Show THE MUD THROWER Bad Dad boys throw mud when they are overmatched o That has nas been heen the tho rule of or bad ad boys hOs ever since tho the be beginning It has harmed the tho person thrown at and It has bas never failed to dama damage o the tho boys who threw Hire O Of course it il doesn't cripple them nor Inflict In in- filet any an- an permanent in in- jury jur But B t It soils them It leaves them bY oven en loss lovely than they were were S before Those American party people are aro i the bad boys of tho the nation And they I throw mud because that Is the tho nature of tho the beast basl T That nt is fA tho ho habit of oC tho P bad had boy bar The They are throwing mud muri ai at President Roosevelt ll this winter They threw flowers at him a f few w years earR ago At that time the they thought the they could control him e him handle handlo han ban clIo dle him wrap him about their political po po- po- po little finger When the they found ho he was too big bib anti and too wise and too for them they began I throwing mud mini And they have been keeping it up tip ever er since I IW W When len President Roosevelt's latest m was sent to congress Tom Tom Kearns's Reams's morning paper referred to it as fiS a malicious message message The Tho tono of the lie title of or that editorial was carried carried car car- ried ned through the entire comment In i every overy line was the evident effort to throw mu mud on the President after the manner of or tho the bad boy from the be be- ginning And Anti a little later when the government govern govern- ern ment began suit stilt against the alleged railroad combine Toms Tom's afternoon edition edi ehl- tion of the morning mud thrower tried hard harl to rival the tho unlovely performance performance performance per per- of the sunrise sheet Here are arc some of the tho sentences employed by br the lie afternoon slanderer Thero There is asU vastly moro more spite apparent in the tho bringing of oC the suits snits than any anything thins else The Tho meanness of or tho present suit is isma ma made e the tho more mote clear from the tho fact that these roads are in no sense rival ri roads RATHER IT AWAKENS A SUSPICION SUSPICION SUSPICION SUS SUS- THAT THE TIlE MEAN AND PETTY INSTINCTS NATURAL TO SOME SOl MEN l CAN NOT BE BRED OUT OR SILENCED BY SUCH MEN IEN i ATTAINING EXALTED OFFICE IT SUPPLIES AN ARGUMENT lE T NOT ONLY AGAINST A THIRD TERM FOR PRESIDENT hUT BUT AGAINST A SECOND TERM TER I. I That Is mud It Is thrown with ho the hope hope hope-a a rather dim clim boy bad hope of of harming the President Of or courso course it never ne reaches the tho marl mark You cant can't shoot shooter er very straight with a aland handful land ful of mu mud You cant can't make mal it carry very eQ far So that tile the mud mud- throwing browing of the tho Kearns papers morning morn morn- ing ng and evening evenin fails falls to hurt the peron person per per- son on the tho throwers hate hate and and it has the inevitable effect of making the tho throwers throw throw- ers of mud a little more despised a aHUe little HUe more moue undesirable than they ther were before S And that was wasn't easy either cither p I |