence toward Democracy, the one great figure of the Spanish-American war. the hero who took Manila with tho worst ships a rotten bureaucracy can find for him. "The persistent defamation of Ad-mira1 Ad-mira1 "hley, who really fought th1 bflt' Santiago bay, the insulta h'.;i, :i General Miles, whose counsel coun-sel was Ignored in the expensive blunders blun-ders of the land campaign at Santiago." Santi-ago." The President, Mr. Willett declared, rhowed his teeth at all real -heroes, "because real heroes are gall and wormwood to bogu3 ones. 1 Continuing his denunciation, Mr. Willett charged that the President had bulldozed President Castro, had seen tne Filipinos brutally treated, had ma-uioned ma-uioned Colonel Stewart, whom he did not. like, had . kept a young womaji from earning an honest living by tell moon, to stars and planets. "He boasts of Irish blood but no historic Irishman would have treated an ally as he treated Mr. Harrlrnan. "He exults in a strain of the old Ilugenot. hut the French gentleniau does not fly into a passion and lash the horse of a timid young girl whosa only offense is inadvertently passing the royal party in a public highway. Even Louis XIV was not that sort of 9 tyrant and lnry IV, Henry ot Na- j varre. the great Hugenot king, wore the white plume of noblesse oblige. "He tells us that southern aristocrats aristo-crats were among his polyglot ancHt tors; but I can inform him that If tii'i wife of a Robert Toombs or of a Jefferson Jef-ferson Davis had been treated by him as Mrs. Minor Morris was, he would have been called out or branded as a coward if he had been a thouaanrt times a president, , "He i6 proud to ineiet that the fam-11 fam-11 v whose name he bears comes from. Holland; but his ready surrender to the politicians of his own party make j it clear enough that fat burghers wno put up their shutters at the first beat o; the war drum must have been his progenitors. He beats the Dutc'i, however, as even hie severest critics j must confess. I "Are you shocked that a chief ma;- , lstrate should Justify such characteri- ztlon? I am shocked, too. Do you : 'ay that the place he holds should make us all dumb before him? Hear ' what this fountain of Billingsgate has , i-ald of his predecessors In that hlgu office, and own that no man's tongue should be stilled , by such a consideration? considera-tion? He quoted from Preelde-.U Roono-velt's Roono-velt's books in which the President is alleged to hnvo attacked Washington. Jffterson, Monroe. Jackson. Tyler," P'erce and ethers, aad said that the . President had "toleration only tor Ihe Adamses who stood for federalist aristocracy and admiration for Alvsv '' ing the truth, had allowed "scandalous "scandal-ous conditions" to exist In the army and " navy, had compelled his subordinates subor-dinates "to act as hunting dogs for the Czar of Russia, in trailing down men who have fought for liberty," had practically re-established the John Adams Ad-ams alien and sedition laws; had forced forc-ed desertions from the navy by allowing allow-ing intolerable treatment of sailor? "at the hands . of the aristocracy of Aunapoll officers," had permitted the degrading of soldiers at West Point who had been put to menial work, a-.nl had given a Scotch verdict in connection connec-tion with the alleged Panama scandal. In conclusion he said, among other things: "You may say. then, that one individual indi-vidual gargoyle does not count for so nuch after all. No. not in the development devel-opment of the centuries, but he counts vitally and continuously, as affecting af-fecting the people who have to live tinder him. And the change from a Nero fiddling while Rome Is burning, to .Vespasian calmly devoted to securing secur-ing as good government as tendencies will permit, is a change to be as devoutly de-voutly welcomed by us as by the ancient an-cient Romans." ' Several times, in the course oh Mr. Willett's remarks, he wa called to order or-der by Mr. Hughes of West Virginia. "I call him to order," Mr. Hughes exclaimed. "He is going ahead with a lot of rot that neither the house nor tho country is interested in." Mr Butler of Pennsylvania, in the chair, ruled that Mr. Willet was speaking speak-ing under the licensp of general debate de-bate a:i1 that he was not called upon so indicate in advance the subject ot hUi remarks. Mr. Wlllet then pro-ceedeJ pro-ceedeJ and frequently elicited . applause ap-plause from hla Democratic col-ieagues. col-ieagues. Mr. Willet'n reference to ."the defamation de-famation of Admiral Schley" caused Mr. Gaidner of Massachusetts to ob- |