The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-18
DEMOCRATS LOADED FOR HE BULL MOOSE Eager for Him to Get on the
 Warpath AMMUNITION IS GOOD
  Spellbinders Expect to Shoot Roose- yelt's Record Full of Holes-The Attitude of the Bull Moose
 Newspapers
AMMUNITION IS GOOD
By C. E. STEWART

washington, July 17.-(Special)-lf those papers who favor the election of Theodore Roosevelt are to be relied upon in sounding the tocsin of the coming campaign, the colonel may be depended upon to make things exceedingly lively for all his opponents for the presidency.
 It is claimed in the Washington Times, a rabid Roosevelt, third term, bull moose organ, that the fight is between Roosevelt and Wilson, and that Taft will be frozen out in the battle, and comparatively ls- nored in the campaign of the progress sives.
 They contend that Taft will run a poor third in the race and as g receiver o1 stolen goods" is entitled to no consider ation.
 They declare that Colonel Roosevelt will Ego after" pr. Wilson early and often. 1t seems that the bullmoosers have been carefully inquiring into Governor Wilson's record and propose to fay him oyer the head with number Of his own productions
 Roosevelt will also, it is said, attack the tarim platform of the democratic partv It is certainly to be hoped that he will say democrats here for that they consider the strongest plank in the platform, and besides that they and the country will be interested in Roosevelt's ideas of the tariff, which up to this time he has been most careful to conceal.
 Roosevelt has already assumed all the credit for the verdict in the Lorimer case. And the Roosevelt papers are loud in their praise of him for the busting of the Illinois boss, but this prompts an- other list of questions from the New York World and Senator EaFollette di- reeted this time to the colonel himself, as MT Cortelyou has denied his ability to answer, as to who the contributors of the S1 1,gO0,0OO Jack Pot in 1904 were, and as to how this amount of money was expended These questions and similar ones are scornfully ignored by the chief bull moose.
 It is claimed that the bullmoosers will go after Governor Wilson good and strong on New Jerseys record for being the mother of the trusts, and as the governor was elected on reform ticket why he has not revised the code of that state in regard to the trusts.
 The democrats claim, however that when they get through with Teddy in this campaign he will be one of the worst licked men in the country. His record will be shot full of holes and shown up thoroughly as to it's inconsistency. He has written many books himself, and they will be used to good advantage aganist him. He hoWls about the bosses and he has two or three of the most corrupt and absolute political bosses in the country as the chief field marshals in the bull moose party.
 He will tbe asked to show who backed his campaign for the nomination and who is backing it now? He will be asked what connection Medill Mccormick and Perkins has with it? He will be asked how much bigger Boss Penrose is than Finn? He will be quoted on Taft In 1908 and in 1912, and that will be good reading matter. They will dig up his utterances on the third term and his abuses of previous Presidents" The democrats here say that it will be pic for Teddy to go on the warpath, and that they do not fear him in the least.
 The indications point any way to q live ly campaign, which will be in keeping with the contest for the nomination. On with the dance, and let the best man win.