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Show The Tribune exhausts a column in Its Issue of Wednesday in an effort to prove that ex-Congressman Sutherland had attempted to coerce John Hopfenbeck into remaining with the regular Republican Re-publican organization and gives the impression that the national Republican committee is in accord ac-cord with the bolting "legion of the lost ones." The interview, as It appeared in the Tribune, even in its garbled and distorted shape, merely shows that Mr. Sutherland had merely given Hopfenbeck Hop-fenbeck some valuable advice, which the latter had solicited. The railway mail clerk stated yes-t9rday yes-t9rday that there was no attempt whatever at coercion; co-ercion; and that the conversation was purely a friendly one on a subject which he himself had Introduced. It is quite true that Mr. Sutherland stated that the Republican national committee did not approve ap-prove of the American party in Utah, an asser-t'on asser-t'on which makes the bolting organ assume a feigned front of injured innocence. The fact is that the national committee realizes the menace cf the organization towards the electoral ticket rs -thoroughly as Mr. Cutler appreciates the blow it is aiming at his success in Utah. The national committee is opposed to bolters, particularly to those of the virulent type repre-tented repre-tented by the management of the Tribune, who would sacrifice the national ticket to gratify a retty political revenge. The committee has so expressed ex-pressed Itself to more than one Republican of prominence from Utah, and the efforts of the Tribune to cover up its treachery and misdeeds is a more paltry subterfuge If the Tribune wishes verification of this, it might profitably interview Mr. Gien Miller, who conferred with the committee commit-tee during his recent visit in the East, and found the committee unanimous in its opposition to the formation and aims of the new party. Mr. Frank Knox, who has been more or less intimately associated politically with the promoter of the Revenge Society, admitted that the formation forma-tion of the bolting society had reduced President Roosevelt's prospects of carrying Utah to a more "chance." The Republican national committee places the blame for that condition of affairs where It justly belongs. |
