The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-21
BE MAN OR MOOSE
.BEDE EXPLOITATION
TOVOTER ON fence
Truth Teller" Trailing Roosevelt
Denounces towards" Afraid
to Get in Fight .e5

THE fight is on. Get off the fence.
Be a man or Moose"
With this exhortation, former
CONGRESSMAN J. Adam Bede OF
Minnesota helped to open the Re-
publican fight in New Mexico in the
wake of Theodore Roosevelt's tour
here. With John Maynard Harlan,
of Chicago. the other truth teller
who is trailing the Colonel, he ad-
dressed an enthusiastic audience.
Bede denounced the towards who
are afraid to set into the fight and
told his hearers that with the Roose-
Welt sentiment waning throughout
the West, the Taft forces were
marching on to victory. Then he
ridiculed Roosevelt's comparisons OF
himself with Lincoln,
Harlan picked to pieces the Roose-
Welt "pretensions" and was applaud
ed vigorously.
"Thc close resemblance, said
Bede, between Col, Roosevelt and
Abraham Lincoln was not noticed
until the Colonel discovered it along
with the Ten commandments.
Then it was recalled that he scolded
Gen. Miles in public, making a dis
graceful scene at the White House,
which was so much like the thought
full and considerate Lincoln.
Sorry it Wasn't Hale.
again, when Senator Proctor, of
Vermont died, with whom Roosevelt
had had some differences, and he
was asked If he was not sorry, he
replied that he was sorry it was not
Senator Hale. This sounds very
much like Lincoln,
ain his book on The Rough Rid
ers' he boasts OF shooting Spaniard
in the back. How Lincoln would
Recalls NICHOLS incident.
con his trip down the Mississippi
river with the Waterways Commits
sion he had a pilot pre-emptorily
dismissed from the service, without
hearing and for no cause whatever.
Lincoln always dismissed pilots in
that way!
Because a government employe
passed his carriage in an auto on
the streets of Washington, he
amended the civil service rules so
that a department chief could dis
miss a clerk without a hearing, and
forced his dismissal under this rule
that did not exist when the act was
committed Lincoln did something
like that almost every morning!
School Girl Incident.
when a school girl on horseback
passed his riding party, he is said to
have struck her horse an angry blow
with his riding whip, frightening the
animal and almost throwing the girl
to the ground. Lincoln always had
just such lordly crouch as that!
"The closest resemblance, how
ever, was shown when Mr.. Roose-
welt, while president, in an article
published everywhere over his own
signature, charged corruption upon
Gen. Tyner, who was postmaster
general under Grant, but at this
time was subordinate in the Pos.
office Department. At the Presi-
dents behest he was indicted in the
District of Columbia. The trial
dragged along two or three weeks,
and ! frequently saw him, feeble
and more than so years of age, In an
invalid chair, wheeling himself into
the courtroom. But he was acquit-
ted and as a free man went to his
home to die.
From his deathbed he wrote a
last appeal to the President to with
draw what he had said and let him
die without stain on his name or
a disgrace on his family. But Roose-
welt let him die without an answer
and the letter is still unanswered.
That is Just like Lincoln, of whom
1t might truthfully be said he came
to preach the gospel to the poor and
to heal the broken-hearted. s
Zone of Those Socialists.
Roosevelt says he desires to
answer all questions" declared Har-
Ian. But that is just another bit
Of his posing. Time and again T
have asked him and others have
asked him, whether he could recbn-
cile his attitude of unmeritorious
and fraudulent contests for delegate
seats in the Republican convention
with the square deal about which
he PIRATES so constantly
Instead of answering the ques-
ton he cries Stop Theft and he ex-
poets by the mere noise of his cry
to divert our attention from his at
tempt to steal delegate seats which
he knew belonged to Mr.. Taft.
1.-THE other day at LIE Grande,
Ore, when an old soldier asked him