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Volume 10 March 1, 1912. Number 9 
THE CANDIDATE 
How doth the smiling candidate 
His hat politely doff, 
And beg his neighbor tor support 
When the balloting comes off. 
God rest you, merry gentlemen, 
May nothing you dismay. 
Be yours the smile that won’t come off 
After Election day. 
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Town Meeting 
Every citizen should determine to 
attend the Town Meeting. Employ- 
ers should attend themselves and 
make it as easy as possible for their 
employees to attend. It is a matter 
of public duty which every citizen 
should take pride in performing. 
Rain or shine, the Town Meeting 
should be the best attended in years. 
It is imperative that the citizens of 
a town be well informed and act in- 
telligently upon community affairs. 
Read the warrant carefully. It is 
your business. . The citizens of Man- 
chester are fortunate in their ideals 
of service among many of its lead- 
ing citizens, but this spirit should 
permeate the whole life of the town. 
If the town calls for your service 
respond gladly for service is its own 
reward. 
Taft or Roosevelt 
The air has been cleared. The 
Presidential outlook has at last 
opened. Cummins and La Follette 
are now excluded and the issue hes 
between Theodore Roosevelt and 
William Howard Taft. The ques- 
tionings of the people are answered 
and doubt no longer prevails con- 
cerning the nature of the contest 
for the presidential nomination of 
the republican party. The winds 
have been earefully noted and no 
surprise was evinced at Roosevelt’s 
decision to abide by the wish of the 
people. The editorial of the Out- 
look of a preceding week and the 
significant pugilistic statement that 
‘‘his hat was in the ring’’ had al- 
ready shown which way the wind 
was blowing. The pugilists are Taft 
and Roosevelt and the republican 
party is forced, whether it will or 
no, to compare the relative methods 
and successes of the two men. For 
the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt 
means the ‘‘dismissal’’ of Mr. Taft. 
Such a dismissal of the President 
would be a dishonorable defeat—for 
it means, first, that President Taft’s 
administration does not meet with 
public approval; second, that Pres- 
ident, Taft has proved himself un- 
worthy of the endorsement of the 
republican party, of which he is the 
chieftan by virtue of his success; 
third, that the republican party 
confesses that it is unable to win 
the approval of the people on its 
principles and must fall back on the 
personal popularity of Theodore 
Roosevelt; fourth, that the unwrit- 
ten policy of the government of the 
people against the third term is to 
be discontinued as untenable and in- 
judicious; fifth, that the people 
shall confer upon Theodore Roose- 
velt a greater honor than it paid 
George Washington. 
It remains, however, to be proven 
that. Mr. Taft has failed. It may be 
well to consider that much of the 
turbulency of the Taft’s term has 
been occasioned by the trouble pre- 
cipitated in the preceding four 
years and bequeathed to him by Mr. 
Roosevelt; that Mr. Taft has shown 
wonderful constructive ability and 
it is not a foregone conclusion that 
he will be defeated; that Roosevelt 
may be defeated is equally true if 
he be nominated. Temperamentally, 
Mr. Taft has shown great capacity 
for poise, discretion, Judgment and 
statesmanship. He is more reliable 
than the ‘‘explosive’’ Roosevelt. 
The republican principles of the two 
men are not so opposed as one 
would think. Mr. Taft believes in 
the rule of the people, the square 
deal, and the democracy of a re- 
public. What Mr. Roosevelt be- 
heves in and says he is going to do 
Mr. Taft believes in and is doing. 
The constructive peace and arbitra- 
tion policy of William Howard Taft 
is much more desirable than the im- 
perious war policy of Theodore 
Roosevelt. The fight is now on and 
it does not yet appear that Taft will 
go down before Roosevelt. Roose- 
velt was severely beaten in the late 
New York gubernatorial contest. 
He may learn defeat in a larger 
sense. It may prove that, however 
harsh the candidacy of Mr. Roose- 
velt may be to Mr. Taft—in the de- 
sertion of a friend—that it was the 
best thing which could have hap- 
pened for his best good. It has al- 
ready served to solidify the party 
for him. It may do more as the 
days go on. 
The Lawrence War 
A state of war exists in Lawrence 
and despite the Outlook’s statement 
if the militia were removed a reign 
of terror would begin ending in 
bloodshed, the destruction of prop- 
erty, the cruelizing of defenseless 
women and the chaotic furor of an- 
archism. The militia must be kept 
there. One of the most unfortunate 
factors in the situation has been the 
unreliability and bias of the reports 
made by the press, by the I. W. W. 
and even the pulpit. As an intelli- 
gent college-trained practical man 
of- affairs, a citizen of Lawrence for 
years, stated to the editor: ‘‘They 
are wrong. .How can a man from 
the press or pulpit come in on a 
morning train and accurately diag- 
nose the situation. It has ceased to 
be simply a strike. The socialist ex- 
tremes have precipitated a condition 
which they hope may result in other 
cities. There are hundreds of men 
who would like to work, but cannot 
for fear of persecution and even 
bodily harm. The closely inter- 
woven relations of all people are 
seen in these conditions. An effort 
was made to eall the strike in Man- 
chester, N. H., and in a measure the 
I. W. W. sueeeeded. One large shoe 
manufacturing company with four 
extensive plants came very near 
failure. As the times go on the 
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