The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
ROOSEVELT REPLIES ID HAYS SPEECH ON
 RE-ENTER|NG MAINE
Gives Republicans Credit for As Great Loyalty and De- votion to Country As
 Democrats
By Associated Press

Bangor, Me, September 1O.-Charg1ng g that the republicans were trying to make it appear that democrats were not good Americans and preferred an international flag to the Stars and Stripes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, democratic candidate for vice president, replied here tonight to asser- tions of Will Fl. Hays, republican national chairman, in his Augusta, Me, speech last month.
 Referring to the text of MT. Hays Ad- dress, which was entitled, Under Which Flag" Mir. Roosevelt said the republican chairman had offered deliberate insult to many millions, probably the majority of our citizens, and he was su,sry not only of bad taste but of poor political Judgment"
 The overwhelming majority of voters, he said, are in every way loyal and will resent any attempt by one group of lead- ,ers to take out an exclusive patent" on our flag.
 ITO claim that one party doctrine is the only American one is to infer that those who belong to another party faith are un- American. That sort of campaigning ought not to be excused even in the heat lof an election.'
 MT Roosevelt declared he would be the first to insist that republicans rank and file, are just as sincerely proud of our lcountry and our flag as dem ocrats are. ."Mr. Hays and his party differed, how ever" he said, "in the big conception Of the great purpose for which our flag is the symbol.
 .The same gentleman has used with in- accurate, but delibeAate carelessness, the word internationalism. With evident de- sign he has sought to convey the impress sion that people who believe in the League of Nations are ipternationalists' in the sense used by certain radical groups who do not believe in nations at all, or who seek a super-government in place of true national governments. For political pur- noses he would reason that one who seeks international peace and international ri iagreements and international justice IS thereby an international red
 ''The whole falsty of this position IS shown by asking the simple questfon of whether the thirty-seven nations Who - have already joined the League of Nations have given up their own sovereignty, their own constitutional rights their owr flags Even Switzerland, most Jealous of independence and wary of alliances has voted by popular referendum to Joil the league. a
 CT ,ong before 1914 American statesmen advocated League of Nations some, like President Taft, favored one tnA' frankly called itself League to Enforce Peace. Yet he was not called traitor or follower of internationalism.
 ''We had seen the failure of The Hague tribunal to prevent wars. We had seen indeed, an increase in wars and in the preparations for wars. The other nations were well aware that the American flae carried a new message of hope, that i, represented a great people opposed to az gression and willing to change the exist' ing conditions of mistrust and competf tive armament.
 ..rrhe great war came and America al last became a party to the struggle. Bu' we did not join forces for the mere sake of crushing the Kaiser on the field o1 battle. It was not alone kaserism or th' central powers themselves that we were fighting. We fought for something con structive, in addition to the fight againS, 7. something destructive. Men and women of all parties united in demanding in 19li that the evil in the previous relation ship between nations should be in the fu- ture removed. Mere good will would not remove the danger, mere international courts had been proved a failure A def nite, business-like concrete association was demanded, something that would pre- [ vent the causes of trouble and not wait until trouble itself had come to a head
 Tn all of this the nation was united I With this spirit and purpose, our flag was carried across the seas by the splen- did men of our army and navy. The peo- pies of Europe, too, understood the mes- sage. They welcomed the accession o1 military strength; they knew that the allies would win in the end, but they saw in the American flag the first sign oi , hope for their children and grandchil. dren.
 When the war ended the promise ot the American flag seemed to have come true. International law, the relations be.