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Show Some Anti-Taft Sentiment Collier's Weekly, probably the greatest, great-est, and most fearless independent magazine in America today, hated and feared 'by fraud and corruption in every line, is exerting an influence in the present presidential campaign that will tend to make politics cleaner in every state in the Union. While it Is not entirely clnar which of the two Roosevelt or Wilson is a cholci', there Is no question of thi ir opposition to President Taft's rc-eluc-tion. The following quotations aro taken from its issue of Aug. 10th. "Jn practically .uYory-commuoity Jo. the country the Third party has absorbed absorb-ed the rank and file of the Republican organization, and left nothing of the old party jxcept an.empty shell, manned man-ned by .officeholders, the high-turrifT beneficiaries, ,and a few othcr3 whb, in one way or another, get a personal profit out of tho Republican party." "Senator Root Is, of course, a towtr among tho standpatters. His son is 11 ineiriberof a New York City law Urn-, on member of which resigneJ n $7,E0u Federal job to become the county chairman chair-man of the Progressive party, the third "member of the firm also is a district leader in tho new organization It is raro to find men of under forty lemain-ing lemain-ing with the Republican party unless there arc strong selfish reasons." "The Payne-Aldrich Tariff bcame a law exactly three years ago on Monday, Aug. C. Every day of thoso three years that law has been intensely disapproved dis-approved by nine out of ten of the peo pie whmn it governs; not an election has taken plae during thotio tluee years but the people have expressed their resentment by overwhelming rebuking re-buking tho party that made the law. And yet such is the well-guarded indirection in-direction of our leglslat've machinery that net nil this protest has availed to clungo a single comma of an odious law." |