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HOW SHALL | VOTE.
Twelve Reasons For Voting For
Wilson.

Because
1. He is the only candidate for
President who represents the real,
the vital and the effective pro-
gressive forces in this country.
2. He stands for tariff revision
downward in the interest of lower
prices and the elimination of mo-
.nopoly.
3. He stands for trust legislation
which will prevent the control of
prices through any sort of monopoly
f. He stands for the income tax
and believes that wealth should
share the burdens as well as the
blessings of government.
5. He stands for the rights of
labor and the protection of the man
who earns his bread by the sweat
of his brow, as shown in his record
as Governor of New Jersey.
6. He stands for the revival of
our merchant marine, and for the
government encouragement of agri-
culture, Industrial and vocational
education
Z. He trusts the people and be-
lieves that the governed should
govern; and that Senators should be
chosen by the people.
8. He faithfully performs in Of
flee the promises made out of office
8. He will "Clean House at
Washington as he has Cleaned
House" in New Jersey.
10. He breaches and practices
clean politics, and practices it eff
fectively. He unalterably opposes
machine politics and the rule of
the bosses.
II. He stands for legitimate big
business every day, but for mo-
nopoly, never.
IL. AS Senator LaFollette says,
HE approaches every problem with
the solemn promise to be really, in
the highest sense, a servant of the
people,
Why 1 Should Vote Against Presi-
dent Taft.
Because
l. He signed the Payne-Aldrich
Tariff Bill, and referred to it as
the best tariff law ever enacted.
g He vetoed the Farmers Free
List Bill, the Woolens Bill land 9th
er bills reducing excessive tariff
duties
3. He has failed to take any
steps to lessen the present high
cost of living.
4. He supported Ballinger in his
efforts to turn rich coal deposits in
Alaska over to the Guggenheims.
5. He has used federal patron
age to maintain a political machine
manipulated in his behalf.
6. He abandoned his official du-
ties to enter into an undignified
scramble with his predecessor for
denomination.
Z. He has lost the confidence of
his party and of the people.
8. He failed to support Dr.Wiley
in his administration of the Pure
Food Law.
8. His trust policy has helped
the trusts and brought no relief to
the people.
10. His administration has re-
suited in disappointment and fail.
ure.
Il. He is a reactionary.
II. Ex-President Roosevelt, who
knows him best, says of him: HE
has proved faithless to the cause of
the American people"
Why I Should Vote Against Ex-
President Roosevelt.
1. He has broken his solemn
promise not to be a candidate for
third term, therefore his other
promises are not to be relied upon.
g For seven years he was<Presi-
dent, and during those seven years
the very conditions he now pre-
tends to combat viciously were
more thoroughly developed than
during all the other periods in the
country's history.
q 3. The day he became President
there were 149 trusts or combina-
tons, capitalized at $4,000 1000,
and the day he retired from office
there were 1920 such combinations,
capitalized at $31 1000.
4. He permitted the Steel Trust
to acquire the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company. it's principal rival, in
violation of the antitrust law, and
forbade the prosecution of the Har-
vester Trust at the request of Geo.
w. Perkins, HIS PRESENT MA
TIONAL CHAIRMAN.
S. The man, next to Roosevelt,
responsible for the third term move
ment, is Geo. w. Perkins; Perkins
is the promoter and defender of
the most pernicious trusts in the