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Show H A Roosevelt Votary T l OWN TALK of San Francisco publishes a letter from an indignant subscriber who, in i stopping his paper, begins his letter with HI these words: Hf "I have received a sample copy of your Town Talk today, and as soon as I noticed that you were trying to down Mr. Roosevelt I promptly H consigned it to the ash barrel, where any future M copies I receive will be sent unopened. H "Mr. Roosevelt is plainly for the whole peo- n pie, and those who oppose him are naturally the interests and grafters, and as you have allied 1 j yourself with them it is useless to present any Bf I arguments, or use any discussion with you. flf I N "I did not Intend to take any active part in BBr I this campaign, but have decided upon noticing V i your attitude, and that of a few other subsidized B j newspapers that it is time to get busy and I B i shall now join the Roosevelt league," etc. B The letter is signed "George Breck." H j Now it depends upon just how many men in H i j the United States are like George Breck whether H Colonel Roosevelt is nominated or elected or not. H I With him the Colonel has evidently been a fetish H for years. He could not tell why to save his H life. He believes that Colonel Roosevelt is the H special friend of the people of this country; he Hn could supply no evidence to justify his belief Hf to save his own life. He doubtless believes that H Colonel Roosevelt is the soul of honor and m truthfulness which makes clear that he has be- m come so hypnotized that he looks now upon the H' Colonel with the wide-open eyes of a somnambu- l list that- see nothing. K' With no evidence except that Town Talk does B' not endorse his own vagaries he at once con- B eludes that the journal must have been subsi- B dized, which is at least collateral testimony that B ho only wants the opportunity to sell himself, B ' and that no matter how small the price he might B fix upon himself, should any simpleton purchase Hi him for the sum, he would be shamefully victim- H ' Can he recall any of Colonel Roosevelt's char- B ities? Can he recall the time when the Colonel H has had the opportunity to benefit himself in a Hi private or political way, that his affection for Hi; the people has prevented his embracing that op- H portunity? Does he know who Is managing the K finances of the Colonel's campaign and who and H where the only men are on whom this financial 1 manager has leaned upon since he reached man's 1 Has this Mr. Breck any idea how, in case the H Colonel's policies could be adopted, the very H foundations of our free government would bo B shattered, the courts demoralized, and how near B our country would be fashioned after the rule B that prevailed in that court room in Virginia B ten days ago, when "judgment had fled to brut- HB ish beasts, and men had lost their reason?" B The fact that Theodore Roosevelt is a candi- B date now is direct proof that he cares more for B himself than for all the millions of his country- H men; that his ambition and his vanity of power B is greater than the welfare of all his country- B men; greater than all the honors his countrymen B have lavished upon him and a certain evidence B that goaded on by an "overvaulting ambition" he HJ would rather "reign in hell than serve in heaven." |