Arizona republican., 1916-10-01
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Republican A. p. Leased WIre1
 BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Sept 90. Speaking to a great throng of per sons who were packed in a cold cir GUS tent here this afternoon Colonel Roosevelt aSsailed the administration of President Wilson and urged the election Of Charles E. Hughes. He was given a tremendous ovation. Climbing or 9 table on the speakers platform, the colonel read his prepared address, which was devoted almost entirely to an attack on President Wilson's foreign and Mexican policies, and the latter's support of the Adam son eight-hou bill.
 Colonel Roosevelt declared that President Wilson's chief policy was the policy of vacillation. He declared letters, and speeches. made from December 9. 1914, to February 10, 1916, took 41 different positions about preparedness and the measures neces- sary to secure it, and each of these Al positions cOntradicted from one to six of the others"
 The European policy of President Wilson's, particularly in the Lusi-
 tania case, was referred to as "humiIi- ating and ignoble."
 The Mexican record of the execu- tive was called "ruinous to Mexico,
 dishonOrable to ourselves and infa- mous from the standpoint of hu- manity''
 Discussing the Adamson bill. Mir.
 Roosevelt charged that President Will
 son, in urging the passage of the
 measure by congress, took his or ders from that one of the parties which he most feared"
 We have seen in this country few things more discreditable to our rep resentatives and more ominous for the future of the nation than the spectacle of the president and con gress of the United States being re- ! quired tC pass a certain bill before a certain hour at the dictation of cer- tain men who sat in the gallery with their watches in their hands. threaten ing ruin and disaster to the nation if there was the smallest failure to satisfy their demands said Roose- welt.
 The colonel referred to the torpedo- ing of the Lusitania by a German submarine as 'the most colossal sin gle instance of the murder of non- combatants. including men, women and children, that had been per petrated hy any power calling itsels clVlllZed, for over a century" Colonel Roosevelt said in part. At the outset l wish to say a word as to the protests now made by so many people that we must not criti ciZe the President The newspapers and individuals making these protests
 are, for the most part, the very ones who and which when I was Presi dent spread every species of calumnv and islander about me. I then. as | president took the view that no one had alright to speak untruthfullv of 1 the President or of anyone else, but i that even less than anyone else ought | the president to escape from truthful l criticism. l never complained of any attack on me unless it was false. and if it was false, and the man making if
 was important enough I clearly f showed it's falsity. I apply to others only the standard by which I asked that myself be treated. It is the standard explicitly set in reference
 to myself by Mir. Charles Bonaparte
 on May ,. 1902, in his speech to the | Civil Service Reform Association of Maryland. Speaking of me. the then president, he said. Give him Hail | Columbia (nOt to speak of anything less uitable for public mentiom when | ne does aught that savers of that abuse of public trust for personal or party ends which he has himself so ! often and so strenuOusly condemned: | l him. he will think all the better of
 us for doing this; but whatever he
 or anybody else may think, it is the 1 right thing for us to do, and we
 Have no business here, this associa- | tion and it's fellows have no war
 rant for further existence. unless we
 are ready to do it. Moreover. al though We should, so far as may be practicable in reason. learn all material facts bearing on the conduct of a 1 public servant before we blame him.
 there is no call for encyclopaedic re- search into minute details to justify outspoken censure, when this ap- l pears, on fair, sober, second thought
 well deserved. It is the presidents
 duty. no less than it was Mrs. Cae- sars to escape reasonable suspi clon of wrongdoing; should he or any
 other official tell us: If you knew
 the facts, you wouldn't blame me" l we have ready answer: Give us
 the facts, and we'll see"
 l l, at the time emphaticallv en-
 dorsed this position of Mir Bona parts who himself later served in 1 my cabinet His attitude was the J (Continued on Page Two;