New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-07
NEW ROOSEVELT
BLOW AT WILSON
Navy Sent to Aid Germany
Keep U-Boat Promise,
Says Colonel
fBy telegraph to T-be Tribune ]


Oyster Bay. Nov. Before a gath
ering Of his fellow townsmen and hun
dreds who motored from all parts OF
Long Island 70 hear him. Colonel Roose-
Welt fred the last salvo of the Republi-
can campairn in the Opera House here
Tonight. His targets were President
Wilson and hyphenism. His address
WAS the result OF his custom TO give
the last night before election to his
home and home county. Robert Bacon
was in charge of the assemblage.
The Colonel lost no time getting the
range of the White House. and punctu-
ated his figures Of speech with IA
miliaritv of accent which won much ap-
Z plause.
! AT this moment" he began his criti-
cism of the Wilson Administration. i
believe there is no way we can IN
crease the jeopardy of this country ana
its liability to be warred upon more
than by electing Woodrow Wilson.
This is so because the great military
nations of the earth are making up
their minds that they can treat Amer
lea with contempt as long as Wilson Is
President. =.
"If they keep up this practice a point
soon will be reached at which Vhe
American nation as individuals VIII
rise ND and declare war. Mr.. Wilson
has followed a mos. dangerous course
submitting TO wrongs from everybody
instead of doing right by exacting JUS
tice from everybody"
Says Wilson Aided U-5S
The Colonel next turned his atten-
ton to the operations Of the German
! war submersibIe U-53 off the American
coast. and pointed to that affair as an
example Of Administration "spiniess-
] ness
sb;n was torpedoed off Wales and sunk.
/ on{v las, week another ship was tor
nedoed and FIVE American lives lost. l
tbink Mr. Wilson wrote his usual note
concerning il, with the usual contempt
his notes receive.
"Onlv several weeks ago German
military submarine came here, entered
q our port and notified our government
proposed TO go outside the tnree-n,iie
limit and sink certain ships. now, MI.
Wilson claimed great credit lsSl spring
On the grounds of German promises 10
him that no ships should be SUNK IN a
way putting the non-comoatan's "ooa'u
in jeopardy: oror
here notified our State Department OF
ne intentions our government sent
American warships out with II 10 TAKE
caro- of the non combatants; IN other
words we sent our ships out 70 help
them to get around the promise OF
safety TO non-combatants and dodge re-
buke Such an action not only gains
conterpt for the United States, put
bitter animosity.'
Wilson'S Stand a "Mistt
"Tbere are only two defensible
courses TO take in regard to foreign
relations" continued Colonel Roosevelt
"Fither one must take the stand OF ap,
solute neutrality and refuse to deal
With other nations, or to take the stand
we will do no wrong to another ma
ZION. will tolerate no wrongs from any
nation and. within limits, VIII exer-
else pressure upon behalf Of weak ma
tions. The latter is my stand. Mr..
Wilson's stand, which is not in any
wsy defensible, is a misft OF the two
courses-a sort of combination OF the
words-in my position with the deeds
Of the former position Of weak neu-
trality." A.. "A
The speaker next criticised the IA;
ministration's Mexican policy, he told
of the outrages committed there and
thrilled his hearers with the story OF
American soldiers, whose ears were cut
off while they were alive, and whose
heads were cut of after they had been
tortured TO death so that they could De
shown through the Mexican village as
proof of an American defeat.
ar Mr.. Wilson didn't mean 70 see the
Pershing expedition through he should
NOT have started it. 1t was infamous 70
send them in and then keep them from
finishing the job ,;huo
"a man of Leonard Woods calibre
should be put in there, with orders 10
secure order and peace. 1t is my pc