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Show WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Characterizing Charac-terizing former President Roosevelt as "the most potent agent the kaiser has in America," and the "most seditious sedi-tious man of consequence in America," I Senator Stone, addressing the senate today, charged that Republican leaders lead-ers are engaged in a studied effort to mako politics out of the war. Their i object is to "take the government over I into their own hands" by partisan crit-I crit-I icism of the conduct of the war, he declared. Senator Stone's address, regarded as the forerunner of bitter partisan ' strife, excoriated partisanship in the war. Besides ColoneJ Roosevelt, tho Missouri senator named Chairman Willcox oi the Republican national committee and Senator Penrose among Republican leaders as his "witnesses"' to the political plot he alleged. 1 Cunning Work of Roosevelt. "Of all men," the Missouri senator) continued, "Roosevelt is most respon- sible for what he denounces. He does i his work cunningly. In the front of J his propaganda ho throws a deceptive i political camouflage. j "I charge that Theodore Roosevelt, whether willingly, or out of sheer madness mad-ness I don't know which Is the most, potent agent the kaiser has In America." Amer-ica." -" Republican Plan3 Adroifly Directed. The Republican plans as cited, Senator Sena-tor Stone said, have been "adroitly directed." di-rected." "Many if not all Republican senators," sena-tors," he asserted, "are acting in manifest man-ifest concert, with dominant Republican Republi-can leaders throughout the country to make politics out of the war." As proof of Republican partisan plans Senator Stone, declaring that there is no need "to try to feol each other or to feel the country," declared that congressional investigations of I -the war proposed by Republicans were significant. i Calling attention to the elections j next fall of the entire house membership member-ship and many senators; Mr. Stone I said two years later the presidential I election would follow. Republicans Playing Politics. "Hero is a chance." he proceeded, "for the dominating Republicans of tho country some of them, perhaps more than one of them, seeking to promote to his Immediate personal glorification, and others, acting on a larger scale, to promote a party advantage to strike hard to turn down this administration anu take the government into their own hnnds. That fight is on. It is being played beforo our very eyes. "There are various elements of discontent dis-content in the country. Their potentiality poten-tiality as political equations is recognized recog-nized by all. The natural disposition of these discontented elements will be to slriko blindly at the party in power. Therefore, in a way, Republicans ally themselves with these discordant elements ele-ments of unrest. Politics Under Guise of Patriotism. "But 1 especially protest against and denounce tho effort put forward under tho guise of patriotism to disparage this congress and the present administration, admin-istration, to oxclte a wider fooling of discontent and lack of confidence and to spread the poison of this impression broadcast. Plainly this sort of movement move-ment is afoot." As proof of his charges which, Senator Sena-tor Stone said, ho presented "deliberately "deliber-ately and regretfully," tho Republicans are "harping" on alleged administra tive blunders anu staKing tne pouucai fortunes upon their criticisms. Presents Boise Penrose. "First, I present tho Hon. Bolso Penrose," Pen-rose," Senator Stone continued, "who, as a great leader of tho foremost Republican Re-publican state, very properly occupies tho front seat In tho Republican national na-tional Sanhedrin." Penrose' Alleged Statements. Citing alleged statements of Senator Penrose that the Ropubllcan leaders wero planning to demand an accounting account-ing of the conduct of tho wnr, Senator Stone said thnt Senator Penrose's pus-tificatlon pus-tificatlon for his partisan outburst was over appointment of tho Democratic grocorymen in Pennsylvania and a Democratic farmer in Indiana as federal fed-eral explosives inspectors. "Senator Penrose," he said, "seems to havo forgotten partisan appointments appoint-ments by the governor of Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia of Ropubllcans on war committees." commit-tees." Of tho Pennsylvania, committee members, Mr. Stone said, 309 were Republicans and only 14 Democrats. Willcox Calls Meeting. Turning to Chairman Willcox, of tho Republican National committee, tho Missouri sonator said, before he introduced intro-duced his "star witness," he would cite tho statement mado to tho press by Mr. Willcox regarding the