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Bartbots Answer to oosevel==Asks lbo Is i0bwayn1an?

members were to be mObbed Ii the
plan, after all, failed of execution,
you, sir, can claim the credit for it,
as on the contrary, you were engaged
from morning till night pouring oil in
to the fire.
WilfuI Betrayal Of a Friend.
8. l charge you with having be-
trayed friend in the person Of Pres
ident Taft. Your standard of morals
may be dinerent from that of us COM
mon mortals, but surely the ordinary
citizen would rather do penance for
the balance of his life than to- have
such an indictment hurled against
him. You had left your successor
deficit Of $56, @ and besides be-
queathed to him the tariff question
and other knotty problems. You saw
him struggle bravely for the public
good under dAlnculties, which, in their
totality almost amounted to trag-
ledy, but instead of Fastening to his
aid to tighten the burden, such as any
upright friend would have done, you
secreuy conspired with his enemies
and finally fell onto his back when
he had every reason to count on your
friendship and support. Even today
neither he nor the country can
account for your faithlessness except
on the theory of your own inordinate
ambition or the legal procedure
against your pet trusts.
Contrast Of Sanity and Sham.
TO- shah not only support Mr..
Taft, but oppose you with all legiti-
mate means at my command, because
of the contrast between you and him.
Mr.. Taft is sane, safe and judiciOus,
and under him the country's progress
and peace W. be secure. He is man
worthy of the dignity OF his office.
During the last years of your admins
Itration l had almost become dis
gruntled with public life. YOuJ con-
slant paying to the galleries, your
hobnobbing with the political bosses,
your continuous political dickering and
bidding for notoriety and your per-
petual declarations without actual per-
Torrance had thoroughly disgusted
me, and the cant and insincerityt Of
all had gotten on my nerves. And do
you know what reconciled me to con-
tinue public service? 1t was the adj
vent of President Taft. After ALI the
sham here was pure gold again Stand
ing before HIM with his kindly, open
face beaming on me, l feb instinct
lvely that l was facing the majesty
of an honest and sincere man, and in
in his more than three years of in
cumbency he has not, in a single in
stance, fallen short of that first good
impression. But what is the use
telling you? You know all this to be
true and have said the same things
yourself, only in much stronger and
more glowing language.
These ten reasons may suffice for
the present to explain my attitude in
this campaign. 1Aere are others, but
do not wish to strike below the belt
unless compelled to.
RICHARD BARTHOLDT.
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under no circumstances would you &C.
cept another nomination. Your sub
sequent explanation that you had in
mind only consecutive term" is a
subterfuge and an after thought, and
every sane American citizen is con-
WINGED of that fact.
4. l am opposed to your candidacy
because it is for third term. There
may be growing disregard in some
quarters of time honored American
but l know of one element
of the population, which, because of
their inherent love of freedom, will
always reverently bow to them. re-
fer to the American Germans. They
rallied around the banners of Wash
ington to fight for American independ-
ence, responded enthusiastically to the
call of Abraham Lincoln to save the
union and free the slaves, helped to
save the credit anu honor of the cOun-
try by supporting, almost irrespective
OF party, ,he cause of sound money,
and in the present emergency, they
will again be actuated by their love
of liberty and not consent to this free
government being delivered to the
hands of dictator, for to their minds
this is what third four or fifth term
in the presidency would mean. l am
not prophet, but my knowledge of
the American people warrants this
What Washington would
not have, Grant could not have
Roosevelt should not and will not
have.
Deliberate Overthrow Of Constitution.
5. l charge you with the deliberate
effort to overthrow the constitution,
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Apologies to the Cowboy.

