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Show BULLY FOR LOOSE. i COLONEL LOOSE, the Republican national committeeman from Utah, acted wisely and bravely When he recorded his vote against the theft o eighty delegates by the national na-tional committee and raised his voice against the corruption practiced by the party bosses in control at Chicago. Chi-cago. He is to be commended for following fol-lowing exactly the proper course and his act emphasizes what The Weekly has said heretofore regarding the mistake mis-take Utah Republicans mado In binding bind-ing the delegates with any sort of pledge. The Republican national committee was absolutely dishonest in its ruling regarding the delegates from California, Califor-nia, Texas and Washington. The Roosevelt forces certainly were entitled en-titled to the contested seats in these and some other states. There wore many other states, of course, In which the Roosevelt contests were wtihout justice and should have been thrown out. But in California, Washington and Texas, and in one district In Alabama, Ala-bama, tho turning ver of delegates to the Taft forces was a flagrant bit o piracy that will forever stand as a blot upon tho party record. It was only natural, then, that Colonel Col-onel Loose should resent the action. ac-tion. When It came to a tost on tho flrst day of the convention he and 501 other delegates voted with the Roose velt faction not because it was the faction of Roosevelt, but because It was justice to vote that way. Manager McKInley, tho night before, boasted that Taft would have 593 votes, but all the Taft forces could scrape together to-gether was a total of 558, eighteen moro than enough to nominate a candidate. can-didate. Eighty dishonest votes were cast with the Taft forces delegates that should not have been permitted to cast a vote. The result of the vote was tho election of Root as temporary chairman. Among those in Utah who know Colonel Loose there was no surprise at his action in otlng with the Roose- velt forces. He was doing exactly what his pledge implied when it urged the uso of "honorable means." Among those in Utah who are familiar fa-miliar with the operations of the federal fed-eral bunch no surprise was felt when tho organ of the bunch condemned Loose for his upright, honest, fearless fear-less action. |