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Show INSURGENCY ALIVE INJMCOllNTf Petitions Largely Signed for a Mass Convention to Be Held at Provo. Special to The TribSJne. PROVO. Oct. 21. Three petitions calling call-ing for a mass convention of insurgent Republicans to be held some limo next Week aro being circulated in Utah county, coun-ty, one In the north end and one in tho south end and ono in Provo and vicinity. Within the past twenty-four hours ISO names have been signed to the petition, peti-tion, which is being circulated horc in Provo. and word cornea from both ends of the county that the movement Is fa vorably received and that many signatures signa-tures are being procured. The object of -the petitioners and the mass convention Is. as stated by one or those ha.vlng the matter In charge, to secure enough signatures of voters in the county to control the next election by having the balance of power. It Is propo&'cd to bind 1200 to 1500 bona fide voters to stand together on election day and-voto as ono man, .and from the trend of tho talk in Insurgency clrclcp. Howell and Sutherland Suther-land are doomed to stay at home. Their record In 1 congress Is to be repudiated, and their defeat Is the object of the movement now on foot. At the convention conven-tion it is proposed to elect a committee whoso duly It will be to put every candidate, can-didate, both for congress and for Ihe state legislature, on record on the following fol-lowing questions; Initiative and referendum, refer-endum, public utilities commission, national na-tional control of corporations aomg an interstate business, direct primary, election elec-tion of United States senators by direct vote of the people, boaslsm. Smootism and church control In politics. Evcrv candidate will be requested to define his position, on theso and somo other Important Im-portant .questions, and unless the answers an-swers Arc satisfactory to theso 1500 Insurgents, In-surgents, defeat ds Inevitable. In other words, tho candidate who does not favor the Initiative and referendum, direct primary, pri-mary, a public utilities commission, the election of United States senators bv direct vote of the people, a revision of tariff downward, and against bossism, Smootism and church interference In poll-tics, poll-tics, is to be marked for defeat at the polls. It is not to be wondered at that the federal bunch Is seeing dark and foreboding clouds arising in the Utah county horizon, and is making strenuous efforts to stem the lido of disaffection. Tho insurgents arc a busy lot of fellows down this way, and there will bo something some-thing doing every hour from now until election day. and woe be unto the man or men who voted witli the Rhode Island senator every time he voted, and served as a tool for I lie great protected intnr-ests intnr-ests of tho country. Tho insurgents here say, 'two will get In line with the rest of the progresnivc people of the United .States," Howe mid hla record mum h repudiated. The Ipnurgcney movement I' headed by sneli men an Walter Adams, E. A, Mitchell, Fred Mulsh and other business men just as aggrasolvo and determined de-termined In their tight for what they think to be tho right. |