The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-31

and MT. Roosevelt as we would meas
 ure any other three citizens of thi!
 Republic.
 Napoleon solved the question of ap-
 pointing to civil and military place
 by asking in four words. the vita
 question. applicable to every mar who seeks public place. Napoleon re- quired his secretaries to furnish him an abstract of the record of each can didate or applicant, and that record was prepared and submitted to this master of men in answer to the Ques- ton of four words-"what has he done?" It Is the only safe rule for you and me in estimating a candidate's g fitness for future power. to inquire, what has he done?' and proceed immediately with these inquiries, and I select three men because I attend ed three National conventions last June, two in Chicago. the Progressive and the Republican, and one in St. Louis, the Democratic National con- vention.
 MT. Roosevelt had the auditorium filled with men and women who be- lieved he was sincerely in favor of progress, when that convention opeE- ed on the 7th of June, and while many of them changed their estimate of MT. Roosevelt immediately after his betrayal of that convention, yet his secret agreement with MT. Hughes shortly after the adjournment of the two conventions, and his pronounced leadership of MT. Hughes since the secret agreement, makes him a neces- sary factor in determining the vote of each and every intelligent American citizen, on the 7th day of November.
 "Mr. Roosevelt is telling the people to vote for MT. Hughes, another Judge, for the presidency. He had trained Judge Taft in his own cabinet for four years, and was so sure he had Judge Taft fitted for the presidency, that he didn't give the Republican party even a right to say anything in 1908, but himself dictated the nom- ination of Judge Taft, and by the end of Judge Taft's Presidency, he charg- ed that Taft had associated himself with Wickersham and other shams; that he was dominated by crooks, porch-climbers, and malefactors of great wealth, and so curely did MT. Roosevelt believe this, and so vocifer- ous1y did he assert it, that he induced enough Republicans to leave the par ty, and thus he himself, was cause and author of the election of Wood row Wilson. In 1912, MT. Roosevelt said Taft was a failure; In 1916 he told the Republican convention at Chicago, by special message, that Hughes would not do, but that they should nominate the British sym pathizer, Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas sachusetts. The Republicans repudi- ated his judgment at Chicago and said, Teddy, get thee behind me-" Today MT. Roosevelt is chasing hither and thitheP with megaphone demanding that this Republican party must elect Hughes. Today he is asking the vot- CTS to forget that he said that these same men who now dominate Hughes, are the men who dominated Taft, and whom he branded as sharns, crooks, porch climbers and malefactors of great wealth. MT. Roosevelt will find on the 7th of November, that the people haven't forgotten that he is a chronic fau1t-finder; that. he found fault with the McHnley-Hanna ad- immigration, in their method of con- ducting the Spanish-American war; that he found fault with Taftfs meth cd of conducting the government from 1909 to<1913: that he found fault with two Republican ,NAtiofnl conventions, in 1912 and 1916; and that he is now finding fault, and when he charged istration, not because the administra- tion Is to blame, but because MT. Roosevelt has acquired the habit of findingf aualt, and when he charged last Saturday night at Brooklyn, that Wilson was a coward and hypocrite, it made me think of Dean Swift's graphic statement, that 1t Is sure sign of a mean heart to be forever finding fault with others.
 MT. Roosevelt is so constituted that he cannot see any virtue in anything that is not military. He is in favor of initiating the policies of Alexander. Caesar and Napoleon.
 'tNow, MT. Hughes, the proverbs of many nations say, Show me with whom you go, and will tell you what you are' On the one side you are going with those\men who dom mated Mr. Taft, and who MT. Roosevelt branded as unworthy of comradeship by a man fitted for the Presidency. On the other side Of you, you have Roosevelt. whom you congratulated on his Lewiston speech. when he declared for war with MeM- co, war with Germany and war with Great Britain, and for compulsory military service on the part of our young manhood.
 "In addition to this, let me hastily remind you, that as governor of New York, MT. Hughes vetoed the two cent railroad fare, in state of nine million population, while such 'states as Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Missouri, Iowa. South Dakota and Wisconsin, have it on their statute books, and the courts of several of these states have sustained the law, while in some the railroads haven't even dared to take the matter into the courts be- cause their receipts are larger on the two cent basis than they were on the three cent basis.
 "Mr. Hughes used his influence as governor of New York, and recom- mended the legislators of that state to reject the Constitutional amend ment of the United States, providing for an income tax, while Woodrow Wilson, as governor of New Jersey, the amendment.
 "Mr. Hughes. as governor of New York, vetoed the law equalizing the pay of male and female teachers, for like service. Both branches of the legislature of New York had pass ed the law, declaring that it, was ;un- fair to pay the women $500 a year and pay the men $900 for the same