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Show UTAH AND ROOSEVELT. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY in "Utah doesn't stand pat on everything. every-thing. Nor does it presume to have a fixed, definite view of things that is calculated to be lasting. From year to year the party in this state reaffirms re-affirms its faith in and loyalty to certain cer-tain things, only to revamp its opinion from time to time and shift its fealty from one hero to another until its fickleness becomes so apparent ap-parent as to give rise to a general lack of confidence in the party's utterances. ut-terances. In 1908 the Republican party in Utah held a convention for the election elec-tion of delegates to the national convention. con-vention. These "men were sent to that convention bound to support Theodore Roosevelt for President, as first choice, and, if he refused to run, to support Mr. Taft, as second choice. This pledge was strengthened by stirring stir-ring resolutions showing how tremendously tremend-ously strong the Republicans in Utah were for Theodore Roosevelt. Along In September of the same year the state convention adopted a platform which opened with the following plank: Before another state Republican convention shall be held the administration ad-ministration of Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt will have passed into history; his-tory; we, therefore, deem it a patriotic pa-triotic duty to express at this time our grateful appreciation of his brilliant and progressive leadership. leader-ship. His administration in its high purposes and great achievements, achieve-ments, consonant with the highest high-est ideals of goversment, has exemplified ex-emplified in full and rounded measure the highest and noblest aims of American manhood. He has courageously and unfalteringly unfalter-ingly battled for the highest standards in our public and private pri-vate life. Our people are better and stronger and our nation wields a great influence because Theodore Roosevelt has filled the exalted office of President. We pledge our adherence to his reform re-form policies and measures. Four years later the sa'me group of men dominated a similar convention. Here the name of Roosevelt did not appear in the platform; his picture was absent from the hall; a suggestion sugges-tion of some of his friends that delegates dele-gates be sent uninstructed to the national na-tional convention, where four years ago they went Instructed for him, was steam-rolled into silence. His record as President still stands. The written history of the Republican Repub-lican party In Utah will always show the deadly parallel. In a few short years the colonol was transformed by 'H the Utah machine from a "brilliant IJMkT iH and progressive" leader, a iman who KK :H "courageously asd unfalteringly bat- Hk H tied for the highest standards in our 'HMOT I public and private life" to an "aglta- rJmfcwifflia H tor" and "theorist," totally unfit to bo trusted with the reins of government. 'iilifeiiil 1 |