Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-14
COLONEL AND G. yO.P.
SCORED AS SCHEMERS
AT DEMOCRAT DINNER
Senator Thomas, of Colorado.
Sees Roosevelt as Candidate
That Ambition May
Be Satisfied
MENTIONS WALL STREET

THE sinister and invisible government
which dominates those who critlcise the
Wilson Administration and would again
restore TO power the Republican party
was roundly scored by Senator Charles
s Thomas. Of Colorado. and Senator j.
Hamilton Lewis. Of Illinois, before 400
Democrats at a banquet to celebrate the
l73d anniversary of the birth of Thomas
Jefferson last night in the Continental
Hotel
Preparedness, the mask Of monop-
oily, by which the vested interests seek
to regain control Of the Government of
the United states" will be the real issue
Of the coming presidential campaign,
said Senator Thomas. Nothing else he
said, Is left to the Republican party but
to appeal to a false sense Of patriotism,
and he saw on the political horizon in
the near future "the nomination Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt and the formation of a
league bent on patriotism. plunder and
the Presidency, the latter going to the
Colonel, the plunder to Wall street and
the patriotism to the people"
After referring TO the work done by the
Wilson Administration. he spoke Of the
issue of preparedness.
COLONEL STOLE PREPAREDNESS
Before Il was fairly born he said.
Roosevelt stole H. and whether he is
guilty OF grand larceny Is vet to he seem
Preparedness Is, however. woven all
round protection Protection is at the
bottom in the middle and on both sides
Of the Republican issue of preparedness
Scratch Republican speaker on prepared
ness and you will find an advocate Of pro-
lection"
Senator Lewis dwelt at length upon the
condition into which the country has been
plunged. he said. by Republican misrule,
quoting both Taft and Roosevelt to prove
that Courts have been debauched, busi-
ness demoralized and commerce and in
dustry paralyzed as n result of the poll
cies of Republican Administration"
After reviewing the constructive legisla-
tion of the Democratic Congress, Senator
Lewis said
Everywhere the Republicans are pre-
Senting candidates whose sole claim to
consideration is that they have repudiated
what Republicansm meant and are them.
selves standing as the representatives "
the principles of the Democracy which
they previously denounced and denied
While they term themselves Progressives
and Progressive Republicans or in.
surgents, they nevertheless hold out as
their one hope that they represent all
those principles for which Democracy has
for the last 20 years been contendng and
which in the last three il has been exc.
cutting for the relief OF its countrymen"
Speaking of the methods used by the
Republicans to gain the German vote in
the West and the anti.German vote i'm the
East, he said:
AFTER GERMAN VOTE
I'm the West to attract the German
vote. the cry is that Wilson and the
Democracy are against the Germans. And
where the sentiment is against the Ger
mans the Republican cry is that Wilson
and the Democracy have been too favor
able to the Germans and should have
made war against Germany. Thus upon
this issue of hypocrasy, in both the West
and East, these masters of political ma
npulation would deceive our countrymen
in order to obtain an issue by which they
could ride into Office on the fury OF in
ternal conflict. They hope to awaken a
storm in their nation, trusting It will blow
them into official station. They would
pit their countrymen against each other
and spill their blood on the highways
and byways that, in the fury of the con-
hlct. they might rush through the lines
of disorder to seize the public offices of
the nation.
The dinner was given under the au-
spices of the Democratic Club of Phila-
delphia