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Beautiful Georgette Waists, some beaded with touch
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Hand Embroidered Hose and Silk Underwear, Pure
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Senator Stone’s Speech
Denouncing Republicans
A resume of the speech of Senator
William Stone of Missouri delivered
in the senate on January 2, in which
he charged that Theodore Roosevelt
was “the most potent agent of the
kaiser in America,” has just been re
ceived here.
Senator Stone’s address, carefully
prepared, the first of political signifi
cance made in congress since the
United States entered the war, and
regarded as the forerunner of bitter
partisan strife, excoriated partisanship
in the war. Besides Colonel Roose
velt, the Missouri senator named
Chairman Wilcox of the Republican
National committee, and Senator Pen
rose among Republican leaders as his
“witnesses” to the political plot he
alleged. Investigations by congress
by war operations, Senator Stone also
declared, have almost entirely been
launched by Republicans and adroitly
exploited for partisan purposes.
Citing statements of the Republican
leaders regarding the political plans
and editorials of Colonel Roosevelt,
which, he said, are villainous screeds,”
published for money, Senator Stone
declared:
“On my responsibility as a senator
I charge that since our entrance into
the war Roosevelt, by his attacks on
the government has been a menace
and obstruction to the successful
prosecution of the war.
“The only possible effect of these
widely published utterances of this
man,” said Senator Stone, “has been
as they were designed to be, to dis
credit and bring the present govern
ment into public disfavor and weaken
its hold on popular confidence. That
seems to be the Rooseveltian standard
of patriotism.”
Similar utterances made by less
powerful citizens, Senator Stone as
serted, would subject them to prose
cution for disloyalty.
“Of all men,” the Missouri Senator
continued, “Roosevelt is most respons
ible for what he denounces. He does
his work cunningly. In the front of
his propaganda he throws a deceptive
political camouflage. I charge that
Theodore Roosevelt is the most po
tent agent of the kaiser in America.
I cannot escape the belief that this
exceptional colonel, who has played
so many games of questionable poli
tics, is now playing another game of
I his particular brand for a very great
stake.”
j The Republican plans he cited. Sen
ator Stone said, “have been adroitly
directed.”
“Many if not all, Republican sena
tors,” he asserted, “are acting in mani
fest concert with dominant Republi
can leaders throughout the country to
make politics out of the war.”
As proof of Republican partisan
plans, Senator Stone, declared that
there was no need “to try to fool each
other, or to fool the country” and de
clared that congressional investiga
tions of the war proposed by the Re
publicans were significant.
Calling attention to the elections
'next fall of the entire house member
ship and many senators, Mr. Stone
said two years later the presidential
election would follow.
“Here is the chance,” he proceeded,
“for the dominating Republicans of
i the country, some of them, perhaps,
[ more than one of them, seeking to
promote his immediate personal
, glorification, and others, acting on
a larger scale, to promote a
party advantage, to strike hard to turn
down this administration and take gov
ernment into their own hands. That
fight is on. It is being played before
our very eyes.
“There are various elements of dis
content in the country. Their poten
tiality as political equations is recog
nized by all. The natural disposition
of these discontented elements will be
to strike blindly at the party in power.
Therefore, in a way, the Republicans
ally themselves with these discordant
elements of unrest.
‘‘But I especially protest against and
denounce the efforts put forward under
the guise of patriotism to disparage
j this congress and the present adminis
I tration, to excite a wider feeling of
discontent and lack of confidence, and
to spread the poison of this impression
broadcast. Plainly, this sort of move
ment is afoot.”
As proof of this charge, which Sen
ator Stone said represented "deliber
ately and regretfully,'' the Republicans
are “harping” on alleged administra
tive blunders and staking their politi
cal fortunes upon th«tr criticism*.
“First I present the Hon. Boies Pen
rose,” Senator Stone continued, “who
as a great leader of the foremost Re
publican state very properly occupies
the front seat in the Republican na
tional Sanhedrin."
Citing alleged statements of Senator
Penrose that the Republican leaders
were planning to demand an account
ing of the conduct of the war, Senator
Stone said that Senator Penrose’s jus
tification for his partisan outburst was
over the appointment of a Democratic
groceryman in Pennsylvania and a
Democratic farmer in Indiana as fed
eral explosives inspectors.
“Senator Penrose,” he said, “seems
to have forgotten partisan appoint
ments by the governor of Pennsylvania
of Republicans on war committees.”
Of the Pennsylvania committee
members, Mr. Stone said 309 were Re
publicans and only fourteen Demo
crats.