incompet-' ence of the Democratic party and its itH effect on coming congressional elec- (lH tlons. He said a meeting of the Re- liH publican leaders had been called at y St. Louis on February 12 to inaugurato a winter campaign. j jH "Colonel Roosevelt has engaged a 11 hall in St. Louis to make a war speech the day before the committee meet- Most Seditious Man in America. iil "I now introduce my star -witness: Theodoro Roosevelt, himself whom I tjll characterize as the most seditious man JH of consequence in America. Tho heart ? of this man is aflame with discordant ambition and he runs amuck. His ! chief thought is not to help the gov- UM eminent but always of Roosevelt Almost every day this man speaks in bitter and contemptuous disparagement of the president and the .majority members of this con- grcss. Every week for a long time, i I ho has been, and still is, publishing jS under contract for a money consider- i ation think of It, for money villian- l' H j ous screeds In the Kansas City Star g H attacking the president, and tho gov- B H j ernment. These Roosevelt contrlbu-- u :H j.tions are reproduced in numerous im- n 'H portnnt newspapers. Whatever may j jH I be said of tho nanprs rpnrnrltimri"- jWH these disloyal utteranqes, the Kansas fml City Star is chiefly responsible." Ill Citing criticisms of Mr. Roosevelt's H editorials, Senator Stone continued: nil "For example Roosevelt denounces ifiH tho president and the government in M terms that would subject i almost any other citizen to arrest (JrH yet his utterances, which I say would M be denounced as treasonable if made M'H by others, are widely published with- ftiH out even official' protest 1 1 H Roosevelt's Vaunted Patriotism. ' H "1 have quoted these utterances of l Roosevelt, first to show that his iilH vaunted claim, self advertised, of a ili.H superior-brand of patriotism, is falso ill and secondly to inquire why Roosevelt il l may say things with impunity which HI a citizen of lesser consequence dare if not oven repeat without danger of in- 1 11. dictment for disloyalty." ' ill At this point the senator made his reference to Roosevelt as an aid to lll'fl the kaiser and then turned to the con- ;t! gressional war investigations. He did WU not question tho right of congress to H make inquiries but rather their pur- ffijl pose and publicity given to national ' Mpfl difficulties. i (! i cannot believe, he said, "thnt 1 1, 'world-wide advertisement of alleged ur, J deficiencies in our war activities, even fi 'if ultimately found true, is. necessary M j to bring about administrative reforms. A j I doubt the wisdom of wide open in- " vestigations into almost everything jl that might be made the subject of 31 criticism of tho administration. 31 "I do not mean that administrative A I errors should be concealed from our ll people. Of course mistakes have been .made by tho government doubtless M many and grave mistakes. In the clr- m cumstances, that was Inevitable but is j It necessary for us to stand on a houso II top and proclaim these mistakes with lj a loud voice to the whole world7" iM Considering everything, Mr. Stone Ij asserted that the achievements of this 8 congress and the administration "havo a signallized a marked degree of sue- 1 cess without parallel in the history of jj the world." Undue prominence given I past mistakes ho said had advertised J the nation's weakness to tho enemy. II "Tho time for flaunting them is jl past," and he continued. "This is tho I time for universal national sympathy il and solidarity. My appeal now Is to my colleagues on this side to stand m firmly against influences calculated to ; ,1 mislead us, and I appeal to my col- , I leagues on tho other sldo of this jS chamber to thrust back tho evident I rising tide of partisanship." I Tho Republican leaders' purpose, 1 ho reiterated, is to elect a congress jl out of harmony with the president. jl "What would happen to tho Wilson II administration if the Republican party I should havo control of the next con- il gross?" ho asked. "If I were to adopt i tho uso of Billy Sunday classics, tho' tt president would have a hell of a time." SI In concluding tho Missouri senator jjl presented statistics of what he termed jffl wero partisan appointments of state I war committees. In New York, ho ill said, a Republican governor appointed 111 olghty-two Republicans and three jU Democrats, while in Ohio, a Demo- JP cratic governor named eighteen Rc- jit publicans nnd ten Democrats. In Cali- il fornia tho Republican governor, ho as- u sorted, named sixty-threo Republicans M and four Democrats. Ho gave the SI statistics to show, he asserted, that m Democratic governors had been non- In prtisnn in their appointments whilo m Republicans governors had not. |