The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-29
BA[R TALK GOOD
FOR CANDIDATE
FOR RE|CHSTAC
Roosevelt Criticizes Lacquer Who
Says "kmericanism Is Not
an ISSUE
LA TOILETTE SINISTER
FOE OF OUR DEMOCRACY
Declares Badger, Gronna and
Lundeen Huns Within Our
Gates" to Be Abhorred

St. Paul, Mimi, Sept. 29-"Tha'
would be all correct as statement 81
successful candidate for the Ger
man reichstag, but the man who car
make such statement has no right
to be admitted to the American con
gress,' declared Theodore Roosevelt
last night in discussing the slogan Of
John NJ. Baer, Townleys candidate
for congress in the First: 1T Is no
time to make Americanism nm issue
On the platform Of the Auditorium
where Senator La Toilette last week
decrled Americas entry into the war
on what he termed violation of
technical right" Colonel Roosevelt
CHASING the Wisconsin senator among
the Huns within our gates this af-
ternOon 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 Gron-
ma of North Dakota and Representa-.
tive Lundeen of Minnesota.
~. "enemy Of Democracy"
The most sinister enemy OF democ-
racy in the United States is Senator
La Toilette
The colonel had been given a tran
script OF Senator La Follette's speech
before the producers and consumers
conference held here last week under
the auspices Of the Nonpartisan
league. II have not had time to read
1t ALL" he said, "but l have already
foun dtw0 or three gems"
. Senator La Follette's assertion that
Americas participation in the war was
due to American citizens being pass.
engers on "a ship loaded with NUM-
lions for Great Britain was declared
by the colonel to be a falschood and
he knows it was falsehood,' he adj
ded.
81 abhor Germany abhor the Hun
without our gates, but more | abhor
the lun within our gates. And | say
that any man who excuses and con
dones such infamy, and his shadow
Huns. Gronna and Lundeen, do not
represent the American people. They
are on level with Vallandingham
whom Lincoln sent beyond the Con.
-~fsderatc lines. wish could send
them to Germany as a free gift to
the Kaiser. La Toilette is out of
place in the senate. "
a. Attack on eacr.
The colonel also paid his respects
to Congressman Baer of North Da-
k0ta.
Il see it reported in the papers,"
he said, that the candidate OF the
league, successful candidate for con-
gress on June 81, made this statement,
1t is no time to make Americanism
an issue That would be all correct
as a statement of successful candi-
date for the German reichstag, but
the man who can make such a state.
ment has no right to be admitted to
the American congress.
III Americanism Is not now an issue
then 1t never can and never will
be an issue land the public servant
who does not admit that it is an issue
and doesn't take the right view of the
issue. hasn't any business to live here
In the United States"
eIames Nonpartisan League.
Referring to the Nonpartisan league
the colonel said:
And now, friends" he said, 4 wish
to state the real grief it was to me to
be forced to realize, most reluctantly,
the kind of doctrine for which that so.
called N0npartisan league was willing
to stand as it showed by the way
some of its members cheered the sen
timents and utterances of Senator La
Toilette. had at the time of the in
ception of the league felt a great
sympathy for most of its purposes and
some of its methods. There were
some of its methods which l could not
approve, because felt it was building
& up a boss system, machine as bad
as the worst of those of the old par
ties where they have been worse and
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