iS? 83® Price 10c. Ja«. H. Kirby, 3X3^4 S. 5th St., Sprinffitld, 111 INTRODUCTION Springfield, Ill., Sept. 30, 1912. The only apology I have for writing this Anti-Bull Mooser and presenting it to the public is because the local papers did not want to publish all I had to say against Mr. Roosevelt. I would gladly have given it free to the public if the papers had published it. Since I have to work and make a living by the sweat of my face the nominal sum of 10c will be charged to pay the expenses of publishing. The work itself is donated. JAMES H. KIRBY. Written by James H. Kirby just previous to the Bull Moose convention in Chicago. Springfield, Ill., July 27, 1912. OUR COUNTRY’S DANGER. Every country has a birth, life, and £ death. This his¬ tory proves, and history is continually repeating itself. Every nation is an organization of a company of men. Human nature is the same wherever we find it and in every age. Since the morning stars sang together, down to the nasty right now, the’ proclivities of the human mind are the same. There always has been and there always will be the slave and the slave driver. There alw’ays has been and there always will be the boss and' the bossed. There always have been men who are determined to rute, and men who are willing to be ruled over. This overbearing, dominating egotistic, I am that I am, principle in man is what has caused the earth a thousand times to flow with blood. Man, know thyself, the motto for the human race, proves that after we have found ourselves out we have only proved to be what we abhorred and 1 dreaded in others. A little power is a dangerous thing. Not one in ten thousand but will take advantage of the influence he may have. “He who con¬ quers himself is greater than he was who taketh a city.” One’s worst enemy is one’s self. Having conquered self the world will lie prostrate at our feet. But how few who have fought the battle. Eternal vigilance, day by day, is the price of the victory in the battle against self. This desire to rule over is manifested in every walk and profession of life. The tendency of the day is rapid movement. The rapid transit of the body and things material by the masses of the people, without any consideration of the rapid progress of the mind or soul is where the people will fall behind a few that is going to rule. The cause of every nation’s fall is not so much from the ambition of the few to supersede, but the lethargy of the many to allow them to do it. Every nation is the cause of her own downfall. Everlasting wakefulness is now as it ever was the price of our liberty. We pursue our daily avocation with an eye single to success in business without regard of our duty to our country. We go to the polls and vote ahd think our duty is done. But don’t you ever think it! Sleep on your gun, my dear fellow citizen, for “Avarice and ambition are watching in the day, while concupiscence (like a pestilence) walketh in dark- ness.” We are moving rapidly. It took other nations a few hundred years to reach their zenith. We may be near ours now, unless we awake, arise! We are living in an age of swiftness. The watch word now is go the limit the first bound. We are the most swiftly flying nation under the sun. And this is the swiftest of any age in every sphere of of human endeavor. I am only a young man, but I have seen all the inventions from the barbed wire fence to the flying machine and the wireless. And all the discoveries from X ray to radium. Everything seems to be going at lightning break speed except the soul. In politics we are going as tho’ we were shot out of a dynamite gun. The bars are all down, the throttle’s wide open, and Teddy has the Bull Moose by the taif with a down hill swing. We stagger and fall aghast when we see senators and ex-senators, governors and ex-governors fall in line with the Bull Moose party. Surely these men have not studied the downfall of nations. Surely they are ignorant of the signs of a coun¬ try’s decline. Surely they do not know the symptoms of a sick nation! We are surprised beyond comparison. We are unable to move and wild with thirst when we hear the hammers, blow on blow, knocking away the spurs and steel of the foundation of this government. There was never any kind of a swindling game but what the face of it seemed fair. Every “gold brick” scheme seems fair. All swindlers are the smoothest and the best looking of men. “Billy,” the bunco steer, that led tens of thousands of cattle to their slaughter at the yards in Chicago, was the most docile of animals. And so Roosevelt, the man who served two terms in the presidency, who was popular with all people at that time, and who was honored beyond comparison, up to the time he threw his hat in the ring for a third term. If Teddy could go back to that day and recall those words, how gladly it seems to us we would do it. But the siren song of ambition, his lust for the return of power and influence, closed his eyes, his ears and his heart to all the noble aspirations of the heart and soul. The ego swamped him. t He stands like the rock of Gibraltar in front of himself. He is as immovable from his own vision as the everlasting mountains. He sees nothing or nobody but Teddy. He stands constantly in front of himself looking down into his deep blue eyes. How beautiful he is! How fair he lies within his own arms, pressed with many a fond caress of love and tenderness. He looks not from without. He is 4 happy only from within. His experience has evolved this rule: “If he can not be happy from within without, he will not be happy from without within. That is to say that he’s the whole cheese. Put Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Gar- eld, and throw Grant on for good measure, on one end of the scales, and Teddy will tilt the beam his way every time. Nobody ever lived and nothing ever happened until Rosy got here. We speak of him from the day he threw his hat in the ring. We have just read that he has not taken good care of his teeth. We fear that he has more than mistreated his head. Roosevelt claims he is and has been fighting for a great cause. When he came to Springfield in April, on the heels of the new primary law, he notified us at the Arsenal that unless the convention at Chicago was carried on properly that he would have something to say. Then he showed his teeth and says, “I’ll have very much to say.” That was his announcement that unless he got the nomination that he would “bolt” the Republican party. His interpretation of the improper carrying on at Chicago was under any condition not to nominate him. He had a chance to cause the nomination of Governor Hadley at that convention. That would have been a compromise and the Republican party would not have been broken into fragments all over this country. And long before the convention, and long before he ever threw” his hat in the ring, he could have espoused the candidacy of Bob LaFollette or Senator Cum¬ mings and have won the day at Chicago with more glory * and renown than Bryan did at Baltimore w’hen he separated the Democratic party from Wall Street. But the sun of Roosevelt’s glory has set, never to rise again. He has proven by his actions and conduct to all people w’ith a little sense, and beyond the shadow of a doubt that he served the ego instead of the cause. La Follette was the pioneer in this Republican progressive movement. He has alw r ays been a progressive and should have been the hero in the cause. Roosevelt is nothing more nor less than a political robber. He’s a pirate on the high seas of self aggrandizement. Figuratively speaking, he’s a spy. He’s a traitor to the party that picked him up out of the mire and clay and set him on the highest pedestal of fame. He has destroyed the party that Lincoln made. He has shattered the most sacred precedents of the