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Show - HUGHES LOOkS BETTER THAN TAFT. BIB " B The writer is In heartiest sympathy with H President Roosevelt's entire urogram, and has HJj absolute confidence In the spirit of his public HJr utterances, yet this third-term talk does not B strike our car with greatest favor. Wo believe B that another man equally strong of purposo B and with as high ideals can serve the country Hjj to better advantage during the next four years. BJJ. Mr. Roosevelt's business has been to soutd the Hi tocsin and to begin the preliminaries In a war HjJ against corporate corruption. This he has done BJf in a very effective manner, so effectively, In HJj fact, that he has arrayed against him not only HjJ" every corporate Interest of any magnitude but HJJ many Individuals who during the last campaign HJj were the most earnest advocates of Mr. Roosc- H HJJ The president has been the moving force Bfl behind tho greatest moral awakening In the HJJ history of this or any other nation uid In this HJL work ho has been a necessity, but the man who HJJ undertakes to arouse anj people to the need of HJj reform is seldom tho man to t.ury Mis proposed HJJ. reforms Into effect. He necessarll overreaches BJJ himself In order to reach the people, who are BJJ' stirred only by extremes, and he necessarily B arouses such enmity In vital places that In BJJ; carrying out his reforms his constructive work, BJL however commendable, Is blocked, delayed, tils- BB ( torted, and not Infrequently balked. For this Bfl reason wo would prefer to see some other than BB. Mr. Roosevelt elected next fall, and our mind does not stray to Judge Taft. Our particular HJJ: preference Is Mr. Hughes, of New York. In HJJ , every public utterance to date, the governor of BB the Empire state has shown Ideals as high as BB Mr. Roosevelt's, and a more judicial tempera- ment. Where Mr. Roosevelt has voiced his In- BB dlgnation in raucous tones, Mr. Hughes has HJJ been no less vehement In language and argu- fl ment that'has not necessarily insulted the dig- Em nlty of thOM whom he assailed. In speaking Bfl of national Issues, Mr. Hughes leaves no doubt HJJ of his perfect grasp of the situation, and he HJJ has given evidence that he Is for the people, HJJ . the whole people. In his work connected with BE' the exposure of the rottenness of the big life BK' Insurance companies Mr. Hughes showed that BE he was not afraid to tramp upon the toes of In- BmY terests supposedly great enough to bury him, Bl and in his refusal to sign the two-cent rate bill BE passed by the state legislature he showed clear- BE Jy that the demands of the masses were noth- BM log to him compared with his sense of justice. B He knew the rate bill had been passed without BE proper luteaiigatlou and consideration and he BE sent it back with such awendorsement. BE We believe that Hughes could and would BE take up the reforms Roosevelt has Initiated BE and carry most of them to success with less trouble than Mr. Roosevelt would have with a fl single measure this because of his judicial Bfl mum diid temperate expression. Judge Taft is Bfl- undoubtedly a man of great strength and high BM ideals but we prefer Mr. Hughes. I |