Off Plymouth England, Sept. IL,
1912.-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
Oyster Bay, n Y.-Dear Sir: In the
newspaper of September 5th-the
morning l sailed for Europe-you are
reported as having used the following
language at Des Moines, Iowa, to-wit:
81 see Mr.. What's-hisrname, that
congressman from St. Louis, Bar
tholdt-he is one of the highwaymen-
has asked Mr.. Cummins to debate the
Texas, California and Washington con-
tests at Chicago. l hope Mr.. Cum
Minis will refuse, for the reason that
l wouldn't debate with a pickpocket
the ownership of watch he had just
stolen. If the police are handy, I'll
hand him over to them. II they are
not, I'll tend to him myself. Any
man, any candidate for governor or
other office, who has knowledge of the
facts, and supports Taft gives us the
right to say that he is not competent
to pass upon honesty in public life"
l shall not attempt to answer you in
kind, as to do so would mean to stoop
to the level of the cowboy in speech
and manners, with apologies to the
cowboy Nor shall discuss with you
the merits of the Chicago contests,
for your expected Nominations on this
subject show you to be either guilty
of persistent prevarication or else ig-
norant of all knowledge of the facts
concerning it. In assuming the latter
everybody will admit that, in the face
of the printed evidence, l am taking
a charitable view. And just one more
word on this score. After your de-
feat in November when you will have
leisure to study the record you will
find that every delegate who was seat
ed at Chicago by decision first of the
national committee, then of the COM
mittee on credentials, and finally Of
the convention itself, was honestly en-
titled to his seat. This has not been
true. as you will know, of all national
conventions held by either party in
convention of 1912. The situation was
so serious as to discourage at the out
set any political trickery, and all the
members of the national committee
with whom l conferred agreed that if
there was anything that could allay
the excitement and heal the breach in
the republican party caused by your
ill-advised candidacy, it was the square
deal, and by it's decisions the commit
tee religiously lived up to that con-
viction. The only fraud attempted at
Chicago emanated from your side in
the shape of the fake contests styled
as psychological" by your own press
and condemned and voted down by
your own friends. Who, then, is the
highwayman? 1t may be said that the
democratic states and the smaller
states should not have been permit
ted to control the nomination, but
that is an entirely different matter,
and the national committee could GER
tainly not be expected and had no
right to change system which had
been in vogue for half century mere
ly to make your nomination possible.
For one, | voted in each case as the
facts warranted, and my conscience
dictated, and being convinced OF the
Justice of the committees decisions.
l have challenged Senator Cummins,
who bases his opposition to President
Taft on the disposition of the contests
to produce his evidence to the con.
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trary and meet me in joint discussion
on any platform he may designate.
Character Assassination No Answer.
However, this letter is not intended
as an argument. You would not ad-
NIT the truth concerning the contests
even if you were convinced of it be-
cause it would knock the props from
under your candidacy l venture these
lines rather in an effort to show that
your reckless attempts at character
assassination are not a sufficient an
swer to the reasons and we'll grounded
arguments of those who oppose you.
myself included. Before proceed to
the enumeration of these reasons, let
me suggest that | have known you
since you served your first term in the
New York assembly thirty years ago,
that l served in congress during the
time you were assistant secretary of
the navy, as we'll as during your two
presidential terms, that l was your
friend and admirer, and in 1904 helped
t. organize the National Roosevelt
league, OF which l was chosen presi-
dent, and through which the citizens
of German biz Tn and descent were raj
lied to your support. This much to
establish the qualifications of the
present case. My reasons for oppos-
ing your candidacy are the following,
to-wit:
Roosevelt, Tool Of the Trusts
l. charge you with being con-
sciously or unconsciously the tool of
the steel and harvester trusts. If
President Taft had disregarded the
law and the interests of the people as
you have done, through your failure
to prosecute these trusts, he would
have had no opposition for renomina-
ton. But the moment he had author
lied his attorney general to institute
proceedings, these powerful combina-
tons looked around for candidate
with whom to beat Mr.. Taft, and they
settled on you and furnished all the
money deemed necessary to carry the
primaries. These interests had a
double motive for their political &C.
tivity even aside from their desire to
swallow up the government as means
of defense. Not only did they wish to
get even with President Taft, but they
"oulCu W pay yOu q uCUC VI SIdtllOuC
for allowing them, in violation of law,
to absorb their only rival, the Ten
nesse Coal and Iron company, trans
action through which untold millions
were pocketed by the very men who
financed your preconvention as we'll as
your present campaign.
