Ii sounds ungraciou- in * ? iy "we told you
so," and yet this is the exaei situation which
at the very beginning of the campaign The
Tini" !;i.-patch stiid would develop. Delivery
of the Progressive vote to Hughes, by Colo
nel Roosevelt's execution nt ,i political testa
inent, never was possible ??:i June 'J I last
The Times-Dispatch aid'
The I'rotrrrss; vc w 1: w ?. un rely dis
uruulleil Re|iiii>l .!? u .i.ii.i a struneer
faction liail i ?: !?:?-.? . ? I iv. a\ from the
|.?e iiiunlil lian- i ?-< ill i.i-i| l.i tl:e Kej.uh
iican ranks 'I he ti.-.l Progressives ? the
eol|i-i>e |? i ? ? i; u'<i'k<.'!*s. wriici s
,i nil si ii ? 11 : ' u i .. !?. iili- t lie |i:i i t y re -
f ?<> t.ilit" a :' .-I 11 ! ?>!' its' III
l>*111 J-' i'Ii' - I I . ilicet it y. will
Ii ml til. ? ? i I T. t OIII lot t U III.'
anil tlii- ' ? ? ? ? i. i- |! ?vi- ni iiii-ii t much
iiioi-c populai within the circle of tie?
I ?.!' ? Ti:i ;, i ?? iov.ikini; to full
! fa 1. / a t . if 1 ii is 1.1. I
It p. Tiie real Pro: i? : ivi-s are awak
in|'. a i v>-iits provo day )?> day and over and
over They oiin r\e as in California,
that tie allegiance of tie Republican candi
date i l<i the most reactionary, elements of
tlie ?> 111 Guard, and they turn inevitably to
the man b;. whom and through whose party
tin I.no dreams they dreamed have been
11.in !a'i 1 iuto law.
