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Show t. "' ATTEMPTING TO DECEIVE. ' '!?'. i r : , , f , 1 . There,are mcu wno do not believe in Roosevelt because they are Bso constituted that they arc doubting Thomases; there are men who 'pretend not to have faith in the great statesman who are nothing f . more than hypocrites, shamming fear and striking attitudes of holy I horror simply to influence others. i We have patience with, and respect for, the man of honest con- f ' viction, but for the fellow who is anti-Roosevelt in obedience to the t sycophancy which tics him to a political ring or a political nmbi- Jtion there is nothing in our make-up other than disgust. Roosevelt has been beforp the American people twenty years, lie was prominent in national politics ton years before he was selected se-lected by the Republican party as a candidate for president, t VM Up to the present campaign, he has been above criticism in Re- publican circles; he has been held up as an exemplar and a leader -) of men who could not be swerved from the right; and his public )j career has amply justified that high opinion. But suddenly there is an outcry and'Tiffis" confusion, and , politicians here and there and their spokesmen and even their ,a, , "SIElerSj show signs of alarm, and there is much strong language j being used. You inquiro what is wrong, what has caused the up- ' roar, and you are told that while Taft was talking in confidence to Aldrich, Lorimer, Stephenson and Cannon, Roosevelt happened along and, ignoring the rules of etiquette, stepped on Taft's corns, s. , causing the President excruciating pain and forcing him to lean on Aldrich and Lorimer for support as he, stood on one foot and jL 1 ' held the other in Ins hand. f I Some one yelled murder and all the yellow whelps, basking in ' H the sunshine at the entrance to the pie jpunier, suddenly aroused, . II set up a howl. The commotion spread until the report was circu- ig' 1 latcd that Roosevelt had made an assault on the President of the X - i United States and there was talk in Staudpat quarters of lynching. ; Prior to stepping on Taft's bunions. Roosevelt was, in the opinion of all. a man of unimpeachable honor, of brilliant mind and ' ' of noble purpose. Now he is, in the judgment of the reactionaries, "lower than Bryan in 1896, baser than Debs in 1S94, and meaner than the devil at all times. t Had Taft kept his sore spots well proto'cted white hobnobbing with Lorimer et al, and had Roosevelt been somewhat more cautious cau-tious in stepping on precincts held sacred by the Standpatters, there arc scores of newspaper oditorst sustained and supported by regular remittances from the admirers and beneficiaries of the Taft administration admin-istration that might today' bo .writing laudations of Kooscvclt instead in-stead of denunciations. ' - ' , |