Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-27
WOMEN APPLAUD
ROOSEVELT SPEECH.
Cheer When He Says He Would
Fight to Stop Murder Of
Americans.
THE SAME TALK AS TO MEN

Chicago, Oct 26.-Chicago women
cheered Colonel Roosevelt today when
he appealed to them not to be in
+ fluenced by the plea that President
Wilson had kept the nation out OF
war. When he told them that he
would fight at the drop Of the hat If
necessary to stop the murder Of
women and children, they met the an
nouncement with long chorus of ap-
plause
The colonel closed his western tour
here today with two speeches, the
first exclusively to women, with not
more than a scant score of policemen
and reporters in the audience. He
had been asked, he said to appeal es-
pecially to the women who had been
influenced by the peace slogan, but
he had decided to make, he declared,
exactly the same appeal he would have
made to men. "I'm not going to
speak, he said, "to what might call
( the early Victorian aunt"
No Attempt to Heckle.
There was no attempt to heckle the
speaker, the only interruption after
he had described pictures Of women
and children killed in Mexico and
said he would have gone to war if
necessary to avoid that, several voices
called What about Hughes?"
"Mr. Hughes can be trusted to keep
his word" answered Roosevelt. when
shc says that he would not submit to
the sinking OF the Lusitania or the
killing Of our citizens in Mexico, he
means what he says"
'you have stood up and listened to
the Star Spangled Banner and to
j America and you have stood up be-
cause they were written about a gen.
Grafton OF Americans that was not too
proud to fight. You may notice that
the expression safety first is not en-
bodied in either song. And when you
are told to vote for Mr.. Wilson be-
cause he kept US out Of war, remember
I that 10 something that cannot be said
either of Washington or Lincoln"
He was interrupted again when he
: told OF returning from the border
where he said he found $4,000 troops
without knowing what they were there
for.
Wilson don't want them to vote,
called a woman.
Il was going to be more charitable
and say that he wanted them there tc
help make up the presidents mind
whether he was at peace or at war.
"The democratic platform said tina,
the Mexicans have made war on OUT
people. The Judge advocate general
ruled that the American army In
Mexico was at war. So the Mexicans
are At war, and our army is at war
but Mr.. Wilson Is at peace"
The women also applahded his ref
crence to hyphenated citizens There
Is no room in this country for the
perpetuation Of different nationalties,
he continued.
Guilty Of Moral Treason.
/ ITO divide our citizens along politi-
cal racial lines is to be guilty ol
! moral treason to the republic Tt
hold for this country only half al
sllegiancc is in realty to be hostile
70 this country, for In practice whcr
the cfisi comes, the man whose loyal.
ty h on ! fifty-fifty basis always
shows that his loyalty to the Other
country comes first
Only the brief introduction to ths
\ address was devoted to suffrage, Mr.
4 Roosevelt referring to the women al
Y his fellow American citizens and urg
I ing them to work for the passage O
an amendment to the federal constitu
tion providing for suffrage. He spok,
At 4 mass meeting tonight,