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Show EOOSEVELTISM IS WANING. The signs Hint, political Roosevelt-ism Roosevelt-ism is waning aro unmistakable throughout tho country. The small support sup-port givon to tho Roosevelt party, at I he recent primaries in' Michigan, the disappointing of the liopcs of the Roosevelt Roose-velt party in Vermont whoro they hoped to poll two-thirds of the. Re-1 Re-1 publican vote but managed to poll only j one-third of it, the disheartening ox- periencc in Miiine, the more recent fnil-! fnil-! uro to make any impression in the j State of Washington, the refusal of I urcat Republicans who supported TCoosc-I TCoosc-I veil prior to ihe Chicago Convention to follow him into his (liird-tertu party, the fleeing of Senator Cummins of Town to Europe as Voon as he delivered deliv-ered his foolish declaration that ho was a Roosevelt supporter nationally btit that ho wanted tho Jowa Republicans Repub-licans to return him as a Republican to the ScnaJ all these things are unmistakable evidence at 'once of the untenable position ' of the Roosevelt campaign and of the waning of enthusiasm en-thusiasm for the man whoso only pur-nose pur-nose appears now to be the wreck of the Republican party. Wc find iu the Bellinghauij (Wash.) Herald of- September Sep-tember 35th, a significant comment upon the present situation of Roose-vcltism Roose-vcltism in that State: There is little- comfort for the bull moose bosses and candidates in the primary pri-mary returns from the county and State. They do, indeed, indicate a handsome vole for Theodore Roosevelt for President, Presi-dent, but not lurtre enoush to endanger the normal Republican majority In this State. And that Is all it promises to amount to. That a single candidate oli the State tlckel ran be elected is declared de-clared Impossible by shrewd observers, nhd their contention Is supported Ifv the returns. AVltli the movement waning rap-Idly rap-Idly in Whatcom county, it Is not likely a thousand votes will be east for any candidate on the ilckt, and it Is believed be-lieved they will poll fewer votes even than the Socialists. And the reason for this waning is fairly and sensibly stated in the following fol-lowing editorial paragraph: Xow that the Republican party bus finished Its houseoicunliig. the agitators, malcontents and insturbcra. orooks and Incompetents outside the purty lines; those voters who honestly believe thei'e was need of i-eform but did not believe It could be secured from within, can have no excuse for remaining outside the party pale. It was a family light, and the disturber has been driven forth to wander homclees until he can make u place for himself In the Democratic or Socialist parties. Those who look the part of the disturber and now know him for what ho Is, and find they cannot follow fol-low him into one of the other parties, are making their way back to the regular party lines, and will bo found in their old places when Ihe time conies to cast their ha Ho l.j next November. The family j light Is over. The Roosevelt tide has passed its I'lood.nnd is now upon the ebb. As to this thei signs are unmistakable. I'tah, which was the latest to develop Roosevelt enthusiasm, has not as yet been caught in this receding ebb, but that ebb will eome here as elsewhere, although, as wc have said heretofore, there is in the local conditions here such a call for another party which the Roosevelt organization now fills, that the local scntimcut for it will be tremendously, tre-mendously, far and above any possible sentiment nationally in the same direction. di-rection. We believe ihafc the Progressives Progres-sives in Utah will on their local party nominations poll a. great vote, as they ought to do; but we bcliovo, as we have stated heretofore, that this strength will not go to ihe same length nationally that it will go for the State and county tickets. |