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Show ItranHMMMMMMHMinMHMmMMMMMHHMiaMiM SPRY DEFEATED WELLS ON TillRI) TERM IN RACE 1901. (From Sandy City Star.) It would bo rather amusing reading read-ing if Governor William Spry would explain to the public why ho has so abruptly changed fronts and is now willing to accept and fight for tho ob-noxious ob-noxious third term us governor of the stato of Utah when in 1901 ho was stumping the state as ono of tho most prominent speakers iu tho Republican ranks denouncing tho third term which Heber M. Wells was aspiring for at that time. His stand at that time was very pronounced nnd highly patriotic in favor fa-vor of tho glorious principles of "equal rights to all and specinl privileges to none" and there are those who vividly recall Mfo emphatic denunciation of a man whoso principles of truo Americanism Amer-icanism were so corrupted as to bo aspiring for a third term ns governor, govern-or, when precedent had established the second term ns amplo and the limit of truo American endurance. Ono really wonders if Governor Spry has not been a faithful student of Woodrow Wilson nnd is now following fol-lowing his example and aspiring for tho important position he once denounced. de-nounced. Wilson was elected on a platform which was pledged to a single term for the president of the United States, but the glare of public position and tho prestige it brings has reversed his one-time positive pledge nnd he now stands for a second term, which ho once deplored. Governor William Spry stands, in a similar position. Ho has completely reversed himself ana Is fighting for tho third term which tho people of tho state of Utah abhor. We do not believe that tho people of this fair stato have becomo so careless care-less of their rights and privileges that they will stand for Willium Spry for a third term and there is another thing that we are certain they will not stand for. And that is to give Bill Spry another opportunity to beat them out of state-wido prohibition. |