Arizona republican., 1918-01-22
Speech is Picric Effort


 Characterizing former President Roosevelt as the most potent agent the kaiser has in America" and .the most sedltious man of consequence in America" Senator Stone, addressing the senate today charged that repub ncan leaders are engaged in a studied effort to make politics out of the war Their object is "to take the govern ment over into their own hands," by partisan criticism of the conduct of the war, he declared
 1 Senator Stones address, carefully prepared, the first of political signifi- canoe made in congress since the United States entered the war. and regarded as the forerunner of bitter partisan strife. excoriated partisanship in the war. Besides Colonel Roose- Welt, the Missouri senator named Chairman Wilcox of the republican national committee, and Senator Pen } rose among republican leaders as his witnesses" to the political plot he ; alleged. Investigations by congress of ' war operations, Senator Stone also declared, have almost entirely been launched by republicans and adroitly exploited for partisan purposes. ) Citing statements of the republican leaders regarding the political plans eiilo cuItol ldlS Ol COlOncl HOOSeNel l which. he said, are ''villainou. s screeds' published for money, Senator g Stone declared:
 g ''On my responsibility as a senator charge that since our entrance into tn, e war Roosevelt by his attacks on tn, : government has been menace ant :, obstruction to the successful prosecu I tion of the war.
 'The only possible effect of thes e widely published utterances of thi f man., Senator Stone declared "ha been, as they were designed to be, t 1T discredit and bring the present gov O ernment into public disfavor an weaken it's hold on popular confidence e That seems to be the Rooseveltia . standard of patriotism"
 Similar utterances made by les - powerful citizens. Senator Stone as serted, would subject them to prose cution for disloyalty.
 +o "Of all men," the Missouri senate :, continued, Roosevelt is most respon .. sible for what he denounces. He doe V his work cunningly. In the front :. his propaganda he throws a deceptiy political camouflage. l charge ths Theodore Roosevelt, whether willing ly or out of sheer madness-l don know-is the most potent agent tf kaiser has in America. I cannot es cape the belief that this exception: colonel, who has played so many game of questionable politics, is now playir another game of his particular bran for a very great stake
 The republican plans he cited. Ser ator Stone said, have been "adroit directed
 Many if not all republican senator he asserted, are acting in manifei concert with dominant republican leat erts throughout the country to nal politics out of the war;
 As proof of republican partisan plal Senator Stone, declaring that there no need ''to try to fool each other to fool the country declared that coI gressional investigations of the W; proposed by republicans are signif cant.
 Calling attention to the election next fall of the entire house membe ship and many senators, MT. Stol said two years later the president election would follow.
 Here is a chance" he declared, If the predominating republicans of | country-some of them. perhaps mo than one of them. seeking to promo in his immediate personal glorificatic and acting on a larger scale. to pr HlOle d party duNduldSc- StIi hard to turn down this administrati and take the government into. the own hands The fight is on. It is bel played before our very eyes.
 There are various clements of di content in. the country. Their pote tiality as political equations is reco nized by all. The natural dispositi of these discontented elements will
 to strike blindly at the party in pow Therefore, in way republicans a themselves with these discordant e ments of unrest.
 But I especially protest against a denounce the effort put forward unl