American people. He has lowered the dignity of the 5 presidency. He goaded the president of the United States ♦ into a defense of his administration, something that never was done before in the history of our country, and all be¬ cause he had an insatiable desire to be president more times than any other man. We cannot believe there is a speck of sincerity about - him, otherwise he would have sought the nomination of some other man that represented his cause. He put Taft up and he wanted to show that he could put him down, but he had the wrong bull by the horns'. And being dis¬ appointed in this, he proposes to tear the Republican party asunder. Even now if he was sincere in the advocacy of his cause he would put up some other man, but he can’t get the “I am that I am” idea out of his head, and, of course, the Bull Moosers -dare not contrary him. He is the wonderful great and shining star around which these little satellites are zipping. He will have acomplished his pur¬ pose—thaj: of defeating the Republican party in state and nation. After the election in November, the bottom and i sides and top will have dropped out of the Bull Moose, party, and Mr. Bull Moose and Teddy will die a simultane¬ ous death, and both will be buried in the political potters’ field side by each, as they had run. Personally, with me, Roosevelt was a great man up till the day he threw his hat in the ring; since that day to me he has appeared to be the greatest “frost” that ever shot the shoots. I am sorry that all my admiration has been turned into disgust and hate. Nothing that he can ever do will restore my confidence in him. I believe him to be a political highwayman. I feel in my own mind that he has designs on this government. That unless we crush him he will become as an Alexander or a Peter the Great. I am positive in my own mind that if he could restore himself to power again that he would roll this earth in blood. That he would go on a conquest of the world, and that is - why he is now’ and has been advocating most •strenuously the building up for this government the strong¬ est navy in the world. He’s a war dog. He will do some¬ thing, that no other man has ever done or he won’t do anything. You say it is impossible for a single man to conquer the world again. I say it is just as easy now as it ever was. The facilities of warfare have kept pace with human progress and population. It’s just as easy to man- 6 age a big business as it is a little one if you ve got the wheels in your head and know how to pull the strings. I say we’re moving fast. The way to keep a dog from going mad in August is to kill him in July. The way to keep Teddy from going mad is to kill him now and bury him deep in November. That Mexico and Canada would be annexed to the United States, and 1 that war with Japan would be inevitable, and once having dominion over the entire Western hemisphere and the Ottoman Empire con¬ quered, continental Europe would quake and crumble, and as Rome was once the mistress of the whole world, Wash¬ ington city would again be, and the West would dominate the East, and history would repeat itself. How can Roosevelt’s word be worth anything? How can the people trust him when he has gone back on every¬ thing that he said on the night of November 8, 1904, when it w r as clear that he was elected, he vowed that he would never again be a candidate for the presidency; that he will have served two terms, and that nothing nor anybody could ever persuade him to run again. That was one of the very things that made him so popular with the people. He was a man that took with the people. His unconven¬ tional management, his “short cuts”, his avoid¬ ance of long introductions and circumlocutions made him popular, and he seemed to be a man o-f the people re¬ gardless of creed or doctrine, and at the expiration of his second term he still said he had served tw^o terms and that he was done. That’s what enshrined him in the hearts of the people, but he belittled himself, his administration, and the people, when he “steam rolled” the nomination of Mr. Taft; w r hile he was willing at that time to quit, he still proposed to dictate the policies of the country, and the nomination of his party candidate. He first thought of putting up Senator Root, then Secretary of State, but later decided that Root, being frqm his own state (N. Y.), he would prefer to put him in the Senate, -which he did. There is no question but what Root is a far greater states¬ man than Taft, and he was the man to have had the nomi¬ nation, but that didn’t quite suit Teddy. He couldn’t steam roll Taft for Senator in Ohio as well as he could Root, from his own state. So he decided to make Taft president and Root, United States Senator, and so he hav¬ ing done all these things was the boss of all bosses, and. 7 now, because he can’t still wear the belt and kick people around, and their hound dogs, too, he proopses to -not only tear up the party, but to literally tear the bone out of the earth. When he went to Africa he got off the job a little, and the boys got to running the thing over at W ashing- ton a little on their own hook, and when Teddy returned they had gotten to be great big fellows and sorter smart, and so there came a break between “me and my policies” and “my boys”. The old man, as it were, had moved to town and the boys had learned to manage the farmland when he came back bossing around—hell was to pay, and the further it went the worse it got and the more deter¬ mined the old man was to have the farm back, because he had the deed to it, just like Roosevelt thought he had to the United States and the people. And the very laws that he put through Congress while he was president, and the laws that he enforced with his big stick, to his mind, became obsolete in Taft’s administration. The Sherman law was a dandy under his administration but ought to be repealed under Taft. Taft’s manner of prosecuting the trusts under the anti-trust law was a horrible bungle to hear Teddy tell it. In coming at Taft that way was the way he had of announcing his candidacy about a year be¬ fore he threw his hat in the ring. If Roosevelt had stuck to his word in not being a can¬ didate again, and had done what he could to make Taft’s administration a success, the people would not have become dissatisfied with Taft, and no question Taft would have succeeded himself again, but it has all come about by that damned egotistic selfishness of Roosevelt. Talk about bosses! He’s the “cap sheaf” and the ring leader and boss of all the bosses. He would boss God Almighty if he could. He would make the sun stand still and turn the moon and stars to blood if he could. If he had the pow r er to make, every knee would bow and every tongue confess him. He loves to come with shout and groan and clarion blast, and the hoarse echo of the thunder gun. He loves to ride on the wings of the wind. What do you think of an ex-president that has served two terms that will have them hold his train for one hour and twenty-nine minutes, 188 miles away 1 , when he is plung¬ ing 1,000 miles to make a great speech in the interest of a great cause, in order that 1,600 girl clerks might be there to 8 swell the crowd? Does that look like sincerity and earnest¬ ness? • Imagine if you can a man occupying the highest position of any individual in the world humiliating himself like that. Roosevelt vowed and affirmed, up to the very day he threw r his hat in the ring, that he would not solicit the nomination, and w'ould take it only if it was tendered him. How has it looked since then? He has not only solicited it but has contrived every means fair or false to get it. Never • •* g before in the history of God’s Kingdom did a man ever make such a strenuous effort to get something that he had no right to. If after this