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Show V IMF ! D fip SLIiL""l)r Hi tTS: if Colonel Says Crooks of g Both Parties Are H Against Him, if t Fredorick, Md., May 4. " I would ' riot have come into this contest," said jjfji Colonel Roosevelt in an open-air M j speech here today, "if I had felt I H 1 could have legitimately stayed out I "5eamo into tho contest because 1 felt V& more and more that it was a stialgbt IJ5y line-up between the avorago men on &' the one sldo and on tho other hand jE the men who wished to advance their iPji own interests, either politically or -12 otherwise, at tho expense of the pco- i(lsj "I do not mean that all tho men Hfij against us are bad men There are fSJt multitudes of well meaning raon R5JH against us who have not waked up -iSf BBU0B- Nlne-tenthB of wls-Sj wls-Sj doin is being wise in time. Sjjl "Every crooked politician of every ! party is against us. Tho crooked pol-fW pol-fW 'l'clan n the democratic party is jjdp against us. There are two reasons IjSSor that In tho first place the crook g?j in the Democratic party naturally Mffi feels akin to the crook in the Repub-jnijMican Repub-jnijMican party who Is against us; funda-totljti funda-totljti mentally their interests are tho saraq jjjfcil In the second place tho crook in the jjjIE'Democratic part' feels that if wc are jjgjf'heaten it would be easier for him to jfllfjwln in the election " if 'Tho silk Btocklngs for the most LJjtpart aro agninBt us in this fight," said 1fiCoIonel Roosevelt at WcBtinlnstor. ijW"They ought not to be, for wc wont af5fchurt tnctn- They arc In a curious al-3s)ianco al-3s)ianco witli the bosses. We saw this ftvat its height In Massachusetts. -$ "I am now in that part of Mary-eMJland Mary-eMJland whero we count upon a Republi-i$Fi Republi-i$Fi can majority. People told me not to jWcome up here because wo would got fjSthc delegates anyway. But I don't jjjjjvwant Just enough votcB to elect the jjji delegates. I want you to vote with i:us four or five to one and I think ,M "you'll do it. 39 ', "Think of what we did in Pennsyl-rtSl Pennsyl-rtSl fvania. Thoro It v;as a straight lineup ls"' between tho people and the lfbs30B I Wo won and the effect of the victory was felt all over the United States If Maryland fnils us the effect, will be to dishearten those who stand with us everywhere. ''Our opponents know how to manipulate manip-ulate the returns. You watch thorn carefully. They aro tho people who do the bribing. Seo to It that you don't let our opponents win by trickery. trick-ery. "I don't think that there 1b any oip on our side who will give a bribe, ibm If you find any such an one I upwnnt you to try to put him in tho fljj?enitontlary, and I will help von." |