The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-10-02
LA TOILETTE A HUN TO
ROOSEVELT.

With La Toilette leaders planning
to lay their candidates progressive"
ideas before the country in last, in
tensive campaign squirt, Democrats |
and Republicans here recall that |
seven years ago Wednesday Theodore
Roosevelt began his great drive
against La Toilette and other war
time pacifsts of the Northwest.
"The worst enemy of democracy
alive today" "the grand American
copperhead;" "the Hun within our
gates "the kaiser's best FRIEND" and
"the second Vallandigham," were
some of the epithets hurled by
Roosevelt at the man who now asks
the voters of the nation to send him
to the White House.
Roosevelt's address here was at a
luncheon to which about three hun
dred leading business men of the city
were invited. The luncheon was in
honor of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood,
then commandant at Camp Funston.
That night Roosevelt addressed
more than twenty thousand at Elec-
trio Park. In that address he con-
fined himself to why the United
States had entered the war and why
it was necessary for everyone to help
if the war was to be won.
"Now that l have spoken to you of
nd
representatives of America" he said,
81 desire for a moment to speak to
you of an American who represents
the worst of American characters
tics-Senator La Toilette. Senator
La Toilette is at this moment Loyalty
and efficiently serving one country
Germany. He is acting in such fash
ion as to make him one of the most
potent enemies of this country and
the most sinister enemy of democracy.
He says, and it is the emptiest of all
emptv claims, he stands for democ-
racy. He is doing everything in his
power to enthrone autocracy under
the German flag throughout the
world by the attitude he is taking
toward the war. He is showing him.
self the worst enemy that democracy
now has alive"
Declaring that any organization
which invited La Toilette to address
it in the future should be forced to
show why it was a patriotic body
Roosevelt denounced La Follette's de-
tense of the Lusitania sinking anc
said:
"This murder now is being con
doned by an American senator. My
friends, l do not know what otficla
or legal action can be taken to throw
a man out of the United State:
senate, but if l were a United State:
senator l should be ashamed to 81
in the senate, if Senator La Toilette
were permitted to remain, until
had made every effort to find out /
there were not some method of cast
ing him out of the highest Legislative
chair of America"
Roosevelt went from Kansas Cit,
to Chicago, where, the night of Sep
TENDER 26, 1917, he spoke to NOR
than fifteen thousand persons i
Dexter pavilion in the stockyards dis
trict. He was given rousing recep
ton by the audience, about half o
which was foreign born, and ther
T q n
lette" psi.
1t was in his Chicago address tina
Roosevelt branded La Toilette as 9Th
Hun within our gates" and then h
went on:
Senator La Toilette is not ne7
type. Once we called such as h
"copperheads."
81 suppose it is impossible to sen
Senator La Toilette where he be
longs, but l wish we could make
gift of him to the kaiser. In tn
senate he is a shame and disgrac
to every self-respecting America
citizen"
In Racine, Wis, Roosevelt spOE
to an overflow meeting the night {
September %, 1917. His thrusts ;
La Toilette brought shouts of al
prevail from the natives of the sen;
tors home state.-Kansas City Sta