The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-01
TO ELECT AMERICAN
PRESIDENT, NOT GERMAN
v|CEROY, SAYS 7. R.
He of the Big Stick Wallops Hyuhen-
ates In Lurid Language in
ST. Louis.
SAYS PRESIDENT USES
TOO MANY WEASEL" WORDS
Pays Respects TO Universal Voluntary
Training" Making 1t Plain That He
Stands For Universal Compulsory
Military Service.

ST Louis. MAY a1.--Colonei Roose-
Welt today took sharp public issue with
President Wilson on the policy OF pre-
paredness
or secondary Importance only to
his Joining issue with Mr.. Wilson was
the following declaration as to his
policies OF the former President,
which was received by many OF his
supporters as being a direct intina-
ton of a possible third ticket. He
said: -
II will fight for them wherever they
are found, in any party. in any in
diyidual, because they affect the very
life OF the nation itself"
Grouped about these pivotal decla-
rauons were a series OF half dozen
addresses made by the Colonel in st.
Louis today. In every one OF which
he denounced in blunt and forceful
terms all forms OF hyphenated Amer
icanism, and German Americanism In
particular. Seventy-fve per cent OF
the population of St Louis Is said TO
be composed of citizens OF German
birth or ancestry Colonel Roosevelt
selected this city as the place TO dis
cuss hyphenated Americanism on that
account Yet his reception here today
was iattering in the extreme. A good
sized crowd cheered his arrival ut
S:45 A. NJ, and throughout the dav
he was hailed and cheered with en-
thusiasm whenever he appeared IN
public.
His reception swelled In vigor and
welcome as the day wore on and
closed with an ovation as he was
leaving which was only surpassed by
the demonstration in his honor at
Kansas City yesterday
Eager and impetuous, Roosevelt
put into this last day Of his pre-,
convention campaign all the force of
yond party TO all his fellow citizens
His denunciation of the professional"
German American crashed like falling
timber. yet he paid high tribute 10
those Americans Of German birth and
descent whom he declared to he a
ma tority OF their fellows. who In high
station or low have INDICATED their
citizenship. His u1essag e to the Ger
man-American was the substance Of
man Kaiser himself as opposed to Ill
vtded allegiance or hvphenated citi-
nship-A- naemher~af he New-Ye+k
SaenEerbund was introduced to the
Kaiser In Berlin. according to Roose-
welt. as a German American"
What do YOU. say cried the
Kaiser. 1T know no German-Ameri-
cans n man IL eltheF German or
an American
He read quotation from the state
papers of the father Of Ambassador
Bernstorfr. foreign minister Of Prussia
In tho DAYS Of the Civil War in which
the elder statesman protested against
the violation of F,ngland's neutrality
nv the American seizure Of Mason and
Slidell In words which Roosevelt de-
clared without the changing OF a
syllable could have been best 10
Germany for the violation of Bel
GUM
Uncle Sans One Friend
His addresses abound with wit.
sarcasm and epigrams.
Uncle Sans got one friend" he
cried, Uncle Sam"
IF the Declara ton OF Independence
had merely been a collection of fine
phrases and IL 1t had been confined
merely to fine Evolutionary effort.
nobody would now remember IL had
been written.
II am against all kinds OF hyphen-
ated Americauism-eyen ma e.
called.
AT such a crisis as this" he de-
clared, II cannot pussyfoot.
Explaining his stand with regard to
Americans of German birth he cried
'It Is a matter OF real grief to me to
have known of any of old friends of
German origin to misunderstood and
misinterpret my attitude"
He denounced the German-Ameri-
can Alliance for voting against par
ticipation in the st. Louis prepared
ness parade and evoked the greatest
cheer OF the day by declaring:
II would notify those gentlemen
that next fall 1t will be our business
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