Show 1 I I IT WAS AS S AX AN OFF YEAR I It 1 t t t p g l dIstinctly u an oft year fn politics The Republican party part always suffers I in an nn oft off year car The American party parl should have gained a thousand votes in 1906 over 1908 from the very verJ people who vho take e or an off year to help helpa a personal friend to express such displeasure as they nay may feel feet There There was no strong Influence of the nearness of a national election such election such as exists this year car for tor exI ex ex- I ample And yet et the American party part ran failed cd to gain That sort crt of thing will vill not do ao with a 3 new parl party Here In Sa Salt t Lake it is folly to sa say the managers s of the new party part assembled in 1905 1906 all the voters oters that could i be gathered to together ether in a a political organization and andI I that there was no more possible ground for converting convening when hen the next election came around The very same arguments that were a advanced In 1905 1900 and that won converts to the new party part then should have won an oven even greater Ler advance In the next year ear The rhe people were ere 11 hero here The conditions were here Tho The new party YaM wan hOve hmo Vh Why didn't it get et additions In its best year ear Also hero here were the many new the arrivals the people J whom the American party managers were claiming to claiming to toa I a a man Their Theil campaign for recruits was directed es es- es toward to the newcomers newcomers and and It is likely they f got more of or th them m than Lid did either of or the old parties BUT THEY TIlEY LOST SO MANY NY OF OP THEIR OWN IBERS THAT THEIR TOTAL VOTE SHOWED SHO A PALLING FALLING OFF 4 A |