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Show CALL OFF FIGHT j ON ALICE'S HUSBAND 1 WASHINGTON,5 Oct. 25. The' Fed- eratjon of Labor has marked Nicholas f Longworth off its list of Congressional targets. In the catalogue of those Con-.' Con-.' gressmen marked out for destruction at the polls, Longworth occupied a promi' nent place, he naving voted against the e interests of organized labors itwas al-.! al-.! leged, whenever he got a chance.. That ; he npw escapes is due entirely to the : fact that he is-President .Roosevelt's . ' son-in-law. , ' : Samuel Gompers, president ox. the , Federation, began fighting Longworth . . as soon as he had finished with Jtepre-aentativeXittlefield Jtepre-aentativeXittlefield in Maine. . Immediately Immedi-ately protests from Cincinnati working-' working-' -men began to pour in at the Federation. headquarters in Washington. , The Cin- ; cinnati laboring men said they wanted .to vote for Longworth, not on his own ': account, , but as a means of showing X their regard for his father-in-law. . r.Mr&v Longworth is the great issue in her husbana 's campaign. She aecompa-. aecompa-. nies him. to his political meetings and probablymakes more votes by her pres- . . , ence than be does by his oratorical ef- ' forts.. , v |