humiliating, undignified, sickening, nauseating effort, he can retain the respectability of the people, then God pity the people. Roosevelt now courts every issue, every cause, every theory that he thinks is a popular one. He now courts the very thing that he crushed when he was president. It’s God, anything- for votes. When Oklahoma was waiting her constitution, Teddy sent Taft down there to get them to not put the recall or the initia¬ tive in their constitution. What do you know about him now? Did he say anything about woman suffrage when he was on the inside? How about him now? What did he care for Illinois spending $20,000,000.00 to initiate the deep waterway lakes to the gulf while he was president? He’s merely sparking us suckers for our votes now. Every thing he says, and every thing he does, he merely gives himself away. “The murderer can not keep his secret.” It is a psychological 1 law that no man can make others believe what he himself dbes not believe. Earnestness flashes in the eye; it beams in the face, and burns on the brow. If a man be¬ lieves what he says his actions will prove it. Sincerity proves itself wherever it goes, and an honest man is the noblest work of God. But a dishonest one is the most ignoble. If Teddy can fool the people let him go on, but he can’t fool me. He says he’s fighting the millionaires and the plutocrats. But we notice that McCormick and Perkins, and a few other trust magnates are his “pushers.” If you want to know the truth let him have his say and then take the opposite. If I was a Republican or ever had pretended to be, I should hate to be caught dead, or any other way, with the Bull Moosers next week in Chicago. No doubt the standard will be set high and the mesh of the net will be made big to let the little fish out. Nobody but the pure in heart will be allowed to vote the Bull Moose ticket next fall. Oh, no! There w r on’t be any socialist vote that ticket. Oh, 9 no! And not an anarchist will vote for Teddy. If anything should happen to cause the party to fall through with or that Teddy should fail to materialize, then just let them nominate a figurative ticket, just let them worship the memory of great men and say, if it were possible, we would have Benedict Arnold at the head and Aaron Burr at the tail, and then our great cause would be personified. My dear fellow citizens, I appeal to you, in the language of Bob Ingersoll: “We are again engaged in the great struggle for national life. We hear the sound of prepara¬ tion, the music of the boisterous drums and the silvery voices of the heroic bugles; we see thousands of assem¬ blages and hear the appeals of orators, and in these as¬ semblages we see all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers.” And again we see Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill. We see Washington crossing the Delaware and at Valley Forge. And we see the heroes of ’61 march¬ ing down the streets of the cities, through the towns and across the prairies, down to the fields of glory to do and to die for the eternal right. And we see the hand of Lincoln writing that divine enspired and immortal document, “strik¬ ing the shackles” from the hands and feet of four million slaves. “We see the slave on the auction block and the whipping post, and where all was want and crime and cruelty and fetters we now see the faces of the free.” The past rises before us. Shall we tolerate and coddle a man .who tramples beneath his feet the most sacred of America’s precedents and institutions? Forbid it, my dear countrymen. If Roosevelt should ascend again to the presidency it will be a dark hour for this nation. In his desperation and mad insatiable ambition, if once again he gets his hand at the helm of our Ship of State, he will drive her at break neck speed like Capt. Smith did the Titanic, crash, crash, crash, into the iceberg, down, down, down to the bottom of the sea, careless of warnings, death, hell, or the grave. JAMES H. KIRBY. Springfield, Ill., Aug. 28, 1912. Springfield Journal: To the Editor—I want to ask the question, when did Roosevelt find out about the two old parties being so rot¬ ten? He was perfectly willing to run in the old rotten Republican party up until about June 22d. I winder how he found out that it was so rotten about that time. I 10 wonder why he didn’t organize a new party before that* and run as its standard bearer. Yes, it was rotten up to that time, but, it sloughed off some of its rottenness about that time. I wonder if Roosevelt thinks he can say any d-d old thing that he’s a mind to, and we semi-barbaric Arabs of Illinois, and other half civilized states, catch on to nothing. If Teddy had received the nomination in June at Chicago, then to his mind there would have been no need of a third party. If there was a demand for a third party from the people, the outcome of the Chicago June convention should have had nothing to do with it. You know, my dear friend, as God Almighty knows, every right thinking man in the United' States knows that this third party is a one man affair. Suppose for a minute that Teddy Roosevelt had been nominated, would there have been any need of a third party? Not to Teddy Roosevelt’s mind. The demand for a third party would have been exactly the same. Therefore, then the third party was organized for Teddy and the rest of the disap¬ pointed office seekers in Illinois and throughout the Union. It is a band of political disappointments preying upon the credulity of the people. There is not a single plank in the Progressive plat¬ form that has not been agitated by some one else before the Progressive party was ever heard tell of. Election of United States Senators by direct vote. Is Teddy or any of his clique original on that? That is an issue that has been discussed at country school lyceums for the past ten years. I say there is not a single plank in the new party’s platform but what is an old one to the people. Somebody else has beat Roosy to it on every corner, we have the proof to show it, but why should we elaborate on Roose¬ velt’s appropriating every popular movement of someone else to his own personal honor and advantage? His great¬ est originality is his ability to appropriate all things good and great to himself and to throw the bad and dishonor on some one else. We- will admit that he is original in some things. He is original in the personification of the pronoun “I”. ♦ He has allowed other people to labor while he enters into their labors. His principle is to gather while others sow. His ambition is to reap while others sow and culti¬ vate. I say that he has taken advantage of the popularity 11 he had when he was president. Every dog has his day, and so does every man. Roosevelt was designed to take Mr. McKinley’s place when McKinley was assassinated. And the people were willing to elect him again as proof of their good'faith in his earnestness and sincerity, and as a meteor blazes across the skies and lights up the world for a little while and falls-into the ocean, Roosevelt can no more return to the effulgence of his past glory, than the meteor that blazed across the heavens to return no more forever. JAMES H. KIRBY. • __ _ < - J THE EX-PRESIDENCY. The ex-president of the United States occupies the most peculiar position of any man in the world. Having reached the highest position and having gained the greatest honor of any man in the world, he does not know exactly how to conduct himself afterward. His conduct and actions are controlled by his temperament. He may treat his position in a dignified way and he may embarrass it. He may ele¬ vate the people in his position and he may degrade them. The ex-president, if his administration was not fraught with any great calamity, through his fault, should be of all men among us most honored. He should be the junior father