New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-28
Wisconsin Cities Demand
Ousting of La Toilette
Rooseyelt's Address on Menace of "Huns Within
Our Gates" Stirs League of Municipalities to
Action; Time to Expel Disloyal, Says Colonel

RACINE. Wis, Sept 27.-The League
of Wisconsin Municipalities In its SEES
sion here to-day adopted resolutions at
the close Of Theodore Roosevelt's de-
nunciation Of Senator Robert M. LIE
Toilette demanding that the United
States Senate expel the Wisconsin Sen
ator from that BODY.
The huge audience which packed the
Auditorium greeted Colonel Roosevelts
yitriolic utterances against Senator La
Follette's reported attempt to con-
done" the sinking of the Lusitania and
its consequent loss Of lives Of women
and children with loud applause and
cries Of That's right" That's right!
Pictures Lusitania Scene
Reverting TO the quoted remarks OF
the Senator concerning the Lusltania,
the Colonel pictured the scene IN the
morgue at Queenstown, where dead
mothers lay with dead babes in their
arms, and concluded:
and a Senator of the United States
tries TO condone this lnfamy!'
There were cries of shame!
Shamel" from all over the hall.
e Il condemn La Toilette as would
have condemned Robespierre WHEN he
plunged France into an abyss OF hor-
ror from which she was rescued by
The despotsm Of Napoleon the Col
ouel shouted
"Neo-copperheads, Huns within the
gates Of America who are preaching
disloyalty to the country's cause. and
German American newspapers which
mi
ganda were denounced by Theodore
Roosevelt in his address he delivered
here tonight ut the annual meeting OF
the League of Wisconsin MUNICIPAL
ties. lie said in part:
1--WE are now at war with great
military despotlsm. We absolutely
failed 10 prepare for this war, although
it seems inconceivable that any man
could have been so foolish and so blind
as not TO perceive its likelihood. at
any rate after February, 1919, when
Germany began her submarine war OF
wholesale murder against non-comba-
tants. including the innocent women and
children of our own people. From that
time, any American who directly or
indirectly upheld Germany was
treacherous enemy 20. this Republic, or
else the dupe of some such tredcherous
enemy. ..
1T is these treacherous enemies OF
our own household who are responsible
for the fact that we are now IN danger
from the foreign foe. 1t is the Hun
within our own gates from whom we
have most 70 fear, for he rs the tool
and ally of the Hun without. 1t mat
tiers not whether he is wealthy man
who organizes peace societies or nus
out peace ships in order 10 bring about
a peace that would be in the interest
of the brutal aggressor and would IN
Aict lasting shame and wrong upon us
and upon all civilized mankind; or
whether he is a foolish pacitist agltator
whose activities are increased and rem
dered mere noxiouS by the patronage
Of sucn a wealthy man; or whether ne
is an |. W W. leader who IS against
all government and all clvliIlstlon ana
all orderly liberty and gleeIully does
the work OF Germany against US eX-
actlv as if he got the chance ne "ouid
do the work of the worst tribe Of bar
barians against US; or whether ne Is
n German Socialist, who IN this coun-
trv has helped turn the Socialist party
machine into the tool Of the German
American liberty and democracy. but
OF liberty and democracy throughout
tho world: or whether he appears at
the head Of some German AmHricsh
alliance or similar organization when,
onCnlv before the war and now more
covertly but no less dangerously WORKS
for Germany against America.
Foes of Our Own Household
"Al these men are the foes Of our
own household. They are the Huns
within our gates.
"The earmarks Of the Hun within our
gates are his shrieking for peace with
ont victory for the right; his screaming
10 know why we are az war-aIthough
tho only question of the KIND mat
needs an answer is why we were not
at war Immediately after the Lusitanla
was sunk. his blatant defence OF tho
misconduct of Germany;
his mendacious and malicious attacks
on tho allies of the United States; his
constant. although indirect, attacks on
our own people; his effort TO distract
attention from the need Of attacking
tho formidable and ruthless German
autocracv by slanderously and falsely
assailing our own country. me nun
within our gates is a more evil enemy
NJ This Republic, even, than the Hun
outside our gates, and his will be me
if we are ever INVADED
BY an alien enemy.
"Of these Huns within our gates
those who do most mischief are the
men who hold Office and the men who
edit newspapers. Their position as re-
cards this war is precisely the same as
the position of the copperheads IN the
Civil War. These neo-copperheaus
stand toward the loyal Americans OF