Turning to Chairman Willcox of the
Republican national committee, the
Missouri senator said before he intro
duced his “star witness" he would
cite the statement made to the press
by Mr. Willcox regarding the incom
'petence of the Democratic party and
its effect on coming congressional elec
tions. He said a meeting of the Re
publican leaders had been called at
St. Louis on February 12 to inaugu
rate a winter campaign.
“Colonel Roosevelt has engaged a
hall in St. Louis to make a war speech
the day before the committee meet
ing,” Senator Stone continued. “I
now introduce my star witness, Theo
dore Roosevelt himself, whom I char
acterize as the most seditious man of
consequence in America. The heart
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of (his man is aflame with inordinate
ambition and he runs amuck. His chief
i thought is not to help the government
but always of Roosevelt. Almost ev
, ery day this man speaks in bitter and
| contemptuous disparagement of the
I President and the majority members
| of this congress. Every week for a
long time he has been and still is pub
lishing under contract for money con
sideration—think of it, for money! —
villainous screeds in the Kansas City
Star attacking the President and the
government. These Roosevelt con
tributions are reproduced in numer
ous important newspapers. Whatever
may be said of the papers reproducing
these disloyal utterances, the Kansas
City Star is chiefly responsible.”
Citing criticisms of Mr. Roosevelt’s
editorials, Mr. Stone continued:
“For example, Roosevelt denounces
the President and the government in
terms that * * * would subject
almost any other citizen to arrest—
yet his utterances, which I say would
be denounced as treasonable if made
by others, are widely published with
out even official protest.
“I have quoted these utterances of
Roosevelt, first, to show that his vaunt
ed claim, self-advertised, of a superior
brand of patriotism, is empty, and sec
ondly, to inquire why Roosevelt may
say things with impunity which a citi
zen of lesser consequence dare not
even repeat without danger of indict
ment for disloyalty.”
At this point the senator made his
reference to Roosevelt as an aid to
the kaiser, and then turned to the con
gressional war investigations.
He did not question the right of
congress to make inquiries, but rather
their purpose and the publicity given
to national difficulties.
“I cannot believe,” he said, “that
world-wide advertisement of alleged
deficiences and our war activities, even
if ultimately found true, is necessary
to bring about administrative reforms.
I doubt the wisdom of wide open in
vestigations into almost everything
that might be made the subject of
criticism of the administration.
“I do not mean that administrative
errors should be concealed from our
people. Of course mistakes have been
made by the government—doubtless
many grave mistakes. In the circum
stances that was inevitable; but is it
necessary for us to stand on a house
top and proclaim these mistakes with
a loud voice to the whole world?”
Considering everything. Senator
Stone asserted that the achievements
of this congress and the administration
“signalized a degree of marked success
without parallel in the world’s his
tory.”
Undue publicity given present mis
takes, he said, had advertised the na
tion's weakness to the enemy.
“The time for flaunting them is
past,” he continued. “This is the time
for universal national sympathy and
solidarity. My appeal now is to my
colleagues on this side to stand firmly
against influences calculated to mis
lead us, and 1 appeal to my colleagues
on the other side of this chamber to
thrust back the evident rising tide of
partisanship.”
The Republican leaders’ purpose, he
reiterated, is to elect a congress out
of harmony with the President.
“What would happen to the Wilson
administration if the republic m party
should have coptrol of the next con
gress?” he asked. ‘ If 1 were to adopt
the use of Billy Sunday classics, the
President would have a hell of a time.”
In concluding the Missouri senator
presented statistics of what he termed
were partisan appointments of state
war committees. In New York, he
said, a Republican governor appointed
82 Republicans and 3 Democrats, while
in Ohio a Democratic governor named
j 18 Republicans and 16 Democrats. In
California the Republican governor, he
asserted, named 63 Republicans and 4
Democrats. He gave the statistics to
show, he asserted, that Democratic
governors had been non-partisan in
their appointments while Republican
governors had not.
LONDON Y. M. C A.
PROVIDES FOR SOLDIERS
LONDON, Jan. 30.—The entire area
of St. James square, in the heart of
the fashionable residential district of
London, is to be built over with a tem
porary structure for the purpos • of the
American Young Men’s Christ i ’n as
sociation. Huts for soldiers ; .1 of
fices will be provided, in addition to
Y. M. C. A. offices.
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Madame Lydia, the palmist, will be
found in the Currier & Mlckelson
building on C. street. 16-tf
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