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Show H A DEMOCRAT FOR ROOSEVELT. H We met an Ogden Democrat who said he was forJRoosevelt. H "I am for the man from Caster Bay. because 1 recognize that H in this campaign the opportunity is presented to destroy machine H politics," he said. "If Wilson is elected, there will be no radical M change. The Democratic party will flounder around for four years, H prove disappointing because the reactionaries within the party will H have much to do with shaping its policies and retarding real rc- H forms, and four years from now the old Republican forces, headed H by the pirate chiefs, will return to power, rejuvenated, strcngth- j eued by the failures of the Wilson administration. Then the coun- 1 try will experience another long period of political trickery, dur- 1 ing which the trusts will go on increasing and the predatory rich 1 j will be made richer and the helpless poor will become poorer." H Exactly! What this country is most in need of is not a Demo- M eratic victory, but a rebuke to the powerful class, within the Kc- H publican party, which for years has hoodwinked the American j ; people and will do so again unless crushed in this campaign. H j Tlle paramount issue is the purification of our politics. Roose- H Telt proposes to bring about the cleansing of politics by an appeal H to the men of all parlies. If he wins, the blow will be felt as sen H l verely by the machine within the Democratic party as by the crew H ( on the steamroller, which operated in Chicago. The lesson will be j , an impressive one and cause as much dismay in Tammany Hall as 1 in the more sacred precincts where Aldrich, Barnes, Lorimer, Stcv- 1 i enson and the other Republican Standpatters gather in council. H The most distressful piece of news that could be flashed to the H men of dirty politics on the night of November 5 next, would be H Roosevelt's triumphant ascendancy over the forces of political cor- 1 ruption. |