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Show COMPARISONS. It is a, favorite theme with Demooratio orators and editors to tell what a marvelous man Lin coin was, how great were Seward and Morton and Blaine,, and the other Republicans who are dead, (that is when they are sure that they are dead), but to recoil before the Republican leaders, such men as Roosevelt, Fairbanks, Hay, Lodge and Spooner and the others It is an old trick of theirs' they have been at it for more than two score years. The meanest thing they have said about Roosevelt during the past year would sound like eulogy compared to what they said about Lincoln Lin-coln from 1861 until his speech at Gettysburg shamed them intvsilenoe. |