The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-22
I. R. IS PLAYING. POLITICS WITH WAR SAYS CLYNN Former Governor of New York Reviews Actions of the
 Colonel. IS NOT DISPLAYING
 USUAL CLEVERNESS Hatred of President Wilson DulIs His BrilliancY GIynn
 Says In Paper.

d his paper, the Albany, N. Y, Times Union, Martin H. Glynn, former gov ernor of New York and one of the most brilliant journalists of the East, | reviews the attempts of Colonel | Roosevelt and his followers to under mine the governments war organiza- ton. Of the colonel himself, Cover nor Glynn says:
 'It is lamentable, though true, that Theodore Roosevelt is playing politics with the war. And he is not playing his part with his usual cleverness. At every turn he exposes the cloven hoof. His hatred of President Will son dulls his usual brilliancy. Nol matter what the administration does, with Roosevelt it is wrong. If he continues his role he will soon be- come a duplicate of the scolding shrew who made Mrs CaudIe's Cur tain Lectures famous years ago. Of course, MT. Roosevelt aims to kill off President Wilson and make himself heir-apparent to the Presidency. Be- fore he gets through MT. Roosevelt will be sorry he ever started this pro- paganda-
 Since the war was declared there has been no real political division ot people. All unselfish patriots laid aside their party prejudices and made a united stand in support of President Wilson. This country presented prac- tical1y solid front to the autocratic enemy of democracy-un the vitu- perative political pen of MT. Roose- welt broke the spell. Some say Sen ator Stone broke this magic spell by his speech against Roosevelt. But this is not true Senator Stone simp- ly gave MT Roosevelt a dose of his own medfcine-a dose of the bitter draught and nauseating concoction which MT. Roosevelt had been feeding the nation for months through the columns of the Kansas City Star and the Metropolitan magazine.
 ''The aim of MT. Roosevelt is palpa- ble and disgustingly self-evident By hook or crook he wants to carry the House of Representatives for the Re- publican party in the next election and in the melee he proposes to be the beater of the big bass drum so that he can make himself the most conspicuous candidate for the Re- publican nomination for President against MT. Wilson. This is what Mir Roosevelt proposes; the nation will dispose otherwise
 Commenting upon the efforts to strip the President of his Constitu- tiona1 powers and further burden him with the so-called War Cabinet, Gov. Glynn writes:
 ''So impressed were they Che fram- CTS of the Constitution with the feel ing that one man must run a war that they provided that the President of the United States should be the chief of the army and the navy and let it go at that so far as providing for conducting a war was concerned.
 ''The Constitution made. it the right of Congress to declare war and charged it with the duty of providing money and making, such laws as might be found necessary for raising and supplying armies, regulating the land and naval forces and for calling out and training the militia
 "Cearly the intent of the makers of the Constitution, with the experience of eight years of war fresh in their minds was that Congress should pro- vide for the army, make laws for its government and that the conduct of the war should be in the hands of the commander and should be carried out by himself and by means of machinery in the hands by men selected by him.
 'HThat was the view entertained by Washington in regard to the Indian war and our trouble with France. It was the view of President Madison in 1872, of President Folk in 1846, of President Lincoln during the Civil war, and it's the view of President Wilson and of the people of the United States today.
 e9T1he Chamberlain bill purposes reversal of that successful plan and the trying of an experiment at time when experiments are unnecessary and dangerous. It proposes the scrap ping of machinery constructed at great expense of time and money and substituting for it untried mechanism built on lines that have never been known to produce the best results
 Pursuing this argument further Governor Glynn says;
 sWar is a one man job. Whether it be waged by a democracy or by an autocracy the power must be lodged mainly in one man. Washington was enthusiastically unfairly, remorse- ly criticised, So was Lincoln and so is. and will be, President Wilson. In the multiplicity of the duties loaded on one man much must be trusted to subordinates and the one man carry ing the burden will not always be ahle to assure himself of the aid of | the right man or the best man for the work. This is unavoidably the case. Tn the natural working of human ac- tiyities if couldn't be otherwise. No matter how faithful the subordinates he ar even how able, sometimes un- fitness ar want of adaptability to the snecia1 task imposed will irritate the public and impose what seems to be ] unnecessary burdens and uncalled for hardshins This cannot be avoided entirely no matter what the effort be. And inc intelligent public understand II ing the burdens and the intricacies do not expect it to pc aVolded. On the contrary the people are prepared to carry their shares or the troubles. They will cheerfully meet all necessary sacrifices in aiding the Presldent 10 win the war. They will even stand their full share or unnecessary sacrl- fces brt +hev are reasonable in ask | ing that the unnecessary sacrifices be made as few and hght as possible. In this there is no difference between the desires of the people and the earnest