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Show cost. Willett, being perhaps a biggor fool, or having more courage, gets up on the floor and calls names like a common drab. He is welcome, if he thinks it will do him any good." The people understand. The people understand and appreciate appre-ciate tho personal malignity that inspires in-spires men like Forakor and WllletL These men have nothing to lose, and the whole country knows where they get their prompting. Roosevelt docs not suffer but gains iu public esteem by these attacks. They supply the measure of his usefulness, useful-ness, and it is significant that the malignity of his enemies can discover nothing more damaging than a resort to silly and vagrant epithets, apparently apparent-ly picked at random out of au irresponsible irrespon-sible dictionary. HE IS A DRAB. We gave our opinion of Mr. Willett yesterday, and now present the Judgment Judg-ment of another paper, tlie Call of San Francisco: Representative Wiltott of New York is personally unimportant, and his opinions concerning Roosevelt or of j any other man may bo treated as a I negligible quantity. Although Willett Is an educated man, a university grad- uate, and a lawyer of some congressional congres-sional experience, tho country never heard of him until lie made his grotesque gro-tesque and silly speech obout the President, Pres-ident, and it may be added that, tak-! tak-! Ing this speech as the measure of his i value, It is quite unlikely that lie will j be heard from again. So much for j Willett, personally. It will mt do, however, to treat Wil-liett Wil-liett as a mere freak. He is a symptom, symp-tom, or a type, as you may choose to regard him. Ho was foolish enough to utter on the floor of tha bouse tho sort of stuff, that a certain element in congress peddlea lu the sanctuary of tho cloakroom, and Etriotly not for publication. They hate Roosevelt be-causo be-causo ho has handled them without gloves, exposed thvdr moan llttlo jobs j end blookod tho trickery that would I, fcdvanco special interests at public j |