Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — Send LaFollette and His “Shadow Huns” to Kaiser. [ARTICLE]

Send LaFollette and His “Shadow Huns” to Kaiser.

St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 28.—0 n the platform of the auditorium where Senator LaFollette last week decried America’s entry into the war on what he termed a “violation of technical rights,” Col. Theodore Roosevelt, classing the Wisconsin senator among “the Huns within our gates,” declared today he would like to send LaFollette and his “shadow Huns’’ to Germany as. a “free gift to the Kaiser.” Among the “shadow Huns” the colonel included Senator Gronna, of North Dakota, and Representative Lundeen, of Minnesota. Col. Roosevelt declared at the outset that the public man who did not consider first of all the real and permanent welfare of the working man was no friend of democracy. “He is not true to the United States either, if he misleads the working men as to what is to their permanent interests,” he added, and then said: “The most sinister enemy of democracy in the United States is Senator LaFollette.” The colonel had been given a transcript of Senator LaFollette’s speech here last week. “I have not had time to read it all,” he said, “but I have already found two or three ‘gems.’ ” Senator LaFollette’s assertion that America’s participation in the war was due to American citizens being passengers on “a ship loaded with munitions for Great JJritain,” was declared by the colonel'to be a falsehood and “he knows it was a falsehood,” he added. . He said nothing about the sinking of the hospital ship Sussex, and the “technical right” of the doctors and Red Cross nurses who sank with her to be on board,” the former president continued. “I abhor Germany. I abhor the Hun without our gates, but more I abhor the-Hun within our gates, and I say that any man who excuses and condones such infamy and his ‘shadow Huns’ Gronna and Lundeen do not represent the American people.”