Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-22

Charges Partisan Plan
 Many if not all Republican sena- tors" he asserted. ~are acting in mani fest concert with dominant Republican leaders throughout the country to make politics out of the war"
 As proof of Republican partisan plans Senator Stone. declaring that there is no need to try to fool each other or to fool the country" and de clsred that congressional investiga- tions of the war proposed by Re2ubli- cans are significant
 i Calling attention 10 the elections next fall of the entire house member ship and many senators. Ar. Stone said two years later the presidential election would follow
 Here is a chance he declared. for the predOminating Republicans of the country-sOme of them. perhaps more than one of them. seeking to promote in his immediate personal glOrihcatiOn. and acting on a larger scale. to pro mote a party advantage-to strike hard to turn down this administration and take the government into their own hands That fight is on lt Is being played before our very eyes
 There are various elements of dis content in the country Their pOten- tiality as political equations is recOg- mixed by all The natural disposition of these diScontented elements will be to strike blindly at the party in power. | Therefore. in a way Republicans ally themselves with these discordant ele- ments of unrest
 I Sur1 Q I denOunce the effort put forward under the guise of patriotism to disparage l this congress and present administra- ! tion to excite a wider feeling of dis 1 content and lack of confidence, and to spread poison of this impression broad cast. Plainly this sort of movement ' is afoOt-
 As proof of his charges which. Sen atOr Stone said he presented -delioer- ately and regretfully,- the Republicans are 'harping' on alleged administrative blunders and stalking their political fortunes upon their criticisms.
 Penrose On ~Pan-- First. I present the Hon. Boise Pen ] rose" Senator Stone continued. who as a great leader of the foremost Re publican state. very properly occupies the front seat in the Republican na- tiOnal Sanhedrin-~
 , Citing alleged statements of Senator ! PenroSe that the Republican leaders were planning to demand an account ing of the conduct of the war. Senator { Stone said that Senator Penroses s ! Justification for his partisan Outburst was over appointment of the Demo
 in .-N- V and a Democratic farmer in Indiana a sfederal explosive inspectors
 Senator Penrose.r he said, seems ' to have forgotten partisan appoint ments by the governor of Pennsylva- nia of Republicans on war commit ! tees"
 ] Of the Pennsylvania committee members. NIT. Stone said. SOs were Republicans and only fourteen Demo crats-
 Wilcox Gets His 1 Turning to Chairman Wilcox of the Republican national committee, the ' Missouri senator said before he in troduced his star witness he would cite the statement made to the press by MT. Wilcox regarding the incom- petence of the Democratic party and its effect on coming congressional elections. He said a meeting of the Republican leaders had been called al St. Louis on February 18th to inaugur- ate a winter campaign.
 Colonel Roosevelt has engaged a hall in St Louis to make war speech the day before the committee meet ing" Senator Stone continued
 "My Star Witness"
 ~I now introduce my star witness; ] Theodore Roosevelt himself-whOm l characterize as the most se6itious man of conseQuence in America The heart of this man is aflsme with in ordinate ambition and he runs amuck. His chief thought is not to help the government .. but always. of Roosevelt. Almost everyday this man speaks in bitter and centemptuous dis paragement of the president and the majority members of this congress EV- cry week for long time he has been and still is publishing under contract for a money consideration-thin of it, for money-villainous screeds in the Kansas City Star-attacking the president and the government These ENOOSCNClN NAN ACEAoN0N ed in numerous newspapers. What ever may be said of the papers re producing these disloysl utterances the Kansas City Star .... is chiefly responsible"
 Roosevelt Editorials Criticized Citing criticisms of MT. Roosevelt editorials. Senator Stone continued;
 For example. Roosevelt denounced the president and the government in terms that would subject almost any ether citizen 10 arrest-yet his utter ences. which I say would be denOunc ed as reasonable if made by others gre widely published without even of ficial protest
 T have quoted these utteranceS Oi Roosevelt, first to show that his vaunt ed claim. self advertisement. of su pericr brand of patriotism is empty and secondly. to inquire why Roose welt may say things with impunitS which citizen Of lesser c0useqUelce dare not even repeat without danger { cf indictment for dislOyalty."
 At this point the senator made his reference Co Roosevelt as an aid to the hn