of his country and honored and revered wherever he may be or wherever he may go. Every individual of the United States should 1 be his personal friend, and he should be the friend of every individual. It is not becoming of an ex-president, especially if he has served two terms, to meddle in politics. It is his duty to take a deep interest in all public affairs regardless of 9 politics or party. The ex-president, by virtue of his hav¬ ing gained the highest position through politics, should be by that virtue above politics. He should be, as it were, a father to whom all could go for advice. His position is a dangerous one, having reached the highest round in the ladder; how can he go higher without falling? The ex¬ presidency carries with it a dignity and an honor to which the people are entitled, then the man who holds that posi¬ tion is in more danger and peril than the president of the United States. The ex-president then should scorn to seek office, provided he has served two terms. If he is called again, it should be by acclamation of the people. While 12 it is most undignified for him to seek office he should be willing, and it is his duty if the office seeks him, as it did John Quincy Adams, to serve in the lower house or senate of the United States. While the ex-president is as vulner¬ able as any other man he bears a dignified honor that no other man can hold. How impossible it would be for us to think of Lincoln, Garfield or McKinley running the third time for the presidency! They would not only not have made a strenuous effort to get it again, but would abhor the thought of running again. They would have had every¬ thing to lose and nothing to> gain. Why should a man pluck the laurels from his crown one by one till he looks like a tree struck by lightning? It is not his loss alone— the people have lost. What an awful example the present object lesson is to the youth of the country! We have been disgraced. It will take a hundred years to live it down. JAMES H. KIRBY. Springeld, Ill., September 4, 1912. To the Evening News: $ Since I have accepted Mr. E. E. Greenhalgh’s challenge I have heard no more from him or any of the Bull skunk Moosers. He must be on the defensive like the Bull Moose himself now. Wonder if he’s hehrd from Vermont. Just tell him that “you saw me, but you didn’t see me saw.” I challenge Mr. Greenhalgh or any other Bull Mooser in the U. S. to meet me on any platform with a $10,000 purse and leave it to God Almighty and the people. I received a wire this morning that when Teddy crossed the Mississippi he turned into a Bull Moocher. Say, why didn’t Teddy go after Penrose and Archbold before? His retaliation don’t look good to me. If there was nothing to it he would ignore them. They’ve got him going. He’s on the defensive now. Before the senate committee will have adjourned, this fall, he’ll be snapping an*d biting like a wolf at bay. I say he’s in the hole and will have to take water. He is the most desperate character that ever came down the political boulevard. If he’s an “upstart,” as President McKinley said he was, I will say that he’s not much of a finisher. He’s a “has been” not an “is’er”. Of all the d-d fourflushers that ever came down the pike he’s the he. He’s a disgrace to God and humanity. It’ll take a thousand years for the American people to live down his degeneracy. His is a retrogresion not progression. He having been elevated by the people to the highest pedestal of honor and fame, is now and will continue to shoot the shoots till he hits the very glazed bottom of hell. He is not worthy of respectable argument. He’s a pirate on the high seas of politics and subject to no law or con¬ sideration. He gives no quarter and expects none. At the last he wiill say—no American is my friend. How can a man with a normal brain antagonize the people as he does? Society is torn up. There is no law henceforth by which a political campaign may be carried on. The bushwhackers of the ’60s are a credit to the present campaign. Who knows just where he’s at. There is only one thing that each of us ought to know and that is—to know that you’re against Roosevelt. I consider it my duty to fight Theodore Roosevelt as much as I wuld have considered it my duty to have should¬ ered a musket if I had been here when Sumter and Donelson were fired upon. This one man government has J , got to lie down. Depotism shall not leap the Atlantic Ocean. She shall die on h£r own shores. Lexington, Con¬ cord and Bunker Hill shall not have been in vain. America’s freedom shall not perish from the earth. No one man shall dictate the policy of this country. It shall now and for¬ ever continue to be a “government of the people for and by the people.’’ JAMES H. KIRBY. Springfield, Ill., Sept. 24, 1912. Illinois State Register— There is a Progressive party in the United States, but it is not the one that Teddy Roosevelt is leading. There is progression on every hand in the United States, but Roosevelt does not personify it. While he is posing as its leader, lie is now and has done more to impede the prog¬ ress of progression than any other man. The cause that the so-called Progressive party represents is entirely lost in its leader. The very fact that he never opened his head when he was president, in defense of the progressive cause, proves conclusively that he is nothing but a fourflusher now. He has disgraced the cause by trying to reap when others have sown. Others have labored in the cause, but he proposes to enter into their labors. How, in the name of the Most High, can we believe what a man says when his/ 14 actions prove the contrary? Who, under heaven, can be¬ lieve Theodore Roosevelt is sincere in what he is now preaching'? He had the opportunity to nominate Hadley at Chicago in June—why didn’t he? Because he wanted Teddy. He has lost sight of any cause in himself. If Roosevelt can hypnotize the people into electing him again, then he can hypnotize Congress into doing anything he wants, and that means that he would go on a conquest of the world. Verily I believe that is why he has and is now advocating the largest navy in the world. He does not care to be president again just for the sake of being president, a little thing like that does not appeal to him. And he says now that he does not want to be a king. We will admit that. The w*ord king is too common a term for him. What he w r ants is to be something that no other man in the world’s history has ever been—that of a Western conqueror. He has been president twice, there can be no more fame in that—the presidency is only a toy to him now. What he wants now is to conquer or die (and he’ll die in No¬ vember). In wrecking the Republican party he has be¬ come the most desperate of any character known in the annals of political history. A man that will turn and wreck the party that took him from a subordinate in the army and made him com¬ mander-in-chief of the army and navy, and crowned him with the laurels of gratitude and hope, only in the gift of the greatest of God’s peoples; a man that will wreck the party that was builded upon the foundation of “human liberty,” that phrase without which “all other words are vain, was born of intellectual slavery in the feudal ages of thought.” The conception in which Abe Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was born; the cause for which two million noble and brave men suffered and died; the party that carried the nation safely through the reconstruc¬ tion period. The party of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Gar¬ field, Thomas B. Reed and James G. Blaine. I say the man who will destroy the party of these great men and the party that elevated him to the highest position in the gift of the world—will do anything—there’s nothing too rich for his blood. But remember, my dear fellow