South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-29
u ABHOR HUNS, :"
SAYS ROOSEVELT
Calls La Toilette, GrOnna and
Lundeen Shadow Huns"
in St. Paul Speech.

platform or the auditorium where
Sen. LaFollette last week decried
America S entry into the war on
what he termed violation Of
technical rights Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, CHASING the Wisconsin
senator among "the Huns within
our gates. declared Friday he
would like to send LaFollette and
his shadow Huns TO Germany as
a free gift to the kaiser" Among
the shadow Huns, the colonel in
cluded Sen. Gronna of North Da-
kOta, and Rep. Lundeen of Mime
sofa
Col. Roosevelt declared at the
outset that the public man who did
not consider first of all the real and
permanent welfare of the working
man was no friend of democracy
He is not true to the United
States either, If he misleads the
working men as to what is TO their
permanent interests" he added, and
then said: The most sinister en-
envy of democracy in the United
States is Sen. La Toilette"
The colonel had been given a
transcript of Sen LaFollette's
speech before the producers and
consumers conference held here
non partisan league.
Finds Several Gems"
Il have not had time to read it
all" he said, "but I have already
found two or three gems"
Sen. LaFollette's assertion that
America s participation in the war
was due TO American citizens being
passengers and "a ship loaded with
munitions for Great Britain, was
declared by the colonel to be a
falsehood and "he knows it was a
falsehood," he added.
HE said nothing about the sink
ing of the hospital ship Sussex, and
the technical right of the doctors
and Red Cross nurses who sank
with her TO be on board" the for
mer president continued.
Il abhor Germany. l abhOr the
Hun within our gates. But more
abhor the Hun within our gates,
and / say that any man who ex-
cuses and condones such infamy
and his shadow Huns, Gronna and
Lundeen, do not represent the
American people. They are not on a
level with Vallandingham, whom
Lincoln sent beyond the confeder-
ate lines. I wish / could send them
to Germany as a free gift to the
kaiser. LaFollette is out of place in
the senate.
Cites Civil War Captain.
"Semmes, commander of the AL
ALBANIA. never, even in the bitterest
time of the Civil war, sank a ship
without providing for the Swing OF
its passengers. Once 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 wo-
men and children TO that disease.
Neither England, France, Spain nor
the United States, through the or
ders of their governments in the
last $50 years have done the in
famous act of sinking a ship with
out providing for the safety OF the.
people aboard il.
turning again to the shipment
of munitions, a point dwelt on by
Sen. LaFollette, Col. Roosevelt said
ii was the seHator's business to
know what were the treaty rights
of Americans. He declared that it
was through Germany's insistence
that the Hague agreement sanction
ed the shipment of munitions and
that at that time Germany was
shipping arms to the Beers and la
ter shipped them TO Turkey and
some of the Balkan states.
Denounces Rep. Baer.
The colonel also paid ris re-
spects 10 Congressman Baer of
North Dakota, the non-partisan
partv's representative In congress.
ION June p, Cong. Baer sair that
this was no time 10 make Amer
icanism an issue, said the colo
mel THAT statement would be all
right in the German Reichstag but
a man who thinks and speaks that
way ought not to be admitted to-
congress. If this is not the time to-
make Americanism an issue, there
is no time.
Col. Roosevelt turned his atten-
ion also 10 the non-partisan league
He said that when it was first
organized he hao real sympathy
with its aims and some OF its
methods. But now. he added, i'll
was a real grief 10 him TO find that
some of its members cheered the
sentiments of LaFollette and that
its methods seemed TO be working
toward 10 erection of machine.