2. l challenge your sincerity in the
championship of the progressive meas
ures and assert it to be an insane am
bition and not an honest desire for
progress and reform, which prompted
your candidacy. Why did not you
propose all these new plans while you
were still president and had the pow
err to carry them out? Instead you
sneered at Senator LaFollette and his
followers. Your vOluminOus "confes-
sion of faith" by which you tell the
people in $4,000 words what you omit
ted to do while president, will con-
vince them, not of the sincerity of
your conversion. but of your growing
ambition for self-aggrandizeme and
power.
3. charge you with violation of
a solemn promise given to the Amer
lean people when you declared that
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J. Adam Bede: This close resemb-
lance between Colonel Roosevelt and
Abraham Lincoln was not noticed till
the colonel discovered it along with
the ten commandments. Then it was
recalled that he scolded Gen. Miles
in public, making disgraceful scene
at the White House, which was so
much like the thoughtful and cOnsid-
crate Lincoln.
Again when Senator Proctor, of
Vermont, died, with whom Roosevelt
had had some differences, and he was
asked if he was sorry, he replied that
he was sorry it was not Senator Hale.
This sounds very much like Lincoln.
In his book on The Rough Riders
he boasts of shooting a Spaniard in
the back. How Lincoln would have
gloated over so brave a deed!
On his trip down the Mississippi
river with the waterways commission
he had a pilot preemptorily dismissed
from service without hearing and
for no cause whatever. Lincoln al
ways dismissed pilots in that way!
Because government employe
passed his carriage in an auto on
the streets of Washington he amend
ed the civil service rules SO that a
department chief could dismiss clerk
without a hearing and forced his dis
missal under this rule that did not
exist when the act was committed.
Lincoln did something like that al
most every morning!
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Until the time for filing nomina-
lions with the secretary of state had
expired there was considerable guess
ing as to the extent of the bid the
bull moosers would make for the bal.
ance of power in the Iowa legislature.
With the last of the third party legis-
lative nominations on file Saturday, it
became apparent that the third party
as an influence in the legislative stu
alton might be regarded as negligible
quantity. For the lower house four
teen bull moosers in all have been put
forward, with ambitions to represent
the counties of Benton, Black Hawk,
Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque, Hamil-
ton, Iowa, Polk and Woodbury.. Of
the fourteen third party aspirants six
are running in counties that returned
democratic representatives two years
ago. And in the republican counties
practically all the bull moose candi-
dates are up against heavy republican
majorities. The four moose candi-
dates for the upper house are from
districts that were strongly republican
in 1910.
1t does not now appear that any of
the third party legislative candidates
will make a campaign based on an
actual hope of election. Apparently
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and the courts, for this and nothing
else, is what the proposed recall of
judges i. and judicial decisions mean.
If the constitutional guarantees which
vouchsafe our inalienable rights and
their enjoyment by a minority are to
be overthrow by the passing Whims
of a majority, why have cOnstitu-
ton at all and why courts? The will
of the majority decreeing one thing
today and another tomorrow, will be
the new Gessler hat-to borrow
smile from the Tell story-hung up
on high post to which the American
people would have to bend their knees
as the sole emblem of authority in the
land. l fancy the American people
are not quite ready to be ruled either
by an individual despot or by the
despotism of majority and will pre-
fer the timely and necessary judicial
reform proposed by President Taft to
the revolution proposed by you.
