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Roosevelt Men Will Please Throw Their Hats In The Ring and Answer These Questions. Does Mr. Roosevelt recognize there is a money trust in this nation which controls commerce and holds the mortgage shackled farmer and wage earner as its slave? Has he investigated the cause of the financial panic of 1907, during his last administration which caused financial loss of millions of dollars? Does he mean the Wall street people or the laboring people shall rule? Is he ready to explain the giant steel merger which he permitted in 1907, and in which the promoter alone received twenty million dollars bonus? Will he explain soon to the public why that same promoter is now one the chief promoters of his campaign! The Omaha promoter of the Roosevelt campaign is insisting on J. B. Baum and J. W. Towle as the Roosevelt delegates from the Second Nebraska district. Baum is the head of the Baum Iron and Steel Wholesale company, and Towle is shown by the Omaha directory to be president of a steel bridge company and of a wholesale iron and steel company. Are these selections dictated by Roosevelt, or by Steel Trust Perkins, or is the Omaha promoter taste mind-reader running wild’
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Red Cloud Chief
Red Cloud, Nebraska, US
Thu, Apr 11, 1912
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