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Show M j FROM AN OLD-TIME UTAH REPUBLICAN. H ' ' 1 One of Ihc old war horses of the Republican party in Utah r writes the Standard as follows: H "Editor Ogden Standard: For some time past there has been H ' a fueling among Republicans, a feeling, too, that is growing, that H : ' the true ideas, the true sentiment of the Republican party is not M correctly represented by those assuming to control tho same cither H in state or nation. Hh "The party, as il is carried on today, does not at all resemble H' ' the parly as it was when I first began to operate with it. Beginning H j ' in 13G0. before I was a voter, marching with the Wideawakes, "who H Y were supporting Abraham Lincoln for president; casting my first Hj jj vole after I came out of the army in 1864: for Lincoln for president; H i j voting for every Republican candidate for president, except Ilarri- Hl' son, being then in Utah, down to the present occupant of the "White Hnj 'I JJouse. I can hardly reajizc that it is the same party that I gave bt my first allegiance. Il seems to me lhat the party is not doing what H ' 1 it ought lo in carrying out those progressive measures now agitating H ' the public mind, and the failure of the Republican part' to keep in H touch with the people in all those matters in which they arc so Hr vitally interested caused our party to be repudiated at the polls in Hj the general election of 1910. , "The time has come when the public welfare requires that there HL should be a strict and wise regulation, supervision and control of public service corporations, both in the nation and the state; that ij will look closer lo the welfare of the people, than that of the 'in- Hn! tcrests.' That 'bossism' seems to be the idea of those who assume Hy to be party leaders has got to that point where the people feel that K if the public welfare is to be considered, the 'boss' must be over- H ( "That we have too much of the 'boss' there is no question, and ; especially in Utah. "When thinking of the last legislature of this H stale, and especially when it claimed that it was legislating to carry V out Republican platform pledges, one stands aghast I feel that the H' time is here when the progressive Republicans should organize, and kwrn advocate those measures that ihall redound to the benefit of the f- people at large. H "I have great pride in the liislory of the Republican party. It H has always been the party of progress and reform. Parties, like Hf nations, go forward or retrograde. There is no such thing as staud- H ing still. 'Standing pat' means satisfaction with present conditions. H But if the party is lo continue in power or to be a factor for the pub- H lie good, it must not be satisfied with past deeds. Its policy must H be one of 'onward and upward;' it must make of this nation, in the r language of the great Lincoln, a 'government of the people, for the Hh people, and by the people.' (Signed.) "A. SAXEY." H "Spanish Fork, Utah, August 1, 3911." K "When men like Mr. Saxey deep-dyed Republicans feel forced to break away from the "Standpatters" there must be something Hj more than a trumped up complaint against the old party. t As Mr. Saxey says, there is a feeling that the party, as at pres- H; cnt dominated in Utah and tho nation, is not in harmony with the Ht, progressive spirit of the day and, as a rosult, men who, in the past, H I have been devoted Republicans, arc breaking away from the reac- HC tionarics. J The "Slandpat" leadership is under suspicion of being special H representatives of tho "interests." The majority of tho senators H and representatives of the old party in congress are pretending to B, be one thing to tho people, while they are known by their masters, V j tho predatory rich, to be false to the people and true to the "in- H ,. tcrests." The deception is becoming recognized and the, people arc H I turning from tho deceivers. That is why stalwart Republicans, such H j! as Mr. Saxey, arc going over to tho party of purification, the Pro- H 1 1 grcssivo Republicans. |