citizens, the wreck of the Republican party is nothing compared to the wreck of a nation. If this man Roosevelt is permitted again to take up the presidency, he will drive our “Ship of State” at break¬ neck speed, libe Captain Smith did the Titanic, crash, crash, 15 < crash, into the icebergs, down, down, down, to the bottom of the sea, regardless of warnings, death, hell or the grave. JAMES H. KIRBY. • Springfield, Ill., Sept. 27, 1912. I want to ask this question of the Bull Moose and the Bull Moosers: Is third termism progression? It is not only not progression but retrogression. A man who will advocate that the precedent established against the third term means three terms in succession, is not only not a pro¬ gressive but the personification of retrogression. If that precedent means what Roosevelt says it does, then there is no limit to the number of terms a man may hold, just so he don’t hold three in succession. Then a man can start ^ • in when he is 36 years of age and by the time he is 76, can have served 32 years as president. If a president at the expiration of two terms is allowed to name his successor as Teddy did Taft, and as he wants to dictate now, what in the name of God Almighty may we expect will become of this nation under the indomi¬ table will of Theodore Roosevelt? I say by the gods if there is anything to the American people, now as there has been in the past, they will cut Theodore Roosevelt down like a withered tree. My life is worthless, but I offer it on the altar of my country now. Taking a glance back across the history of the earth we can see a few Roosevelts who advocated the cause they represented with the sword and the bayonet. What Croesus could not conquer with the sword he bought with, money. Shall we be prone to forget that for which liberty we now ' enjoy, our brave fathers suffered and died? Shall we allow that liberty perish by the hand of a modern Peter the Great? Talk about strikes. Let the American people now strike. Kill it in its incipiency. Let the people hit the ground so hard with Roosevelt in November that it will be a thousand years before another Monster the Great will ask for a third term. Granting that Teddy did a few things when he was president we have lost all respect we ever had for him through his desire to rule once more. Down him now and down him forever and the cause that he pretends to repre- sent will, in the future, be the cause of the people. There is progression everywhere and on every hand. This is a progressive nation. The American people are a 16 progressive people, but it shall never be carried to victory by a retrogressive. Let the cause represent the man and the man will personify the cause. Aaron Burr lacked just one vote in the electoral college, being elected .president of the United States. He proved a traitor to his country. His personal ambition was greater than hi& love for his country. Benedict Arnold loved fame and honor better than the cause he represented. He died an ignominious death, hated by all that loved liberty and freedom^ Roosevelt hugs the people to him with one arm, plants kisses on their cheek, and with the other hand drives the dagger of treachery to the hilt between the shoulder blades. He has with all cunning avoided any reference to the third term issue throughout the campaign. I am positive that he is a menace to the nation. If I did not feel it I could not afford to take the time to write it. Why should I drop my daily avocation to write against Roosevelt when my daily bread depends on my daily labors? Why should I single out a pian and go after his scalp if I did not think him a dangerous character to the nation? Am I seeking office? I have never in my life run for office, and I never expect to. I am not writing under the direction of any political organization. I am a Democrat. I am a progres¬ sive Democrat, and if I was a Republican I would be a progrssive Republican, but I would not destroy the Repub¬ lican party because I was a progressive Republican. If there is anything to these issues, let them be fought out within the party lines. * The Democrats won their cause at Baltimore, but the Republicans lost at Chicago. If the Democrats had lost at Baltimore, w T ould some man have tried to exterminate the party—never on your life. We would have “licked our flint” and tried it again. If we had lost there was no three termer with his hat in the ring to blot us out of existence—not even a two termer or a one termer. We had never been there, once is enough for us. While I shall accept the Democratic platform in this campaign as written and adopted, as a Democrat I am opposed to the one term plank. Six years is too long for a bad man to serve, and eight is not too long for a good man, but let any man dare to ask the third term. If the people shall rule, let them hold this sacred, unwritten law in their hands. I am not in favor of putting it on the statute, I am in favor of the people stigmatising • with i • 17 ignominious defeat any “dare devil” who has the nerve, the gall, the face, the audacity to ask for a third term. Even if a man has not served two full terms, three and one-half years by succession, and four years by election is enough for any one man among tens of thousands who are as competent as himself. Let the people rule, and if they say three terms, I will lay down my pen and take to the tall timber and never come back. JAMES H. KIRBY. CALLS ROOSEVELT FIRST U. S. DICTATOR. James H. Kirby Gives His Views of the Republican Situation —Says “Dark Horse” Party’s Only Hope. Springfield, Ill., June 13.—Mr. Editor, and to whom it may concern: As a Democrat I wish to express my views on the Republican situation. While I am a real estate man just now, but have previously always been a farmer, and have always prided myself in the tranquillity of home life, having never run for public office and hope never to, am now ab¬ sorbed in the political situation. It is said that the death of Ann Rutledge gave Lincoln to the nation. However true or false this may be, w T hen a man loses out in love he must seek other fields for the hopes of his ambitions; While all the Republican candi¬ dates have been hiding behind Lincoln and have been hold¬ ing him up to the people as their only parallel, I will make only one comparison between him and myself. My wife, my first and only love, sleeps in the same lot with Ann Rutledge in the beautiful Oakland cemetery at Petersburg, Ill.; and her death has taken my mind off of the success and tran¬ quillity of home life to that of the welfare of the na'tion. But to the Republican situation. The wffiole thing seems to have been a farce. Regularly, Taft was the logical candidate for the party. Although his administration has been a failure in many respects, and he has not proven himself a popular president, if Roosevelt had not come out for the nomination Taft would have been the nominee. But now lit seems impossible for either to be. It seems now at the seat of battle that the wires are being manipulated for a “dark horse.” There is no other hope for the Republican party to make a dignified stand only in the nomination of some other man. La Follette can not be a compromise as he is too progressive. Root is too much of a “stand pat” 18 Republican to “split the difference.” So who is he to be? Teddy’s crowd can’t go Hughes. So trot him out, ye men of Waterloo, and let us take a shot at him. « Why should Teddy squeal at the steam roller with the throttle wide open in Chicago when that has been his game from the very first? No man since the landing of Colum¬ bus has ever run the steam roller over his political clods more than Theodore Roosevelt. While no man ever occu¬ pied the same position in the niche of fame as he previous to his attack of Taft in the Outlook in February, last, no man