The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 21, 1918, Page 10

} _.tary parade and other patriotic by-play.. -His pay for it at . - ’ 7. . Notice particularly the important part of .'t:he'“:le_tf__ét__ COLONEL ROOSEVELT EXPOSED Sensational Secret Correspondence Shows He Permitted Himself to Be Used by Special Interests and Politicians in Attack on Farmers 1OW Theodore Rooseveit is allowing himself to be used by the big interests opposed to reforms and pecially the opponents of farmer and labor or- ganizations, was exposed in sensational corre- spondence at St. Paul last week, following Roose- velt’s bitter and unprincipled speeches against . the Nonpartisan league at Billings, Mont., and Minneapolis, Minn. . : Readers of the Leader are familiar with Colonel Roosevelt’s speeches and editorials against the organized farmers, under the camouflage of patriotism, during the Iast year and a half. The en- tire plot has now been exposed and the disgusting details would startle the entire country if it were possible to get the facts be- fore the people. MILLIONAIRE LUMBERMAN "HELPED ENGINEER DEAL Roosevelt’s trip to Minnesota, as is proved by the re- markable correspondence published herewith, was per- sonally arranged by A. A. D. Rahn, political agent of the Shevlin-Carpenter lumber interests of Minnesota. Rahn hangs out at Washington, D. C. The Shevlin-Carpenter lumber interests are vast. F. H. Carpenter, to whom the correspondence of Rahn was directed, is head of the com- pany. He is a millionaire, was formerly chairman of the Republican party in Minnesota and is now one of the big Republican bosses. He is familiar to League members through his attempt to buy W. E. Quigley, a League or- ganizer, and use him “to expose the League from the in- side.” Quigley, however, exposed the Carpenter plot. Later Carpenter, as president of a “Lincoln” Republican club of Minneapolis, financed part of the Minnesota primary cam- paign against the farmer-indorsed candidates. It appears from the telegram and letter that passed between Rahn and Carpenter that Roosevelt was merely a hired political speaker for the reactionary Republican gang of Minnesota, which at present has candidates up in opposition to candidates indorsed by the organized farmers and the Minnesota State Federation of Labor. This is the fact. However, as shown by the startling cor- respondence now made public, Roosevelt posed as a “Liberty loan and loyalty speaker,” and thus camouflaged his political attacks on the farmer-labor candidates and the farmer-labor organization. ASSAULTED LEAGUE UNDER CAMOUFLAGE OF PATRIOTISM Roosevelt is one of the most prominent figures in America. An ex-president, more or less famed throughout the world as a writer and politician, he nevertheless is willing to prostitute him- self and the sacred cause of his country by stooping to the con- 5 " temptible political deal which this correspondence exposes. It has been long since the people of America have been treated to such a disgusting political trick as Roosevelt’s in Montana and Minnesota last week. In Montana, at Billings, he made a violent and bitter assault on the League formers and their candidates for office, who are also indorsed by organized labor. At Minneapolis, his speech was another assaulf on the farmer and labor organiza-~ tions and their candidates, and he urged the re-election of Knute elson, Minnesota big business senator; Governor Burnquist, who sanctioned the Minnesota reign of terror, and other candidates al- lied with the forces that are opposing progressiin Minnesota. - He } : also attacked President Wilson, , Colonel Roosevelt, as the sensational correspondence shows, did all this under the guise of a Liberty loan and loyalty speech, during. the Liberty loan campaign, when both Republicans and Democrats had agreed to drop poli- - tics. He did this political dirty work, as the letter and ; ¢ telegram show, with the patriotic accompaniment of a mili- least comsisted in getting “expenses”.and railroad fare =~ paid by the Minnesota anti-League politicians for himself ; and servant. Whether he got more or not'is not shown by the correspondence. Jies i GOT HIS FALSE INFORMATION . > . FROM . ANTI-LEAGUE POLITICIANS = Fe which' indicates that Roosevelt - knows nothing -himself. ..