Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-05
ROOSEVELT PUTS ANOTHER WORD IN
 POLITICAL BATTLE:
Democrat Nominee Says Old Fashioned "Trimming"
 is Administered
ASSAILS BORAH STAND
 OF MARION CANDIDATE
Declares Harding Driven Into Corner by Mixing With Hiram $ Cohorts in the
 League Issue

St. Louis, Oct. l. Speaking befor, large audience in the First Regi ment armory here tonight, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic vice -presi dential nominee, charged Republican party managers with having mapped out and conducted a campaign ot trimming the American people"
 "American voters,' he said, "hat, a man who says one thing and doe. another, but they hate something worse than that a man who says one thing one day and does another the next. There is good old wore that has not yet been used in thi! campaign the word trimmer Be fore November 2nd, the voting pub lie is going to know who that woro [ fits and they will vote against al that it implies"
 i Calling attention to statement by Senator Harding in the morning pa pers approving "what Senator Boral 1 has said in his public addresses" MT Roosevelt declared:
 Harding in Corner.
 of the English language mean! anything at all, it means that Sena tor Harding is at last being driver i into a corner-it means that the Am erican public have received from hin direct approval of Senator Borah' opposition to our going into leagu' of nations, not merely the league but "a league"
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 "Governor Cox and myself favo going in,' he added "and we ar wholly willing that it be made clea to every American that nothing il our going in shall take away in tn slightest degree, our existing right under the American constitution in cluding the right of the congress O the United States to declare war 0 send our troops overseas"
 MT. Roosevelt accompanied b. Breckinridge Long, Democratic can didate for United States senator, ad dressed a large open-air gathering q Cape Girardeau this afternoon am also made rear platform talks a Menfro, St. Genevieve and Crysta City. Informed that many persons in his audiences were of central Flu ropean descent, he dwelt at lengtl on the way that the league would af feet them and predicted that "th republic of Germany will soon be member of the league, and the Ger man people will then take their plac in this great association of civilized nations. MT. Roosevelt was met up on his arrival here tonight by Davit R. Francis, American ambassador t Russia, and Governor, Frederick D Gardner of Missouri.
 "The difficulty which Will Hay encountered more than a year ago, he said in address here tonight, was that of reconciling irreconcilabl' differences" He did this by attempt ing to divert attention from thos' differences and this could only b. done by creating false issues.
 Used Trimming Language.
 "At Chicago by use of trimming language, a platform was devised b! 'trimmers' which a Hottentot or al Esquimaux could equally swallow. | meant everything and it meant noth ing.
 "The straw that broke he back O. the patient public was the admission in Baltimore by the Republican can didate for president that he had nc specific constructive program on for eign affairs. To have had program of defniteness would have spoiled the whole theory of keeping the dis cordant clements together.
 "That kind of trimming was bound to be seen through by the reading and the thinking public. They have realized that in foreign affairs thu Republicans are against the league because it was organized when Democrat was president. They req lize that in domestic affairs the cam paign of the Will Hays organization is merely destructive, that it is based on hate of anything accomplished fo1 the nation by any Democrat so the! have trimmed and criticized ant slandered, but it will not be fo long. In four weeks this nation vii decide to keep on going forward, t. rebuke trimmers and to sustain mel with clear and definite opinions leaders who are not afraid"