The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-19
RAPS CRITICISM
Vice President Marshall Wants
Administration Immune.
Holds Right and Rule Are With
the Democrats.

InoldHdpOuS, June lS.-SuppOrt
only the Democrat who is whole
heartedly behind the president and the
way he proposes to win the war, Vice
President Thomas R. Marshall said
here today in addressing the Indiana
state Democratic convention. The
vice president made his plea for sup
port OF the administration at the close
OF his address, saying that while he
wanted the Democrats to win the COM
Ing election, lat the risk of being
read out Of the party" he urged the
members in the state to vote against
the Democrat who was not in hearty
accord with the president and his ideas
and against the Democrat who is not
in favor of taking the German Ian
guage out of the schools of Indiana
and welding into united people by
the use OF a common language all
those who dwell within our borders"
Essentials to Victory.
The Republican state convention,
which was held here a few weeks ago,
received much attention from the vice
president, who declared that it had
gone too far in it's statements. Mr..
Marshall said:
Just what the Republican party
means by saying that its purpose is to
win the war now, most of US don't
understand. What the Democratic
party lands for Is to win the war as
soon as 1t can be won and it holds that
to the speedy winning of it are these
essentials:
Conviction of the justice Of the
cause in which we are engaged; a
fixed and definite end to be attained;
the wholehearted, disinterested. polit-
| ical and patriotic sacrifice of personal
| ambition; party preferment and 1nd1-
vidual success to the object attained
and confidence, absolute confidence, In
l ho M in chiafo
Attacks Roosevelt.
Mr.. Marshall referred to Lady
Theodore" during the course of his
remarks. saying. Lady Theodore be-
| ing left at home concluded to take a
hand in the war by writing letters in
derogation and criticism of its man.
agement to a newspaper, which news
| paper had as its general manager q
man who was, at the declaration OF
| man government. an alien enemy OF
the United States and which newspa-
per had published the Rose Pastor
Stokes letter and other seditious doc
| uments. So
| Some men at least are going to OBJ
ject If she is the Republican party and
il she is going to fight the war IN this
| way-thru the columns of the Kansas
| City Star-and Notwithstanding her
great desire to take charge of every.
| thing they are going to insist that she
shall not be permitted to do SO earlier
than March 4. 1921. and not then Il
God and the right prevail"
General Manager OF Star q Dane.
Kansas City, June 19.-The Kansai
| City Star today submitted to the As
| ISOLATED Press \brief biography o.
| its general manager, A. F. Seested, t.
show his status as citizen. It fol
| lows:
I
Family Fought Against Prussia.
| 'The Kansas City Star makes thi.
| statement concerning Vice Presiden
Marshalfs attack on the loyalty of IL
general manager. A. F. Seested. Mr.
| Seested was born in the town o.
Tondern, in Denmark, in 1864. At the
time his father was fighting in tht
Danish arr " against Prussia. Will
the Prussian occupation of that par
Of Denmark Seested became German
| subject. In 1880 he. and his larg'
Seested. ST., at once took steps to be
| come an American citizen. A.. F
Seested always believed that act made
him an American citizen. For mort
than thirty years he acted as such
At the election of 1916 he discovered
that technically he was not.
| German Citizenship Technical.
1.-THE failure of Seested, ST.. to take
out final papers before his son be.
came of age was the cause. A. F
Seested at once set about to correci
the technicality, and early In 1917
full citizenship was granted him BY
the United States court In kansai
Lefty. In the councils of the Kansas
fCity Star he has been for the mos
vigorous prosecution of the war. ant
has given freely of his time and none.