Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-04

what influences may be brought
against him."
The former President broke away
from his speech. which he had pre-
pared in advance. to say what he
thought of the so-called "hyphenates."
He declared that although Washing
ton and Lincoln were of English blood,
they were both Americans through
and through.
Shot at the Hyphcnates
mo American can be a good Ameri-
can on a flfty-fifty basis" said Colonel
Roosevelt. There is no room in this
country for English-Americans. Ger
man-Americans, French-American
Irish Americans or any other kind of
Americans but real Americans
Col. Roosevelt, in referring to Sec
retary OF War Bakers recent alleged
comparison of Washington's soldiers
with the constitutionalist forces In
Mexico, said Mr.. Baker was IAN ami
able man who knits."
Once during his speech. when the
former President quoted from the will
or George Washington. in which the
first President beQueathed his swords
to his nephews and cautioned them
not to unsheath them except for self
defense. there was wild outburst of
enthusiasm.
Colonel Roosevelt said in part:
There can be no greater misfortune
for free nation than to find itself
under incapable leadership when con-
fronted by great crisis. This is pc
culiarly the case when the crisis is not
merely one in its history, but Is due to
some terrible world cataclysm-such
cataclysm as at this moment has
overwhelmed civilization. The times
have needed Washington or q Lin
coin. Unfortunately. we have been
, granted only another Buchanan.
Il have been assailed because I have
criticized Mr.. Wilson. have not said
one thing Of him that was not abso-
lutely accurate and truthful. I have
not said one thing of him which L did
not deem it necessary to say because
of the vital interests of this Republic
I have criticized him because ! believe
he has dragged in the dust what was
most sacred in our past, and has teo-
pardized the most vital hopes of our
future. I have never spoken of him as
strongly as Abraham Lincoln in his
day spoke of Buchanan and Pierce
when they were Presidents of the
United States. spoke of him at all,
only because I have felt that in this
great world crisis he has played a
more evil part than Buchanan and
Pierce ever played in the years that
led up to and saw the opening of the
Civil war.
"Sordid Untruth''
Il hardly know whether 70 feel the
most burning indignation at , those
speeches of his wherein he expressed
lofty sentiment. which his deeds belle,
or at those other speeches wherein he
displays frank synicism of belief in,
and of appeal to, what is basest in the
human heart.
Does Mr.. Wilson think that these
men of Valley Forge were not patriots,
because they were starving? Is his
own soul so small that he cannot see
the greatness of soul of Washington
and of the Continental soldiers whose
feet left bloody tracks upon the snow
as they marched toward the enemy?
They were clad in rags; their eyes
were hollow with famine: their bodies
were numbed with cold and racked
with fever; but they loved their coun-
try; they stood for the soul of the ma
ton and not for its belly. Mr.. Baker
and Mr.. Daniels have done evil to this
country only because they stood where
their master, Mr.. Wilson, had placed
them. Mr.. Baker has preached the
doctrine of contempt for the men of
the Revolution, only because he has
followed the lead of the President.
who says that religion is merely a mat
ter of a full stomach, and that pat
riotism vanished when heroes feel the
- "'.N Of famine.