The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-01-22
STONE ATTACKS
G. .0.P.IN SENATE
Infidelity to Cause Of World
Democracy Alleged in
Address.
PENROSE LESS SERIOUS
Lodge Makes Caustic SuggcS-
tiOns in Midst Of Digni-
fled Reply.
PENROSE LESS SERIOUS
Specioi Despotck N TEE s

Specid' Despatch N TyE s.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.--Fartisanshp.
dormant since the declaration OF war
against Germany nearly ten months ago.
| famed into flame in tho Senate to-day,
Within the period tina. has elapsed
since President Wilson came to the
Capitol on an April evening and told
! Congress the hour had struck beyond
which America could maintain neutrality
| no longer. down to to-day. there have
been occasional outbursts Of partisan
spirit. There have been casual refer
ences, sarcastic animadversions and
| mild critic!ems To-day the viridiy ris-
! IDLE spirit Of intense par.isanshir stalked
| the Senate, and Senator stone tMo) led /,
i there and placed il first on exhibition,
AS result of Senator stones par }
! tisan speech the era OF non partisan
| cooperation in the legislative work Of
! war has ended. From now on II may
be confidently predicted Congressional
debates will subnerge the merits Of
| many Of the issues In the wild seas Of
!, partisan politics.
| Senator Stone delivered a speech which
for the last fortnight he has been threat
| ening to deliver. and which many OF
| the more moderate Of his party asso-
ciates have urged him to po~pone. In
! II he attacked members of the Repub-
,ican party. harRing them with inf'delity
TO the cause of world democracy and re-
peatedly suggesting that such leaders Ok
| the opposition as Col Roosevelt aud Sen
| ator Penrose were through criticisms Of
the war making machinery OF the Wilson
Administration and direct and indirect
attack on certain of the individuals
| whom Mr.. Wilson has advanced to high
public trusts hindering the Government
In the war.
Senator Stone denounced Col. ROosc-
welt as 'thc most potent agent OF the
Kaiser among the many sharply critical
references to the Republican leaders who
have not hesitated 10 condenl what they
believe are deficiencies IN the Admins
tration's war work and the men who are
working out the war plans OF the Admin
istration.
l.odRe Replies to stone.
In reply TO Senator stone Senator
} Lodge tMassachusetts) made the first
, response for the Republicans. The senior
Republican member of Senator stones
, own committee the Foreign Relations,
, disclaimed the assertion that partisan-
ship rather than unadulterated Amer!-
csnsm had been the guiding thought in
Republican minds.
/. His speecn was attended with even
z greater ard more rapt attention by the
Senate and the galleries than was that
I of Senator Stone. II lasted fewer than
II twenty minutes, while Senator Stone had
a berated the Republicans and every Ad-
r ministration critic for almost two hours
!. Senator Lodge was followed by Senator
Y Penrosc tPennsylvania). who gave way
. | in turn to Senator Lewis tIllinois). who
n resumed with a defence Of the Admins.
:, tration where Senator Stone had left on
n ...ih ha aUainsf the O1innritv
= Officials of the Administration made
Il plain to-day they did not stand spon-
@ sor for Senator stones outburst. Pres
9 ident Wilson. It is understood. is par
= ticularly anxious not to bring partisan
politics into the nations war problem.
= This view is shared by responsible off,
:, cials in all departments of the Execu-
" tive branch OF the Government, In
White House circles II was plainly in.l-
mated Senator stone had long ceased 10
;. be in accord with the Presidents vicws
!, and is regarded as persona non srata
' at the White House.
Senator stones protractcd speech had
-" been we'll advertised. Since last
= Thursday copies of the attack on Col
Roosevelt have been in the hands OF
'e many men about the Capitol. but held In
"a extreme confidence, according to Sena'
y tor stones friends.
l. The galleries were packed to an ex
tent SeIuON dIIbWeu. Meu anu NSuleI
- were permitted to occupy aisle spaces
n ordinarily kept scrupulously clear. The
u Missouri leader began his speech with
the assertion that he made the charge:
'r which II contained OH his own responsi
'e billty as a Senator This was true o.
le his direct attack on Col. Roosevelt
whose recent utteranccs he condemned
s. and whose editorials In the Kansas CIT,
'e Star, reproduced In other Journal
n throughout the country. he designated
"villainous screeds.''
y cites Republican Leaders.
lie cited statement. OF Republics
leaders as tending to disclose an actua
plot to make party capital out Of al
legged Incompetence and inefficisncy i
positions Of authority. and he de
| nounced the season OF Investigations O
the various departments and bureaus 0
Government lately as II partisan con
y splracy.
! ION my responsibility az Il Senator
| charge that since our entrance into tn
! war Col. Roosevelt by his attacks o.
, | the Government, has been Il menace an
obstruction to the successful prosecute
Of the war;" said Senator Stone
THE only possible effect of thes
widely published utterances of this ma
I | has bee,i, as they were designed to b,
/. to discredit and bring the present Go,
Q | ernrnent into public disfavOr and weake
its hold on popular confidence. Ths
!. seems to be tho Rooseveltian standar
. Of patriotism"
Similar utterances made by less POW
b | erfui citizens. Senator stone ASSERTED
I would subject them 70 prosecution Il
Q dislo attn
J. "oe all men," said the Missouri Sc,
ator, "T.oosevelt Is most Responsible Il
what he denounces He docs his wor
cunnlnsly. In the front of his prop.
. ganda he throws deceptive politic
n camouhage. I charge that Theodo
i Roosevelt is the most potent and will
s friend OF the Kaiser IN America, 7 ca'
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