If my memory is not very much at fault,
it was he who first indulged in personalities,
and to tell tales out of school.
It was fatally weak in him to denounce
Mr. Roosevelt for doing the very things that
he, Mr. Taft, as a member of the Cabinet,
had helped Roosevelt to do, and which Mr.
Taft never discovered to be wrong until Mr.
Roosevelt threw hk? hat into the ring. \
It was a stupendous blunder to bring up
the matter of Roosevelt’s dismissal of the
Brownsville negro troops, who had chosen to
make themselves accessories after the fact, to
the shooting up of that Texas town.
By doing this, Mr. Taft nauseated thd
white people, without winning the negroes;
even the negroes know Roosevelt acted upon
Taft’s official recommendation. 1
Aly opinion is, this pair of Kilkenny cats
will obliterate each other, and thaj a com
promise man will be the Republican candi
date. i
I very much fear that this dark horse will
be Frank Hitchcock, who would be a mighty
hard man to beat. ’.
