Show ROOSEVELT JELLS fEllS WHY I I flEET IS UNPREPARED Former ormer President Issues Another Another Another An An- other Statement Supplementary tary to Plattsburg Speech Oyster Oster ria Bay N. N Y Aug Aug- 28 Former Former President Th Theodore odore Roosevelt tonight Issued another lengthy statement In iii reply ly y to Secretary of oC War Var Garrison In n me too controversy brought about by Mr Roosevelt's Plattsburg speech Colone Colonel Colonel Col Col- one onel Roosevelt took Issue with the secretary sec see rotary on the administrations administration's attitude toward Mexico and Haiti He also 1150 called attention to what he called the tho I of or the fleet saying saying- In irs part I 1 point out to him that for nearly two years in 1913 and antl 1911 the lie ships of or tho ho navy were never exercised In fleet maneuvering and ns fiB I am re reliably reo re Informed were never exercised in fleet or squadron rOn gunnery gunner A moderately Intelligent child of or 6 knows that tho the failure for two years ears to undertake such maneuvers means a literally criminal deterioration In tho the fleet and cannot possibly mean anything anything anything any any- thing else No Xo expert knowledge Is 18 needed on this point It is Ie a mere mator matter matter mat mat- ter or of ordinary common sense The Tho Theer er very great falling off art In Irs the gunnery Gunner that was shown b by the lie results In lust t spring and the carl early part of oC the summer are directly duo this to culpable culpable culp culp- able ablo misconduct In handling our navy and It represents atthe of at the very cr worst kind because pare that takes the shape shapo o of letting letting let let- ting tinE the tue weapons 1 that have been made mad read ready utterly ly tl deteriorate Is even worse wore than failure to provide new neww w weapons l capon s. s Criticized b by BunD Chicago Aug u S. William William Jennings Bryan Dran on his wa way way- to Lake Ind md stopped lon long enough h in Chicago toda today to criticize Theodore Roosevelt for his speech at Plattsburg N. N y Y Mr Brynn Bryan said Bald It hIt Is la said to have been an ancient custom for tor I parents arents to teach their children children children chil chil- dren the evils of ot Intemperance h by taking tak tak- lag Ins before them theta persona persons in an Intoxicated intoxicated condition It is possible that Mr 11 Roosevelt Is serving n a useful purpose purPose purpose pur pur- pose in warning the public of or the ef effects of- of feats which the doctrine of preparedness prepared ness m may h have o on a man when he gives gics himself up to it tl as at a u. rc regular bu business sl ri ess |