New Britain herald., 1918-01-21
'. K. KAISER'S MOST POTENT
 AGENT IN U. S., STONE SAYS
Missouri Senator Charges Republican Party With Political Activity Under Guise of Patriotism.
c. Q. F. ENCOURAGES
 CRITICISM OF WAR

President Would Have Hell of a
 Time, He Says, If Republicans &c., ~ Shafts Aimed at Boise Pemose and
 Chairman Wilcox-'0Teddy'' Is Star
 Witness"
 Washington, Jan. 21.--Character- izing former President Roosevelt as the most potent and willing friend of the kaiser and "the most Seditious man of consequence in America" Senator Stone, addressing the senate today, charged that republican lead CTS arc engaged in a studied effort to make politics out of the war. Their object is to take the govern ment over into their own hands, by partisan criticism of the conduct of the war; he declared
 Senator Stones address, carefully prepared, the first of political sgni- ficance made in congress since the country entered the war and regard ed as the forerunner of bitter par tisan strife, condemned partisanship in the war. Besides Col. Roosevelt the senator named Chairman Wilcox of the republican national committee and Senator Penrose among repub- ican leaders as his witnesses
 Citing statements of the republi- c5hl leaders regarding the political plans and editorials of Col. Roose- welt, which, he said, are "villianous IoIi tor Stone declared:
 'On my responsibility as 0 sena- tor I charge that since our entrance into the war, Roosevelt, by his at tacks on the government has been menace and obstruction to the suc- cSssful prosecution of the war.
 The "'RooseveItian Standard''
 ''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 and bring the present govern ment into public disfavor and weaken it's hold on popular confidence. That seems to be the RooseveItian stan- dard of patriotism"
 Similar utterances made by less powerful citizens, the senator as serted would subject them to prose- cution for disloyalty.
 "Of all men," the Missouri senator said Roosevelt is most responsible for what he denounces. He does his work cunningly. Tn the front of his propaganda he throws a deceptive political camouf1age. I charge that Theodore Roosevelt is the most potent and willing friend of the Kaiser in America. I cannot escape the belief that this exceptional colonel, who has played so many games of questionable politics. is now playing another game of his partcular brand for a very great stake.'
 The republican plans he cited Senator Stone said, have been adroitly directed.
 Many, if not all, republicans sena- tors" he asserted, fare acting in manifest concert with dominant re- publicans throughout the country to make politics out of the war; < As proof of republican partisan plans, Senator Stone declared that there is no need "to try to fool each other or to fool the country" He said the congressional Investigations of the war proposed by republicans were significant.
 Calling attention to the elections next fall of the entire house and 2 many senators, he said two years later the presidential election would follow.
 Here is a chance" he proceeded, for the dominating republicans of the country-some of them, perhaps more than one of them seeking to promote his immediate personal cr1O o+Io n larger scale, to promote a party ad- vantage-to strike hard to turn down this administration and take the gov 'crnment into their own hands. That fight is on. It is being played before our very eyes
 c. O. P. Allied With NIalcontents ''There are various elements of dis content in the country. Their poten- tiality as political equations is recog- nized by all. The natural disposition of these discontented elements will be to strike blindly at the party in pow CT Therefore, in a way. republicans ally themselves with these discordant elements of unrest.
 But ] especially protest against and denounce the effort put forward under the guise of patriotism to dis parage this congress and the present 2 administration, to excite a wider feel Rng of discontent and lack of conf- dence and to spread the poison of thie impression broadcast. Plainly this sort of movement is afoot''
 As proof Of his charges which, Sen ator Stone said, he presented, "delib- erately and respectfully" the repub- licans are "harping" on alleged ad- ministratiVe blunders and stakine their political fortunes upon their crit icisms
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