ROOSEVELT
ROOSEVELT (From Oshkosh Northwestern.) Col. Theodore Roosevelt is never so happy as when he was "throwing a rock." Political observers in Washington are keenly interested in what the colonel is...
...The colonel would send the senior Badger senator to Kaiser Wilhelm, bag and baggage...
...feet and inches— and denounce him as one who peddles to the enemy through his public speeches information of military value, or at least, of the most comforting nature...
...Political observers in Washington are keenly interested in what the colonel is saying these days about Senator Robert M. La Follette...
...But after Colonel Roosevelt gets through denouncing Senator La Follette as a pro-German pacifist, an agent of Germany arid the like, the colonel himself proceeds to give aid and comfort to the enemy in large doses by announcing to the world that drafted men at Camp Grant are without rifles to drill with, that they have exactly one ride to each three men in camp at the time he looked in, and that this ratio is higher than at most camps...
...in this respect the colonel does not stand alone...
...The first thing the colonel knows Senator La Follette or some other pacifist will rise up to his full stature—even if it be not great in...
...He added that after eight months—the United States entered the war April 6, or five and a half months ago—we have not army and equipment enough to fight 60,000 or 70,000 German veterans...
...That doubtless will make fine reading at Potsdam, even though it is not true...
...Representative Heflin is one of these, as a matter of course, and he probably will wish he had not named the senator and a few of his house associates before we see the end of his flare-up...
...Many an ardent supporter of the administration's war policies would like to see Senator La Follette carted to Berlin, to hear them say it...
...The colonel did not stop there...
Vol. 9 • September 1917 • No. 10
