| Show Asquith of America Hearst Calls Teddy In Scorching Reply By Ely I International News Service Service- EW YORK May 14 The c The N. N Nw following statement by William Wil yil liam Randolph Hearst in reply to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's attack or ot last week well upon Postmaster General Burleson and the Hearst publications was wa printed this morning in the Kew ew American Mount Clemens Mich May 13 Mr Roosevelt though notably less respectable is emphatIcally emphatically able and le less les s the Asquith of or American American poli poll tics lie He is out ot or power and he is C. C greedily eager to get back bael Into power and he lie does not scruple at any meth meth- methods methods no matter mattel how unfair to the administration ad administration ad- ad ministration or how harmful to the count country in order to accomplish his ms purely selfish poli political ical purposes The attack which Mr 11 Roosevelt now males makes upon the administration is just as baseless as the attack which Asquith made upon tipon Lloyd George and it will prove to bo be just as futile in its effect upon the administration administration adminis adminis- and just as fatal in Its effect upon Mr 11 Roosevelt The Tho Immediate causes of Mr s outburst are t two o in bum num num number berONE ber bel ONE POLLAR A WORD The first caus cause Is tie the fa fat fact l Ll ili that t the magazine which hires Mr Sir Roosevelt at one dollar per word to make vicious attacks upon the government of oC the States tates during wartime was excluded from I tile Hie malls mails in one Issue for a wholly false falsa and a absolutely tin tin- Justified attack the l president of oC the United States State and the tile diplomacy cy of the United States calculated l 19 br Dg our out government and ami our people tub Into contempt on tempt and consequently to injure our cause Mr Roosevelt did not write this particular article but It is conceivable conceivable conceivable able that any menace to the tile existence existence exist exist- ence of a magazine which pays so 60 liberally for political slander arouses aroused A l natural concern on the part of Mr Mi Roosevelt for his hlll own profitable it if not patriotic contract The second cause of Mr Roosevelt's s immediate agitation is the tile fact that the small and lonely New York newspaper newspaper news news- paper which is S supporting f Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt velt's ft s perpetual g 1 aspirations for the presidency was recently rebuked as a public enemy by the tho representatives of the tile United States government for printing as as' as news newsY certain articles which h had no foundation in fact and which discredited the tile officers of the United tinted States army Y and arid held them up to ridicule and contumely without the tile lightest basis of truth or jw justice In the tho allegations allegation Hong S SUPPRESSION ELSEWHERE in In any other country in in- th thin th h f S in fn w wartimes tImes limeS tra traitorous lII like IKe e Roosevelt's ev J aid Mr Ir Roosevelt's I S LP liap Ii 1 0 e 4 4 ir 8 i whose only Object In publishing these articles was petty political spite ag against the president and support of oC the aspirations of a rival candidate would have been wholly suppressed as a's treasonable Our government however is lenient with such sueh of offending tending publications and with Mr Roosevelt bec because use the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration properly believes that Ina in ina a a. republic the right of ot free speech and free publications should be preserved reserved even ven though there be occasional disloyal disloyal disloyal dis dis- dis- dis loyal abuses of this right as that of Mr 11 Roosevelt in the magazine which hires him and the tile newspaper which politically supports him That the United States State was entirely rl right ht in its denunciation of Mr Roosevelt's noose Roose ells velt's New York newspaper was conclusively cons con elusively proven in the suit which arose out arose out of the resignation from that newspaper of ot Its Iti editor Frank Trank H H. Si- Si mends well known throughout this country or patriotic articles on the Val yar CA CAULES CABLES LES C CONCOCTED Mr 11 Simonds definitely stated and showed that to retire from this disloyal paper was due to the fact that this this- paper habitually in invented invented in- in vented news and concocted cables s In Irs its own office for the purpose of manufacturing false fahe material with which 10 o attack the government of ot the United d States Stales and the army of tile the United states stales for tor small Email and selfish self self- ish isit political purposes Of course Mr ir oIl would n not t willingly ly remain connected with any disloyal publication no matter how profitable that connection might be I but hut there Is apparently nothing ii In III Mr sevelt makeup to prevent his connection with any publication and aid no matter how ti traitorous as long IonS as is that connection will serve seive to line hi his purpose and arid further his Ills unscrupulous methods of promoting his personal political aspiration aspirations Mr 1 Roosevelt's attempted reflections reflections upon the Hearst publications are unimportant It is sufficient to say ay In reply that whatever criticism the Hearst publications publications pub pub- Indulged in was con constructive construct construct- ive lye criticism founded upon established established fact not upon manufactured falsehood and intended