New-York tribune., 1919-05-30
Republicans Have "Revert.
ed TO Type Asserts F. d.
Roosevelt at Banquet of
the National Committee
Mud Singing Expected
Administration Is to Seek
Victory in 1920 ON Its
Record in World War

opect0t correspondence
CHICAGO, May 29.-stinging criti-
c'sm of the new Republican Congress
by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, and general
enhlading of Republican leaders and
the party by other speakers nearly
overshadowed the keynote speech of
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
at the Democratic National Commit
tees banquet at the Congress Hotel
tonight
Mr. Roosevelt, who wrote his speech
after reaching Chicago yesterday. and
who was supposed to be talking with
authority for ct least section of the
administration, lanbasted Republican
congressional leaders, mentioning
them by name. He painted them as a
d1scredIted, reactionary aggregation of
standpatters from whom the country
could expect no wise and benefcent
legislation.
Has "Reverted to Type"
"The new Republican Congress-" he
said, has only commenced its work.
but on matters of internal policy it
has reverted to type 1t is deeply
concerned over the restoration of the
old form of preferential tariff for pet
groups of manufacturers 1t will sur
pass itself in noisy adulaton Of and
trucking to the returned soldiers and
then do little
1T Will revise the income tax so as
to tighten the burden of those un-
fortunate individuals who have in
comes of S1,000,00O year or more.
and it viii spend the rest Of it's time
IN attempting to discredit every ac.
OF every Democrat who has done things
during the past six years
1T Will make record of mud sling
ing, Of slandcr, OF misrepre escntation.
OF destructive and not constructive
criticism. 1t will do anything and
everything with the sole noble and
patriotic purpose of winning the presi-
dency next year
Lodge Policy Vacillates
This, too, is the obvious objective
OF the foreign policy Of the Republ-
can party. | asked a prominent mem
Der OF that party. who happens to be
an intimate friend of mine. what Is
the purpose OF policy of Senator Lodge
as chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee. He said:
THAT changes from day to dav.
When Mr.. Lodge reads the morninp
paper att his breakfast table and seas
What the President has said or done.
ms policy FOR the next twenty four
hours becomes the dametrical on
posite
you could not get any Republican
senators to agree on a definite foreign
poilcy along constructive lines, but Won
can get a majority to oppose anything
put forward by the President of the
United states To the treaty Of peace
and the proposed league of nations tho
Republican Senate bear sthe same re,a-
ton that the amateur strateris+s
around the stove in a village store
bear to the officers and men Of our
armies lghting at the front.
lcse Sight Of Ideals
They would lose sight of the great
Ideals for which we have fought this
war They would have this nation re-
turn with only half it's work accom-
pllshed. They would fail to give anv
assurance that a repetition Of this great
world convulsion may not come again.
so We are approaching the campaign
OF 1920, approaching it with the broad
principles settled in advance; conserva
ti3m, special privilege, partisanship, de-
structlon, on the one hand; liberalism
common sense idealism, constructive-
ness, on the other.
"The alleged effort of Borah and
seven other Senators to keep Senator's
Penrosc and Warren from important
chairmanship and the so-called revolt
against the Mann forces in the House
these were the dying spasms of the
liberal spirit within the Republican
frame
Mr. Roosevelt anticipated in his
speech general investigating pro-
Sramme on the part of the present
Congress. He said it probably would
find flaws, but he added, most of the
dollar-a-ycar men were Republicans.
anyway.
Republicans Color" News
He mildly assailed the press of the
declaring that "a large ma
lorty of the Very rich men of the ma
tion are Republicans, and it follows
that most of the great newspapers and
are owned by Republicans
and give a Republican color to the
news of national political character"
He predicted that within year there
would be a smash-up IN both old par
ties, with all the conservatives of both
parties banding themselves together in
The Repu blican party and all the pro
rressive spirits of both parties uniting
With the present Democratic leadership
lnder the Democratic party label as
he liberal party of the United States.
Attorney General Palmer, in his ad-
1ress, ocered general defence for the
record and declared
hat, on its record. it was entitled to
write the political history of the
United States for the next decade at
east
The hard won victory of American
arms will prove but hollow and un-
svaillng triumph" he said "if we do
lot make certain that out of it shall {
become a greater liberty, better .
America, and a surer peace To these i
'nds the Democratic party proposes to t
'orsecrate itself" i
Old SANDERS Refuted
The. Attorney General felictated the
Democratic party on the record of the /. !.
Wilson Administration in as much. he
aid as this record had rofuted all the ,
'ld ISLANDERS against the party by the