Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-20
HAD NO PROTECTION,
ASSERTS ROOSEVELT
Colonel Says President Has
Left Americans Helpless
for Three Years.
LOFTY PROMISE, FAILURE

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Louisville, KY, Oct. 19.-Asserting
that for three years there had been
mo protection of our citizens abroad
Theodore Roosevelt in an address
last night on behalf of Charles E.
Hughes, republican nominee, assailed
the course Of President Wilson, in
dealing with Mexico, and his conduct
OF the country's foreign affairs.
ut combined lofty promise and
complete failure in performance. 1t
consisted of words which were nulli-
fled by Deeds" he said in summing
up his view of the presidents course.
Entering Kentucky in the forenoon,
Colonel Roosevelt delivered more
than dozen rear platform addresses
before reaching Louisville. Crossing
the Ohio river at Cincinnati, his
course took him almost to the Ten
nessee line. At Paris and Cynthisna
he told his audience he was glad to
be in Kentucky where, if it was neces-
sary, the people were not too proud
ito fight" His largest audiences were
at Winchester and Richmond.
On his arrival here this evening he
was met at the railroad station by a
large crowd which escorted him to
Phoenix Hill park, about two miles
away, where he spoke. Many per-
sons, unable to effect an entrance,
were turned away.
Wilson's Omaha Utterance.
Colonel Roosevelt referred to the
presidents Omaha speech in this
fashion:
president Wilson's speeches are
models of adroit indirect suggestion
and avoidance of downright state
ment. But the other day at Omaha
he seems to have committed himself
to the statement that he was will
ing to fight but was waiting for
something worth fighting for, for
something which would put all the
corpuscles of his blood into shouting
shape. 1t would be interesting to
know exactly what outrage on Amer
lean citizens, or on the right of hu-
mainly anywhere, which would make
him cross the line between being
willing to fight and too proud to
fight. He certainly did not regard
the treacherous murder of Boyd and
Adair, and this United States, as
something worth fighting for He,
did not even write note about it.
The murder of 1894 men, women and
children on the Lusitania did not put
all the corpuscles Of his blood into
shouting shape His corpuscles did
not shout; they did not even whisper:
apparently all they did was to sug-
gest to him that it was happy oG-7
casion for his classic remark about
being too proud to fight / am
tempted to think that Mr.. Wilson did
himself an injustice when he said that
he was willing to fight either for
any great cause or on account of any
wrong hereafter done to this country:
and that the truth was expressed the
other day by his eager eulogist, Sec
rotary Baker, when he said that he
was glad that no one could insult
Mr.. Wilson and make him go to war;
Unquestionably General Carranza,
and probably Herr Won Tirpitz,
heartily agree with Secretary Baker
and deep in his own heart am, in
clined to believe that Mr.. Wilson him
self also agrees with him.
keeping us Out Of War;" :
There was probably no American
outside his own immediate following
more anxious to see him succeed, and
more disappointed when he failed,
than | Was | criticise him onlys DE
him only because my duty as an
American citizen, proud of his coun-
try and jealous of its honor, forces
me to stand against him. Apparently
the chief claim advanced for Mr., Will
son now is that he has kept us out Of
war; Mr.! Wilson himself said in eff
fect>the other day that if he was not
elected we would have war. Yet Mr..
Wilson, through the democratic plat
form, announces that the Mexicans
have made war upon us, and have
murdered our citizens Apparently
Mr.. Wilson does not mind the Mexi-
cans being at war with us, as long as
we are not at war with the Mexicans.
Mr. Wilson's conception of war pain
fully resembles that described by Mr..
Stephen Leacock in his anecdote of
how Mr.. Smith took Mr., Tompkins
by the coat collar from behind and
began kicking him vigorously, and
the fight continued in this manner for
several minutes The war out of
which Mr.. Wilson has not kept us
with Mexico has been waged in pre-
cisely this manner; and Mr.. Wilson's
attitude has been precisely as digni-
fled as that OF the mishandled hero Of
Leacock's anecdote. And the great
military nations of the world have
treated Mr.. Wilson, and through Mr..
Wilson have treated Uncle Sam, in
similar fashion.
Made War on Hayti.
"Mowever, in one case Mr.. Wilson
asserted himself. Hayti had not be-
h,ved towards ne 1C1th mart as bad1y