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Show .IE ROME g Much More Unconventional In Man- I ner Than President Roosevelt. W Jerome Is a much more unconvct.- H lional man that President Roosevelt. He smokes cigarettes, and he slaps lab- B.;' oring men and district leaders on the C back, and he hasn't hesitated to advo- & atg gome views of whl h the orthodox sLs" would never approv He Is what used IS., to he called, before giod tnste ln- f , Ished the word, a "bohenilan " He wRvi likes a good time over table In the Rf' but k room of n cafe with a set of boon E- cDinpein lona ; and it wouldn't much mat- BB? ter In the least to hlni w h-ther tho HE- plain laboring men. 1 luh m ml.. 1 I Bi' assistant from his ofTlce. nevspape. men. ministers or detectives, so lung as wLl thoy were what he calls "men" I like a man." he said In on of his recent speeches. "And that's why I H liked Richard Crok.-r. thoagh I never H. agreed with an idea that he had I lik. I hlni because he had a Jaw. and when he looked you 111 the eye It was like a blow." That statement furnishes the k9 Hi N B P York a fighting District Attorney. K ' and explains Why, although he has spent his life Opposing Tanimnny men. Bv Mime if his be-st friends are THiiiniany Hall dtstri. t len den IK.'."-' Right across the strret from Jeron." ufhee in tli- ( rtmlnnl court building is a saloon kept by n Tiimimmy Hall dls- tilct leader. "Hlg Tom" Foley. For four J years and moiC "Big Tom" has been one of Mr. Jerome's stanches! friends. Htitl wh'-n Tammany refused to notnl- -....H nate Jeromi and Big Tom went to him and OXpreeeed regret that he hnd t" EV. I work against hlni. the- District Attor- J Oh, 1 U un iv that Tom Ivuit fOU ' MTOTT mi don't suppose I don't un- R denrtand." ib'i7' And Pole mid, In talking about It Vf ufterward. "He's a ajuare fellow, as u QlSfttft one us ever stood In two H hoefti and I tood up for him to the J?;. Inst In Tamman Hall Hut. now. as H lie 1 DOl "n our ticket. I'll d every- y- thlng I can to keep a vote away from ,5r' Foley k pi his word, kept It with the I Utsnogl difflculty, for among his T.uOO I odd voting constituents the Democratic I I District Attorney was a sort of idol. H and Jerome's vote In Fdlery'l illstrl. t & was kejit down to 160O. Now that It Is I all over Rig Tom and the Dlslrlct At- t torney are gg warm friends as ever. h' Pearson' h Mngar.lne. p |