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ROOSEVELT PEOPLE ONTO THE
TAFT COUNTY CANDIDATES

ROOSEVELT PEOPLE ONTO THE
TAFT COUNTY CANDIDATES
A new move is being made on the
local political checker-board.
And altogether It is funny-very fun
ny.
II is the movement Of the Taftites
who compose the Republican county
ticket to get the support Of the R0ose-
welt followers in Knox county.
How strange It is!
And more than amusing!
This suddenly acquired affection of
the Taft county candidates for the
Roosevelt supporters has no parallel.
The brotherly love of Damon for
Pythias or that of David for Jonathan
cannot be compared for an instant
with the esteem In which the Ro0se.
welt supporters In Knox county are
held by the Taft candidates on the
county ticket.
OF course 1t is only natural affec.
tion such as manifests itself under the
family roof in human affairs.
But how suddenly has been the con
version from intense hatred to over.
flowing love among these Taft candi.
dates!
The rapidtransit conversion of Saul
of Tarsus doesn't hold a candle to 1t.
Following the Republican national
xxtbn IA "a
that the Roosevelt followers were to
form new party, there were none
more pronounced and bitter In their de.
rnunciation of Roosevelt than these
same Taft county-ticket candidates In
Knox county. Some of the words they
used at Roosevelt were too offensive
and profane to appear In print.
And the Taft county-ticket candi.
dates did not confine their violent Ian
iguage to Roosevelt alone. They open
ed their Walls of wrath upon every
body who proposed voting for Roose-
welt, damned them up hill and down
and said all sorts OF indecent and un-
printable things about them. and kept
II up until a week or so ago.
But now II IL different.
These Taft county ticket candidates
want the votes of the Roosevelt people.
They are honeying around them. speak
respectfully of them, and do not even
'call them Bull Moosers. They are cir.
culating petitions asking that their
names be put on the Roosevelt ticket
as candidates for the various Offices
for which they are the nominees on
the Taft ticket.
They have not changed their feeling
toward the Roosevelt people. Down in
their hearts the same hatred exists
They have simply put on "A mask, and
are endeavoring to "be good" during
the balance Of the campaign and use
the Roosevelt supporters to pull theil
chestnuts out of the fire.
As a pretext for their action In seek
ing to have their names put on tn,
Roosevelt ticket, they have concocted
a scare story that some wicked Demo
Gratis were going to got .up an indie
pendent ticket In Knox county. They
expect the Roosevelt people to be gul
lible enough to swallow such a pipe
dream, and then laugh In their sleeves
sover the manner In which they think
they have so successfully deceived tn,
Roosevelt followers.
II is not nearly as good game as
the Taft candidates think II Ia, The
Roosevelt people are onto the candi
dates and know they are trying to put
one over on them. They know full
well OF the foul moutbed denunciati tion
of Roosevelt and his followers that
has been given expression to along the
streets OF Mt. Vernon by the Taft coun
ty-ticket candidates. They see the pur
pose OF these candidates la trying Il
use them to promote their own selfish
ends; they know OF their lawnlng upor
"A Roosevelt man In his presence and
cursing him to his back.
The Roosevelt people know that tn,
county candidates are cooperating
with the Taft organization la Kiio,
county TO promote the interests o
Tafts candidacy both In the county
and state.
Walter Brown, the Bull Moose lead
er, when he retired from the Republic c