Show BAD POLITICS We are arc not a bit certain that Mr Ir Roo Roosevelt 1 is S helping l It Ms Mi Taft in this ca campaign Of course cours we ar are e aware that a great many thousands of in people the thi C east continue to swear by Mr l Roosevelt but ut the they Cy y are arc not the ones on whom Mr l Taft must rely Wll What t he wants is the outside votes and men whose minds mind S Sarc arc are in doubt are arc wholly indifferent When thc they resi read LI that the president of the United Stat States State's s has denounced denounce 1 i a candidate their natural instincts would be to syra- syra L- L i with that candidate Mr 11 Roosevelt is look look- ing from the heights down we arc are looking from the volley valley upward He TIe may see sec clearer than we but it strikes us that just now he lie and Mr l Taft raft are both making a a. mistake in their as assaults upon Mr 11 Bryan BrJan and his policies The Republican party has been a solid organization now for twelve years It seems to tous tous tous us the way to induce people to still support that I party is to tell what the party has done and the motives mo lao- ti tives es behind it to admit freely its mistakes but bitt to show that the mistakes were natural ones and not to assail a man who is a n candidate of a great party on his record The know Mr 11 own people Bryans Bryan's record record record rec rec- rec- rec ord as well as Mr l Taft does and the strange inconsistency inconsistency incon incon- with all is that while Mr l Taft raft is talking conservatism conservatism con con- and beseeching the country not to disturb the business interests Mr 1 Roosevelt Roose whom the country country coun coun- try thinks has lIas been largely instrumental for the I troubles that are on the land now is giving ing him him his active support and then Mr l Bryan is intimating in his speeches that what little Mr 1 Roosevelt has done is nothing to what he lie will do if he lie gets to be president It is the queerest jumble ever seen in a presidential campaign and it looks to us as though if either Mr l Br Bryan an or Mr l Taft is elected it will have hae to be bo in spite of themselves and in spite of the president I |