Show l I. Olt THOMPSON'S THOMPSONS IPSO s RESIGNATION It t docs does not nol mean that disease has hal disabled him IlI It Il means eans I that the thu Tribune has disabled led him He I is a business man and amI ho can an not further follow r the tho bad ba lead leali of that suicidal criminally directed t paper It Ii n Ca lIi thal that I it the bunc Is the American mer an p parly ri Iy Ezra Tl Thompson Is hI I no I longer l it t member of or that party t His leaving Ing c under lh the circumstances Is a u lIe heavy Y blow uw to the forces JS now directing tIle Ule American party parl It ItIs Itis is not hot so much a calamity to to tho the men and the women who elevated him him to bOice for foi the they are arc in large arge measure out of or sympathy with the Tribune controlled crowd that U now po poses s as the party part The Tim men an and women who mn made c Ezra f on- on ma are or with him in his Withdrawal al fr from m the organization which has ilas captured and wrecked their party purt fl The e men of or substance who deal with him m who arc like him in tho the city's growth Ilk In In the trio prosperity o of Utah do not nol approve e the tite Tribune Their disapproval iI of or that papers paper's course coun has been plainly expressed for months But a policy of ot determined self self- d destruction on has dictated thu one answer to all their 1 appeals appeals ap ap- ap- ap l peals als To Tu Hell Hen with you rou Mayor Ma r Thompsons Thompson's resignation means that the Ameri Ameri- American I can party p as at present constituted nn and led lcd has lost a a. a great deal deat When hen Ezra Izra Thompson quits it is because others ha have e quit before him In the counsels of that party the defection detection has been going on for months Im Insolence Inso Inso- o- o lence arrogance haughty and overbearing mendacity have ila checked their every tI attempt to reason and o into the party leadership And the they hn have YC tired ot it They have ha said nothing openly but bul the they hey have as utterly left heft the new party as If Jr a placard bearing their avo avowal al were hanged about their necks as they traversed the streets street Ezra Thompson l knows of oC these defections He knows who are the tho men and the tho women who have o come como out from the American part party And he has arrived at the place I he can not longer afford to bo be identified with It You Yoi Yo may make up your our mind to this When Ezra I I I Thompson gets out ho lie docs does not go alone aone- IIo ITe docs does not noli go first Ho Is a careful an and a pru prudent ent man not desirous of taking chances chancos Inclined to be safe dearly carl preferring tho ho secure and the permanent advantage ad lIe IIo joined them theta ho he shrewdly saw sa an a annta advantage c there lIe He leaves them for the same reason renson The American party part I is breaking up Its best besl p people ope have been driven away by b a leadership which they the cannot cannot can not indorse The They have been alienated b by a newspaper which the they could not approve c It will be bo Imp Impossible to preserve even tho the appearance of or strength th with what is left Jert when the good men and women the tho atron strong and the sensible all aU leave tho the party parly And a little later when even the tho vicious realize the palsy that has fallen on the hand which menaced menace them the they too loo will openly def defy the Tribune arid and its Impotent band of boasters Ezra Thompsons Thompson's resignation publishes this fact to the world The American Amerl n party Is wrecked and nud the tho Tribune Tribuna has done it |