Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-09-05 | Page 4 | Says Third Party is Going to Pieces

SAYS THIRD PARTY IS GOING' TO PIECES By International News Service. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Chairman Hlllcs of the Republican national committee tonight 'made tho following statement: It has boon widely claimed that the Vermont election of yesterday, in which, by the way, the third-term party ran a bad third, would be tho barometer of the November election. From, that proposition tho Republican Repub-lican national commltteo docs not dissent. Tho fact that the third-term party ran third in tho race In Vermont that it received only 7 per cent of the vote at tho primaries in Detroit and was Ignored in the primaries in New Hampshire and Nevada, emphasizes em-phasizes the decline of that movement. move-ment. The, election of the third-term party over tho fact that tlie election of Fletcher must be confirmed In tho assembly makes plain that Its purpose pur-pose and only hope is to throw the election of the president Into the houpe of representatives. Republicans In other states who analyze yesterday's vote In Vermont will not waste their votes. As the figures sink more and more Into tho public mind the average citizen will face the alternative of Republican or Democratic rule.