Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1917 — Urges Roosevelt to Quit Efforts to Raise Division. [ARTICLE]

Urges Roosevelt to Quit Efforts to Raise Division.

Washington, April 26. —Joseph Leiter, airmy league president, wired Colonel Roosevelt today, asking him to desist from his agitation for a volunteer division for service in France, ■because his attitude was “giving aid and comfort to the enemy in congress,” “I do not believe anyone questions your patriotism or your Americanism in the present crisis,” said the message/*'yet I regret that in your efforts to put our flag on the firing line at the head of a force of volunteers, -you are giving aid and comfort to the enemy in congress. The opposition to the principle of universal military obligation to tfiain and serve in war are using your offer as an arjpment again sit the passage of the aom inifitratkxn'e bill.” —l,