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Show REAL ROOSEVELT ' 3BH0RREDWILS0N AND IS '.WORKS M Yet Democratic 'Candidate lor Vice Presidency Sfandcrs Great Leader's Memory. MAKING FUTILE ATTEMPT TO WIN ON OLtf ISSUES Fifth Coucln Removed Roosevelt Not Able to Convince Followers ot T. R by Specious Arguments. By SCOTT C. BONE. Touring the country ns a candidate for Vice President, Franklin D. House vclt Is vainly cndeniorluc to Invoke tho progressUe t-plrlt of 1012 (n sup port of Wllsonlsm and the election ot the Democratic tlckcl In November. What would tho real Rooseielt Theodore Roosevelt tho Immortal T. It. say to his followers were he nllu-) today7 Gone, ho left burning words which tell all too plainly what his attitude would be nt this time. lie abhorred Wllsonlsm, Just as he abhorred D.inlellem, with both of uhlrh Franklin U. i:ooreviJt lias been Identl fled as an uniler Seirelury, Condemned Wllsonlsm, Theodore Hooeclt condemned Wllsonlsm Wll-sonlsm and the whole Wilson udinlnlV trntlou In unsparing terms. ' Rend anew what ho tald at'Coopei Union on November 3. 1010: . , "I hne been nssuljcd beennse I have crl(lrscd Mr. Wilson. I Iiavo nol sold one thing of him (hut wns not absolute ly accurate and truthful. "1 Iiavo not tald one thing of htm which I did not deem It necessary to say becauso of the vital interests ot this republic. "1 have criticised him because I be lleve be has dragged In the dust what was roost sacred In our past and has Jeopardized the most vital hopes of our future. , . . "1 criticise him now because he has adroitly and cleverly and with sinister ability appealed to all that Is weakest and most unworthy In tbe American character; and also because be has, adroitly and cleverly and with sinister ability sought to mislead many men and woraea who are neither weak nor unworthy, but who have been misled by a shadow dance of words. "He has mnde our statesmanship a thing of empty' elocution. "He has covered his fear of standing stand-ing for the right behind a veil of rhelorlcnl phrases. "He has wrapped the true heart ot the, nation lu a spangled shroud ot rhetoric. "He has kept the eyes' of the people peo-ple dnr.zled so that they know not what Is real nnd what Is false. So that they turn, bewildered, tumble to discern the difference between the glitter thai veneers rvll nnd the stark realities of courage and honesty, of truth and i strength. "In the face of the world tie has covered cov-ered this nation's face with shame as with a garment.'' So much for Theodore Roosevelt's opinion of Wilson and Wllsonlsm In support of which Franklin D Roosp-telt, Roosp-telt, life-long Democrat, would now In voke the progressive spirit of 10121 Abhorred Danlellsm. Anil what did Theodore Rornevcfl tli Ink of Daniels' administration of th" Navy Department of which Ihe Demo crnt. Franklin D. Roosevelt, has been a more or less conspicuous factor and part7 In a speech on "Americanism and National Defense" nt Chicago, October Octo-ber 20, 1010, Theodore Itou'seylt sol,): ''Moru. burin bus been douo to the navy !y the politicians In power during dur-ing the lnl three ji',nr than In the preceding thltly. Wlnito-.ur good has been nctoinpllbhed In the navy ilurliiK tlio tnsl (hi or yon I) has beeil done In niivul olIhi-i-H. who, In most ruses, haw -been siiuhh(i) ami punished for theli propo.ils us long as (I was mfe to ilu so; wheieiit Mr, Danlelx now nirns mm claims credit for what wr.s tlmtoiicd upon him. , . . "In .short, throughout President Wll son's teiin there has been neglect or positive maladministration In (wiincc tlon will) departmental organization in navy yards, aeronautics, mines and tor pedocs, and In nil oilier Hinders affect Ing the ctllclency of the Meet end the enthusiasm of Its olllcers nnd men . . , Tho activity and energy of the Navy Department under President Wilson Wil-son hns been primarily concentrated upon schemes nlincd nt vole-gutting or advertising." This, then, Is hnt Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt thought of tliu administration ot tho Department from which Franklin I). nooHe,u'lt, Duuincrnt and exponent of Wllsonlsm, fain would reach the Vice Presidency and have progressives of 1012, followers of tliu real Roosevelt, Roose-velt, help to keep tho Democratic par, ty In power and muku Wllsonlsm endure en-dure I It Is Ititonoelvnhle that any true follower fol-lower of 'Hirudin e Roosevelt will hearken to mu u a iroposterous appoal |