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Show M j j MORE STANDPAT SNEERS. H ' The Salt Lake TTcrald-'Ropublican says it makes little difference H I whether Senator LaFollette is "safe and sane," and then that paper H v' ' proceeds witli this vapid comment : Ls, ' - "The senator from "Wisconsin is never likely to be in a posi- H i tion where he can do flic business of the country the damage H which his ill-considered and ill-advised remarks and attitude H j (s would lead one to expect. Senator LaFollette will be "safe and H sane" because he will lack the opportunity to he anything else." B That sneer fails to lie effective. Had LaFollette never gained K prominence; had he never been elected a senator and then re-elected Hl! by the largest majority ever given a candidate in "Wisconsin seeking f popular indorsement; had he never won the plaudits of the people ' , , of the nation by his vigorous attacks on corruption; had he never M , v been the principal cause in destroying the "standpat" majorit' in !- congress; liad ho never incurred the onmity of the senatorial hirc- HM ! ' lings of the predatory interests; had he never won a commanding H j position before the American people; had none of these achievements H r j been credited to him, it might have been other than silly to main- m fl j tain that the man is not to be reckoned with. H' LaFollette tod.i' is a thorn in the side of even senator and H; congressman whose soul is perturbed with the thought that the B! ' people arc being enlightened by LaFollette' as to the real conditions K in politics and that the unscrupulous "statesmen" are being un- Hi masked by the Wisconsin man. Hl The Salt lLakc paper, in closing its criticism of LaFollette, strikes H at all the Progressive senators, saying: Hf v "The insurgents would not prove dangerous to Ir. Tafl if B 'they Avere able to get together; hut that will never happen. B There is but one subject upon which two insurgent senators can Hj agree, and that is that tho other would never be the proper H v candidate for president. That sort of an understanding does not H "' 7 spell political victory." H j "If Uiey Avero able to get together."' That is enough to provoke B jl " a laugh. "When Taft heard the returns from the last congressional 1 I ' election, he had a statement prepared by his secretary, announcing K" ji I that lienceforth ho Avould recognize the Insurgent senators and con K gressmen as entitled to federal patronage. Evidently the Insurgents H H had gotten together in numbers largo enough to frighten Er. Taft Hi' into making the blunder of offering a bribe to the Insurgents. Then H' ft again Avhcn cougress met, the Insurgents placed the administration R J; : followers in the minority in tho senate. Did the Insurgents get to- H . gether when they forced nearly oil the members of Taft's cabinet to H j : turn lobbyists, entreating congress not to further embarrass the Hi administration? H j The "Standpatters" arc slow to realize the great change in public J ) J sentiment that is causing tho people to break away from the paid ff? servants of the "interests," but eventually they will realize that their HH I J stupidity has been their undoing. |