Untitled - Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt

140 THE REAL ROOSEVELT.
STIRRED UP BY VILAS.
SCOTS OF CHICAGO RESENT SOME ALLUSIONS MADE
BY THE WISCONSIN STATESMAN.
HE AIMS THEM AT ROOSEVELT.
Speech at a Banquet Causes a Lively Demon-
stration.
4 ' WHAT 's THE MATTER WITH TEDDY ? ' ' AND * ' HE 's
ALL RIGHT!" THE INTERRUPTERS CRY
CLEVELAND EULOGIZED.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2, 1908. Scots of Chicago
openly resented bitter criticisms of President
Roosevelt and his policies. William F. Vilas,
of Milwaukee, postmaster-general during the
Cleveland administration, was the author of the
criticism, in responding to the toast: "The
Presidency of the United States," at the sixtysecond
annual banquet of the Illinois St.
Andrew's Society at the Auditorium hotel. In
the midst of stinging allusions to the course of
President Roosevelt, and leading to an apotheosis
of Grover Cleveland, whom he termed "the
grand old man of Princeton," the ex-postmas-