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Show GET HONORABLE LEADERS. IT has been the misfortune of tho Utah section of the Progressive party to find Its lpadership in trickery. trick-ery. The honest Progressives in thi3 state deserve an honest leadership here, but they have not found it. When the Progressive party in the nation became an established fact, a number of gentlemen set up a tory leadership in this state, having no genius gen-ius for compromise, no instinct for fair play, no ability to understand popular doctrines; resorted to dishonorable methods that have maintained the supremacy su-premacy of a self-constituted machine which today dictates the destiny of the Progressive party in Utah. A party thus tormented is in the throes of dissolution. The independent independ-ent members of the Progressive party, who are the very backbone of that party, will serve their own interests if they seek honest leadership and insist upon having it. The Weekly blieves that the most effective method of bringing about the social, industrial and economic reforms re-forms so much needed today is through the election of Theodore Roosevelt to tho presidency of the United States. But we are unable to see a similarity between the Impelling motive of tho national Propressive party and that whioh Inspires the present pres-ent organization In the state of Utah. Emerson said: "The strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; they who build on Ideas build for eternity; the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it." A leadership honorably formed and submissive to majorities can be digested, di-gested, but trickery and knavery cannot can-not bo assimilated. Liberalism will not light its way with the disadvantage of a kedge of political opportunities and advantures impeding Its progress. All Independent political movements are primarily a protest against organized organ-ized political tyranny; so firmly ln- trenched does fraud and trickery become be-come that the popular will is defeated and ultimately there is no hope for honest legislation. The honest men and women of the United States who voiced their protest against the coterie of political tyrants in the Republican national convention at Chicago who upset the will of the people by defeating the people's choice for president were convinced that justice jus-tice and fair play could not be procured pro-cured within the Republican party. And, certain that the principles of progressive action for which they stood would be stifled within this organization or-ganization by virtue of the corruption at Its head, they went outside, found the instrument with which to make the fight and formed for the attack from an angle that is as old as revolution revolu-tion itself. One of the basic principles of this movement was the demand for the overthrow of boBsism. The dangerous danger-ous tendency of the Republican party aroused the people to the necessity for effecting a l trn of public rule to the first unit of government and it Was in holy protest that the cause of Progresslvism swept from ocean to ocean. , Here in Utah there was sufficient Progressive sentiment to form the nucleus nu-cleus for a now party within the state, but this sentiment was not spontaneous. spon-taneous. A movement of the people is difficult to bring to a head; it is slow to focus ita strength. Taking advantage of the people's willingness to be led, a number of gentlemen whose time is divided between a longing long-ing for power and a criticism of tho "ins," ca'me to the front and gave some semblance of an organization to the new movement. The self-appointed leaders called themselves a "provisional" committee. commit-tee. Most of them were and still are political adventurers, the impelling motive mo-tive of whose Interest Is to wreck the Republican party which has been a little over-conservative In Its bestowal of favors upon them. Others who jumped to the forefront of the new movement are 'men who were Inspired by the righteousness of It and who desired to lend their active support to an open protest against tho bosses. They are moved by a laudable purpose and while they do not deny, as wo do not, that the Progressive party Is In business to wreck the Republican party, as one part of the program, they hold, as we do, that is not the sole purpose of the movement, us has been charged by the Republicans. It La likewise true that t'he Progressives hope to destroy the Democratic party as well. The honest men who identified themselves them-selves with the leadership of the party were not ambitious for themselves, but they were in the company of professional pro-fessional office-seekers and empty-stomached empty-stomached individuals who were. With a genius born of hunger the dishonest element at the head of the new movement move-ment swung Into the saddle. To keep themselves from being unhorsed It has required no end of strategy; the advantage ad-vantage of tho position they hold may be judged by the tenacity with which they cling to it. Out over the state there were a great many people who called themselves them-selves Progressives. They weren't sure of their ground and they were willing to follow any one who