New Britain herald., 1918-01-21

the day before the committee meet
 ing' Senator Stone continued.
 T now introduce my star witness, l Theodore Roosevelt himself-whOm l
 characterize as the most seditloua man of consequence in America. The heart of this man is afame with ln-
 ordinate ambition and he runs anuck. His chief thought is not to help the governent but always Of Roosevelt. Almost every day this man speaks in bttterand contenlptuous dlsparage- ment of the president and ms InaJ- ority mem bers of this congress. Every week for a long time he has been and is still publishing under contract for & money consideration-~thi of it. for rnonev-viIlianou screeds in the Kansas City Star-attacking the presi- dent and the governInen. These Roosevelt contributions are repro 1 duced in numerous important papers. 1 Whatever may be said of the papers
 reproducing these disloyal utterances the Kansas City Star is chiefly re- 1 sponsible".
 Citing criticisms from MT Roose- ! veIt's editorials, Senator Stone con- tinued:
 'tF'or example Roosevelt denounces the president and the government in terms that would subject almost any other citizen to arrest--yet his ut
 terances which I say would be de-
 nounced as reasonable if maSa by
 others, are widev published without
 even official protest
 "I have quoted these utterances of
 Roosevelt, first to show that his vaunted claim, lf-advertised of superior brand of patri ioti5n is empty and, secondly, to inquire why Roose-
 welt may say things with in1punity which a citizen of lesser consequence dare not even repeat without danger of indictment for disloyalty'' At this point the senator made his reference to Roosevelt as an aid to the Kaiser and then turned to the Congressional war Investigations. He did not question the right of congress
 to make the inquiries but rather their
 purpose and publicity given to nation al difficulties.
 TT cannot believe" he said, "tLat
 world wide advertisement of alleged 1 deficiencies in our war activities, even if ultimately found true, is necessary
 to bring about administrative reforms.
 I doubt the wisdom of wide open in vestigations into almost everything that might be made the subject of | criticism of the administration. Why Tell the World? T do not mean that administrative 1 errors should be concealed from our people. Of course mistakes have
 been made by the governm ent-- doubt less many and grave mistakes. Tn the
 circumstances that was inevitable, but is it necessary for us to stand on a house top and proclaim these mis- takes with a loud voice to the whole wor1d?"
 Considering everything. MT. Stone 1 asserted that the achievement of this congress and administration signal
 ize degree of marked success with out parallel in the worlds history"
 Undue publicity given present mis-
 takes, he said, had advertised the na- , tiOn's weakness to the enemy.
 '<The time for Haunting them is l past" he continued. This is the 1 time for universal national sympathy ! and solidarity. My appeal now is to i my colleagues on this side to stand firmly against influences calculated to mislead us, and I appeal to my col leagues on the other side of this chanbe to thrust back the evident
 rising tide of partisanship.'
 The republican leaders purpose he
 reiterated, is to elect @ congress out of i harm ony with the president.
 What would happen to the Wilson ! administration if the republican party { should have control of the next con-
 sress ?' he asked.
 If I were to adopt the use of Bill | ly Sunday classics the president would 1 have a, hell of a time."
 In concluding he presented statis-
 tics of what he termed were partisan
 appointments of state war committees. Tn New York a republican governor appointed g. republicans and three
 democrats, while in Ohio, a democrat , ic. governor named IS republicans and 1 10 democrats.
 In California, the republican gover-
 nor named 63 republicans and four 1 democrats. He gave statistics to ] show he asserted, that democratic
 governors had been non partisan l1i
 their appointments while republican