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Show PREDICTS VICTORY FOR PROGRESSIVES Col. I. N. Stevens of Denver, Salt Lake Visitor, Speaks Plainly. Colonel Isaac N. .Stevens of Denver, one of the leaders of tho Republican partv m Colorado, i:; in Bali i-ko ror a brief stay. Colonel Stevens ix a guest 0 Colonel B P. Holmes during his stay in Salt Lake. He leaves today on a speaking 'our of California. Ho w" address thi California people In th interest in-terest of the suffrage movement. Colonel Stevens Is on.- of the leaders of the progressive movement In Reouoi!- oan politics In Colorado and is confident hat the progressives will triumph in Colorado and elect the neXi stale ticket. We are trying to get the control ot tin politics of Colorado awav from the Denver bi-partisan machine said i olonel Stevens. "For some years the Democrats have been in control of t"' stale government, but WO look lo Hie progressive movement to bring the state back into the Republican party. few days ago tht progressive Republicans Re-publicans of the state had an enthusiastic I. annuel at Montrose William Alan Whit.- yas the orator of the evening and was given a great reception There wrc Republicans from ovary part ot the state ;,t the satin ring i nanlmous Indorsement was civen all of the nro-gresslvc nro-gresslvc Ideas, we are going to have dire, t election of United States senators, a bettor direct primary law: wo already have the initiative and referendum and we are going u have the recall the re- , all for th Judges and all Some few ,,. ti. banqui I opposed the re all for badges perhaps because of president's presi-dent's opposition to thai featuVe ol thi recall, but wo are going to have d nevertheless. never-theless. "Unfortunately, we still have conventions conven-tions for the selection of delegates lo the national convention. Under the convention conven-tion syatem it Is posslbl that the delegates dele-gates to the Republican national convention con-vention mav not be progressive Our candidate for president is. of course. La Pollette, who is the candidate oi the progressives everywhere, and we none to be able to send a La FOllette delegation dele-gation to the next Republican national convention m any event, the progressives progres-sives ate certain to nominate and elect the next state officers of Colorado." ( olonel Stevens Is an enthusiastic exponent ex-ponent of woman suffrage. He has spoken In many of the eastern states In favor of equal suffrage for both sexes and Is satisfied that In a comparatively short time the citizens of every state will enjoying equal suffrage i 'olonel Stevens Is the author of "The Liberators" and "The American Suffragette." Suf-fragette." The former hook Is having a wide sale and has become popular. The latter Is B novel in the Interest of the suffrage movement and Is lust off the press. The cnionci formerly owned the coi.-.ra.io Springs Gazette and the Pueblo Chieftain and has for years been actively ac-tively engaged in lournallsm He recent!) re-cent!) made s trip lo Iceland and has in contemplation a novel In which the scene will be laid In Iceland. He Will leave nexi month for a tour of th world, planning to be absent from America about four months He plans gathering inai r ial In India for B new novel Colonel Stevens was the candidate of his party for congressman -at-larg from Colorado a year ago and was beaten by a narrow margin |
