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Show BLIND TRYING TO LEAD THE BLIND. The Manti Messenger, a howling Taft advocate, has the following follow-ing report to make on the political situation, under the heading "Changeing," whatever that means: Ye editor, on a short visit in Washington and Oregon, territory claimed claim-ed by tho Roosevelt party, lost no opportunity of listening to discussions of the presidential situation, tho principal question for discussion everywhere every-where On the entiro trip hc did not hear a single man upholding Roosevelt, Roose-velt, although many had been BupporLoro of T. R. in the Republican ranks. Ono interesting talk was between fl man from Boise and one from San Francisco, both prominent men. Tho Rolse man was guying the other on tlw prospect of California going for Roosevelt, but thc San Francisco man said RooecvoR would not carry that state. He said he had just mado a rathor risky bet, one that he would probably lose, that Roosevelt would not carry a single state In tho union. And while ho may lose that bet, ho would doublo It on California. "Ye editor" should take another trip. Since his wanderings in Washington and Oregon and his talk on California, those states have held primaries in which the Taft vote was outnumbered by the Roosevelt vote three to one and in some districts as high as ten to one. ' The iLanti editor is fooling no one except himself by his misrepresentation. mis-representation. AVe do not insinuate, of 0011130; that "ye editor" is knowingly misstating his observations, as one so dull or stupidly prejudiced is mentally blind and cannot see even imperfectly more than his own side of any public question. |