Show I Third d dand Party Leaders Plan to Dismember and Dissect the theaE National Constitution I I aE preservation of the notional national constitution intact is is the real reali TIE i issue suc nr in this national campaign it overshadows all other questions ques ques- j j to an extent of which the average voter seems unaware J from the of the third Its primary and essential importance instance ari arises es plans I party part leaders who conscious that they cannot hope to to win rin this year arc re planning for 1916 1016 The goal at which they are aiming and for which a cam campaign sign will be waged from the moment the votes vote are counted I on November 5 r li is iB u a national constitutional onal convention to rc rewrite rite nto this 1 j greatest greatest document ever penned and to change in in form and substance the Vho most efficacious governmental go instrument which the cumulate e po- po science of the ages has devised If the the third party is is utterly and hopelessly beaten if it fails to carry legislatures and state officers in any considerable number of states its project will be abandoned because the tho successful culmination of its t plans for 1916 demands that a number of Bull Moose congressmen and legislators be he chosen Governor Johnson of California is the pioneer in in the movement and it is expected that California will take the thc initiative e. Under the section by which the constitution provides pro for amendment a national constitutional constitutional constitutional convention can cnn be called upon request of the legislatures of three three- fourths of or the states With lith California taking the first step and other states falling into line behind a determined propaganda to be financed by bv the same influences that now govern the third party movement the great eat bulwark of o American liberty that has bas stood the test of a century and a quarter will be pulled palled to pieces The government w wl which h ch th this fi l generation has been taught t to believe actually inspired by some high power ver than the mere mentality of man and that is as sacred to the tho sober sane citizen as the ark site of the covenant is to be beby dismembered by a party of demagogues arch and ambitious seekers office to further their own ends T J. J 1 A 1 L. L OA u oJ j OA U II j u u LU Lilt people eoPle and that it is the serious intention of the the- third the third party movements movement is s shown by the following taken from the Boston Transcript If It their rational ticket Is defeated next nett month the more radical among the third party leaders are aro preparing to go before beCore the country Boon soon after the tho election with a demand for tor a national constitutional convention to rewrite the constitution of or the United States State Upon I that issue they believe e they will sweep the country four tour years hence and elect Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt for tor a a. third term In InC 1916 This Information matlon mation comes from a a. source that Is In touch not only with the present present pesI pres pres- r I ent activities but with the plans for the future of ot the third part party Even to those who delude themselves with the belief that a party controlled by such men as George W. W Perkins Medill McCormick and aud Dan Hanna would be of service to the people even cven if i it could a plan such as outlined above c must be revolting in the extreme Men and measures may without great danger to regularly constituted institutions be lie made the football of partisan politics for no matter how ho revolutionary Ic or radical tho the legislation which a wild eyed theorist may initiate and may upon one specious plea or another get enacted into statute the constitution con con- protects tho the people from its menaces because it must square with the living Jiving principles laid down in that great instrument or 01 it cannot can care care- I not become the law Jaw of the time land Taut But in a constitutional convention con of the sort planned by hy the third party the people would be in as great danger from the emotional radicals radicals radi radi- cals call who would pull down the thc great governmental o structure that guarantees guaran guaran- guarantees tees their liberties as from the sinister special interests that have fi financed financed fi- fi the Bull Moose campaign and that will control its act activities should it win win to power At one extreme of or this party is a a. group of or visionary idealists who are honestly desirous of greater freedom for the J citizens and who propose as a method of securing this an experiment that would rob them of the blessings they enjoy At the other extreme are arc the pred predatory predator toI trusts who will reap the advantage if the fabric of i government is broken up and the thc wreckage floats float here and there for forgathering gathering by those strongest Between these millstones of conflicting conflict conflict- in ing g purposes es the great mass of the people stands to fit gain