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Show H WILL PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS BOLT TAFT? H. The' ITcrald-Rcpublicnn is continually trying to make it ap- H pear ti,al tii0 Progressive- Republican League and all Progressive H . Republicans arc attempting to create a now, or separate, parly H movement. No one knows better than the Salt Lake Hernld-Rcpub- H lican editor that the principle of the Progressive Republican League !i that the reforms advocated must be fought out within party lines. Tf this is tniewhy cannot the Herald-Republican be fair in this matter. The Evening Dcseret News, a few days ago, was fair enough to say thai, if Mayor Glasmann had been properly quoted by the Salt Lake Herald-Republican, the Mayor was misrepresenting the Progressive League. The Dcseret News said that Senator Bourne of Oregon' president of the Progressive League had specifically specif-ically stated that the' league was not a new parly movement but a movement for reform within the party. "Why cannot the Ilerald-Republican Ilerald-Republican be just as fair? , The Dcseret News, after reproducing what the Tlerald-Repub- H lican said, gave place to a communication denying the accuracy of H the Herald-Republican's statement, but when the Ogdcn Mayor gave H the Herald-Republican an interview on tho same subject, the H ' Herald-Republican refused to prfilt it. Why this continued mis,- H representation and this refusal to correct it? It was possible for B the Herald-Republican to have been misinformed, but the fact that H the Herald-Republican refuses to -mako a correction shows that it H purposely misrepresented the gentleman above referred to. H ' In "Wednesday's Herald-Republican, the sheet intimates that B the Republican Progressive senators would bolt tho nomination of H President Taft should Taft be re-nominated. Tho Herald-Repub- H lican has no right to make such statement because the Progressive Hj Republican senators elaim they are the real, genuine, Simon-pure Hj Republicans oE the Abraham Lincoln type. They arc going to bat- H 'tie within the Republican party until they win. It is true the Pro- H I gressive Republicans favor Senator La Follette of Wisconsin for H , president, but if President Taft defeats Senator La Follette, the H l Progressive Republicans will take their medicine and wait for the H ! next convention and keep on fighting until they win. The Pro- B gressive Republicans must stand by the party just as the "Stand- H f patters'' tmust stand-by the party if the Progressive Republicans B win. m ( The Herald-Republican objects to Senator Bourne, president M of the Progressive Republican League, making the statement that m Taft cannot be re-elected. We admit that Senator Bourne has made M that statement, but Senator Bourne has not made the statement H that he would NOT support Taft, if President Taft defeated La H 'Follette. Ht I j It is not the Progressive Republicans who will bolt President i TaCt in case he is re-nominated ; it will be the independent Republicans Repub-licans and the independent voters, without party affiliation, who will vote for a Progressive Democrat in preference to "Staudpat" H I Taft, and as sure as the Republicans nominate a "Standpatter", H M just that -surely will the Democrats nominate a Progressive. H H The Herald-Republican declares that thc Progressive Repub- H H licans say that it will not be a tariff fight between La Follette and H H Taft. Why sliould it be? President Taft says he is in 'favor of re- HHH vising and lowering the tariff as soon, as the tariff board reports. H i which will repovt on December 1st. Senator La Follette says he is Hr i ready to revise and lower the tariff now, or after December 1st. Hl ' Therefore, there could not very well be a fight between the two B presidential candidates on the lowering of the tariff duties. Pres- ident Taft already has stated that the wool and cotton schedules H JT of the Painc-Aldrieh bill arc so high that they arc indefensible and P that the same must be reduced. La Follette says the same thing. H Senator La Follette, however, has come out in objection to a tariff H duty less than an average of 29 per cent and will not permit the V average to go lower than that. President Taft vetoed the bill for H a reduction to a 29 per cent average, not stating if he thought 29 H per cent too high or too low. H Now, the President; has had sufficient information to assure H him that the wool and cotton schedules are outrageously high, but H claims the information was not sufficient for him to have approved H of La Follette-'a measure, which averaged 