The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-10-26
BECKETT SCORES
BULL MOOSE
Whom He Intimates is Kin to
the German Hog.-De-
fends the Famous


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Raleigh, Oct. 26.-Recent utter
ances of Theodore Roosevelt, partic-
ularly his attack upon the Presidents
fourteen articles Of peace as printed
in dispatches yesterday, have drawn
from the Governor of North Carolina,
chairman of the League to Enforce
Peac6 in this State, severe condemn
alton.
Governor Beckett last night sent
long wire to william Howard Taft,
as president of the League asking
him TO make a vigorous reply to the
repeated assaults of Mr.. Roosevelt
on the basic principles of the league.
That failure of Mr.. Taft to prop
erly curry Mr. Roosevelt presages
the death of the league is plainly
indicated in the governors wire. II
would undertake to reply to Mr..
Roosevelt myself but | endeavor to
retain the sense of proportion, and
this advises me that you, not myself
are the proper person to defend the
life of the league. You are its presi-
dent, and as chairman of the North
Carolina division, urge you to tel.
egraph to Washington your witherine
condemnation Of the utterances oi
Mr.. Roosevelt"
The governor directs to the atten
| tion of Mr.. Taft the recent Roosevelt
utterance that I'VE should so devel
op our military power that no ma
tion would dare to look cross-eyed a
the United States" He also calls te
the attention of the leagues presi
dent a recent Roosevelt editorial il
the Kansas City Star and the wire O.
the Oyster Bay fire eater to Sena
tors at Washington as printed in yes
terday's papers. The utterances
thinks the governor would hav,
fitted we'll the mouth of the Kaise
five years ago"
Governors Message.
The text of the Governors mes
sage follows:
The repeated assaults of Mr.
Roosevelt on the basic principles o
the League to Enforce Peace call TO
a vigorous reply from you as presi
dent of he League If our organiza
tion is expected to live. Every vi
terance Of Mr.. Roosevelt on the sub
ject would have fitted we'll tn
mouth Of the Kaiser five years age
| In recent speech Mr.. Roosevelt
said that we should SO develop ou
military power that no nation woul
dare to look cross-eyed at the Uni,
Il ed States. This is the very militia
rism against which the conscienc
of the world is today in arms.
would be Potsdamism enthroned a
Washington.
In recent editorial in the Kar
sas City Star, Mr.. Roosevelt endea,
ors to relegate the League to Er
force Peace to the innocuous pos
tion of mollycoddle motto and ir
sists that when he real affairs c
nations are to be settled a gun sti
is, and of right ought to be God!
To-day in telegram to Washine
ton he makes war on the fourtee
articles of peace enumerated by tn
President before Congress sin JAM
ary, and thereafter elaborated a
Mt. Vernon on July 4th, and in Ne
York on September 27. When th
President of the United States pr,
claimed these principles and cond
tions of peace they were treated wit
iIl-concealed contempt by the Imp
rial Government of Germany, b1
were hailed with JOY by all the pc,
pie of our allies.
"Time and again these wise ar
just principles have been endorse
= by our allies until they have come
be regarded as new Magma Char
for the whole world. But as victol
. comes to our arms in the field ar
when it is perfectly plain that Il
German people will take their go
ernment into their own hands,
, that our armed forces will grind
powder the military masters of Ge
many, Mr. Roosevelt comes forwa
h and asseverates that the Americ;
a people have never spoken, and tn
a the now world famous fourteen a
Il ticles should be treated as scraps
paper, and that only hammering