The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-11-06
DARK SHADOWS
OF SHADOW Lawn
Roosevelt's Last Shot at Viii
son, Was One of Colonel's
Hottest Campaign
Speeches.
APPEAL TO WEAKNESS
CHARGED President With Taking Stand
Always for Unworthy and
Weak American
Character.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Colonel
Roosevelt criticised President Wilson
in emphatic words this evening In an
address at Copper Union, which he de-
Iivered at the request of a campaign
organization of business men who op-
pose the reelection of Mr.. Nilsson.
Taking as his subject, Our Nations
Crisis" Colonel Roosevelt said that a
world cataclysm has overwhelmed
civilization, and that "the times have
needed Washington, or a Lincoln,
but unfortunately we have been grant
ed only another Buchanan"
Il have been assailed," said the
speaker, because have criticised
Mr. Wilson. have not said one thing
of him that was not absolutely &C
curate and truthful. I have criticised
him because believed he has dragged
in the dust what was most sacred in
cur past and has jeopardized the most
vita! hopes Of our future.
II criticise him now because he has
adroitly and cleverly and with sinister
ability appealed to all that Is weakest
and most unworthy in the American
character.
i Il hardly know whether to feel the
most burning Indignation at those
speeches wherein he displays a frank
cynicism of belief in, and appeal to,
what is basest in the human heart. In
a recent speech at Long Branch he said
as reported in the daily press, that
you cannot worship God on an empty
stomach and you cannot be a patriot
when you are starving
sordid Untruth.
"No more sordid untruth was ever
uttered. I call the attention Of these
apostles of the full belly, of these men
who jeer at the nations soul. call the
attention Of President Wilson and his
secretary Of war and his secretary OF
the navy, to what Washington said OF
his own soldiers in a letter to con-
| gress."
Colonel Roosevelt then read the
statement from Washington's letter on
, the army's sufferings as, without suffi-
cient clothes, or blankets, or shoes.
the men marched with bleeding feet
through snow, submitting without
murmur.
! This Ia what Washington said"
commented Colonel Roosevelt. Does
Mr.. Wilson think that these men OF
Valley Forge were not patriots be-
cause they were starving? Mr.. Baker
and Mr.. Daniels have done evil TO
this country only because they stood
where their master. MIR. Wilson. piac-
ed them. / call your attention to their
statements not only because they are
foul ISLANDERS but because they show
the character Of Mr.. Wilson"
Colonel Roosevelt said that the ap'
peal had been made to Mr.. Wilson that
I'VE should not change horses In cross
ing a stream" On this he commented
in these words:
"The worth of such an appeal Is ob-
vious when the horse. whenever he
comes to a stream, first pretends he IS
going to jump it, then refuses to enter
it and when he has reached the middle
alternately moves feebly forward and
feebly back, and occasionally lies
down We had just entered the great
est crisis In our history when we
.swapped horses by exchanging Blu
chanan for Lincoln, and II we hat not
made the exchange we would not have
crossed the stream at all. The failure
now to change Mr.. Wilson for Mr..
Hughes would be almost as damag-
ing"