would lead them Into the mass formation of an organization. So they came to look to the self-appointed Progressive state chairman for guidance. Into those communities where there seemed to flourish a deBlre for organization organ-ization the provisional state committee commit-tee sent literature outlining the plan of action. This program provided for the formation of a provisional committee, com-mittee, then the calling of a county convention to nominate a county ticket and to name a permanent campaign committee to take the place of the provisional committee. The provisional provision-al committee was voluntary in each county of the state, as It was in Salt Lake county, and as It was In the state. In Salt Lake county the convention con-vention call provided for the naming of a permanent committee to take the place of the provisional committee. And this action was taken in Salt Lake county, as well as in most of the other counties of tho state. But what did the provisional state committee do? The state chairman, self-appointed, Blgned a call for the state convention to be held at Ogden and there was NO REFERENCE IN THE CALL TO THE FORMATION OF A NEW STATE COMMITTEE. It may be Inferred that the state chairman didn't want to take any chances on his job by referring it to I he people of the new party. The practice of letting the convention conven-tion which selects the candidates also select tho committee to manage their campaign Is an old as politics in America. The provisional state committee, com-mittee, self-appointed, Indorsed this practice by urging It upon each of the twenty-seven counties. But they did not urge It upon the delegates to the state convention. This convention met and organized and nominated a state ticket and adjourned without forming a new state committee. It may be that the people would have indorsed the present state organization organ-ization that Was their right and should have been their privilege If they felt so disposed. But they were mmmwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrmmmmm' not given a chance to express them- H selVeB. M So well was the new Progressive M machine in this state oiled that tho H people themselves had no'voice in the jH selection of candidates, except to in- m dorse those men who had first been M passed and O. K.'d by the provisional M committee sitting in a little room at H the Wilson hotel. 1 No action was permitted by this state committee which would in any M sense jeopardize the position held by H the "provisional" machine. IH It does not require more than ordl- nary vision to discern the close politi- H cal corporation which is running the H Progressive party in the state of Utah. H the "leaders" In this state are crea- H tures of selfishness, Inspired solely by H a desire to wreck the Republican H party. They are out of touch with a H movement which is of the ijeoplo and jH for the people. M H The Weekly has not grown excited H over the political' situation in Utah, H nor has it been swayed by the false H pretense that there is similarity be- H tween the Progressive party in the na- H tion and the movement In this state. H We have consistently fought against H bossism In politics and were willing to H accept the Progressive movement in H Utah as a protest against boss rule, H whereas it has developed a sentiment H quite the reverse and has generated a H boss power that runs quite true to the H form established by a coterie of Re- H publican politicians whioh has doml H nated the political situation in Utah H for ten yeais. H How vastly different is the Progres- jH sive movement in Utah from the senti- H ment which culminated in the noml- jH nation of Governor William Spry for H a second term. Singled out as' a tar- H get by a number of very influential H gentlemen who directed the. destinies H of tho Republican party in Utah, he jH was mnrked for slaughter not long H after his administration was begun. jH For three years an internal war was H waged against him and yet he emerged H triumphant and received a renomina- H tion without the slightest opposition. H Tho answer to tho Spry question Is H that the people of the state of Utah H wanted him. It cannot be said, with H any degree of truth, that tho peoplo H of this state had the slightest part in H the selection of his opponent either on ! the Democratic or Progressive tickets. This campaign has gone far enough B for tho people to learn all tho points H of criticism there may be against Gov- H ernor Spry's administration of state af- H fairs, but the most intrepid stump H speakers in either of the opposing HI parties have not gone so far as to dis- H close a reasonable ground for criti- H cism. They have attributed most of H the ills of the Republican party of the H H? past to the chief executive of the H r state who was elected by that party, H Ills for which he cannot he held re- H j sponsible and which the party of to- H ; day has shaken, off by reason of a B . courageous use of the operating knife. H ' The men who have run the Republi- H can. party with high hand for ten years Hi . are not the men in control of it today. elf they were William Spry would not i be the Republican candidate for gov- H i ernor. B |