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Show eDDSEVELT OPENS IH WILSON Praises Work of Senate Committee and Criticises War Department. WASHINGTON. Jan. Theodore Roosevelt today in a speech beforo the National Press club asserted Ida ri.trlit to criticise the conduct of the war and declared de-clared it to be every man's duly to expose ex-pose inefficiency if It retards the work of the war-making machinery.. In answer to an attack 'mado on him recently in the senate by Senator Stone, he said the speech was an Insidious effort ef-fort in behalf of Germany, and that the Missouri senator, who had done nil ho could to serve Germany in opposing- war legislation, had lieen tho first to inject partisan politics into tile war. Coluncl Roosevelt came out in open support of Senator Chamberlain's proposals pro-posals fur a war cabinet and a munitions tlcpr rtment. "The proposal.'' he said, "meaiiH that' at loast a, proper scheme of ndniinlrstra-tion ndniinlrstra-tion will be adopted by the sovenmieni . I am well aware that no scheme ean accomplish ac-complish anything unless the. rleht men are put in. ' " but at hast we will pet a proper scheme of administration. In Washington you have a pood lu.iny star players, but mighty liitlo team work." While the speeeli contained little eriii-Iism eriii-Iism of inriivhiuals, the colonel spoke of "niaiarlministrafion" or the w.ir department depart-ment in warmly praising tho work of the senate cotnmitiec. An to the worth of investigations, he said it wan the duty of congress to pet at the truth, and he emoted from the v.ritinKS of Provident Wilson when at Princeton advocating eruiEi essional inquiry into the ai:i.) of I he administration. Declarinc the present is nn time fbr politics. Colonel R'osevel1 tald. "No public servant, and no prp'a! citizen in his public, relation a l ihir, time has any huslncsH to consider partisan par-tisan politics' in any w.-jv.' He said he criticised the conductor the Spanish war and Mint his aetion then shewed he believed himself to he performing- tiir; duly new. Tf was nei-er more necessary t n now, he aid, to tell the people the truth. "If eonditinrr- ate L.-eind." said he, "tell the truth. If iliey are bad. tell M. truth. If they have been bad and have become F"ed. tell the truth." The navy department. the e,,nnel added, inefficient six months aco. i.i now dcijna e( client work. The work of shlp-I'Hiiidinp, shlp-I'Hiiidinp, he deej;, red. now Ik in ryerlln,,! hand"-. for the rn-ord Ina t ion of shitipiu-operallon-'. be rem , tn e,M lerl the ;,pp.,,nl-nieill. ;,pp.,,nl-nieill. Of o,,e (,, . ,,) j,l Mlllrm,. cwrSP of Hie op. ration nf all v.t!Tl. C'olnnel rtooseet called for a (ontinn- am e of war nnt if victors' is won. "If any man," lie f.nd. ,,,, jn f;,vr of putlincr this war through lo liie pen,-e of a. complete yietorv. be i. not a io-.-al American I o not foreet that the furcKt way to it tile rcyp(, t of fr. ar we'd as friend is. lo show ih,,t connuj. reall-.- riehi- when It K'tS into a fijhl." rioT,- hit at all if Mm can tichi it: don't hit a man if on can 1 innora bty ;i -co i l it; bnt if you do hit turn, put him lo t'leep "' The way to do thiriL-s. (V,!onl tlonre-vcli tlonre-vcli .leri;,re,, jH r, ,),, i,,m and then dir'e'lv, it. "That was the cnui0 T followed and to which I ever have looked l.aeU sine', v '.th impel, ilent sal i faction in refrr...'ee to tile Panni'ia ea.al. 1 inii'lit have takrn Hie iiiatlo' under advirerrietil anil J.ul It before the Kpaie, i W,j..h '' -r would brew: had a Pitniber f inOSt aide .'.pel , i,eS On the Fubject pretc-rrcd we should haye the canal firM and the (I'M-iieMon afterward.-:. And now instead oi niscusi-ilnr the Panama 'anai belore it ,-,,,, built, which u.mld have l' "i, hartTi'nl. thr y rre relv dn-cijj., Jne a d.sraisMou v.bi. b I r. Kard with benign int' r'. st.'' |