~ about the Nonpartisan league, but depends for his:“infor: . mation” about it, which he ‘poration agents like uses in his'speeches, on cor: s of big special interest labor: politicia; nn, Reads ¢ nter ‘and anti-farmer, ant ans, lik by the reactionary Republican politicians, es- the members of the Burnquist Minnesota ring. particularly the following part of the letter: “Get as much data together as you can on the Nonpartisan league, especially the photographic copy of Mr. Gilbert’s letter to Mr. Haywood.” i b w S "1t must be inferred that this instruction was followed and that in his Minneapolis anti-League speech Roosevelt dépended in what he said about the League, on the information gathered for him by the representatives of special interests and the cheap, anti-farmer politicians who staged the disgusting spectacle. : s The frank admission of Corporation Agent Rahn that patri- otism and loyalty was used to cloak Roosevelt’s speech ought to be sufficient to show Colonel Roosevelt up in his true character. Furthermore, notice that.Rahn is authority for the statement that Roosevelt’s famous “Liberty loan” speech at Baltimore, widely exploited throughout the country, was merely a Republican party political deal, and that the plan was for him to repeat this stunt at Minneapolis. \ : : It remains to tell about the stage business arranged by Min- nesota gang Republicans to exploit Roosevelt and his speech at Minneapolis. This can best be told by quoting the news article concerning it that appeared in the St. Paul Daily News, the first paper to publish the sensational Rahn-Carpenter correspondence. The News said: : o CLANS WERE CALLED > FROM ALL DIRECTIONS “Roosevelt was especially anxious to meet ‘those boys from Duluth,” the Minnesota_headquarters of the steel trust. They responded loyally. . ; ' ; “The clans were summoned, as Mr. Rahn directed. Over 300 telegrams were sent out by Gustay Lindquist, private secretary to Governor Burnquist and Republican state chairman. State committeemen, county leaders, can- didates, newspaper supporters and others gathered from far and wide to hear Colonel Roosevelt in the Radisson Gold room. : -“Among them were ‘those boys from Duluth,” and former Taft Notice enthusiasts who accepted the olive branch. Even Ed Smith, former . Republican boss and Taft leader of 1912, was reinstated in good _ standing. “Many other Taft leaders joined their old-time Rooseévelt ene- mies in clicking glasses and pledging. fealty. It was the first re- union since 1912, when Andy Rahn led the Roosevelt campaign in Minnesota, although he was then, as he is now, the director of the political welfare of the Shevlin-Carpenter lumber interests, con- spicuous at each legislative session. . FORMER . PRO-GERMAN HAS PROMINENT PART “Even some Democrats showed up to be decorated with the pretty silk badges showing they were members of the reception committee. Among them were Representative Robert Carmichael, Farmington, and J. A. Coller, Shakopee, former state senator. - “Mr. Coller left the Democrats in 1916 and led the German forces in Minnesota who opposed the re-election of President Wilson. He was an ardent upholder of Ger- many’s war aims up to the time the United States entered the war. Since then he has been making loyalty speeches throughout Minnesota, one of his speeches having been printed in pamphlet form and circulated throughout the state by the state safety commission. : ' “Representative Carmichael has served two ferms in the house. - This year he is a candidate for state senator in the district in¢lud- = ing South:St. Paul and has the Burnquist support. He made many: speeches .for Governor Burnquist during the- primary :campaign last June and now is working for the re-election of the governor, although he took part in the Democratic conference which’ indorsed F. E. Wheaton for-governor.” j - .. One of the amazing things about this -exposure is the fizét_that . - the leading news services, which supply the American daily press with news, refused to send out a line corcerning it. There are some - daily papers which print the facts regardless of whom they hurt. : . They had to get news of the exposure through private correspond- - wents in special telegrams. Tt was not a part.of the news of the day E they oyght to have obtained over their regular news. wires, i nti-League and anti-Wil Ihe facts first startled and then disgusted the people of Min. ota 2nd the Northwest. Carried only by a few newspapers, it hg%;%%s reached most of the people by this time. Some have: ilson politicians ou it