Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — ROUNDING UP (?) THE MOOSERS [ARTICLE]

ROUNDING UP (?) THE MOOSERS

When Judge Hughes starts out oh his swing around the circle by which the old guard hopes to win the independent and ex-Buli Moose voters of Kansas, Missouri, lowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas, he will tire his opening gun in Kansas City. The New York Times has fun with the Kansas City Journal, which seems to trust a bit- feebly to Judge ‘Hughes alone, and which suggests that— * “It would be a master stroke if Colonel Roosevelt and Mr, Taft could be brought to Kansas City at the same time and these three leaders speak from the same platform, “A lovely picture,” says the Times. “You see the Colonel taking command. He is in the center, of course. To Mr. Hughes he graciously gives the right. To Mr. Taft, a though less graciously, the left: “Prophets to right! Prophets to left! The World-Child in the middle! “That Harmony Trio would be a comforting sight, but not enough. Mr. Crane, Mr. Fenrose, and Mr. Smoot should be the colonel’s bodyguard. They, too, should speak—from the same platform with the colonel, Hiram Johnson, William Flinn and George W. Perkins should be Mr. Taft’s ushers and attendants and speak from the same platform. “Ah, sweet white fluttering of ascension robes! Ah. gamboling and bleating of reformed millennial wolves and ecstatic howling of the Progressive flock of 1912! Why did Victor Murdock run away to China and miss this vision? “The ear of anticipation is , happy already in the commingled strains of ‘Onward Christian Soldiers!’ and ‘When the Enterprising Burglar’s Not aBurgling.” But seriously, why should not the

colonel present Judge Hughes and Judge Taft? Aside from HIMSELF they are the only living specimens of the mature Rooseveltian judgment in the way of Presidential candidates. Such a display on the part of the colonel to the voters of t.he midwest would be interesting. The colonel's two specimen candidates might be worked up into a living picture for the citizens to contemplate. ' The picture might well be entitled “The Colonel’s Advice; Before am After Taking.”—Tippecanoe County Democrat.