Responsible for Defeat Of Peace
Treaties.
g. charge you with responsibility
for the defeat of the arbitration treat
les, the greatest progressive measure
yet proposed by an American presi-
dent. These treaties signitied the first
practical step in the direction of
peaceful settlement of all future in
ternational controversies, and would
eventually have resulted, as other ma
lions would surely have emulated the
American example, in general agree
ments for the reduction OF ornaments,
and consequently in the relief of the
human family from intolerable bur-
dens. The same as in the case of
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reciprocity which you both favored
and opposed, you advocated the gospel
of peace in your christian speech, but
Immediately began knocking it when
President Taft submitted a concrete
plan to carry it out. The deciding
vote by which the treaties were emas-
culated was cast by your own pOliti-
can manager, Senator Dixon, who had
favored them up to the time of visit
with you at New York on the night
preceding the vote in the senate. Your
opposition evidently was prompted by
envy and jealousy of President Taft's
possible success in the matter of his
great world reform The United States
was, by Dixon's vote, robbed of the
prestige of leadership in the movement
for international peace, and no true
friend of arbitration, on that score
alone, will ever again countenance
your candidacy for the highest Office
in the gift of the people.
of the American people your denial of
all knowledge of the 100000 contrib
uted to your campaign by the Stand
ard Oil company in 1904. All you
knew of everything else connected
with that campaign, that denial rep
resents one of the most remarkable
issues of this remarkable campaign.
We are all fools, of course, in suppos-
ing that the trust magnates in con-
tributing will insist on receiving the
benefit of the candidates knowledge.
The testimony before the senate COM
mittee shows that above amount was
actually contributed in September and
had already been expended when, in
October, to keep the record straight,
you wrote Cortelyou not to accept any
corporation contributions. But why
go back as far as 1904, when the pres
ent campaign furnishes so instructive
an object lesson. George w. Perkins,
Frank Munsey, Medill Mccormick,
Dan Hanna and others have been pub
licly charged with having furnished
your sinews of war since you threw
your hat into the ring and you have
denied it. And are not these men the
representatives of the steel and har-
vester trusts, namely the trusts pro-
tected by you and prosecuted by Pres
ident Taft And as the candidate Of
these men you dare to appeal to the
plain people for their support and do
it without blushing? Oh, reform, what
crimes are being committed in thy
name
Attempts to lncite Violence.
s. charge you with having ac-
cepted, by your diatribes against the
national committee, to incite the peo'
pie to riot and bloodshed. Have you
forgotten what you said about such
crime-and crime it is-in your
first message to congress after the
assassination of President Mckinley?
Have you forgotten that you sent your
then secretary of state to New York
to charge Mr.. Hearst with RESPONSE
bility for that great national calam-
ity? But Mr.. Hearst's editorials We're
mild as compared with your furious
outbursts in which you characterized
honorable men as thieves and brig
ands. The popular mind was unus-
ually excited at the time, and every
true patriot felt it his duty to coun-
sci calm deliberation. An authentic
report actually reached the hall in
which the committee met that its
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-10-09
7. r. Like Lincoln?

When schoolgirl 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 a lordly crouch as that!
The closest resemblance, however,
was shown when Mr.. Roosevelt. while
president, in an article published ev-
erywhere over his own signature,
charged corruption upon Gen. Tyner.
who was postmaster general under
Grant, but at this time was subor-
dinate in the postoffice department.
At the presidents behest, he was in
dicted 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 court room. But he was ac-
quilted and as a free man went to his
home to die.
From his deathbed he wrote a last
appeal to the president to withdraw
what he had said and let him die with
out stain on his name or a disgrace
on his family. But Roosevelt let him
die without an answer, and the letter
is still unanswered" That is just like
Lincoln, of whom it might truthfully
pei to the poor and to heal the brok-
en- hearted"
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Iowa's Tame Moose

the mots any. of them could hope to do
would be to take enough votes away
from the republican primary candidate
to elect the democratic candidate in
close district. And the most that
could be hoped along this line would
be that enough democrats might thus
be slipped in to elect o United States
senator ID succeed Senator Kenyon.
Is there anybody in Iowa except a
genuine dyed in the wool democrat
or possibly Carl Franke-who wants
such an outcome? One suspects that
enthusiasm for the bull moose legisla-
tive ticket, such as it is and what
there is of it, will begin to evaporate
in the light of its actual political sig
niticance.
