Cousins

Plain speaking between relatives is proverbial. Last week, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat, campaigning against Theodore Roosevelt, Republican candidate for Governor of New York, said of his cousin:*

"The Republican candidate for Governor of this state has a splendid War record, one of which every American can be proud. He has, on the other hand, a record in public office which is wretched.

"As a candidate for Governor, he has gone into the highways and byways of the state, promising anything and everything, contradicting himself, agreeing to do the impossible. He is indeed a 'promising' young man."

*Theodore is a fifth cousin of Franklin D., once removed, as follows:

Nicholas (1658)

Johannes (1689) Jacobus (1692) Jacobus (1724) Jacobus (1759) Cornelius (1794) Theodore (1831) Theodore (1858) Theodore (1887) Isaac (1726) James (1760) Isaac (1790) James (1828) Franklin D. (1882)