The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-05
ROOSEVELT CHARGES
 REPUBLICANS WITH TRIMMING PUBLIC.
Says the Voters Hate a Man Who Says One Thing and
 Then Does Another

St. Louis, October Speaking before large audience in the First Regiment Armory here tonight Franklin D. Roose- welt, democratic Vice Presidential nom- inee. charged republican party managers with having mapped out and conducted a campaign of trimming the American peoplel'
 American voters he said, hate a man who says one thing and does an- other, but they hate something worse than that-a man who says one thing one day and does another the next There is good old word that has not been used in this campaign-the word trimmer Before November ?, the yot- ing public is going to know whom that word fits and they will vote against all that it implies
 Calling attention to statement by Senator Harding in the morning papers approving what Senator Borah has said in his public addresses" MT. Roosevef declared If the English language means anything at all, it means that Senator Harding is at last being driven into a corner-it means that the American pub lie have received from him direct ap- proval of Senator Borahs opposition to our going into a League of Nations, not merely the league, but a league.
 Governor Cox and myself favor gong in" he added, and we are whoiy~ will ing that it be made clear to every Amer. ioan that nothing of our going in shali take away in the slightest degree our existing rights under the American con- stitution, including the right of the Con gress to declare war or send our troops overscas."
 
 enridge Long, democratic candidate for United States senator, addressed large open air gathering at Cape Girardeau this afternoon and also made rear plat form talks at Menfro, Sainte Genevieve and Crystal City.
 Informed that many persons in his, audiences were of central European de- scent, he dwelt at length on the way that the league would affect them, and pre- 3 dicted that the republic of Germany / will soon be member Of the league.
 The difficulty which Will Hays en- countered more than year ago. he said in his address here tonight was that of reconciling irreconcilable differ ences He did this by attempting to divert attention from those differences and this could only be done by creating false issues, At Chicago, by the use of Trimming language, a platform was de- yised by 'trimmers' which a Hottenfot or an EquilnaI1z could equaly SWailoW. Y meant everything and it meant nothing.
 "The7straw that broke the patient back of tle public was the, admission in Bai- timore by the republican candidate for president that he Tad no specific con structive programme on foreign affairs"
 ITO have had programme of def influences would have spoiled the whole theory of keeping the discordant elements together.
 That kind of trimming was bound to be seen through by the reading and he thinking public. They have realized that in foreign affairs the republicans are against the league because it was or ganized under a democratic administra- ton. They realize that in domestic af- fairs the campaign of Will Hays organ izations is mostly destructive, that 1t is based on hate of anything accomplished for the nation by the democrats. So they have trimmed and criticized, but 1t will tliot for long. In four weeks this nation will decide to keep on going forward, to rehuke 'trimmers' and to sustain men with clear and definite opinions-lead- CTS who are not afraidr
 Mr Roosevelt left here late tonight J for Kansas City. He speaks in Lakv- renee, Kas.. in the morning and SalinA at night Rear platform speeches are scheduled for Manhattan and Junction City.