The bull moose state ticket is not
being taken seriously even by the
candidates who are going through the
motions of making a campaign.
Everybody in Iowa knows there
would have been no third ticket if
Iowa opinion had been allowed 70 de-
eide the issue, independent OF outside
bosses. Nobody knows what is CON-
ing, but good many Of us who claim
no gift of second sight think they
can see what is coming to the bull
moose state and legislative ticket
Sioux City Journal.
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The fashions OF Japanese women
who have not adopted western notions
have not changed in 1000 years,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-10-09

Dame Fashion DEGREES women must
continue to hobble
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-04-13
Killarney Cathedral.

The building of st. Mary's Cathedral
Killarney, was commenced before the
great famine years. Operations were
necessarily suspended during those ter
rible years, and it has remained in its
incomplete state since then.
After the long lapse Of sixty years
DIR. Mangan, Bishop of Kerry, has un-
dertaken the onerous task of complet-
ing this Cathedral, and at his command
Fathers Griffin and Dillon have come
to this country in order to secure sufft-
cient funds for that purpose.
Bishop Mangan felt, and every Irish
man feels, that in Killarney-"Beauty'
Home" visited by people of every race
and religion-there should be noble
Church to symbolic and testify to the
lofty religious, Catholic spirit Of the
faithful people of Ireland, and thai
amid the splendor and glory of the nat
ural beauty of Killarney the Cathol c
Church should not rise as a blot on tn:
landscape, an architectural eyesore tt
pain the discerning eye of the stranger
and make him sneer at once at the .'e.
ligion of Catholics.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-04-13
Tho Irish Language.

Before pronouncing the Celtic
tongue as cultural in sound, go first
and hear it as it is spoken with nn-
schoolcd, poetic tongue and tho salt
of provcrb by one OF those fine old
lrislmcn that arc yet to be found TN
the mountain valley of our land-na-
turcs gentlemen; yes, and true gentle
men by the blood of Milcsian pcd:-
gree that cannot, perhaps, be rcckoncd
through all the generations, but that
can certainly be seen in every gesture
of the hand i'm every expression of tho
cnuntciancc. in every word of well
come, and in every word of hospital
ity. Talk Of these men as Ignorant.
They have an cducatiOn--H refinement
EVEN Il mine Of farseeing judgment
of men and things that looks will new
cr bring. You will find, too, in the
most remote parts of Ireland, tall VEN
cradle women, of deliberate bearing
and uuecnly micn, who never, perhaps.
left their native parish, but who would
not be considered out of place II trans
ported to the lofty halls of lordlv
castle. They speak 4 beautiful Ian
guagc and they speak it beautifully,
and before people bearing Irish names
commit themselves to Indifference
about the Irish tongue, let them try
this test or hear sermon preached
In our soul-stirring language by an
Irish priest who knows the idiom and
is master of its vocabulary"
Ri. Rev. Patrick O'Donncll,
Bishop of Raphoc.
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Irish Sailors.

It is so customary to hear the prais-
es of Irishmen as soldiers chanted by
her singers that it is positively re-
freshing to read even in homely prose
the valor of Trishmen as men O war
sounded by an alien and the alien all
Englishman at that, and Lord Church
ill, having in the English parliament
paid well-earned tribute to the valor
Of Irish troops in South Africa, as
well as in Wellington's forces, a cor
respondent writes the London Tablet
and points out that these had thei:
counterpart in Nelson's fleets. Mr.
Michael Joyce, who claims a small
sympathy with the subject as the only
working sea pilot also engaged in pilot
ing measures at Westminster, has
computed that $4,000 Irishmen foug.,t
under "England's Admiral" Indeed
the proportion of Irish Catholic sailors
who manned the decks at Trafalgar
many on board the "Victory" itself
cannot have fallen very far short OF
that of their countrymen who formed
the British squares at Waterloo
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