has ever sunk so fast in the estimation of conservative people. That was his announcement for the third term. He didn’t intend to wait for seven little 2x4 governors of the “wild and 1 wooly west” to wire him their approval. What if he had? Eleven governors of far larger calibre wired Taft at the same time urging him to run. The trouble is this: Teddy was too young to lie down. Onlj T 52 years of age, young and chock full of political hell. He now says he meant three terms in succession. Well, then, all right. Then he can serve two terms now, put up an¬ other “clay man” for four years and come back eight more, and still be yonger than a number of the white house occu¬ pants. What do the American people think? What are they doing? It can not be that they love Teddy more, but that they love Dear Will less. Teddy’s wailing cry is the people, the people. When God’s truth is that the people who are for him is the crowd he carried along when he was president, and the lower stratum of humanity. The secret of his third term popularity is the lax emigration laws of this country. One million and a half of southern Europeans, the sewage of decaying nations dumped on our shores every twelve months. The “Rabble” is for Teddy. It was Washington that said the people were weak. Where the - people are weak we need strong men. A man that will prey on the credulity of the people, and whose personal am¬ bition is unlimited, will drive our ship of state like the Titanic to the bottom of the sea regardless of death, hell or the grave. This is too young a nation to begin to decay. All na¬ tions rise with patriotism, but go down with personal am¬ bition. Should Theodore Roosevelt again become president of the United States then, as Napoleon was the first consul of France, Roosevelt would be the first dictator of the American people. 19 * V No man in the United States will deny that Roosevelt put Taft in the executive chair. Then if Taft is a failure, Teddy was the originator and designer. Shall ninety million people whose liberty was born of intellectual and bodily slavery in the feudal ages of thot and chains, delegate to one man to run their political affairs? God Almighty forbid. “Avarice and ambition are watching in the day, while con¬ cupiscence like a pestilence walketh in darkness.” This nation is only in its infancy, or, at least, should be. Why should men with such personal influence trample beneath their feet the holiest of American institutions? It is not what you say you’ll do, but what you do do. * x • , The people of this nation has ruled. They do now rule, and they will rule. Don’t fret about the people. It took the Chinese 300 years to get their country back from the Mancus, but they got it. It took the French a few hundred years, and Portugal now has her own. But what the Ameri¬ can people must do is to not let their country- get away from them. It appears now, no matter w r, hat the outcome of the Chi¬ cago convention will be, that the policy of this country will be dictated for at least the next four years from Baltimore. Human nature is alike everywhere and any party will be¬ come corrupt if it is in power too long. Let them do what they may at Chicago; let McKinley look grave when Dixon makes threats; let them do what they please; let them an¬ nihilate each other if they wish, the real issues will come after the Baltimore convention. Then, and not till then, will the issues of the people be settled by the people for the people. JAMES H. KIRBY. ROOSEVELT AND TAFT. Editor State Register-—Dear Sir: Let’s see what Roose¬ velt said about Taft after he had put him in the white house: “No man of better training, no man of more daunt¬ less courage, of sounder common sense, and of higher and finer character, has ever come to the presidency than Wil¬ liam Howard Taft.” And again: “It is one of Mr. Taft’s great gifts of use¬ fulness that he possesses exactly the ability unflinchingly to stand by the right, and yet to do it with the minimum of 20 offensiveness toward those who do not see matters as clearly as he does.” Now, listen: Let us dissect Mr. Roosevelt. To begin with we want to call him a liar. How can a man with the least degree of consistency, after having praised a man as he did Taft as his bosom friend, and putting him up for the presidency and presenting him to the people as the greatest and noblest and the most entitled to the position of any man in the party, and then after his election claiming him to be the noblest of men and most fit and qualified for the presidency; and then he (Roosevelt), the man who said these things about Mr. Taft, lauding him to heavens as the most immaculate man in the Republican party—how, I say, how can the very man, who said' these very things, now pull him down and send him to hell? It would have done for some other man or set of men to have done this, if they had found) fault with Mr. Taft. But for the man, Theodore Roosevelt, to have said and done what he has against Mr. Taft, is beyond our comprehension. How a man occupying the position that Roosevelt did could have the nerve, the audacity, the face and countenance to do such a thing is far beyond opr horizon. As Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt, Roosevelt seems to have been turned into a bucket of gall. After having put Taft in the white house, and after having lauded him as he did, he should have been the last man on the face of God’s green earth to have said a word against him. Decency, propriety and self-respect should have made him as mum as an oyster. If Taft went wrong it wasn’t Rosevelt’s place last of all men to have found fault. Other people would find it out soon enough. It was enough for two-thirds of the people to be against Taft. Teddy should have upheld Taft’s hands with a father¬ ly criticism and said, “I stand behind him.” But it seems vince the world that Roosevelt is the worst fakir that ever came down the line. How can people believe in his sincerity. How he can fake as he is now and useless for us »to exhaust ourselves trying to con- pull the wool over the eyes of the people is what seems strange. Everything is proof beyond question that Teddy has been and is now playing the lowest game of any man known in the annals of political history. Oakes Ames and Roscoe Cockling are angels with sprouted wings compared to him. Tell me if you ever heard of such a game before. The wreck of the Hesperus, or the wreck of the Titanic, can 21 * illy represent the wreck of our Ship of State if once Roose¬ velt gets his hand at the helm. We will have gone down to rise no more if such a skipper as this is left to steer us across the open seas. In the midst of this disaster we would say: “Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State; sail on, O Union strong and great. Humanity, with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging breathless on thy fate. In spite of false light on the shore, sail on, nor fear to breast the sea. Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee. Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee—are all with thee.” JAMES H. KIRBY. HE SAW CONVENTION IN ACTION. Springfield, Ill., 4 p. m., June 20, 1912. Mr. Clendenin, Editor State Register: Have just returned from Chicago, where I attended the national convention Wednesday. Was locked in with 10,- 000 Republicans for seven consecutive hours without any¬ thing to eat, drink or smoke. You know I am a Democrat of the latter day saint kind, and have been wanting the Republicans to let me settle their little difficulty for them. My getting a seat in the gallery Tuesday was due to Sen¬ ator Billy E. Mason’s courtesy to me and strategy with several hundred policemen and one of the doorkeepers. The Senator is a personal friend of mine and wrote me in response that he thought he could get me a ticket. But was not even able to get one for himself. So he went with me personally to the coliseum and got me in. And although I had a letter in my pocket from Col. Frank O. Lowden to him, and one from Mr. McKinley saying they would help me to get in if I came, the letters would have availed me noth¬ ing without Mr. Mason’s assistance, as I could not have gotten within a stone throw of them. But after running the gauntlet of several hundred policemen I got a good seat, and I will give you my views as I saw it Wednesday. The fighting was fierce. No gladiator ever entered the arena with a thirst for blood with more determination than the men who spoke pro and con on the Hadley motion Wednesday. The only thing that averted a panic when the demonstration was on was the fact that 1,200 policemen were held in reserve in the rear room of the building. Never witnessed anything like it before in my life. Only one man in the crowd seemed to have a speck of sense, and that was one of the delegates who w T as thoughtful enough to put a lunch in his pocket when he came. He took advant¬ age of the occasion to eat his lunch. It looked like a Teddy crowd at that time. If the voting had been on at that time for candidate somebody would have been nominated. The argument on the Hadley motion was all against the Teddy bunch and w’hen it came to Hadley’s recapitulation of the argument “bombast and hot air” was all the argument they had. They adjourned at 6 a. m., having done nothing but point tongues of fire at each other. It is impossible to even guess at the situation as a Democrat sees it. William J. Bryan was the most popular man there. I saw” dozens of Republicans point their fihgers toward him and say, “there sits the next president.” I think they would like to have him for a compromise candidate, but they know w T e wfill need him next w r eek at Baltimore. Senator Root is a most excellent chairman. He means what he says, and the Teddy bunch found it out. A small Teddy crowd thought they would have a little fun all their own, when one of the Taft men w r as speaking. Root stepped to the edge of the platform and said: “Gentlemen, # delegate or no delegate, you’ll behave yourselves w’hile you sit there.” I think Root is all right. Another interesting episode was a colored rejected Teddy delegate took a notion he would address the audience on his own hook. Of course he w r as ruled out of order, but he persisted in making his address in spite of the Taft crowd shouting him off the floor. / The question with each delegate there is: “Where am I at?” And the only song they sung was, “Johnny Get Your Gun, Your Sw T ord and Your Pistol.” They w r ould throw* taunts and slurs such as “Guggenheim,” ‘“Storer letter,” and many that I did not understand 1 —w’orse and more of it than I ever saw Democrat or Republican throw at each other in my life. It means—put up (any old man) at Baltimore and we’ll put him in at Washington city. Their cause is lost. It means not only four years, but time enough to test the Democratic party out, not only in theory, but practice as well. While I appreciate greatly the courtesy showm me and the effort some of my “high-up” Republican friends made to get me a ticket, I left the coliseum at 6:30 without shak- 23 ing hands with a single person except the young woman who led Hadley’s forty-five minute demonstration. I con¬ gratulated her on knowing how to handle 10,000 men better than they could manage themselves. JAMES H. KIRBY. CHALLENGE TO BULL MOOSE. Springfield, Ill., Sept. 11, 1912. Illinois State Register: The Evening News of August 23 published an Anti- Bull Moose article written by me. E. E. Greenhalgh, of \ Petersburg, took exceptions to it and w r rote me a challenge in the same paper of August 26, challenging me to meet him anywhere upon any platform to discuss the questions at issue. I accepted his challenge on the condition that he pick five of the best Bull Moosers in the United States to assist him in his undertaking and we would discuss the issues in the arsenal (without any expense to me) here • in Springfield with the consent of Governor Deneen, or who¬ ever the proper authorities are. Now, I have not heard from him or any of his friends; and although I am not a politician and not given to public discussion, or gifted in the art of oratory, I challenge not only Mr. Greenhalgh, but any Bull Mooser in the United States, to a debate of the same issue, namely: That Theodore Roosevelt has no moral right to ask the American people to again support him for the presidency; that he was not justified in the organization of his Bull Moose party; and that by reason of the position he occupies he is the most dangerous political character in the United States. • « . JAMES H. KIRBY. HE RAPS ROOSEVELT. James H. Kirby Says He Is a “Fire Eater” Against the Bull Moose Leaders. To the Evening News: I don’t want to slight you with my little prognostications of the future of Theodore Roosevelt. Your paper has been very kind to me in helping me build up a good real estate business here in and around Springfield in so short a time and I want to pay you back with one of my Roosevelt “squibs.” You may not indorse Teddy, but you don’t come out openly against him. And as I am strictly a real estate 24 man and not a politician I can speak my sentiments and defy the world to take it up. I’m a ring tailed rouser, a fire eater and a bush whacker against the bronco buster and the Bull Moose tamer. I want to tell you .that I’ve got it in for him, deep, dire and damnable. He’s a coward of the first water, a criminal in politics of the deepest dye. If I was a Republican as I am a Democrat, the name of Benedict Arnold would sound sw'eet to my ear compared to that of Theodore Roosevelt- If he is not a spy and a traitor to the paarty that Lincoln made, w’hat is he? Oh, God! thou who are mighty to save, save us from Rooseveltism, the pretetnder, the dictator and the wrecker. The danger lies not in Roosevelt but his following. We are astounded beyond comparison at the men who follow him. Not at the class that clamor for him, but a few in¬ dividuals. “We want Teddy, we want Teddy, we w*ant Teddy.” That is the wail. He is not a progressive. If he was why didn’t he say so when he was president? Every progressive idea that he has, he has stolen from Bryan, Wilson, Cum¬ mins and Bob La Follette. He has stolen the presidency from Mr. La Follette and the Republican party and donated it to Wilson and the Democratic party. Wouldn’t you call that kind of a man a thief and a highway robber in politics? If a progressive was entitled to the nomination at Chi¬ cago in June who should it have been—La Follette the pioneer, or Teddy the tail? I’ll leave it to you, my dear Republican neighbor. I can not look upon Roose¬ velt as anything but a monster, I admired him as no other Democrat did till the day he threw his hat in the ring. Now I would drive him to hell’s gate and kick him in. This is not a fight between progressives and liberals and stand, patters and conservatives. It is not a question of revising the tariff upward or downward. It is not a question of who shall solve the problem of the high cost of living. The question is: Shall the people or Roosevelt rule. For the sake of argument, granting that Roosevelt might be right in every particular as to his platform, the third term issue is enough to put him behind the bars. And granting that he did not serve three successive terms, two terms is enough for any one man among 90 million people and would give some of the other boys a better show and encourage 25 the youth of the country, especially since Washington, the father of our country, said so and Jefferson and Jackson and Tyler too, and granting that he succeeded once and was elected only once, and that he did not serve the full term by