New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-29
Would Like to Send Sena-
tor and Shadow Hun"
Gronna, to Germany
Lundeen and Baer
Also Denounced
Colonel Declares He Has
Lost Sympathy With Nom
Partisan League

ST. PAUL, Sept. 2s.-On the platform
Of the Auditorium. where Senator La
Toilette last week decried Americas
entry into the war on what he termed
violation of technical rights" Colo
mel Theodore Roosevelt. CHASING the
Wisconsin Senator among the Huns
within our gates" declared to-day he
would like to send La Toilette and his
shadow Huns" to Germany as a "lree
gift 10 the Kaiser"
Among the shadow Huns" the Colo
mel included Senator Gronns, OF North
Dakota, and Representative Lundeen, OF
Minnesota. =,
Colonel Roosevelt declared at the
outset that the public man who did not
consider first of all the real and per-
manent welfare of the workingman was
no friend of democracy.
"He is not true to the United states
either, if he mislead the working
men as to what is to their permanent
interests" he added. Then he said:
Denounces La Toilette
"The most sinister enemy of democ-
racy in the United States is Senator La
Toilette"
The Colonel had been given tran
script Of Senator La Follette's speech
before the Producers and Consumers
Conference. held here last week under
the auspices of the Non-Partisan
League.
II have not had time to read 1t ALL
he said, "but have already found TWO
or three gems"
Senator La Follette's assertion that
Americas participation IN the war was
due TO American citizens oelng passeh-
gers on "a ship loaded with munitions
for Great Britain" was declared oy the
Colonel to be falsehood. -,
And he knows it was faisehood'
he added.
"He said nothing about the sinking
Of the hospital ship Sussex and the
technical right Of the doctors ana heo
Cross nurses who sank with her TO
be on board" the former President
continued.
81 abhor Germany. ! abhor the Hun
without our gates, but more | abhor the
Hun within our gates. And | say that
env man who excuses and condones
such infamy, and his shadow huns,
Gronna and Lundeen, do not represent
the American people. They are on
level with Vallandigham, whom LIN
coin sent into the Confederate hnes.
| wish | could send them 70 Germany
as a free gift to the Kaiser. La FOL
lette is out of place in the Senate.
Germany Shipped Arms
"Semme.. commander of the Ala
bama, never, even in the bltterest time
of the Civil War, sank a ship without
providing for the saving OF us pasSeh-
gers. Once, having captured prize
he was about 70 land the passengers III
Jamaica, but learning there was an eP!-
demic of yellow fever tnert. turheu 'le
prize loose rather than expose women
and children to that disease. NeltheI
England, France, Spain nor me United
States, through the orders OF thelr sor
ernments, in the last Zoo years nav
done the Infamous act Oh slhhins
ship without providing lot 'he safety
of the pople aboard II. ,.. 90
Turning again to the shipment Oh
munitions. a point dwelt on by Senator
la Toilette, Colonel Roosevelt said II
WAS the Senator's business TO know
vba, were the treaty rights OF amer
cans. He declared that II was 'hToush
Cermanv's insistence that the hague
ocroer,ent sanctioned the shipment OF
r,onitions. and that at that time Ger
,,1ony was shipping arms to the Beers
and later shipped them to turkey ana
some Of the Balkan states.
Turns Guns on Baer
The Colonel also paid his respects to
Representative Baer, Of North DaKota'
the Non-Partisan party's representa-
a. l., CopCress who was among the
five members Of Congress haNheu ny
Representative Helm. -,
"On June q Representative baer sara
that this was mo time to make Aiheli'
canism an issue" said the Coiohei'
"Tbat statement would be all right IN
the German Reichstag, but man VINO
thinks and speaks that way ought not
10 be admitted to Congress. II TINS Is
not the time TO make Amerlcanism an
issue there is no time
Colonel Roosevelt turned his atten-
ton also TO the Non-Partisan League.
lie said when il was first organized ne
had real sympathy with its aims ana
"some of its methods But now, he
added. il was a real grief to him TO md
that some Of its members cheered the
sentiments of La Toilette, and that ITS
methods seemed 10 be working toward
the erection OF machine
The Colonel congratulated the big
crowd which heard him on the enthu-
siastic loyalty it showed.
"But do not let il evaporate," he said.
at is fine to march and cheer and carry
flags, but you must back your words
with deeds"