Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-11-04
BITTER THRUSTS
ARE shot HOME
BY ROOSEVELT R0| 7
Former President Assails Will
son in scathing Terms Before
Large Crowd
SAYS EXECUTIVE FAILED
TO BACK UP HIS WORDS
Refers to Hundreds Who Have
Been Killed Because Presi-
dent Failed to Act

dent Failed to Act
NV York, Nov. 3.-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt criticised President Wilson
in emphatic words this evening in an
address at Cooper Union, which he
delivered at the request OF campaign
organization of business men who op.
posed the reelection of Mr. Wilson
Taking as his subject Our Nations
Crisis" Col. Roosevelt said that a
world cataclysm has overwhelmed
civilization, and that "the times have
needed a Washington or a Lincoln
but unfortunately we Ahave been grant
ed only another Buchanan"
Statements All True.
81 have been assailed." said the
speaker, because have criticised
Mr.. Wilson. I have not said one thin.
of him that was not absolutely accur.
ate and truthful. l have criticised
him because | believe he has dragged
in the dust what was most sacred in
our path, and has jeopardized the
most vital hopes of our future. In the
face of the world. he has covered this
nations face with shame as with a
garment.
Il hardly know whether to feel the
most burning Indignation at those
speeches of his, wherein he expresses
lofty sentiments which his deeds belle
or at those other speeches wherein he
displays frank cynicism and appeals
to what is basic in the human heart
AssaiIs Recent Speech.
I'm recent speech at Long Branch,
he said, as reported, M,tFe daily press,
that you cannot worship God on an
empty stomach and you cannot be a
patriot when you are starving
"N0 more sordid untruth ever was
uttered. Such sentence could be ut
tered only by president who cares
nothing for the nations soul, and who
believes that the nation itself puts its
belly above its soul. / call the atten-
tion to these apostles Of the full belly,
of those men who jeer at the nations
soul. l call the attention of President
Wilson and his secretary of war and
the secretary of the navy to what
Washington said to his own soldiers
in a letter to congress"
Col. Roosevelt, earlier in his ad-
dress. said that the appeal had been
made for Mr.. Wilson that eve should
not change horses in crossing a
stream"
euchanan.LincoIn Incident.
1--WE had just entered the greatest
crisis in our history when We swap
ped horses by exchanging Buchanan
for Lincoln. If We had 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 damaging"
Wilson Has "Turned Back"
Col Roosevelt charged that though
President Wilson had said that when
he started in one direction he would
never turn back, his whole record has
consisted in turning back" at every
point where he was bidden to do so
"either by fear or self-interest."
Does Not Back up Words.
"He has been claiming credit con-
tinued Col. Roosevelt, because, in
the case of Belgium, he has preserved
a neutrality that would make Pontius
Pilot culver with envy, and, yet, in his
speech last Thursday, he said that
never again must we be neutral.
"He has kept us absolutely unpre-
pared, yet he now says We must enter
the next war;"
Near the close of his address. Col.
Roosevelt said:
The Shadows Of Shadow Lawn.
"Mr. Wilson now dwells at Shadow
Lawn. There should be shadows
enough at Shadow Lawn, the shadows
of men, women, and children who
have risen from the ooze of the ocean
bottom and from graves in foreign
lands: the shadows Of the helpless,
whom Mr.. Wilson did not dare pro-
tect, lest he might have to face dan
ger; the shadows of babies, gasping
pitifully, as they sank under the
waves; the shadows of women out
ragged and slain by bandits: the shad-
Dws of Boyd and Adair and their
troopers, who lay in the Mexican des-
ert, black blood crusted around their
mouths and their dim eyes looking up
ward, because President Wilson had
sent them to do task. and then had
shamefully abandoned them to foes
who knew no mercy.
Words Followed by no Action.
"Those are the shadows proper for
Shadow Lawn. the shadows of deeds
never done; the shadows of lofty
words that were followed by no ac-
ion; the shadows of the tortured
lead"
CANDIDATE HERE.
T porrx, tho nOnllIQP Stanton