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Show H WHAT NEXT? j There never was a 'dirtier campaign than that now being di- H rected against Theodore Roosevelt. The former President is being H held up to ridicule by coarse cartooning and he is being accused, by j insinuation, of all the crimes known lo the statutes. Tie has been 1 called a fool, a knave, a demagogue and a maniac, and yet the peo- i pie go right along, voting for him whenever the opportunity is H presented. Evidently the scandalizers 4ire not believed. H We have before us a paper called "Clean Politics," and its 1 contents prove that it is the filthiest sheet so far issued as a enm- H paign organ. It is printed somewhere in the East and the presmnp- H tion is that the Taft headquarters is paying for its circulation. The 1 leading article in the copy received at this officers headed "Roose- H velt's Drinking Habits." The entire article is devoted lo anony- 1 mous attacks in which Roosevelt is represented to be a sot. j If Roosevelt is a drinker, he must have a very fine private brand M at his disposal. H When Grant was storming away at the Confederates, working H out his well-laid plan to crush Lee, some cine discovered that Grant H was not a teetotaler. The astounding news was conveyed to H Lincoln and that great man, with his nolcd quick wit, inquired as H to where Grant got his whiskey and when informed that it came H from a distillery in Galena, Illinois, he said:, ' H "Have the entire output of the plant shipped to me!" H Lincoln was asked what he would do with the liquor and he H replied : H "I want it for my other generals." M Taft is not a teetotaler, and he, like the "other generals," might M do well to get the same brand asvthat said to be used by Roosevelt. M If Roosevelt is a drinker, lie is a wonclerftilly well preserved, M keen, wide-awake, active, brilliant example of a 'man who dis- H regards his health and tries to muddle his brain. |