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Show H THE NATIONA&pLECTION- H - ? " 1 N nearly every Brateyln the Union where the votertfpfheRepubHcan h party wore pormfttedo f In a H fre and untrammellp $ay' a majority . H of tho Republicans svid-last Tuesday H that they wore al&iijtet' Mr. Taft H Three little states; , whose, electoral H votes are lost in tho sliuffle of the B electoral college contributed to the H White House charity Hj Notwithstanding tb&t Wilson carried H most of tho normal Republican states, H the Democratic voteyas by no means H abnormally large, adcgln'g to incom- H plete returns of the '.popular vote. The H Republican vote waBspHtr tis expect H ed,t but the reactionaiyvn'iid Progr3- Hj slVa factions polled together more H thqn tho Democratic strength In the H notion. 1.- H It seems to us tha Theodore- Roose- H elt made his casef Not oven the H most excited Progressive had any H more than a faint hopethat he would Hj be elected, but that ho" would poll a H tremendous vote thrpTighout the coun H try was a foregone cdnclusjonlpng be- H fore the date of ellottqh 'ih ninety H days a new organimfon ' sprang into H the' national arena anOjv,ept front Its H foundations a politic&Wntity that had H prospered for fifty yeaYsV fattening its H organization from MjjnlS '"jpaironage HB and extending its powjjfthfough every M Hnp of political p2p6; Colonel Mj Roosevelt, leading thSoy movemenf , H merely proved to thoAnoncan people H that tho Republican aiqfty Itself undid H its work of half a ctury. H The Progressive g&rfV made a re H markable record in tafe nation, setting H( a new standard of aJmok'in American H politics and carryingSttough states HH and electing enougl&stalte officers to H make the new portfTa powerful in- Ht strument for political good in the fu H ture. The cause will survive; the H prinoiples of Progroflvlsm will flour- B ish under the new drder. H President Taft is hardly the man to jS talk of reviving the Republican party, B that task must be iMtSn by a leader H!- of strength and popnM'dt', 'by a man H who combines Vjjm9'" following t with national support anil not by a 9 man who is totally discredited I i aides, it is a task for young men B righteous puiposo whose faces are uoi m toward tho rising sun and who are immediately responsive to the demands de-mands of the new political order now in process of evolution. The Republican Republi-can party wrecked Itself. Without a third party Wlilson would have been elected; a third party merely made that election doubly certain. The Progressive party won a high place in national politics. It Is, by virtue vir-tue of winning second place, In jx better bet-ter position politically than the Republican Re-publican party and may now go into subsequent contests forehanded and with higher hopes and greater ambitions. ambi-tions. Its principles eventually will be Written into the laws of the states and of the nation; its strength will grow until it becomes even a greater and more potent power. The State Election. TUB people of this state are to be congratulated upon the re-election of Governor Spiy and upon the election of the state ticket, which, With one notable exception, wa3 en-i en-i titled to statewide recognition from all parties The popularity of Governor Gov-ernor Spry in Salt Lake county carried car-ried this state for Taft, and while in tho succes3 of the latter there is no cause for prMe among Republicans, the general public Is Willing enough to take It along with the splendid success suc-cess rifahteved by tne governor Salt Lake county was 'the battleground battle-ground in Utah and In Ui6 stato capital cap-ital and surrounding territory the fatd of the Republican ticket was decided. Two years ago Hlowell (Republican for Congress) received 10,416 votes In this county; Erickson, Democrat, 5,-578, 5,-578, and Sanford, American, received 13,243. It has been figured by astute politicians. In this state that at least 5,000 Democfats have' voted tho Republican Re-publican ticket in this county in order to defeat the Americans. There was no American ticket this year, hence speculation was rife, until election, aB to how the American vote would be divided di-vided among the other parties The election returns last Tuesday show the" average Republican vote In this ,coun-ty ,coun-ty to have been about 13,000; the Democratic Dem-ocratic vote 10,000 and the Bull Moose vote 8,500. If the official returns re-turns do not show any more than, this, the tolal vote certainly wa3 exceedingly ex-ceedingly light. The result showsHhaT the 5,000 Democrats went back to their party, there being no American party bugaboo, thus reducing the Republican vote from 16,000 to 11,000. i About 4,000 Republicans left the party and voted for Roosevelt this fall, which would reduce the Republi- can vote still further to 706Tt what of the Amerljjanlfeie? Six tttwS j sand and m AOT&rlqMis t lj voted theiepbllc1i tiqKet; rS- sSnd probably went lEoEhe Bull M0030 and the balance either refraining frorn I voting or being scattered between the four parties in the field. It must be conceded that tho greatest apathy in ' the present election was among that cass or voters known as former Americana. Amer-icana. , (p The RepulHl-ticket went out of Salt L'akeNcoupty, then, with more than 3,000 yofesUo the good and this t advantage va t'oo groat for the Democrats- to overcome. In many outlying counties the Republicans were defeat-dd4 defeat-dd4 bUUthe-JIgliTllepubllcan vote was offset by . the." big majority gained in this county, ''!. ' ' TheXipeglslature. j THE next legislature, convening In January, 'Sylll be Republican in , both housef,-? insuring co operation opera-tion with Governor Spry in the enactment enact-ment of laws' that will undoubtedly redound to tliebSneflt of tho state at large. The .Republican leglBlator3-elect from Salt Lake county and from e'nough other colfntles In the state to make a gbgd wbrklng majority, are pledged to progressive legislation, al-thougli al-thougli not to a program that is entirely en-tirely progressive. The legislature will be required Jo pass laws on railroad rail-road regulation "and upon the election of senators 'by .(Jfiject vote of the people, peo-ple, providing 'the elected candidates keep their party pledges. There, is an opportunity, at the coming com-ing session' ot the legislature for the Republican party of Utah to snow a spirit of progresslvism that will undoubtedly un-doubtedly pla'bato the Bull Moose of the state, Ulfo demand for progressive progres-sive legislation was manifested by about '20,000 rosidents of tne state through tho Progressive party; and by a -niffrrority of 'the Republican party which accented h,s a sort of compromise compro-mise what' few., progressive measures were written into the Republican county coun-ty and stat 'aforms. With a' strong leader like Governor Spry, the ' Republican party in tills state '-.has a fuuro the success of which will depend entirely upon the . facility Vlth-' which It grasps tho sentiment senti-ment oftha tLnfe.8. - " . The' Federal Bunch. YHiaRTeft11 L Morris made a yy taotjccil blunder during the campaigntvas in his explanation explana-tion to'-thp pabple of Utah that tho federal'bungty should be destroyed and that the Republican state admin-istralion," admin-istralion," which l was hand in glove with the buricbUjBhould also be annihilated. anni-hilated. If thauBull Moose and Demo-crats Demo-crats combined liad worked as hard as tho federal hunch to destroy Mr. Spry and the'Reubllcan party in this Btate, a different story may now be told of the ejection For the shadow of private ltfa'ihas crossed and re-crossed re-crossed the" federal building 'in Salt Lake bince last June In the moan-time moan-time the federal bunch has been busy waiting for a Demociatic president to make other appointments and, as a pastime, potting Governor Spry in or- der that lie, too, might go down to 'defeat. E The hegira from the federal bundling bund-ling will be an interesting spectaole. |