The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
ROOSEVELT RAVES | IN SP|TEFUL SPEECH AGAINST WILSON
Declares Jest Circulates in Cloak Rooms of House, Hast in War, First To- ward Peace, Long
 May He Waver"

New York, October 2S.--Co1onel The
 odore Roosevelt, answering President Wilson's appeal for return of a demo-
 cratic majority in Congress, urged voters of the nation, in an address here tonight, to transfer control to republican leadership. Such an out
 come of the election, he declared, would assure ''our allies that America is determined to speed up the war and insist on unconditional surrender oi the enemy and would serve notice on Germany and her vassal states" that they would have to deal henceforth with the resolute and straightfor- ward soul of the American people and not merely with the obscure purposes
 and wavering will of Mir Wilson" Declaring that half the leaders Of the Presidents own party opposed him when he had committed himself to war measures MT Roosevelt asserted that heads of the republican organi- zation in Congress supported the aG- ministration when a declaration of war was needed when there was a de- mand for the draft. when the army was sent overseas and when money was required by taxation or by loans. The former President spoke at a meeting under the auspices of the re- publican club at Carnegie hall to ad vocate the election "of the republic
 an state ticket here in New York and of the congressional ticket through out the union"
 Rebuking what he called the ser witty of democratic leadership, the colonel said it was small wonder that ! in the cloak rooms of the House the bitter jest circulates: Here's to our
 Czar. last in war. first toward peace, ! long may he waver."
 WHOLE COURSE CRITICIZED MT. Roosevelt criticized the general course of the administration through out the war, declaring:
 "If Mr Wilson had really meant to disregard politics he would at oncg have constructed a coalition nonpar- tisan cabinet, calling the best men of the nation to the highest and most l important offices under him. without | regard to politics. He did nothing of | the kind. In the positions most vital 1 to the conduct of the war, and in the | positions now most important in con nection with negotiating peace, he ob- | tained appointed men without the slightest fitness for the performance l of the tasks. whose sole recommenda- | tions was eagerness to serve MT Wilson personally and to serve MT Wilson's party insofar as such service benefited Mir. Wilson,
 Contrasting the Presidents appeal with Lincoln's outright refusal" even | in the darkest days of the civil war | to apply any party test to fitness for l office. the colonel said that Lincoln | appealed to all loyal men of all par 1 ties and asked that candidates for Congress be judged. not by the stand ard of adherence to his personal ad- | ministration but by their uncondition- al support of the war"
 l Election of republican Congress- the colonel continued, would be under stood abroad as meaning that the pro- 1 Germans and pacifsts and bolshevists and Germanized socialists could no | longer be counted upon as efficient and l tortuous tools. that the fighting men and not the rhetoricians were upper
 most.
 | MT. Roosevelt interpreted the Presi- dents reference to the "anti-administra tion" attitude or republican members of Congress as based on their demand | that inefficiency, waste and extrava-
 gance be remedied" in the war conduct. | ing departments
 | AMERICAN CONGRESS NEEDED | The former President asserted that
 what We need is an American Congress,
 a Cogress of straightout Americans
 and not Congress of rubber stamps. "We republicans pledge ourselves to 1 SlaHu Dy lHe fTeSluenI so long as ne stands by the American people and to
 part company from him at any point | where in our judgment he doees not stand by the people, he said. This | is the peoples government, this is the
 peoples war and the peace that follows
 shall be the peoples peace"
 l Quoting press dispatch to the effect | that republican senators, such as Me- | Cumber, Nelson and Lodge are as | h1Nr uh of ix, are the American generals" Colonel 1 Roosevelt declared; that mine times out l of ten this administration has never led the people, has been reluctantly
 forced forward into actions under crit
 icisms to which it has violently ob-
 jected, and to which it sullenly and
 sometimes maliciously sought to pun | ish the men who by their truth telling 1 have forced it into action"
 Tn a word the colonel said the democratic party. under the lead of , the administration, has carried parti-
 san politics during the last IS months
 to an extreme never before known in
 this country in time of war. as among
 local upholders of the war" it has come dangerously near creating condition of one-partyism.
 1 The test insisted upon has been not
 loyalty to our allies and hostility to | Germany, but adherence to the ad- lministration," he declared, adding that
 President Wilson's request of October
 IA. that citizens should subscribe to
 the loan but "leate to the governmen,
 of the United States and of the allies
 the momentous discussions initiated by
 Germany" could be interpreted as
 meaning that they should both put UT
 and shut up."
 l WANTS SURRENDER
 1 Colonel Roosevelt asserted that If the l administration had used with moderate efficiency the results of lavish generosity | of Congress. our armies and the allied | armies would have been doing last Marci what they are actually doing now in Oc,
 tober. After asserting that this war must be put through ito our last man and our last dollar the coloned de-
 clared that we should accept no peace , not based on the unconditional surrender of Germany and her vassal states, l He asserted that the Presidents latest notes had placed him in such a position | that he had either to sacrifice Americs and humanity or to respond in such z manner as to stultify his own diplomacy
 and repudiate his own implied offer l Tt was not a pleasant thing for Amer ] ica that he should have put himself anc l the nation behind him in the position o inviting a proposition which. when ac
 cepted, he repudiated," declared the colo U