Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-23
SAYS ROOSEVELT
PLAYS POLITICS
Gov. Glynn Exposes the
Colone | s Self evident
Aims and Upholds Presi
dents Right to Run War.

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 organi.
cation. OF the Colonel himself, Gov.
ernor Glynn says:
1T is lamentable, though true
that Theodore Roosevelt is playing
politics with the war. And he il
not playing his part with his usual
cleverness. At every turn he ex-
poses the cloven hoof His hatred OF
President Wilson dulls his usual
brillancy. No matter what the ad.
ministration does, with Roosevelt IL
is wrong. If he continues his role
he will soon become duplicate of the
scolding shrew who made Mrs
! Caudle's Curtain Lectures famous
years ago. OF course Mr.. Roosevelt
aims to kill off President Wilson and
make himself heir-apparent to the
Presidency. Before he gets through
Mr. Roosevelt will be sorry he ever
started his propaganda.
Since war was declared there has
been no real political division of
people. All unselfish patriots laid
aside their party prejudices and made
united stand in support of President
/ Wilson. This country presented
practically a Solid front to the auto
cratic enemy of emocracy-until
the vituperative political pen of Mr..
! Roosevelt broke the spell. Some say
! Senator Stone broke this magic
spell by his speech against Roosevelt.
But this is not true. Senator Stone
simply gave Mr. Roosevelt a dose of
his own medicine--a dose of the bit
ter draught and nauseating concoc-
ton which Mr. Roosevelt had been
feeding the nation for months thru
the columns of tn Kansas City Star
and the Metropolitan magazine. =
The aim of Mr.. Roosevelt is pal
pable and disgustingly self-evident
BY hook Or crook he wants to carry
the House of Representatives for the
Republican party in the next cleo
tion--and in the melee he proposes
to be the beater of the big brass drum
so that he can make himself the most
conspicuous candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for President
against Mr., Wilson. This is what
Mr. Roosevelt proposes the nation
will dispose otherwise. +"
Commenting upon the efforts to
strip the President of his Constitu-
tional powers and further burden
him with the so-called War Cabinet,
Governor Glynn writes:
so impressed were they (the fra
mers of the Constitution with the
feeling that one man must run a war
that they provided that the President
of the United States should be the
COMMUNICATIVE chief of the army and
the navy and let 1t 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 provid-
ing 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.
"Cletarly the intent of the makers
of the Constitution with the expert
ence of eight years of war fresh in
their minds, was that Congress should
provide for the army, make laws for
its government and that the conduct
of the war should be in the hands of
the commander-in-ch and should
be carried out by himself and by
means of machinery in the hands of
men selected by him.
THAT was the view entertained by
| Washington in regard to the Indian
war and our trouble with France
1t was the view of President Madison
| in 1912, of President Polk In 1916, of
President Lincoln during the Civil
war, and it's the view of President
Wilson and of the people of the
| United States today.
"The Chamberlain bill proposes a
reversal of that successful plan and
the trying of an experiment at time
when experiments are unnecessary
and dangerous. 1t proposes the
scrapping of machinery constructed
at great expense of time and money
and substituting for it untried mech
nism built on lines that have never
been know to produce the best re-
suits.
Pursuing the argument further
Governor Glynn says:
War is a one man job. Whether
it be waged by democracy or by an