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Show 1 Willing to destroy protection. HJ Is Taft hopelessly beaten? The following from the New Yorlc H Herald, a Taft paper, indicates that Taft is abouT" to given up H the ghost: t M "'So great a patriot Is Mr. Taft that we doubt not, should M i the danger of the election of the Bull Moose through a division M In the Republican ranks become great he would be the man to H mount the loftiest pinnacle of patriotism and self-sacrifice and M say to his friends: M "'Rather than that American institutions be overthrown, M vote for Mr. Wilson. M "Undoubtedly this course will be considered with tho great- H est care not only by hundreds of thousands, but bv millions of Hr Republicans between now and election day. The " "Republicans M i should support Wilson rather than have the country pass into M the hands of the Third Term adventurer.'" H There is the thought which is uppermost in the minds of the H ' editors of the Talt papers! Fear of Roosevelt's election is constantly H working on those writers and now, in the last days of the campaign, H! they are contemplating the throwing of the Taft vote to "Wilson H Notwithstanding that they pretend to see in the protective tariff the Hj future prosperity of this country, they advocate voting for "Wilson H and his i'ree trade rather than for Roosevelt and protection. H "What do our sheepmen, sugar men and lead miners think of this H throwing over of protection in order to vent a hatred for Roosevelt? |