The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-10-11
ALL PATRIOTIC AMERICANS RE-
JOicE IN NOMINATION OF THE
LIEUTENANT AMMANDER,
SAYS HIS FORMER CHIEF.
MUST STAMP OUT PACIFISM
Points to Exemption for Son Of
Pacificist Campaign Backer While
Newberry's Boys Join the coIors.
(By Theodore Roosevelt.)

Kansas City-A democratic member
Of the senate has introduced a resolu-
ton to investigate the primary cam
paign expenses Of certain republican
candidates for the senate, including
commander Truman Newberry. whose
recent triumph over Mr. Henry Ford
in the Michigan republican primaries
was greeted with heartfelt thanks by
every sincere and farsighted Ameri-
can patriot.
This senate, which comes to an end
on March next, has the same and
only the same right to investigate the
election conduct of candidates for the
senate which comes into existence on
March that 1t has to investigate
the campaign conduct of any other
candidates for office.
Hints at Bad Faith.
Moreover, any such proposed inves-
tigation undertaken on the eve of an
election is tainted with bad faith I'M
less II is conducted with conspicuous
fairness and impartiality and is I'M
dertaken at once so that it can be
finished at least a month before the
elections.
Personally, l shall be glad If the
election expenses or any other conduct
| Of any OF the candidates be investi-
gated, provided that the investigation
be undertaken at once and finished
within the next fortnight, and pro-
vided that II be entirely impartial.
Therefore, It must deal comprehensive
| ly with all serious charges affecting
the desirability of candidates as gov
ernmental representatives of the Am
erican people at this time.
Asks Ford Inquiry.
If the men backing the proposal are
acting in good faith, they will investi-
gate Mr.. Ford's record on the follow
ing points in order to determine his
fitness to represent patriotic Ameri-
cans at this time. This will find out
how much money he spent on the
peace ship and on his lavishly expen-
sive newspaper advertising campaign
against preparedness and against our
standing up for Belgium's rights and
against our talking action about Ger
many's sinking the Lusitania and her
other assaults on us, and In favor Of
the McLemore resolution.
This was part of the great pacifist
campaign of which another part, as
our government Investigations show.
was financed by the German authori-
ties themselves or by their affiliated
societies in this country.
The investigation should include Mr..
Ford's contributions in the last presi-
Dental campaign he supported, for
his politics seem to have been purely
personal and pacifist.
Points to Edsel.
Moreover, the investigation should
include full examination of the justi-
fication Of Mr.. Ford's adding and
abetting his son Edsel in escaping the
draft and staying at home when the
great majority Of young Americans
of his age are eagerly striving for
places Of honor and peril at the
front.
Mr.. Ford is an enormously wealthy
man. Mr.. Newberry is not. Mr.. New
berry himself at once entered the mil
itary service of the United States. His
two sons have wives and children,
but they Immediately entered the SER
vice, striving eagerly to get to the
front.
Unless the investigation takes up
these matters, 1t will be stamped with
the stamp of unworthy and improper
craftsmanship. The simple truth is
that all patriotic Americans rejoice in
the nomination and will rejoice in the
election at this time of such Ameri-
cans as Mr.. Newberry in Michigan and
Mr.. Medill Mccormick in Illinois.
(Convrfpht 1919 Kansas Civ Star