Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-05-31 | Page 1 | Heyburn Attacks the Progressives

BUN ATTACKS THE PROGRESSIVES Predicts That if They Persist in Their Course They Will "Sink Into Oblivion." WA Sin NGTON, ainy 30. Wearing od his coat lapel a miniature flag in recognition of Memorial day, Senator Heyhurn of Idaho resumed his anti-tarifl anti-tarifl revision .spooch in thc senate today, to-day, and predicted that if tho progressive progres-sive .Republican senators persist in their course they would "sink into oblivion." ob-livion." "Thc Republican party," ho fcaid, "is strong enough and right enough to win. Anti-Republicans should face the flag at tho head of tho column. Thc onlv danger lies in the fact that some of the dissatisfied clement may face in tho opposite direction. If .you believo in the iSrinciplcs of tho Democratic party, tlxm go there: don't use tho livery of heaven to servo the devil.' Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska predicted pre-dicted that in all probability Colonel Roosovolt would be the Republican nominee for the presidency, and asked Senator Ileburn what he thought of "the intimation of that distinguished American that the -working man does not share the benefits of protection." "I do not give heed to the nod and beck of monarch?, nor any man," replied re-plied Senator Hovburn. -Mr. Heyburn objected to the appropriation appro-priation of tho word progressive. Ho compared that element to the suckers, or sprouts which grow up from thc roots of trees, "which never bear fruit nor amount, to anything on their own account. " "Suppose tho main trunk becomes diseased, what will become of the sucker?" suck-er?" asked Senator Martinc of Now Jersey. "It will die when the root dies." Mr. Martino retorted that the off-shoot off-shoot would establish roots of its own. "And that," ho said, referring to the diseased trunk, "j'h about, the condition of the Republican party." "That," responded Mr. Heyhurn, "is pocsv and not wisdom."