Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-22

Washington. Jan. ytrCharacter-
izing former President Roosevelt as
1.-THE most potent agent the kaiser
has in America" and the most sed-
itious man of consequence in Amerl-
ca" Senator Stone addressing the
Senate to-day, charged that Repub-
lican leaders are engaged in 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.
Senator Stones address, carefully
prepared the first of political signi-
ticance made in Congress since the
United States entered the war, and
regarded as the forerunner of bitter
partisan strife, eXtortiated partisan
ship in the war. Besides Col. Roose-
Welt, the Missouri Senator named
Chairman Wilcox, of the Republican
national committee, and Senator
Penrose among Republican leaders
as his witnesses" to the political
plot he alleged. Investigations by
Congress by war operations, Senator
Stone also declared, have almost en-
tirely been launched by Republicans
and adroitly exploited for partisan
purposes.
Citing statements of the Republic
an leaders regarding the political
plans and editorials of Colonel
Roosevelt which he said, are vii
famous screens" published for money
Senator Stone declared:
"On my responsibility as Senator
I charge that since our entrance into
the war Roosevelt by his attacks on
the government has been menace
and obstruction to the successful
prosecution of the war.
THE only possible effect OF these
widely published utterances OF this
man." said senator stone, has been
as they were designed to be, to dis
credit and bring the present govern
ment into public disfavor and weak
en- its hold on popular confidence.
That seems to be the Rooseveltian
standard of patriotism"
Similar utteranceS made by less
powerful citizens, Senator Stone as
serted would subject them to prose-
cution for disloyalty.
"Of all men,. the Missouri senat-
or said, Roosevelt is most respon-
sible for what he denounces. He does
his work cunningly. In the front
of his propaganda he throws a de-
ceptive political camuflage. l charge
that Theodore Roosevelt whether
willingly or out of sheer madness,
is the most potent agent of the
Kaiser in America"
The Republican plans he cited,
Senator Stone said have been adrolt-
ly directed.
ators," he asserted, are acting IN
manifest concert with dominant
Republicans throughout the country
TO make politics out of the war"
AS proof Of Republican partisan
plans Senator Stone, declared that
there is no need ito try to fool each
other or to fool the country and
declared the congressional 1nVestl-
cations of the war proposed by Re
publicans were significant.
Calling attention to the elections
next fall of the entire House mem
bership and many senators, Mr..
Stone said two years later the pres
idential election would follow.
Here is a chance" he proceeded,
for the dominating Republicans of
the country-some OF them, perhaps
more than one of them, seeking to
promote in his immediate personal
glorification, and others, acting on
a larger scale, to promote a party
adVantage-to strike hard to turn
down this administration and take
the government into their own
hands. That fight is on. 1t is being
played before our very eyes.
There are various elements of
discomfort in the country. Their po,
tentiality as political equations is
recognized by az. The natural dis
position of these discontented ele-
ments will be to strike blindly at
the party in power. Therefore in a
way, Republicans allay themselves
with these discordant elements of
unrest.
But 1 especially protest against
and denounce the effort put forward
under the guise of patriotism to dis