| Show TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE It is a little late for lor house cleaning so tho the ladies Indies tell us but our advice to President Taft would be to have a thorough house cleaning in Washington There seems to be in the departments a good goud many many how how many we do not l know Roose now Roose Roosevelt velt champions who while holding on to their cir offices of of- fi flees cs under Mr l Taft TaCt are plotting to throw every obstruction in his path in favor of Mr Roosevelt We think that gentleman Mr rr Andrews Androws who the other day resigned from the treasury department depart depart- ment and tendered his resignation in an insolent letter nr arraigning his hi's principal is one We take it by iby the dispatch which came O on Cu Tuesday that the talk among certain office h holders l ers about asking the president to resign his can candidacy was prompted b by byone byone one of those same men who hoodooed th the Associated Associated Associated Asso Asso- Press agent into sending it it out as a genuine dispa dispatch tell Many ranY a man has slept out on the desert and has heard d dismal howl howling ng around him at night until in his excited imagination ho lie has lIas really be believed believed be- be that a a million wolves were close by but when when daylight came all that cound be bo found was a couple o of maci emaciated ted coyotes disappearing over the sand lulls ins h We believe that is true of the enemies of or the president in Washington but they are arc making a great howl and they the are arc liable to make a great many voters believe that President waft aft only represents represents represents rep rep- resents a skeleton that the r. r real al Buddha is the colonel colo colo- nd nel at Sagamore Hill And the president should turn the light upon them Nothing beats a fraud so much as s light There is nothing that makes make so som m much macit trouble in this world as the darkness and that is not confined to the physical elements clements of the earth and heaven but attaches to mens men's souls an and aUG when a soul is in darkness the quickest way to clear up the thing is to turn on the light There n never er was a candidate for president that had less real reasons reasons' for bolting at convention and ancl starting a part party of his own than has Mr r. r Roosevelt this year earL ear A sample is the ease case of the contest in Califor Califor- nia Din Governor Johnson put up the job to have a bogus law put through the legislature that California California California Cali Cali- fornia in presidential nominations should vote the unit mit rule The rhe harum sea rums elected Roosevelt delegates throughout the state but the district ofSan of ofSan San Francisco was as strong for Mr 1 Taft The national national na na- na committee decided that these men represented represent- represent ed the city of San Francisco and it was right to scat them That is one of he steals which Colonel Roosevelt claims was perpetrated against him and that once with the oth other r statement Df of or hi his that the people must r rule nile le He makes us think of o old man George Bromley of San Francisco One night at the Bohemian club lie he got ot up with willi a big stuffed owl in his hand and said My r brother members Minister l DeLong in Japan has sent this owl to San Francisco with witha Vitha a request that it be presented to this club through me inc me The colonel seems to be in the same fix He wants ants the gift of the pr presidency presented through all the delegates to all the conventions con to him and if if he ne were vere to be asked wh what t was the most important important important tant thing in the universe he would reply The pronoun I If |
