i. ICON RIAL
Denounces Peary as a
Faker Who Should Be
Driven From Naval Ser
vice—IVlad at Editors and
Everybody in General.
Representative Macon of Arkansas
speaking in general debate on the naval
appropriation bill in the House at
Washington Thursday night made a
sensational attack upon Capt. Robert
E .Peary, denouncing him as “faker,,
and declaring that he “should be driven
from the naval service ”
The bitter words used by the member
from Arkansas called out a quick reply
from Peary’s friends. Representative
J. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania,
characterized Mr. Macon’s speech at
“unjust outrageous and offensive.’
He said there was always some one to
be found to suspect every performance
by men of genius and courage. He
referred to Captain Hobson’s exploit
of the Merrimac, and to Dewey’s victory
at Manila bay.
“Heroes like these,” said Mr. Moore,
“have not the time to stop and deal
with every dog that barks at their heels.
Hits At Rooseyelt Too.
Mr. Macon declared that Peary’s
whole story was “a fake pure and
simple.” He said his contempt for
“fake heroes” was supreme, and he
intimated that he put “the hero on San,
Juan Hill,” in that class. Mr. Macon
denounced the Peary Arctic Club and
charged that it had maintained a paid
lobby in Washington. He said that
President Taft's judgement in this
matter was not to be accepted for he
had congratulated Cook as heartily as
he did Peary.
Paying his compliments to the editors
of The New York Times and The New
York Post, Mr. Macon characterized
them as “unblushing know-all tit-bits”
and “pea-eved, pin-headed, and putrid-
tongued infinitesimals.”
He referred to Peary as a “fur-trader
pictured him as “a self-exrggerated,
self opinionated, puffed-up near-hero,”
and finally denounced him as “an un
faithful servant and an idle loafer,
who ought to be driven from the service
instead of being promoted.”
**Mad At” Editors.
Mr. Macon said he had the utmost
contempt/or human beings so “weazen
brained” that they were afraid to say
what they really thought about Peary
“because they feared some unblushing
know-all tit-bit editor of yellow jour
nals, like The New York Times or The
New York Post, would call them
ignorant blatherskites.”
“I pity,” he continued, “a man who
is so ignorant as to be terror-stricken
all the time for fear he will be called
ignorant by some sap-head or so
cowardly that he is afraid to think his
o wnth oughts for fear some graft-
loving editor will find out what he is
thinking about and adversity criticize
him therefor.”
Mr. Macon expressed the belief t hat
Peary and Cook on one of the trips to
the North Pole when they were com
panions, figured out that it would be
easy for a man to “fake” a discovery
of the Pole and he charged that they
both started out at the same time to
claim the discovery. He declared that
instead of being rewarded with promot
ion to the rank of rear rdmiral, as
President Taft and the committee on
naval affairs have recommended, Peary’s
feat was at best worthy only a meda
like those awarded to marathon runners.
Newspaper Men FI 3d.
When Mr. Macon concluded, Mr.
Moore replied to what he termed “a
most unjust and outragerons assault.”
Mr. Moore said he had gn^eat respect
for newspapers and newspaper men,
and he had noted with pride that the
press gallery had remained empty
throughout the time the gentleman
from Arkansas had the floor.
“I am glad to know, ” said Mr, Moore,
“that no one in the gallery was willing
to sit there and listen to the diatribes
of the gentleman from Arkansas,
offensive as they were upon one of the
great men of this country, or to listen
to the violent epithets he applied to
newspaper editors. ”
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