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Show BLAMES SENATORS FOR FALL OF RIGA Charles Edward Russell Attacks La Follette, Stone and Gronua. By International News Service. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Charles Edward Russell, member of the mission to Russia and a former leader of the American Socialist So-cialist party, excoriated Senators La Follette, Fol-lette, Gronna and Stone tonight at a "help Russia" meeting held under the auspices of the American Alliance of Labor La-bor and Democracy at Madison Square Garden. "Riga was not captured by the Germans," Ger-mans," said Mr. Russell, bending over the speaker's stand toward t lie audience of 2500, "but by La Follette, Gronna and old Bill Stone. If this war is lengthened because of them, not a charge of high treason, feiony or inhumanity will be brought against them, but a charge of murder In the first degree. "Between disaster and the United States," continued . the speaker, "disaster "disas-ter that means five more years of scathing scath-ing war, two million American soldiers killed and fifty billions wasted, nothing stiids but one thin line of Russian troops across the Gallcian fscnt," |