Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-29
SHADOW HUNS"
With La Toilette AS
Gift to Kaiser :
Roosevelt Accuses Wisconsin Senator
OF Faissheod. and Iensranes Of
Treaty Rights

st. Paul, Mimi, Sept 2s.-On the
Platform Of the Auditorium, where
Senator La Toilette last week decrled
Americas entry into the war on what
ne termed a violation Of technical
rights Col. Theodore Roosevelt, class
Ing the Wisconsin senator among the
Huns within our gates declared to-
cay that he would like to send La Fol-
lette and his shadow Huns" to Ger
many as free gift to the Kaiser. g
Among the Shadow Huns" the colonel
included Senator Gronna Of North Da-
kota and Rep. Lundeen. Of Minnesota.
Senator La Follette's assertion that
Americas rarticipa ton in the war was
due to American citizens being pas
sengers on "a ship loaded with NUM-
tions for Great Britain" was declared
by the colonel to be a falsehood, and
"he knows it was falsehood," he add
ed
He said nothing about the sinking
Of ire hospital ships Sussex and the
technical right OF the doctors ana Red
Cross nurses who sank with her to be
on toard," the former President con-
tinued.
StHlI1lcS. CC1TIIldNueT ol tne Ald va :
ma. never. even In the bitterest time
Of the Civil War sank a ship without
providing for the saving Of its pas
sengers. Once, having captured 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 *
pose women and children to that dis
ease. Neither England. France, spain
nor the United States. through the or
6ers Of their governments In the last
$50 years have done the infamous act
Of sinking a ship'without providing TOT
the safety of the people aboard 1t.
Turning again to the shipment OF
munitions, a point dwelt on by SEN
ator La Toilette, Col. Roosevelt SAID
it was the senator's business to know
the treaty rights of Americans. he
declared that it was through Ger
many's insistence that The Hague
agreement sanctioned the shipment OF
munitions, and that at that time Ger
many was shipping arms to the Beers
and later shipped them to Turkey and
some of the Balkan states.
The Colonel also paid his respects
to. Congressman Baer of North Da :
kota. the non partisan party's repre-
sentative in Congress.
"On June -. Congressman Baer said
that this was no time to make Am.
ericanism an issue,'" said the Colonel
THAT statement would be all right IN
the German Reichstag, but man who
thinks and speaks that way ought not
to be admitted to Congress. II this
is not the time to make Americanism
an issue, there Is no time"
Colonel Roosevelt turned his atten-
ton also to the Non Partisan League
He said that when it was first organ
lied he had real sympathy with its
aims and some" Of its methods. But
now, he added. 1t was a real grief tc
him to find that some Of its members
cheered the sentiments OF La Toilette
and that its methods seemed to be
working toward the erection Of a
machine.
The Colonel congratulated the big
crowd which heard him on the en-.
thusiastic loyalty it showed.
But do not let 1t evaporate." he
said 1T Is fne to march and cheer
and carry flags. but you must back
your words with deeds"