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Show NO MACHINE? The News would not for the world mix in politics, but it "feels to say." that to charge that there is "a Smoot machine" is that" kind of a " prevarication which is calculated to make the father of lies envious. en-vious. ' No Smoot machine? Let us see." To establish a newspaper to tell of his virtues, to dictate who shall hold all the State, county and city offices, who shall run for Congress, who shall be in the line of succession succes-sion for the United States-Senate; to be "set apart" as the political boss of a State by God's vicegerent; to have Brother Roberts sent on a mission for fear of his tongue, and Brother Penrose banished beyond the. sea for fear of his pen what in the estimation of the new editor "of the News would go to make up that thing called a machine! " |