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Show As Others See Use The Paris Pictorial, a newspaper of some prominence in iho great French city, gives evidence that it has kept In close touch with tho national political politi-cal situation in the .United States,, commenting as follows: "The strugglo between President Roosevaldt and Judge Pcrkor Is one ot Individualities. A man cannot-amount cannot-amount to much in the United States-of States-of America unless he has marked in- divlduallty. James M. Rlain was . w elected to the highest, office In the- K! land because ho drank more rum at ' one sitting tiian any other man in the country. Grover- Clevian was President Presi-dent for having caught the largest fishes ever seen on the Pennsylvania coast. Each of tho two candidates now-confronting now-confronting has some similar attainment attain-ment to offer to his countrymen as Justification for his election. President Presi-dent Roosevaldt places his hope In the fact that he has the most numerous '' family in the land, he being the head of the Mormon religion and proprietor of ten houshholds, counting Ills children child-ren by the score. Ills summer residence resid-ence at Oyster Bay Is tho most populous pop-ulous home in Ohio, as many as 00 plates being laid at table dally. Judge Perkor, on the other hand, has endeared himself to his fellow citizens through his skill in swimming. swim-ming. He once threw a dollar across the Fotomac,near his home in Esopus,. and, plunging into tho turbid stream, he swam to tho other side so rapidly, that, climbing out on the bank, he was able to catch the dollar as If descended de-scended from its airy flight. Judge Perkor has also been know to stay under water three weeks without uttering a syllable. His aquatic feats " are heralded broadcast over the land, jja and great crowds flock to see his daily exhibition of sensational diving, Id which he has no peer. |
