The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-03

WhadJumean when you said that I stand as the representative of the men and policy of reaction;" and that l was put forward by the forces as representative of special privi- leges?"
 "Ain't you?" grins Eeddy, with his tongue in his cheek. Sure" says Elihu, "but that ain't part O. the Pic'her. You don't have to adver- tise it, wore not featuring that.''
 Bill Taft, all dolled-up afresh, re- enters. The picture goes on. The camera man grinds it off, fifteen frames a second, nine hundred pie lures z. minute.
 Reel one is now we'll under way.
 The next series of scenes shows Ted dy eating crow-his own words-a la political exigencies, 1916.
 Only the film itself on the screen can adequately portray the sream- ing, boisterous fun of this slap-stick. Certain sub-titles however, will give you the drift-each subtitle ebing preceded by T wish't hadn't Said It."
 Taft is a Liar"
 Taft Says What He Must Know to be Untrue"
 ''To Speak of Such Actions on His Part as Square Deal is Really the Crookedest Kind of Deal:''
 Taft said-It is the Closest and Most Astounding Hypocrisy"
 'Taft's Government is Bossed by Lorimer, Guggenheim, Barnes, Gal finger and Their Like, in Defiance of the Will of the People; the Government under Which the People are Defrauded of their Rights"
 After Three and One-Half eYars of Actual Experience of MT. Taft, the Bosses now Support Him."
 Wall Street has Made up it's Mind Taft's Prosecution of Standard Oil and Tobacco Trusts are Fakes"
 Never in Thirty Years of Close Ob- servation have I Seen Such Scandal ous Abuse of Patronage, Some of Which Abuse has been Done directly by Mfr. Taft Himself"
 T Do Not Wonder that Aldrich, Gallinger, Penrose, Lorimer and Gug- genheim Supported Taft's,Administra- tion-It Merited Their Supplrt and Approval"
 MT. Taft Believes that We have a Special Class of Persons Wiser than the People Who cannot be Reached by the People, but Who Govern Them and Ought to Govern Them. Every Upholder and Beneficiary of Crooked Privileges Loudly Applauds Mr. Taft's Doctrine"
 'Taft's Railroad-Rate Bill was a Thoroughly Mischievous Measure Which was Championed by Special Privilege and Special Interest," Any Man who Stands for the Prac- tices of Barnes, Panrose and Their Allies is an Object df .Derision, if He Claims to Believe in Honest Politics or Breaches a High Standard of Public Morality"
 This is a Naked Fight between Corrupt Politicians and Thieves and the People,"
 Crane, Barnes, Penrose, Murphy, Guggenheim, Mulvane, Shoot, A1- drich, Cannon and Their Associates Cheat the People out of Their Rights and Uphold the Combination of Crooked Politics and Crooked Busi- ness"
 MT. Taft, being of shy, modest and retiring disposition, asks that the gallery be screened off and that, Teddy
 
 direction to EAT HIS WORDS. through some five hundred feet of film-with the understanding that each subtitle be preceded by: For Political Purposes I Take it Back"
 ."I Do not Recall in the Seven Years that Roosevelt was President that His Path was Strewn with the Bodies of Bosses that He Killed" Roosevelt Thinks He is the Whole Show" Roosevelt Like4s Himself to Abra- ham Lincoln and Resem bles Him Less than any Man in the History of This ] Country" \ Roosevelt is a Demagogue and a | Flatterer."
 Roosevelt, the Political Bed-Fel- | low of Aldrich, Cannon, ,Penrose Quay, Platt and Foraker, HAS HIS | NERVE TO CHARGE ME WITH HELPING MACHINE POLITICS." Roosevelt was a Wicked Man not | to Prosecute the Steel Harvester and other Morgan Trusts-even if Geo w. Perkins, a Director of the Har- | vester and Steel Trusts and Member of the Morgan Trust, Did Go to Wash | ington and Beg Him not to- | ''Mr Perkins was Onef of the Chiei Contributors of FIT. Roosevelt's Cam paign Fund"
 | The reel closes with this fade-in- from T. R.'s Worcester speech ir 1912:
 | When MT. Taft speaks of me, di. rectly or obliquely, as neurotic or 2 demagogue, or in similar terms, | SHALL SAY NOTHING"
 END OF REEL ONE. Intermissior | of five minutes while Sam FairchilC l loads up his magazine. l (Reel Two Follows.) WOMEN LISTEN TO REASON | You who suffer, why do you hesi-