Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-07-09 | Page 6 | Officeholders Back of a Movement to Have Taft Resign

OffiCEHOLDERS BACK BACI BACKOf Of A MOVEMENT TO JO nAVE i TAfT HIT HE RESIGN May As AsK Ast Roos Roosevelt velt Also to Withdraw Compromise Is Sought I I WASHINGTON GrON July Juh 9 A I.-A A nation wide to lo petition President T Taft TACt ft to tu aw as u the H publican presidential candidate I Is being backed by hy a H lar number of or who feel reel feel they face fitce defeat deft In November lOo unless the breach In the Marty cali cati he be healed These inose men Inell Include members of or congress conr con- con Kreas gress r R members rs of ur state legislatures legislature which will elect senators state and county of of- or rs and aims party parl candidates If It the movement nl In gaining an any volume volume vol vot ume It is 18 said these same sarno men may salt Colon 1 floo Roosevelt evelt to will withdraw v as a a prospective prospective pros pros- candidate for nn an n Independent nomination and to lo permit a a. compromise selection of or some man agreeable to both bolh factions actions of or the part party It la Is lAthe the desire of ot the promoters of time the scheme that a decision be reached before August 5 when he the Roosevelt faction plans to hold holda a convention on In Chicago Th The Tho circulation of or petitions It Il Is lis declared declared de de- will start within a week It was l' l said the movement would b begin gln spontaneously In ev every ry state The organizers organizers or or- r are arc now circulating blank forms forma of or petitions null and appointing supervisors who In turn lurn will engage canvassers Can to solicit lt tho signatures of or Republicans The Time mO em movement ent nt In Is In the hands i of or sev soy several several eral oral well-known well members of or congress The They arc II rc hoin aided by many extreme Roosevelt Republicans The enlistment of or national progressive organization in the movement has been sought an and It was stated that Senator Dixons Dixon's organization was waR wiling to co In the circulation of or th the Taft anti petitions peti peti- tione an nn effort will be bo made mad to get them 81 signed n d b by organization R Republicans and others other who have stood with the pr president as SA v ht ft as by citizens who ho have occupied neutral ground round There will b be no special effort to get progressive Republican Republic n sig sig- natures