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Show TAFT PAPER ADMITS MUCH. The surprising feature of the third party campaign in this state is.the forced admission of the Taft supporters, such as the Salt Lake Tribune, that the Progressive movement is destined to play a most important part in the politics of Utah this fall. The Tribune, which is the most radical Taft advocate in the in-terinountain in-terinountain country, makes this significant confession: That was a fine meoting wlilch the Utah Progressives had In the Gar-r rick theater, this city, on Thursday night. The address of Chairman San-ford San-ford was straightforward and to the point, Rbllo the main speech of tho evening, by Hon. Henry J. Allen, was eloquent and Impressive, nnd was warmly rccelvel by his hearers. Radically as we differ from him In his RooBeYoltlsni, jt s fair to say that hia was an eloquent and forceful nd-dress. nd-dress. The purpose of tho meeting was to select delegates to the Progressive state convention to be held In Provo to send representatives from Utah to the Chicago convention. The list of delegates selected was composed of good representative citizens, as fine a list of men and women as we hao named as delegates to any convention Tho portion of the platform adopted at this meeting on Thursday evening even-ing which Instructs tho delegates of Salt Lake county at tho state convention conven-tion "to use every effort to have that convention make provision for a full state ticket at tho coming election," Is first-class party work, and If the movemont should develop also Into the strength of running a separate county ticket In this county, in TVcber, and others of the leading counties of tho state, the public Interest would thereby be well served. It apiears to be a special effort of the Progressives In Utah to throw off the joke of the Federal bunch, and In so far as that movemont Is strengthened and persisted In, the honest, Intelligent citizenship of Utah must necessarily approve. With Weber and Salt Lake counties advocating the naming of I separate state and county tickets, we are assured that, beginning with the state convention in Provo today, the fight-all-ulong-thc-line will start. Utah, more than any state, is in need of a third party to win tho state from those who have been in league with the most baneful influences in-fluences in the land and who have stood for the old system of mulcting mulct-ing the masses for the bcnefitof the few. |