The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-09-29
ROOSEVELT HANDS
OUT SHORT AND UGLY
WORD TOkAFO Toilette

sr PATTI. MINI. Aepr. 2S.-on tho
platform Of the Auditnk jun where Sen
atur la Toilette <tst wcc9 dscr'cn amer
ica's fntry into the wHE on via, ne
termed violation Of tech n,c'i rlsnt''
Colonel Theodo-c Roosevelt CHASING
the Wisconsin senator AMONG me huns
within our gates" deciaredA 'oqaE ne
would like to send LaFolettf anu .., n.s
shadow Huns" Ia Germany NJ ''.
gift to the Kaiser" AmoHs INC
shadow Huns" the Colonel lEc'uoe.,
Senator Gronna. Of North DaknSt an"
Representative Lundcen. OF MinnGf
Colonel Roose :elt declared at they
set that the public man who did no
consider first nr all the real and pC
manent welfare of the working man way
no friend Of democracy. l
He Is not true to the United States.
either, il he miSleads the working man
az to what is tG treir permanent in
terest." he added. and then said
The most sinister enemy Of denoc-
racy In the United States is Senator
Latollette."
The colonel had been given a trans
crtpt Of Senator l.aFollctte's speech be-
fore the producers and consumers con-
ference held her" last week under tl'c
auspices Of the Eon-Partisan league.
nave HOi lldN ''Ih'- W ''SA" - H'A'
he said. but nave already found two
or three gems"
Senator LaFollettc's assertion that
Americas participation In the war wns
due to American citizens being pasSer-
gers on "a ship loaded with munitions
for Great Britain" was declared by IN"
colonel 10 be a falsehood and "hc knows
1t was falsehoOd." hn added.
HE snid nothing about TIL" sinking
OF tho hospital ship Sussex and the
technical right of the doctors and the
Red Cross nurses who sank with her TO
be on board" the former president con-
tlnued
81 nhhor Germany. ] abhor the Hun
without our gates. but more / abh"r the
Hun within our gates. And | say that
any man who excuses and CondoncS Such
infamy. and his shadow Huns Gronre
and Lundccn. do not represent the AM
crican people, They are OH level with
Vallnndingham whom Lincoln sent he
yond the Confederate lines. ! wish
/ could send them to Germany rs free
gift TO the Kaiser. La Toilette Is out
OF place in the senate.
'Semmes. commander Of the Alabama.
never, even in the bitterst time OF the
Civil war, sank ship without providing
for the saving Of its passengers. Once
having captured a prize he was about
to land the passengers In .Iamacia. but
learning there was an epidemic OF Eel-
low fever there. turned the prize loose
ra thcr than expose women and children
to that disease. Neither England,
France. Spain nor the United States.
through the orders OF their governments
in the Inst ESQ years have done the in
famous act of sinking ship without
providing the safety Of the people
aboard II.
Turning again to the shipment Of mu-
nitions. n point dwelt on by Senator La
/ Toilette, Colonel Roosevelt said 1t was
/ the senator's business to know what
were the treaty rights of Americans. IL"
declared that it was through Germanys
nsistence that The Hague agreement
sanctioned the shipment of munitions
and that ut that time Germany was
shining arms tn the Beers and later
shipped them TO Turkey and some of the
Balkan states.
The colonel also pnid his respects 10
Congressman Haer OF North Dakota. the
non partisan partyS representative IN
congress.
."On June 81 Congressman Raer said
that this WAS no time to make Amcri-
! canism an issue" said the colonel. That
statement would be NIL right in the
German Rcichstag. but man who thinks
and speaks that way ought not 10 he nd
mitted to congress. If this Is not the
time In make Americanism an issue
there is no time"