for the Information Information information mation and assistance of the adminIstration administration administration admin admin- and ld not for Its discomfiture and destruction For lor years ears ars the Hearst publications I have Advocated preparedness and ande h have e been denounced as Jingoes by bythe bythe I Ithe the shortsighted for doing so 80 For Cor years jears U these publications have ad o caled tile tile- extension of West Point and Annapolis and amI the establishment of or national universities throughout the country to lo provide trained of- of I ficera for the l e. e alm my at-my and l navy y in l fl an ot e t lor or years jears th Ih these se publication J ha have haveS have'S vo S 'S H thi of J test n 1 1 the 11 if 1 j ASQUITH Op Of AMERl AMERICA A Continued from page I 1 1 creation of a nationally owned mer me merchant merchant mer- mer chant marine to act ail as an auxiliary navy In time of or war Ever since the beginning of or the European war the Hearst publications publications publications have lave advocated universal servIce service service ice and I personally went to Washington Wash ington and wrote in the Washington Washing Washing- ton tom Post a signed article appealing to my former associates in congress to vote for universal service and at least to m make ke our own country safe for democracy Ever since the be beginning of this European war the Hearst publications publications have dilated upon the formidableness formidableness of oC the German military machine and the necessity for Cor Immediate Im- Im Immediate Immediate Im Im- mediate and Immense efforts on the part of our our country If we were to defend ourselves against that machine machine machine ma ma- chine and eventually to overwhelm It If the advice of th the Hearst publications publications catlone had been taken we would bo he applying today In R a determining wa Wl way the supreme force which the tho president now calls for and we would be winning today toda the glorious victory vie vic tory which we will assuredly win In Indue Indue due time anyway In spite of de delays delays de- de Ie lays in spite of or obstacles in spite of partisan obstruction and in ht spite of treacherous attacks in the rear by selfish politicians animated by personal ambitions Let Jet me say Bay in conclusion that the attack upon the I administration and the Incidental at attack attack attack at- at tack upon upon the Hearst publications which are only seeking to secure secure justice for tor the administration emanates eman ales ates from the reactionary influences of Wall street N. N Y V. TRIBUNE DENOUNCED The New York Tribune which sup supports supports supports sup sup- ports Mr Roosevelt in his hI's tic tlc activities Is organized d by the Mills and Reid estates tw two of the greatest and most sinister of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York financial forces and not even wholly American In character as the Mills 1 and Reid families are both In intermarried In- In with with the English aristocracy aris aris- The Metropolitan rn 1 Magazine which hires Mr Roosevelt at 1 a word as professional vituperator of the president president pres pres- ident JB is owned by the Whitney es estate estate estate es- es tate which is administered by Harry Payne Whitney grandson of Henry 13 B Payne the Standard Oil magnate matr- matr matinato mati- mati nato nate and son of William C C. Whit Unit ne my New York lork traction magnate Nor is It unusual to find Mr rr Roose Roose- It In such compan company or in the financial finan- finan chi cial I favor o of such Ruch influences Air Mr nOO Roosevelt evelt in 1912 1312 ran for pres pres- ident as a a candidate of the steel trust and to defeat Mr Taft Tart who had prosecuted the steel trust Mr Roosevelt was financed by Mr Perkins Perkins' of the steel trust and when Mr Perkins of or the steel trust re refused refused refused re- re fused to finance Mr Roosevelt and his party in 1916 Mr Roosevelt shamefully betrayed his Progressive party into the hands of or the reactionary reactionary reactionary Republicans Mr Roosevelt has always been a badly camouflaged Instrument of oC the sin sinister Isler financial interests from the the time that he personally as president allowed f the United States Steel corporation corporation cor cor- fh I in flagrant violation tI of f the antitrust law of the nation to absorb the Tennessee Coal Iron company down to the time of the recent elect election elec elec- t t. t tion in New York City when he followed fol fol- followed lowed the lead of of the steel trust and the Standard Oil trust and declared against the nominee of his own party who had been regularly nomInated nominated nom mated by the Republican voters Inthe in inthe inthe the open primary which Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt had always advocated As Mr Roosevelt and his unfounded unfound unfound- ed allegations were overwhelmingly repudiated in th the New York City election and as Mr Asquith and his unfounded allegations were overwhelmingly overwhelmingly over over- repudiated in the house of oC commons so Mr Roosevelt and every political and public traitor should be overwhelmingly repudiated ed whenever such an one sets himself himself him him- self disloyally against constituted leaders and against the best interests inter Intel ests of his country for tor the meanest meanest meanest mean mean- est of all motives petty motives petty Jealousy and I personal gain WILLIAM gain WILLIAM RANDOLPH RANDOLPH RANDOLPH RAN RAN- DOLPH HEARST I |
