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Show ! MOST INCONSISTENT. H i'1 H j I The Standpat press is most inconsistent and contradictory in H j discussing the Progressive leaders. H ! "When the announcement was made that Senator Uourne would H ! ' not declare himself for Roosevelt, those papers said! Bourne was a 3 statesman. Since then the Oregon senator has aligned himself with Ii the Progressive and ho is called a rascal. Senator Borah of Idaho, before his conference with Roosevelt H ' j at Boise, -was receiving much praise. Xow he is deemed, unworthy H of a passing notice. H Senator Cummiiii was held up as an exemplar by the Standpat H M papers, until he openly announced, his allegiance to the third party, H I deolaring that the nomination at Chicago was a highway robbery. H i Today- Cummins is called a scurvy scrub and an ingrate. H I Columns of praise have been printed on Hadley, of -fibsouri, H since the governor displayed a desire to remain within the party. H j ' But today's dispatch indicates that Hadley is ready to stand by his H , convictions and desert the reactionaries. If the Missouri governor H j ' proves steadfast to principle, watch the reactionary papers open H their vials of wrath and pour their anathemas on Hadley 1 |