“ He has distinctly appealed to rational men to vote for him as Governor on the ground that to vote against him would tend to provoke “a hitch” in the peace negotiations in Paris, and would be a vote to abandon all that we achieved in the war with Spain. Such an appeal is more than offensive; it it insulting. Mr. Schurz has made an obvious and effective response to it, and for this and the influence it may have Mr. Roosevelt has only himself to thank. ”