Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-22

thing the Missouri senator said about him.
Declaring the Republicans had supported
the administration in the war. Mr. Pen
rose added he believed it a public duty
to criticize the government inefficiencl
and seek to have Republicans restored to
power, believing more efficient admirIs-
tration would thus be secured.
After citing the arrest of Mr.. Shanks
of St Louis for critczing the President
Mr. Penrose again interrupted:
did the municipal police or federal
agents of the department of justice ar
rest him."
Senator Stone replied that it appea red
unimportant but he would advise the sem
ator.
ut is important" persisted Penrose. 81
presume he was arrested by agents APP
pointed by the President. 1t was unjust,-
fable and an outra ge-an impressive r.
lustration of the highhanded methods Of
the administration"
Senator Penrose declared Private Ernes,
l.. Snyder at Camp Taylor. near Louis
vile, Ky, had been sentenced to 10 years
at hard labor and dishonorably discharged
for villifying the President and obiectinS
to the draft law. Nothing has occurred
in Russia of greater outrage
Attack on Roosevelt
CharactcrIzing former President
Roosevelt as the most potent and
willing agent the Kaiser has in
America" and the "most sedi-
tious man of consequence in Ameri-
ca. Senator Stone in a speech to the
! Senate today charged that Eepublica II
leaders were engaged in 4 studied ef-
fort to take the government over into
their own hands" by partisan criticism
of the conduct Of the war
Alleges Political Plot
Besides Colonel Roosevelt he named
Chairman Wilcox of the Republican
national comnlittc" and Senator Pen
, rose amonc Republican leaders as his
| witnesses" to the political plot he al
legged. Investigations 10y Congress of
! war operations. he declared had al
most entirely been launched by Repub-
licans and adroitiy exploited for par
tisan purposes.
He termed tho editorials If Colonel
Roosevelt "Nil)ainous scrcnds" publish
! ed for money and declared:
on my responsibility as a senator
| charge that since our entrance into
/ the war ROOSEVELT by his attacks on
the government has been a menace and
obstruction 10 the SUCCESSFUL prosecu-
ton Of the war.
The only possible effect of these
! widely published utterances of this man
! has been. as they were designed to b..
to dscrCdit and bring the present gov
ernment into public disfavor and weak
on its hold on popular confidence. That
seems IL be tie Rouseveltian standard
CT patriotism"
Similar uttcraNceS made by less DOW
crfu! citizens, Senator Stone asserted,
would subject them to prosecution for
diSloyaIty.
OF all men he continued, "Roose-
! Nelt is most responsible for what ne
d"nounces. He does his work cunning
I ~. In the front Of his propa ganda he
throws Il deceptive political Camou-
iiage | charge that Theodore Roosevelt
! whether willingly or out of sheer mad
Hess do not know, is the most potent
and willing agent of the Kaiser in
America. cannot escape the belief that
this exceptional colonel, who has play
Cd so many games of questionable poll
itics, is now playing another game Of
his particular brand for very great
stake"
Many if not all of the Republican SEN
ators. he asserted, were acting in manifest
concert with dominant Republicans
throughout the country to make politics
out of the war and were associating
themselves with discordant elements of
unrest
First he continued, Il present the
Honorable Boise Penrose, who. as grea,
leader of the foremost Republican state.
very properly occupies the front sea; in
the Republican National San Hedrin."
Senator stone said that Senator PEN
roses justification for his partisan out
burst was over appointment of a Dem,-
cratic groceryman in PENNSYLVANIA and a
Democratic farmer in Indiana as federal
explosive inspectors.
Senator Penrose," he continued Seems
10 nave forgotten partisan appointments
bE me governor of Pennsylvania of Ne
pubilcans on war committees
turning to Chairman Wilcox Of the Re
publican national committee. the Missouri,
Senator said he would cite the statement
mace 10 the press by Mr. Wilcox regard
ing the incompetence of the Democratic
party and its effect on coming congress
sional elections
The speaker continued.
Il now introduce my star witness. rheo-
core roosevelt. himself, whom 7 charac-
terize as the most seditious man Of con
sequence in America The heart of TIN.
man IS ahame with inordinate ambition
ana ne runs amucki His chief though,
IL not % help the government
oo' 'i"asS of Roosevelt Az
ii'os' every DAY this man speaks in bitter
ana contemptuous dlspa cement of the
Iresiueht and the majority members of
this Congress
NHeiS Week for a long time he has
EEL ana still is publishing under con-
''o' ior consideration think Of it, for
CONGRATULATIONS screeds in the Kansas
o"S otar-attacking the President and
tht government. These Roosevelt con-