29 per cc.nl. H! There is no fear on the part of anybody to meet Mr. Taft on HL tne tariff or reciprocity issue, because Mr. Taft has no tariff or B' reciprocity ideas that heis willing to present until his tariff board H makes a report. Of course, President Taft hopes that the tariff H board, which was packed in the interest of a high tariff, will make Hl the issue for him. B The Herald-Republican speaks of the insurgenj; senators' R "thirst for office." That is all clap-trap. If a senator" believes in Hl insurgent principles, he thirsts for office; but the senator who bc- Hj Hoves in the "Standpat" doctrines has the office thrust upon him IbbbbbbHH he does not thirst for it at all. Any man who espouses the interest inter-est of the common people is seeking for office, but the man who represents the great predatory interests of the country, does NOT seek office but the money power buys it for him! Probably the Hft Herald-Republican is right. 1 The Horald-Republican speaks of the "shifting Wisconsin senator." sen-ator." That comes with poor grace from a "Standpat" newspaper. Senator La Follette has been the truest, most incorruptible man in pppp the United Stales seuatc. He started out twenty years ago t5 de- pYpYpYpYfl fend the .common people and he has done so and has been true blue pYpYpYpYfl all the way, never changing; always for the people. On the other pftftftftftftfl hand, President Taft, whom the Herald-Republican lauds to the pYpYpYpYpYl skies, promised the people before his election that he would carry out Theodore Roosevelt's policies and stick by Teddy to the end. pYpYpYpYpYj No sooner was he elected than he became a "Standpatter," went ft- HI over to Roosevelt's enemies, took Aldrieh and Cannon to his bosom ft- W and became an anti-Progressive. Nothing that Teddy loved found Hj a resting place in Taft's bosom. Many newspapers in the country B made fun of Roosevelt's policies. Their cartoons had men, in the H dead of night, in coffins leaving the White House and on the cof- H fins was branded "Teddies Policies." But they changed their B tactics when many states went Progressive Republican and the peo- H pic at the polls supported the Progressive Republicans in Iowa, ft- V Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin,. Minnesota, North Dakota, South B Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon and California. It was dis- coycred that where Republicans lost senators it was in the states B where the "Standpatters" had control, excepting only in Indiana B where the insurgent Senator Bcvcridgc lost, but where the Dcmo- pYpYpYpYpYfl crats always hove been strong. ft- r When the President heard from theso Progressive Republican B stales, he announced through the Associated Press that hereafter B Progressive Republicans would be recognized as Republicans and B would teceivc their share of , appointments, thus offering a bribe to H the Progressive Republicans for their support. He had deliberately fl ( refused to give office to a Progressive Republican up to that lime". H.l When the moneyed power and the trusts of, the country heard of H I President Taft offering peace to the Progressive Republicans, they B sent their nicu to work on President Taft and induced him again H to forsake the Progressive Republicans and go back .again to H Aldrieh and Gannon. Later on tho President switched" ov.cr to the ' Progressive cause again and fired Ballinger out of his cabinet and" put Roosevelt's friend in h& cabinet. But again he denounces the Progressives in bitter terms. And this shifting President the Herald-Republican holds up by the side of La Follette and then charges aMr. Ln Follette with shifting. We challenge the Herald-Republican Herald-Republican to show any shifting attitude on the part of La Follette. Fol-lette. For every shift they find in La Follette s record during the last twenty years, we will promise to find a half dozen shifts in their candidate, President Taft. There is nothing uncomfortable for the Progressive Republicans Repub-licans in the tariff proposition. The Progressives are ready to confront con-front and meet anybody on the present issue. When President Taft says he too wants to reduce tho tariff, and on that point agrees with the Progressives, there is no reason why the issue should be raised. ? But there arc so many other issues on which Taft docs not agree with the Progressives and which are important to the common com-mon people, that the Progressives must keep up the fight and oust Taft from the White House and put a champion of the people back again, in order that real Lincoln Republicanism may prevail. |