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Show m A PRISONER RELEASED. H A loadiu8: Republican saw a, new light yestcrdav .when in a no' H . Hitical argument, his cobwebs were brushed aside and his preiudice Hi was dispelled by a Progressive. Hf ' Thc Republican 'had given no good reason why he should not H vote for Roosevelt this time, haxing voted for him twice in thc p-ust ' ' Vut hc Jnswtcd he would not vote for the "Bull Moose." ) "Wcl1 tJlcn'" sa his Progressive friend, "vote for voursolf and m your family. Tote for those boys of yours who some day will be m , men, laboring perhaps desperately stmggling-to make a living fc! , under the handicap of unequal opportunities which must .befall tlienv if some corrective remedy, in line with the Roosevelt program of re form, is not soon applied." "That makes me think," said the Standpatter. "It is just possible pos-sible I am too closely bound to party and am too narrow in my political po-litical action. I shall endeavor to throw off my, bias and, instead of shouting Cor my party, begin to study men and 'measures. My country's coun-try's welfare the future of my children is dearer to me than any party." That one thought that hc is not voting for Roosevelt but for the uplift of his own family has liberated at least one Ogdeu Standpatter, Stand-patter, of that we are certain. |