The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-28

Every presidential campaign pack
 has it's joker. MT. Hughes deck of marked cards is unique-an jokerS-
 and T. R. is the Right-and-Left Bow
 er
 | Draw a card-no difference where
 and you get: Joker Penrose, Joker Barnes, Joker Smoot, Joker Morgan,
 Joker Rockefeller, Joker Perkins, or
 some other well marked gilded Joker | just as good; or, Right-and-Left
 Bcwer-Teddy.
 | How will Candidate Hughes play
 his Right-and-Left Bower? A Right
 and-Left Bower works both ways,
 plays both ends against the middle,
 works both sides of the street at the
 same me.><coppers every bet, and l faces both ways-it can be the low
 est card in the pack as well as the highest, depending on when or how it is played! When Candidate Hughes plays Teddy, he's likely to cut his 1 fingers-for Teddy's sharp and once drawn from the sheath, just skins is going to skin-working both ways, as he does.
 l Teddy is a real card. And a dam 1 ocles sword all damascened up. The l most versatile card in the whole Re- publican pack.
 | A correction. Teddy owes alle- glance to no party. He doesn't belong to the Republican party-it islanders l that party to call Teddy a Republican. Teddy belongs to the Roosevelt Party also unique-a1ways right, always tells the truth, breathes all the air, | beats all the drums, blows all the horns, and is the bridegroom at the wedding and the corpse at the funer- al. \ Everything and everybody else is | wrong, and a liar, and mollycoddle, and a liar, and pussyfoot, and a l liar. If were Candidate Hughes I'd be afraid to play Teddy. I'd prefer to | take a chance with Barnes, or Gug- genheim, or Penrose-Pd know where | I'd get off then. But with Teddy-Pd | want a pocket full of alibis, a suit of l chain armour, "protected tank,'' and bornb-proof cyclone cellar. Everybody knows Teddy-especial- l ly The Old Guard. Perhaps that's why the Republican campaign man. agers are playing that card chiefly in New Mexico and Arizona, where ke can only lose SIX electorial votes! Note carefully: 1. Roosevelt put in Taft and went afishin'.
 2. Returned and. began to malign Taft and play for the G. O. P. nomi- l nation. Got kicked out. Liars! Thieves!"
 B. Gathered up the G. o. P. in surgents, and by brutal chicanery l beat their logical leader, LaFollette, af fha of sives; meanwhile branding as "crook- crooked business the very core of the Republican party-now backing Hughes!
 4. Confronting certain defeat as the Progressive nominee, he shame fully and basely betrayed that party declaring he would not accept nomi- nation IF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WOULD NOMINATE A MAN WHOSE FOREIGN POLICIES WE'RE IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS OWN! r-.
 ,. It did. On June 10th. Name, Charles Evasion Hughes.
 6. On June 27 Roosevelt said: "Mr. Hughes meets the condition. No good American can have any feeling but scorn and detestation for these professional German Americans who seek to make the American President in effect a viceroS of the German Emperor" 7. After being closeted with Roosevelt two and one-half hours, Hughes announced: "We talked very fully over all matters and were in complete accord!"
 8. Three days later Roosevelt, speaking of Hughes, said His high qualities must recommend him to the esteem of the whole world,> particu- larly to the sympathy of the Allies!"
 g. On August 31, Roosevelt con- demned Wilson's Administration for failing to live up to it's duty and re- sist the invasion of Belgium!
 10. Two days later, Hughes de- clared that he had read Roosevelt's speech of August 31 and endorsed every word of it! .s-
 Now add it all up: Roosevelt is for any man who is in accord with him. Hughes is in complete accord with Roosevelt. Roosevelt announces Anti-German so is. Hughes Roose- welt is Pro-Ally; so is Hughes
 Take a fresh start:
 1. The New York Tribune, eter- nally Republican, on June said: The German-Americansh have adopt ed him (Mr. Hughes) as their can didate. They have served notice on the Republican party that it must not nominate Root or Roosevelt be- cause both are unsatisfactory to the German and they have proclaimed MT. Hughes their favor ite.' f
 2. On June 3, The Tribune said: Is there any essential difference be-