The Daily Star-Mirror
VOLUME VII
MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918
NUMBER 96
SENATOR STONE ROASTS ROOSEVELT
AS AGENT OF THE GERMAN KAISER
DECLARES WAR
ON OPPOSITION
DELIVERS RADICALLY PARTISAN
SPEECH FROM FLOOR OF
THE SENATE
OPENS GUTER WARFARE
CHARGES REPUBLICAN LEADERS
WITH OPPOSING GOVERNMENT
FOR POLITICS
WASHINGTON —.C h a r a cterizing
Former President Roosevelt as "the
most potent agent the kaiser has in
America," and the "Most seditious
man of consequence in America, Senator Stone, addressing the senate today, charged the Republican leaders
are engaged in a studied effort to
make politics out of the war. Their
object is "to take the government
over into their own hands" by partisan
criticism of the conduct of the war,
he declared.
Was Carefully Prepared
Senator Stone's address, carefully
prepared, the first of political significance made in congress since the United States entered the war, and regarded as the forerunner of bitter partisan strife, exonerated partisanship in the war. Besides Colonel Roosevelt, the Missouri senator named
WILLIAMSON OF THE REPUBLICAN
national committee and Senator Penrose among Republican leaders as his
"witnesses" to the political plot he
investigations by congress
alleged.
of war operations, Senator Stone also
declared, have almost entirely been
launched by Republicans and adroitly
exploitely
 For partisan purposes.
The Colonel "A Menace"
Citing statements of the Republican leaders regarding the political plans and editorials of Colonel Roosevelt, which, he said, "are villainous screeds, published for money," Senator Stone declared:
"On my responsibility as a senator, I charge that since our entrance into the war, Roosevelt, by his attacks on the government, has been a menace and obstruction to the successful prosecution of the war. 