Show Split in G. G O. O P. P Ranks The cat fights will n not t be confined to the Democratic party during the presidential campaign It looks more like a free for all now than anything alEe eleo There is a Wilson Roosevelt-Wilson feud a Bryan Wilson SI split a Bryan Clark quarrel and now comes the renewal of the bitter Taft Roosevelt con con- When it comes to genuine personal ill m feeling none of tim tho other feuds feud can approach that between the Terrible One and the Man Who Disappointed Disappoints I Him S Before the tho date of the two big conventions arrives we suspect the air will be so filled with flying missiles all noncombatants will have to seek safety in the storm cellars Taft is so resentful of ot Theodores Theodore's actions that he declares a majority of ot Republicans desire defeat in the coming presidential election rather than tha victory with any but a REGULAR Republican Not mentioning any names of course but it was plain he had in mind a certain gentleman with ver very prominent teeth Taft has developed strength since he left the White While House He ha hamade has made a much bett better r impression as an president ex-president than he did while struggling gling with willi the tho affairs of state and continually making compromises in futile attempts to avoid friction among members of his party Ho will have considerable influence over Republicans the Republicans the old line variety va va- va during during the preliminary skirmishes And he intimates now that the Old Guard would rather see a Deserving Democrat win than witness the parade of victory of ot the G. G O. O P P.- P. with an regular Ir-regular Republican at the head of the line That statement started the editors of the Republican organs among themselves Now the Democrats will not be lonely in their party quarrel Misery i lov lover c company p ny and the Bourbons will have plenty of ot company j Bryans Bryan's Barks Harmless I Ii i i While Bryan is snapping at Wilson like a little barking a athe at atthe l the heels of f a mighty mastiff while Speaker Clark is lambasting the tickle fickle Bryan th the country will also be enjoying the spectacle of two former pals pal und and Republican leaders going up and down the tho country declaring that anything anything any any- thing is better than the election of a member of the other fellows fellow's camp It will be he an edifying sight I Prof Hugo he of the German sympathies but of ot the fond fond- ness for the tho good things he can get in America and cannot secure in hi his native land says the German-Americans German are going to march to the polls am and vote solidly for Roosevelt If It they Indicate that they will do this loyal loya Americans will lay aside other prejudices and rally around the man who has ha their enmity I If It a a. Taft man is nominated by the Republican convention Roosevelt Roosevel will most likely fight him tooth and and nail If Teddy himself should capture tho the nomination how could the Old Guard be bo reconciled S In our own state the Republican papers show the split that is threatening threatening threatening threat threat- ening the party as it did in 1912 One Salt Lake Republican organ lias has been p trying for weeks to find a place to lI light ht but cant can't see through the maze I It is s attempting the difficult role of riding two horses at once both of ot them pulling apart It sizes up tho the situation like this Mr Roosevelt is a Republican presidential possibility That fact cannot be gainsaid He is rapidly becoming a Republican presidential probability because he is the embodiment of everything the present president is not x Then proving that it doesn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings this organ discusses the Taft-Roosevelt Taft rift in these mild terms Tafts Taft's unwillingness that the colonel should be the Republican candidate this year is infinitely more comprehensible than the colonels colonel's opposition to him in 1912 for Mr Roosevelt wronged his former friend grievously But the Republican party is interested in avenging neither its own own wrongs nor Mr Tafts Taft's Its duty and the duty of every Ameri Ameri- prefers the sort of government we might have to the sort of government we have is fo to go forward by any method that does not involve the surrender of vital principles It is plain to see that this organ of the stand patters doesn't know which way t the tho e cat is going to jump but will be he willing to Jump with it even If it lands land in m the Rough Riders Rider's camp amp Must Have Teddy's O. O K Another Salt Lake Republican paper adopts an exactly opposite view It If Theodore is the choice of the assembled delegates at Chicago that paper evidently would be left without anybody to support It can see nothing bu butte but buttLe the tLe Old Guard one Guard one pf the Regulars of ot which Taft so eloquently speaks Showing its contempt for the Progressives that daily in discussing the Bull Moose Moos committee meeting scheduled for today in Chicago says The he gr great at bulk of tho the voters who were were led astray four years ago having returned to the Republican fold very little interest is taken in the movements of George W. W Perkins former Senator Beveridge and the theother other leaders who were in turning the country over to the Democrats by reason of their bolt in 1912 It is generally expected that the Progressive convention will be beheld held in Chicago and that it willbe will willbe willbe be in session at the same time the Republican delegates are are engaged in an nominating a candidate for president If this diagnosis of the preliminary preliminary nary situation be correct next step will be an attempt upon the part of the tall to wag the dog the remnant of the Progressive party proposing to join forces with the regular Republicans provided they be allowed to name the presidential candidate It will be bea a sublime exhibition of political gall but it will not arouse any enthusiasm upon the part of the supporters of Burton Fairbanks Fairbank Hughes Root and other straight out Republicans with the th th duty of selecting a standard bearer For these men to falter would be bean bean bean an admission of weakness totally out of harmony with existing political conditions which promise a Republican landslide in November While the lamp is burning and the sinners are returning there is no necessity for making terms with those who are holding back ack There are not enough of them to make it worth while The fight between Heiner and Moon each claiming recognition as national committeeman from Utah has awakened passing interest In the meeting of the executive committee at Chicago but the political situation in this state will not be changed no matter which way the cat jumps If the Republican convention nominates a candidate whom Theodore Roosevelt cannot support there will be little chance of success for the G. G O. O P. P for Teddy can still summon enough followers from the high tariff party to defeat its standard bearer Whether Roosevelt himself could be elected is a question agitating many political leaders The Third Term cry would undoubtedly hurt and then there would be many of the Old I Guard like Taft who would prefer preter defeat to a victory by any but a REGULAR REGU REGU- LAR DAR REPUBLICAN |