The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-29
Glasses Senator Gronna
And Representative Lun-
deem as Shadow Huns
LA TOILETTE MOST
SINISTER INFLUENCE
Scores Congressman Baer
And The Nonpartisan
League Leaders
fRv Associated Press.l

st. Paul Sept. 2s.-on the plat
form OF the Auditorium, where Sem
ator La Follette last week decried
American entry into the war, IN what
he termed a violation of technical
rights, Colonel Roosevelt, chasing
the Wisconsin senator among the
Huns within our gates, declared
he would like to send La Toilette and
his shadow Huns" to Germany as
free gifts to the kaiser.
Among the shadow huns" the
Colonel included Senator Gronna Of
North Dakota and Representative
Lundeen of Minnesota.
The lateness of Colonel Roosevelts
train in reaching the twin-cities ana
the demonstration accorded him both
in Minneapolis and st. Paul delayed
his address. but the big hall was full,
with many of the audience standing
or kneeling in the aisles when he
arrived.
Introduced by c. r. Robertson,
president of the Labor Loyal Legion,
OF Minneapolis, Colonel Roosevelt
declared at the outset that the pub
lie man who did not consider first OF
all the real and permanent welfare
OF the workingman was no friend or
democracy. He is not true to the
United States either IL he misleads
the workingmen as to what is to
their permanent interests, he added
and then said:
"The most sinister enemy Of de-
mocracy in the United States is
Senator La Toilette.
Answers La Toilette.
d The Colonel had been given a
transcript 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
being passengers on "a ship loaded
with munitions for Great Britain"
was declared by the Colonel to be q
falsehood, "and he knows IL was a
falsehood". declared the Colonel.
Senator La Toilette emphasized
the sinking of the Lusitania with It's
fifty babies under year old, its III
babies under two years. and Its 100
Americans, the Colonel went on.
He said nothing about the sinking
OF the hospital ship, Sussex and the
Technical right OF the doctors and
the Red Cross nurses who sank with
her to be on board.
The Hun at Home.
Il abhor Germany. / abhor the
Hun without our gates, but more
abhor the Hun within our gates, and
/ say that any man who excuses and
condones such infamy and his
shadow Huns, Gronna and Lundeen,
do not represent the American peo-
pie. They are on a level with VAL
landfgham, whom Lincoln sent be-
yond the Confederate lines. ! wish
/ could send them to Germany as a
free gift to the kaiser. La Toilette
is out OF place in the senate. Sem
mes, commander OF the Alabama,
even in the bitterest time Of the civil
war, never sank ship without pro-
viding for the saving Of the lives or
its passengers. Cnce. having cap
tured a prize, he was about TO land
the passengers In Jamaica, but
learning that there was an epidemic
OF yellow fever there turned the
prize loose rather than expose w0-
men and children to that disease.
Neither England, France, Spain nor
the United States, through the ord
ers OF their governments In the last
25O years has done the infamous
act OF sinking a ship without pro-
viding for the safety Of the people
aboard lt".
Turning again to the shipment Of
munitions. a point dweIt on BY Sem
ator La Toilette, Colonel Roosevelt
said IL was the senator's business TO
know what were the treaty rights Of
Americans. He declared Il was true
through German insistence that The