Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-08
7. R. AND SEIDEL
BECOME ENGAGED
IN CONTROVERSY
Milwaukee Mayor Charges Colo
mel with Creating False In
pressions Deliberately
FORMER PRESIDENT REPLIES
Declares His Views on Socialism
Can Be Learned in Article
He Has Written
FORMER PRESIDENT REPLIES
Associated Pressl

Mll4W AOhEEI sept. line GeE-
mans had their day with former Pres
ident Roosevelt today. Beginning the
day with a tiff with Milwaukee's So
cialist mayor, Emil Seidel, who is
German, Col. Roosevelt put in the
scheduled hours of his visit here by
roaming about the city at WILL max
ihg his own program as he went
He inspected the city's trade schools,
attended two luncheons and a dinner,
took an automobile ride to White Fish
bay, a summer resort on the lake
shore, and addressed two huge audi
ences tonight.
Soon after Col. Roosevelt arrived
here and before he sat down to break
fast at the Hotel Pfister he found him
self involved in q controversy with
Emil Seidel, the Socialist mayor, who
had declined to act on the reception
committee which welcomed the colonel
to Milwaukee.
In a contribution to the Big Stick,
newspaper published by the Mil
waukee Press club for this occasion,
Mayor Seidel stated IF Mr.. Roosevelt
comes to Milwaukee holding the same
ideas which he expressed in his maga-
zine article of March 29, 1909, it is clear
that he cannot serve the cause of hon
esty and decency in American political
life"
II Is pOSSlDl6 that i llciNC
stood the article" said Mayor Seidel,
"but inasmuch as I am a Socialist and
he has designated Socialism as a thing
which is against morals and re-
ligion, 'abhorrent, revolving which
would replace the family and home life
by a glorious state of free lunch coun-
ter and a state founding asylum'-I
am sure that he will be pleased that I
am not personally connected with his
reception in the city"
SAYS COLONEL CUNNING
Charging the colonel with cunning
and deliberate purpose to Great a false
impression" he declared that the Wis
itor "could lay no claim to the right of
preaching either morality, religion or
civic righteousness.
"In the speaking tour of Mr.. Roose-
welt through the west" said Mayor
Seidel, 81 fail to see anything of i'm
portance beyond political plans and de-
signs As such, of course, it is Of no
ministration. The problems that now
confront our city are of much the same
nature as those the nation faces"
On being shown this statement, Col.
Roosevelt said:
ION this trip I have made no parti-
san political speeches, and of course
shall not break through the rule now
by discussing either state party mat
ters or municipal party matters. At
present, of course, the dominant mu-
nicipal party in Milwaukee Is the So
cialist party. If any one wishes to
know my views on what is usually
called Socialism, they will find them
set out in such fashion that 1t is i'm
possible to misinterpret them, or mis-
understand them, in the magazine art
icles to which the mayor in his letter
refers, and advise them to read the
articles themselves, and not what the
mayor says Of them"
Late in the evening the colonel went
to his car to start early in the morn
ing for Freeport, ILL.,, where he is to
speak tomorrow, and for Chicago,
which he is to visit later in the day.
The Milwaukee Press club had the
colonel in hand In honor Of the day
the club got out the first and last
edition of the Big Stick, a newspaper
devoted exclusively to Col. Roosevelt's
affairs. In it there was a letter by
Mayor Seidel, explaining why he would
not serve as member of the commit
tee to welcome Colonel Roosevelt. He
considered that something which the
colonel had written about Socialism
was unkind and said the colonel could
not expect him to welcome him.
Before he had his breakfast, Colonel
Roosevelt issued a reply, telling the
people he would prefer to have them
read what he had written rather than
what the mayor said about what he
had written.
The colonel said the fact that the
city administration was not repre-
sented in the official ceremonies of the
day did not trouble him at all.
The original program for the day in
cluded six speeches and visits to a
dozen places. Colonel Roosevelt looked
az no arrival and said
he could not possibly get it all done
in one day.
He cast the program aside and made
one out for himself. He wanted to
visit the trades schools, and started
for them. At the boys trades school,
where the youths of Milwaukee are
taught useful occupations, chiefly me-
chanics, the colonel spent nearly an
hour in questioning the instructors and
students about their work.
Then the colonel went to the West
Side, to the girls school. He saw the
girls at work there, learning to sew
and cook.
The colonel was led to the kitchen,
and as soon as he arrived there he
asked If he might have some of the
potato soup which had been prepared
for the girls lunch He ate his soup
while the crowd looked on, and he
said he had never tasted better.
Then Col. Roosevelt said he wanted
to go to the Deutscher club. AS he
mounted the steps of the clubhouse,
the Germans gathered around him and
half carried him inside They sang
"IIoch Soil er Leben," several, times
before they stopped to talk.
IS UNBIDDEN GUEST
"I wish I"could pose as your invit-
ed guest" said the colonel. 81 found
out last night that no arrangements
had been made for visit to the Deut-
scher club, and I said 1 was going
there anyway. When I was in Ber-
lin l told the emnarn. that L should