South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-07
THE REFORMATION OF THEODORE.

In the other editors column today is an editorial
the Milwaukee Sentinel republican, that would
seem indicate the shame that party for
Col T. Roosevelt, the of presuming that
ne is redeeming himself. We have read
the coloners Milwaukee speech, IT, Indicated.
toned his "copperheadsm," it speaks
we'll We fear, that the wish of the Sentinel
may father Of the thought" that is unless
speaking in pro-German Milwaukee. the colonel may
have had some object.
The OF the Sentinel evertheless voices a
popular idea with reference 10 what the Oyster Bay
has been saying generally, and what he has been
saying since-outside of Milwaukee. He is for
War Savings stamps. YES; and Liberty loan yes;
and for the Red Cross is for everything having
with yes everything except the national
administrator which did in his estimate and
DO anything right If col Roosevelt by
IN Milwaukee without denouncing everything that the
administration has done-even back the invasion
Of Begium.-and everything that the administra-
tion vet he spoke very differently there than
he has before since that time
Perhaps The colonel remembered that it was in
Milwaukee IN i912 that a crazy crank attempted to
assassinate him, and with bullet body, he
made a speech there that night "mollycoddng" the
Germans queens taste quest Of their All
but then he did regard it an essential the
way which worships his God where
ne was born" and he pated them strongly on the
back. telling them OF the which Jacob Ris
Germany" had been his strongest supports and most
helpful allies police commissioner OF New York
He almost screamed with Joy mentioning Henry
Cochems the Milwaukee German leader and how his
grandfather. fathers brothers fought
rebellion He cautioned Milwaukee in 1912 while plug
yng vote. -repudiate enemy We can
have whoever tries 10 get discriminate for or
against any man because Of his creed or his birth
place"
That was Candidate Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912.
campaigning for the once which Prest Wilson got and
his head Il contrasts indeed rather con-
all. with hat he chose to a Berlin
newspaper in his speech Detroit. railing at the
president for having made Newton D. Baker. alleged
proGerman pacis his secretary war. Job that the
colonel wanted This what he Detroit that the
German newspaper. published in Berlin said still
seeming perfectly willing credit h. because it came
from Germany. indisputable truth
Up 10 entering the Baker friendly
TO the Germans. spoke German. read GER
man newspapers. dled vacant places with
Germans daily a German cafe and UNI
yelled many monuments to Schiller. Goethe
and Richard Wagner. Newty made his last
speech MAJOR. so COMMANDMENT Iiv-
ing in Berlin tells at the bier OF a
journalist the telegraph editor Of the Cleve-
land Tageszetung who had died suddenly In
that speech Baker could NOT find words enough
in acknowledgment Of the way in which the
German newspaper men presented the OBJ
jective truth Of the happenings in Europe TO
their own countymeu and 20 the general puo-
lie. Moreover. Newly confessed that he hated
var ana everythms military with his whole
heart"
We wonder why the colonel did read This extract
from the Berlin paper Ia Milwaukee he know that
me word had ahead confront him with his