The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-21

IS CALLED
DISL OVAL
BY SENATOR
Stone Calls Former President
Most Potent Agent the
Kaiser Has In America
ALSO NAMED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.--Character.
| izing former President Roosevelt as
'the most potent agent the kaiser has
in America and ''the most seditious
man OF consequence in America" SEN
ator Stone, addressing the senate to-
day, charged that Republican leaders
are engaged in a studied effort to
make politics out of the war. Their
object is to take the government
over into their own hands," by par
tisan criticism of the conduct of the
war, he declared.
Senator Stones address, carefully
prepared, the first of political signific-
ance made in congress since the Unit
ed States entered the war. and regard.
ed as the forerunner of bitter par
tisan strife, excoriated partisanship
in the war Besides Col Roosevelt,
the Missouri senator named Chair
man Wilcox Of the Republican nation
al committee, and Senator Penrose,
amonog Republican leaders as his
witnesses to the political plot he al.
legged.
Investigations by congress Of war
operations, Senator Stone also de-
clared, have almost entirely been
launched by Republicans and adroitly
exploited for partisan purposes.
He Works for Money.
Citing statements of the Republican
leaders regarding the political plans
which, he said are "villianous creeds"
published for money, Senator Stone
declared:
''On my responsibility as a senator
I charge that since our entrance into
the war Roosevelt, by his alta ks 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 the present government and
bring it 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 pros
ecution for disloyalty.
"Of all men," the Missouri Senator
continued, Roosevelt is most respon-
sible for what he den ounces. He does
his work cunningly. In the front Of
his propaganda he throws a decep-
tive political camounage. charge
that Theodore Roosevelt whether will
ingly or out of sheer madness--I do
not knows the most potent agent
the kaiser has in America. can
not escape the belief that this excep-
tional colonel, who has played so many
games of questionable politics, is now
playing another game of his particu-
lar brand for very great stake"
The Republican plans he cited, Sen
ator Stone said, have been "adroitly
directed"
Investigations Significant.
MANY, if not all Republican sena-
tors" he asserted, "are acting in man
ifest concert, with dominant Republi-
can leaders 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 that congressional inyesti-
cations Of the war proposed by the |
were significant.
Calling attention to the election |
next fall to Of the entire House mem. !
bership and many senator's, Mr.. Stone
said two years later the presidential !
election win follow
Here Is chance" he proceeded. |
''for the dominating Republicans of
the country-some Of them, perhaps
more than any one of them, seeking
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