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Show it . .. . . - if . -1 ..'-' i . , ' ' Governor Hyrum Johnson Opens Progressive Campaign in Utah "There Is n revqlut on coming in the United States. It w'llnot bs a battle of gun, bayonets "end swords, Lut of ballots, nnd when the final test comes it will show that the American people are true to their tradition of being Independent." Inde-pendent." -v In these few words Governor Hiram Johnson of California, candidate for vice present on the Progressive ticket, expressed himself when ho arrived in Snit Lako City on Wednesday morning. The lighting governor of California also had some other things to say; he shot his sententences In a way that kept the newspaper men busy. "I have loft California for a month because I hopo to carry tho California doctrine to tho people of tho nation. "The fundamental principle of the coming struggle will ba social and industrial in-dustrial justice humanity. "The fact that thoro is a possibility of Roosevelt's being elected Is shown in the panic and terror of Penrose nnd all of his kind In the nation. These men are making their fight against Roosevelt because they do not want tho peoplo to rule. Thcv fear that If Roosevelt is nominated he will insist on tho enforcement of the law, nut for the trusts, but for the common people. "Roosevelt Will carry California; he will also carry Pennsylvania, New York nnd several other eastern states, together with many of the western states which aro still in doubt. From tho best Information that I can secure wc are gaining stiength In overy state in tho nation. I am In this fight for the mnsses and not for tho classcj. . "Frankly, I am glad to be In Utah, and I want to tell tho people of this state tonight what I think nnd why I havo taken tho stand I have. Utah has a record of being progressive in everything but politics. Why not In politics?" His tnlk in the evening In the Salt Lake Theatre, which was crowded to its very doors, was one of tho greatest political addresses ever mado in the state, is the option of men from this city who heard him. Every word was followed in close attention by the audience, whoso interest he held for an hour and a half. In his opening remarks Gov. Johnson saiJ: "I have been told that Utah Is singular In politics. In 1856 you will remember re-member that some of the Whigs of tho country, as a'-tompllfied by Mr. Fillmore, wero unable to real'ze that the people had turned from them to tho new Republican Re-publican party until the election was over and they had found that they had enrrind only one stato in tho union, Maryland. This year Utah has been designated desi-gnated by somo as the Maryland of the Republican party. I do not believe tho statement. I believe that In Utah there is just tho sams love of freedom and humanity that there is in every other western state. I believe that Utah will answer to the call, just as my own stato of California out on tho shores of the Pacific is responding to it. I know not of some of tho states of the cast, but it will be my pleasuro to go into them and tell them of the lessons wo have learned out In the weBt " |