nothing at atall atall atall all and faces the thorough certainty of losing what they have One Ono might concede the utter of honesty those who have evolved e this l idea yet this would not rob the tho plan of its terrors The honest theorist is more dangerous than the the- crook the former will 1 persevere in his misguided course though he face the certainty o of f immolation The crook desists when personal injury threatens It is i s well to remember that the tho pervert who assassinated Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt at Milwaukee attempting a crime diabolical in the extreme is i s probably honest though misled and mistaken the sane man who re op- op the time danger dang of the colonels colonel's principles does not seek to lemo remove e the danger in that way The thorough rebuke of the third thil party parry at th the e polls will remove its fangs t t z 0 S. S v. v I I P WE mi might gauge gange our prowess in in the present Mr Thomas IF political campaign by the number of separate e Joins Joints t the h e and distinct fits that are being thrown b by ey y I Oratorical our spellbinder opponents we should feel much encouraged ed with the progress of the contest coolest Mr 1 Acrobats Acrobats Thomas who was nominated b by th the o I Democratic state convention for Congress has s joined tho the number of those who assume that Th The e Republican Herald-Republican is an issue in the campaign and that the more mor ec c violent their excoriation of this newspaper the more convinced their r audiences will become that they arc eminently fitted for public office Mr lir Thomas seems to have gathered that we were superlatively critical of him when hen we commented with amused interest upon his magnificent courage and amazing foolhardiness in advocating in a state exclusively interested int in producing raw material a Democratic tariff policy that was framed for communities of consumers alone After prefacing his remarks at Payson on Tuesday night with a vivid word picture of his consuming desire II to avoid mudslinging he lie to The II re- re referred referred re re- Republican Herald as the the nosebleed and It t the tho ho g morning bg hemorrhage b e. e Crushing as we admit this blow to be we have o rallied sufficiently to wonder what hat this has to do with Mr l Thomass Thomas's attainments attainments attain attain- ments as a candidate for Congress or with his belief that a ca capable abl e P lawmaker o of f the stature of the Ron lion Joseph Howell should be retired in his favor or Thomas in private life is a genial and amiable gentleman who although not quite so forceful as we could wish makes moires an excellent neighbor His good nature has bas been imposed upon b by his Democratic friends who would have nominated somebody else had there been any hope of success However Howe whatever opinion we wc may have haye of the uselessness of r the c expenditure of so much of his in energy a cause that is foredoomed to failure we are impelled to believe that Mr fr Thomass Thomas's present of of- position is 3 as far he as ought to F go Barring a tendency to lo the y accept of his opinions colleagues g nes as IS his own without sufficient i this his own initiative e Rig Mr Thomas makes a tr inquiry on ir r Salt bait Lake Board very capable member of or the thc of Education a job that rather exhausts It would be unwise to his weaken the thc strength of or Congress and of or b our Board of Education at the same time which the elevation of Mr lie Ir Thomas would certainly do He TIc has asked J us to explain Wr sells for less Jess i in Chi why sugar m n Chicago ag than in Utah The only reasonable and elusive e con con- r f r answer to that is IS that it doesn't fI I 2 1 6 4 J JF F AI ALL I. I were as 35 frank as Dan Dm R R. R IF Hauna lianna the Why Dan II presidential campaign would be much more Hanna Hannas Is s I entertaining Most fost of those who have asI asI as as- I Opposing at Armageddon are ready to give any I excuse the time except real one for their Mr Taft Manna Hanna action Mr however howe frank frankly y confesses his lux reason 4 I When I the he appeared before the Senate co committee following colloquy occurred Wh When n did you b become come a a. Progressive o In polities politics Last sprint spring replied Mr Ir Hanna ti When hen did the thC Taft Tatt administratIon Indict you ou v u and SOT tor or rebatIng ZO your Our associates April 26 26 6 1911 e Sr fl Hanna it i is apparent has illusions no tice lice concerning social justice jus- jus jus industrial democracy J putting lutting tho the I man above the dollar doUar and any nd the set ration of human con eon resources He Ile is standing at 1 Armage Armageddon on because Mr Taft Tail indicted B him I. I fr for law t lawbreaking and he is 1 It c Mr 1 Taft Could anything be deter mined to punish more simple f Now others other will if Mr fr ins Perl-ins nm and explain with it equal candor I we may mar y unc understand prominent offenders against federal why wh all i i i i P i statutes are arc in t the he third hir tied party If |