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Show o "AMERICANS" AGAINST ROOSEVELT. Kearns" "Americans" are not only fighting tho local Republicans, but they are fighting the national administration admin-istration as well. Kearns, tho head and front of the Revenge society, again and again has openly declared his opposition to President Roosevelt. In his well known classic style he says President Roosevelt may go to h 1. The Tribune has been against Roosevelt Roose-velt for two years and its editor, Furious J., attacks Roosevelt on all occasions. Tho following from Goodwin's Good-win's Weekly of a year ago Is very true and pertlnent'at tho present time, although the attitude of the weekly now is in direct opposition to what It was then. Hero It Is: Nothing that has occurred during the present campaign has so warned Republicans how gravely the American Ameri-can party menaces tho electoral ticket tick-et as did the speech of Honorable Frank J. Cannon, in which the Republican Repub-lican party was assailed and President Roosevelt overtly accused of dlshon- - orablo political negotiations with the lenders of tho Mormon church. . Senator Cannon has done tho Republican Re-publican party a great service in exposing ex-posing tho real Intent of tho bolting party of which ho has becomo a champion. cham-pion. It was formed to defeat tho Republican Re-publican state and electoral tickets, and now tho whole design Is revealed by ono of Its leaders. Republicans will now have no excuse for blindly following unworthy leaders who, while clamoring "Americanism" and "political "polit-ical party" havo unsheathed the knife of treachery. Tho Tribune has, from the beginning, begin-ning, endeavored to decelvo Gentile Republicans Into an alliance with their retaliation society by contending that tho organ would unqualifiedly support the Roosovolt electors. And yot Senator Sena-tor Cannon, In denouncing President Roosevelt, was tho spokesman for tho party of which tho chief owner nnd manager of tho Tribune were tho charter directors; and tho organ con mltted Itself to this policy of antagonism antag-onism to Roosevelt by a lavish oulo-glum oulo-glum of Mr. Cannon's words, and the editorial announcement, commenting on the speech, that "Mr. Cannon is doing great and patriotic service" That expresses tho situation precisely. pre-cisely. "Patriotic service" in this instance in-stance means service in tho Interests of Thomas Kearns' plot to defeat tho Roosevelt electors and elect tho Democratic Dem-ocratic state ticket. Tho bolting organ or-gan will, of course, contlnuo Its campaign cam-paign of malice, but there is somo satisfaction sat-isfaction In tho fact that In tho future at least It will not bo nblo to conduct Its warfaro against tho Republican ticket from ambush. Hero Is a port of tho Cannon ora-inn. ora-inn. rooctiuir unon tho Integrity and honor- of President Roosevelt, which the Tribune commends as patriotic service: "I say to you that this very spring and summer that nefarious bargain has been renewed. It started in Washington Wash-ington in the winter. The president of tho United States wanted a Roosevelt Roose-velt delegation sent to Chicago; and as at that time tho great Mark Hanna was alive, he was fearful that Senator Kearns might take a Hanna delegation to Chicago. A bargain was mado by which tho Smoot Investigation was to be postponed if Smoot would take a Roosevelt delegation to Chicago. Yes, It is true. Senator Smoot did take a Roosevelt delegation to Chicago. Tho Investigation did not take place In Salt Lake." How do Gentile Republicans like this publicly uttered assault upon I President Roosevelt from a leader of the American party? What is their opinion of the organ which sanctions and approves It? What do they think of a party which Is self convicted of hostility toward tho Republican electoral elec-toral ticket of Utah? The most rabid professional Democratic Demo-cratic spellbinder would scarcely have dared to make such an accusation. Even so unscrupulous a campaigner as Mr. Burke Cochran would have hesitated hes-itated to accuso Theodore Roosevelt 'icing a party to so dishonorable a . irgaln. And yet the statement, bol-t.ered bol-t.ered with tho editorial sanction of the bolting organ, must bo taken as an official announcement of tho attitude of the American party toward the national na-tional administration. Republican Gentiles who before were slow to believe that Thomas Kearns, in originating tho bolting movement, deliberately planned tho overthrow of tho Republican party In this state, are now no longer In doubt regarding tho sinister purposes of tho Revenge Society. Many of thoso who wero Inveigled Into joining the now movement under a belief In the sincerity sin-cerity of its originators are Indignant over the no longer concealed trend of tho movement developed In tho speech of Senator Cannon. Tho Issue Is now definitely established estab-lished and only ono course remains for Gentiles who entered the society under un-der the Impression that Its solo object was to combat church Influence. They should repudiate the party, which was conceived in fraud and is merely an adjunct of tho Democratic party. |