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Show AKING THE NAME OF ROOSEVELT ROOSE-VELT IN VAIN i Jospphus Daniels,-in a speech before he Holland Society of New York, inveighed in-veighed against hyphenism in politics-he politics-he very evil the league' of nations will so nuch accentuate by introducing into ev-'i ev-'i Fery national campaign the issues upon JWhich Europe is divided, and in the set-Halement set-Halement of which we must participate. He fRrincbred that those opposing the un-Am-ericanized covenant which evervone knows Colonel oRosevelt would have fought to tho finish "would destroy the j Americanism to which Roosevelt and Wil-json Wil-json gave new and vitalizing and uplift- ling power." Colonel Roosevelt did not, while living, recognize much similarity ff between his brand of Americanism and yjthat of Mr. Wilson. Nor did Josephus Daniels ever link the names of these two j leaders as standing for similar principles. princ-iples. Colonel Roosevelt's last utterance ! was a ppootest against President Wilson's Wil-son's interpretation of Americanism. The use of Colonel, Roosevelt's name in behalf of the movement to push over on th American people the Europeanizecl f covenant is characteristic act of partisan fyjrontery of which probably no public man other- than Josephus would quite be capable National Republican, w Pa |