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Show CALLS HAND i I OF TAFT MEN I I ?are IH Teddy Says Republicans ' H Are Working For H Wilson Victory H ' '.mo ll Oyter Bay, N. Y., Nov. 4. In a ' IH statement issued today Theodoro oao IH Roosevelt charged Republican leaders mu I l were advising their followers to voto T" 1 H for Woodrow Wilson If they did not 'tat IH feel that they could support President Taft. Tho great concern of tho . H "bosses," the colonel said, was to ll I defeat the Progressive party. ) H "Several gentlemen have told me that the concern of several bosses, d;' who are Mr. Barnes' henchmen Mr. t. IH Abe Cruber for Instance have re- . H cently been publicly advising their jM hearers to vote the Democratic tick- jH et if they did not feel like voting the ear 1 H Republican ticket," says the state- rm H ment. "This is interesting as a fresh W IH proof of how close and intimate the tf jH alliance is between the machines if p- IH thev can ouly beat the Progressives. H "Mr. Grubcr's attitude merely li- -. jH lustratcs what had already been lp, H shown by the conduct of Messrs. H Penrose, Barnes and Crane, and the jno ) jl other Republican bosses In Now Jcr- jH scy, Illinois and Indiana, precisely as m H in aKnsas, California and Oregon, er H that they had not the slightest expec- P- jH tation of winning this olectlon and 'cr jH that their one purpose Is directly or iH indirectly to aid the Democrats in ao H order that the Progressives may be H "The financiers and bosses of this s IH type are real non-partisan in their ' H feeling," tho colonel continued. "The IH men mentioned arc nominally Repub- H Mean In their feelings, but they know IH they can always make terms with the S jH corresponding bosses in tho Demo- cratic party If they cannot keep ig their own party under their own con- , jf trol and at the same time in control r- lf of the nation, the next best thing, H from tneir standpoint, Is to put the IH Democratic bosses In control of tho to "When the Abe Gnibers, without k H regard to party are both readv and IH eager to support cither of the old i- H parties In order to beat the Progres- )d slve movement, then it is surelv time H for all honest and decent citizens. J H without regard to their past political IH affiliations, to support the Progres- )0 H slve H "This is In no ordinary sense of the k H word a mere partisan movement. It iH is a movement for honesty and dc- IH cency and for fair play In the world ll of Industry no less than In the world n H of politics and we have the right to t. M appeal to all good KfTzens to sup. H oo iH |