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from your former employer9
No, Is the answer. 'fonce / had
charge of farm for four years, but
that was seven years ago, the crops
were bad, and there was not enough
for all the hands to eat. and some
of them took to the highways. and
can t get letter of recommends
lion. | have been in the insanea asy-
hum ever since, until last July. and
here have a certificate of the doctor
that l am discharged cured, and that
| am now safe and sane.' Which of
these two men will you employe The
two parties under precisely similar
circumstances are making their APP
plication today for the votes Of the
American people Unless the Amer
lean people are themselves candidates
for Bedlam, there can be little doubt
as to the result.
~ have never seen a campaign
where the ISSUES presented by the
Democratic party Were so much like
a placid escape, shifting at every
turn, and where they were intrinsic
ely SO unimpressive. What is the
paramount issue? In the Demo-
cratic text book, published by Off
cial authority, apears letter written
to the president by Joseph Pulitzer,
the paramount representative of that
unntterable yellow journalism, whose
mission it is to defile and debauch
the young women and men Of this
country, in which Mr.. Pulitzer says:
THE paramount issue of this cam
paign is not as you would have it,
free trade or free silver. it is you
Theodore Roosevelt. Among the
variegated assortment of issues
which You offer, gentlemen of the
Democratic party. there is none
which we will more gladly accept,
for,the career of Theodore Roosevelt
like his personal presence, is an in
SEPARATION to a manly, just and hon
orable life. He has been in the pub
lie eye ever since, as young man,
he led the Republican party in the
New York legislature along the path
way Of reform and honest govern
ment. AS Civil Service Commission
er, he was the most efficient and en-
eregtic that this country has ever
seen; as police commissioner Of New
York, he enforced the laws as they
had never been enforced before: as
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he
prepared the navy for its splendid
career of victory in the Spanish War,
and when that war broke out, unwill-
ing to send others to the front, and
stay at home, he resigned a position
full Of honor and ease, and took a
subordinate place under General
Wood i II the regiment of Rough Rid
ers, whom he had collected for serv-
ice. So brilliant were its achieve
ments in that war, that when he re-
turned he was selected by the Repub-
liean party as the only man who
could carry the election in the state
Of New York. He became governor
Of the Empire State, and he put
hack into the reform measures the
starch which had been taken out by
his predecessors, and so successful
was his administration and so great
his popularity that a univeral de-
mand went up from the people that
he should be. candidate for vice pres
ldent. He did not want the Office;
he cares not for high places; what he
desires is the opportunity for hard
work and for doing good 10 his fell
low men. He could accomplish some
thing as governor of a great State;
he could do but little as vice presi-
dent. But he was compelled to ac-
,ept the nomination, and when an as
sassin's bullet reprived the country