succession, you know and God Almighty knows since it happened this way that seven and one-half years is enough for any one man to serve in this United States of ours. I say, that by the eternal gods Roosevelt shall not be president again. I say rise up and strike for your sires, your altars, your God and your native land. JAMES H. KIRBY. THE NATIONAL TAFT BUREAU THE RALEIGH HOTEL Washington! D. C. 1 WM. B. McKINLEY, Director. JOHN C. EVERSMAN, Secretary. LEROY T. VERNON, Director Literary Bureau. May 13, 1912. Mr. James H. Kirby, Springfield, Ill. Dear Sir:—Your letter of the 8th is at hand, for which * accept thanks. I congratulate you upon your patriotic desire, regard¬ less of party affiliations, to uphold the .hands of President Taft. If more people, through the same disinterested mo¬ tives, would take an interest in civic affairs, there would be no question about preserving the fundamental principles upon which our gerat country rests. Appreciating your having written me, I am Very truly yours, W. B. McKINLEY. William E. Mason and Lewis P. Mason, Attorneys at Law, Chicago. May 11, 1912. Mr. James H. Kirby, 313 V 2 S. 5th St., Springfield, Ill. My Dear Sir:—I thank you for your kind and generous letter. In regard to tickets to the Convention, I am not a delegate, and therefore do not expect to get a ticket. I have been to a great many conventions, and have been able i to assist friends in getting in, and if you should be in Chi¬ cago and report at my office, I think we can probably find some way to get in, provided you cannot get a ticket from m > % some of the delegates. Of course, it is better to get a 26 ticket, if you can, but I do not feel at all sure of getting a ticket for myself. Yours very truly, WM. E. MASON. The National Taft Bureau. June 13, 1912. Mr. James H. Kirby, Springfield, Ill. f Dear Friend:—A reply to your letter has been delayed while trying to find some way to comply with your request. But as you will see by the enclosed letter from (Secretary Hayward of the National Committee my efforts to secure an allotment of tickets have proved unavailing for the reason stated by him. It would give me a great deal of pleasure to accom¬ modate my friends, who I hope will understand that I have made every effort to do so. The distribution of convention tickets always has been and is now made by the National Committee, but it has •> ben taken for granted' very naturally, I suppose, that this Bureau would have something to do with it; consequently, I have received hundreds -of requests for them, with none of which can I comply, greatly to my embarrassment. While it is impossible, therefore, to make any promises as to tickets or admissions, I should be glad if my friends, for whom it is my disposition to do all possible, will call here and see me in the event that I may, perchance, be able to find some way to get them into the convention. Begging your pardon for this belated reply, the un¬ favorable nature of which is entirely due to conditions be¬ yond my control, I am, with kind regards, Sincerely, W. B. McKINLEY. v Republican National Committee, Coliseum, Chicago, Ill. June 12, 1912. Honorable William B. McKinley, Director National Taft Bureau, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. My Dear Mr. McKinley: Referring to your repeated urgent requests for tickets of admission to the National Convention in order that you may comply, in part, at least, with the gerat demand upon you for them, it is with the deepest regret that I find it 27 absolutely Impossible to meet your wishes which to do would give me great pleasure. I fully realize the embarrassment on this account you are obliged to suffer both by reason of your official position and by the fact of the Convention being held in your own State. The facts are: The Convention seats about 11,000 people. After the delegates, alternates, newspaper men, subscribers to the convention fund, and National Com¬ mitteemen have been provided for, less than 4,000 seats re¬ main for the vast number of persons from all over the United States who are clamoring for tickets. Even the President of the United States, following the custom, is allotted but 150 tickets, about 80 of which will go to foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, and the remainder to the President’s cabinet and personal friends. The various State managers of the respective candi¬ dates are not even included in the distribution, and must like many of us depend upon their own resources. Never has the demand for tickets been so great as at this time, and the ingenuity of the Committee is severely taxed to meet the situation. The distribution has been as equitable as it has been possible to make it and as greatly as we would like to ac¬ commodate all of our friends, especially those like your¬ self, are naturally overwhelmed with requests for tickets, it is simply a physical impossibility to do so. Assuring you of my great regret at being unable to assist you to meet your own situation ragarding tickets, and trusting I have made the reason plain, I am Yours truly, WILLIAM HAYWARD, Secretary. % William E. Mason and Lewis F. Mason, Attorneys at Law, Chicago. June 14, 1912. Mr. James H. Kirby, Springfield, Ill. Dear Sir and Friend:—I have been trying all week to secure tickets for the Convention but so far have been un¬ able to secure a ticket for myself. I expect to know some of the door keepers, and think I will be able to take care of some of my friend's in that way, and if you care to take a chance, report at my office Tuesday or Wednesday. If I 28 am able to secure a ticket, will write or wire you before Monday. Yours sincerely, W. E. MASON. P. S.—Since writing the above, I have had a talk with Colonel Lowden,. and he has told me that he will, if possible, send you at least a ticket for single admission. Republican National Committee, Coliseum, Chicago, Ill. June 14, 1912. Dear Senator Mason:—I am just in receipt of your favor of June 14th, asking for a ticket to the convention for Mr. James H. Kirby, Springfield, Illinois. I have received a thousand applications for every ticket allotted to me, and I regret exceedingly that I shall not be able to comply with your request. If I get through this convention alive, nobody will ever find me in this situation again. With personal regards, I am Very sincerely yours, FRANK O. LOWDEN. Hon. Wm. E. Mason, 108 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. Referred to Mr. Kirby by William E. Mason. Springfield', Ill., Sept. 30, 1912. In conclusion, my dear fellow citizens, I apeal to you to be guided by the dictates of an educated conscience. And w’hile I am a Democrat and am in favor of low tariff, or no tariff, on the necessities of life, I do not ask you to vote for Wilson unless you feel that way. All I ask you to do, in the name of bleeding, suffering, and dying humanity, is to not vote for a man who has shattered the sacred prece¬ dent of two terms only, and w’ho 'would attack 'the constitu¬ tion by tearing down the bulwark of our government—that of the judicial department, and advocate the recall of the President. Ever trusting in the people, and believing and hoping that this shall continue to be a government “of the • i people for the people and by the people,” and that no one man among us shall rise up and alone dictate the policies of this United States of America. I leave the issue with you. JAMES H. KIRBY. 31314 S. 5th St., Springfield, Ill. 29 is m < 9 K - ’ .•'Jwwi * 5 K ®K ?ilR < , ^ ■' 'j • ggj atWis ?-. aL ?£&&& '<&££&%*% ■ . ? >'v '*'- • r vyL^rj tr ‘ y - *v ’-«* * a*.*??' -* * v»* 4 f* / -~X i a «. -1. .r- rK,fv.W' -s ’ ' - S* “^-Js '»‘- .\X *vR -Ct >1 j • St K*$&kt i&Sg&'tf&rft ^:J'&Zv£nk-X&& Bbgggfe m^wmt .,“• .'^-••% v -T---.VI,/--, ,$*»- Vi-:' ; . 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