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Show ! BORROWING PROM THE PAST. A Taft paper urges its readers to support the Republican party because the party saved the nation. Beautiful sentiment, worn to a frazzle. Half a century has passed since the Republican party saved the nation. With the years have gone Lincoln and the other great leaders. lead-ers. In their places stand Barnes of New York, Penrose of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, Lorimer of Illinois, Stevenson of Wisconsin, Guggenheim of 1 , Colorado, Sutherland of Utah, Aldrich of Rbode Island, Scott of West Virginia, Ballinger of Washington, and others of their stripe. j If Lincoln were alive today, he would recoil from such a cold-blooded mercenary gang and weep over the prostituting of the party that I at its inception was inspired by the same appeal for human rights I that is now vitalizing the Progressive party. Of 1576 Grand Army veterans in Los Angeles county, Califor nia, all but a half dozen are shouting for Roosevelt. At least half ' of the old soldiers in Ogden are openly supporting Roosevelt. The, B soul of the old Republican party is now for Roosevelt only the shadow of the once great party is for Taft. ' This harking back to the early sixties will not help Taft. More than one scapegrace can boast of a proud ancestry. |