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Show 'LEWIS LARSON DOES SOME SPANKING Low Is Larson,. Progrcaslvo candidate candi-date for congress, spoke to a small but appreciative audience at tho Armory Ar-mory last evening. Mr Larson Justified Justi-fied his selection as a congressional nominee. H1b bpeech Is plain, blunt, pointed. He makes no attompt at oratory or-atory He appeals to loason, not to prejudice. His words are woll chosen and moderate, but they carry n at ; for wrongdoors or standpatters one or both. Mr, Larson devoted the greater part of his speech to a discussion of the principles of tho Progressive party and the conditions that gave rise lo the groat moveraonL Without bitterness, but with a directness di-rectness that was quite refroshlng, he arraigned the stale administration and Governor Spry for their shortcomings, took up the explanations offered lp excuse ex-cuse of their misconduct and showed that such explanations, hutpad of ex-i ex-i plaining, only corroborated tho Indict ments; that, instead of clearing his skirts by his excuses, the governor had veally pleaded guilty to tho charges charg-es that had been made against him. With no gentle hand he administered adminis-tered a jipnnklng to Senator Reed Smoot for his association with, and-excuses and-excuses for, and defense of, Lorlmer. His castlgatlon of the senior senator was none tho less sevoro because couched In moderate language, and It as woll, aB tho reproof administered administer-ed to Governor Spry was received bv the audience with nolsj demonstrations demon-strations of approval. Mr. Larson made many friends by hlB clean, concise and convincing arguments, ar-guments, aud the audlenco wont away muttering mnlcdlctlons upon conditions condi-tions that force such weaklings as Howell upon I'tah, whllo men of the Larson type abound, who could r fleet credit upon the state. If sent to represent It In congress. |