The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-01

said.
"This is the peoples Government;
this is the peoples war, and the
peace that follows ehall be the peo-
pies peace"
Quoting a press dispatch to the
effect that Republican Senators such
as McCumber, Nclsol aud Ledge are
as highly though. of in France to-
day as are the American generals"
Col Roosevelt declared that mine
times out of ten, this administration
has never led the people," has been
reluctantly forced forward into ac-
ton by criticism against which II has
violently protested, and "has sullen-
ly and sometimes maliciously sought
to punish the men who by their truth
telling have forced it into action"
"In a word" the Colonel said.
"the Democratic party under the lead
of the Administration has carried par
tisan politics during the last eighteen
months to an extreme never before
known in this country in a time of
war, among loyal upholders of the
war" II has come dangerously near
creating condition of one-party-
ism"
1.-THE test insisted upon has been
not loyalty to our Allies and hostili-
ties to Germany, but adherence to the
Administration" he declared. adding
that President Wilson's request of
October IA, that citizens should sub
scribe to the loan, but leave to the
Government of the United States and
of the Allies the momentous discus
sions initiated by Germany" could be
interpreted as meaning that they
should both put up and shut up"
Charges mefiiciency.
Col. Roosevelt asserted that ''if the
Administration had used with moder-
ate efficiency the results of lavish
generosity of Congress our armies
and the allied armies would have
been doing last March what they are
doing now in October.
After asserting that this war must |
be put through ito our last man and |
our last dollar" the Colonel declar-
ed that I'VE should accept no peace !
not based on the unconditional sur
render of Germany and her vassal
States"
He asserted that the Presidents |
latest notes had placed him in such a
position that he had either to sac
rifice America and humanity" or to
respond in such a manner as to
stultify his own diplomacy and re-
pudiate his own implied offer"
ut was not a pleasant thing for
America that he should have put
himself and the nation behind him,
in the position of inviting PROPOSE
ion which when accepted he repu-
declared the Colonel. For
The very reason that | abhor Ger
trickery, treachery and bad
'aith. am most anxious that Amer
cans shall not initiate her in these
Asserting that peace would be set
led not by the President alone, but
by the President acting in conjunc-
ion with two-thirds of the Senate,
he Colonel continued:
when 1t comes to the peace ne
,otiations we should emphatically re-
,udiate the famous fourteen points
by the President last Jan
larry. One of them he has himself
and the remainder are
either so mischievous that they ought
o be repudiated without further def
milton or else we should insist on
having them defined in order to know
Exactly what they mean. They have
,een greeted with enthusiasm by
Germany and by all pro-Germans on
his side of the water, especially by
he Germanized Socialists and by the ,
3olshevists of every grade, and for
his reason good Americans should ,
egard them with suspicion"
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