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Show Tho News, having connected the American party with the proposed increase in-crease in nssesBcd valuations, now per-' 8i8ts in dciing lhat it did so. And yet its first page spread on the subject is conclusive proof to the contra' of its present claim. But now, since tho church organ denies tbat its intent was to do so, will it come out in a squaro exoneration of tho American party from its previous imputation? No squirming, squirm-ing, now; come to the scratch and ?a3' plainly what 3ou mean to stand b3'. You desert .your ground, and tr3' to make tho public believe that it was The Tribune's ground. Why uot, then, sa3' honestl' that the American party is not guilty ns charged. Or, are you too much of a coward and sneak to do the fair IhingJ Mr. Roosevelt declares that, efforts to send anti-Taft delegations ao the Chicago Chi-cago convention are led b3' mon "whose character and capacity are such that the3' havo not been regarded as fit to bo appointed under this Administration." Administra-tion." What a lot of stupids we have been all along, to sa- that the heir-apparent heir-apparent was backed by office-holders only, when so great a personage as the President intended to say it for us! |