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Show BUSINESS MEN VHO SEE . BUT ONE KIND OF CORRUPTION Council Bluffs. Aug. 2b. Representative Represen-tative Walter J. Smith, one of thj strongest men In tho "old guard" In congress, was Col. Roosevelt's escort when he reached Council Bluffs yesterday. yes-terday. After a hurried automobile ride about tho city, Mr. Smith escort-cJ escort-cJ the colonel to a stand lu Bayllsa park, where Senator Cummins also waj present. During his short stay here. Col. Roosevelt visited J. F. Wilcox, a radical rad-ical progressive Republican. "Well, there Is the New York ls-Fue," ls-Fue," tho colonel said "Thero It Is perfectly plain that I stand primarily for political cleanliness and decency and for popular rule. Sometimes I do i;ot agree with all the- people. I try my best to represent them as far as I can. I will do anything for them except that which is wrong and that I will not do for any man. Y'ou cannot can-not make this government prosper permanently unless you have honesty in public as well aa In private life. It la our duty tn war against corruption cor-ruption in every form corruption in public life, corruption in buslnoas life and mora than that," he continued. |