The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-10-18
ALL PATRIOTIC AMERICANS RE.
JoIcE IN NOMINATION OF THE
LIEUTENANT cAMMANDER,
SAYS HIS FORMER CHIEF.
MUST STAMP OUT PAClFlSM
POINTS to Exemption for Son Of
PaeIheIst Campaign 6aeker While
Newberry's Boys Join the coIors.
(By Theodore Roosevelt.)

Kansas City-A democratic member
d. the senate has introduced resolu-
Ion 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
N 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 4 that 1t has to investigate
the campaign conduct Of any other
candidates for office.
Hints at Bad Faith.
Moreover. any such proposed inves-
legation undertaken on the eve of an
election is tainted with bad faith un-
less 1t Is conducted with conspicuous
fairness and impaYtiality and is un-
dertaken at once so that It can be
finished at least a month before the
elections.
Personally, shall be glad II 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 1t be entirely impartial.
Therefore, 1t must deal comprehensive.
ly with all serious charges affecting
the desirability Of candidates as gov
ornamental representatives of the Am
erican people at this time.
Asks Ford Inquiry.
II 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 pacifst
campaign Of which another part. as
our government Investigations show.
was financed by the German authors.
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 Edsei.
Moreover, the investigation should
include full examination Of the JUST.
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 il 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
partisanship. The simple truth ia
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.
{ Copyright, 1918, Kansas City Starr