Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-09-24 | Page 6 | Where is the Freedom?

WHERE IS THE FREEDOM? In Utah the Republican bosses are supreme. Tho masses of tho party not only havo nothing to say, but have not tho courage to say anything even if they thought if. To be "regular" in Utah is to follow Smoot. Just now the application of that proposition prop-osition is that the Republicans who are "regular" must support Joseph Howell for Representative to Congress. Any one who refuses to do this is not "regular." "reg-ular." Those who present other candidates, can-didates, either in themselves or in their friends or admirers, are insurgent, rob- els, and must be put down. If they can not be put down, they must bo kicked but of the convention, and out of tho party. It is a- nice little arrangement all through for tho bosses. Tho people, however, have nothing to say about it; and if they did undertake to say anything, any-thing, ' they would promptly bo squelched, Utah is "regular;" and lo be "regular" "reg-ular" means to be under the Smoot thumb, and to wriggle our. only long enough to shout for thoso thiugs that Smoot says must be shouted for. The old People's party in "Utah was the political tool wherewith the church wrought its political cuds and established estab-lished its civil government at the direction direc-tion of the priesthood. The Republican party has become so debased that its highest mission is to be tho mouthpicco of the bosses and to do the will of the ccr.lcsiasts- as they declare that will, yielding to them their full claim of dominion in temporal affairs, including politics, civil government and business; in short, to be tho close substitute for tjio People's party. Surely in no State in the "Union was tho Republican party ever so debased since it Ijrst began to make history, as it has been and is now debased in Utah,