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Show TORIES SHRIEKING AT PROGRESSIVES. i People of the west, where sentimont is overwhelmingly progressive pro-gressive andparty lines faint, have small conception of the tory-ism tory-ism existing' the east. England's non-conformists in religion 01 the irreconcihibles of the beaten southern confederacy were 'never more stubborn in obstinacy to established facts, says the Los Angeles Tribune. '' y ,., , Particularly is this true of tHe castern,pr'ess')f Repuhhpan, tpn-denciesf tpn-denciesf Mr. Roosevelt's Columbus speech, not very radical as the wost sees it, has aroused almost to fury( such papers as the New York Tribune, TTartford 'Courant,- Springfield Republican, Springfield Spring-field Union, Boston Transcript, New York Globe and New York Post. On the Democratic1 side such great journals as the New-York New-York World, New York Times,. Philadelphia Record and Philadelphia Philadel-phia Public iLedger are beating the air frantically. "Anarr1 ist," "socialist,',' "demagogue," are favorite invec-tives.r invec-tives.r What was before a sujlen glower has burst through the surface sur-face of these tory sheets in V torrent of (nbusq that is falling on the broad shoulders of the, x-'president. All this is incomprehensible incompre-hensible in the west But it; full of meaning. " It shows that there is real substance in the. Taft .movement, and that if he fails of re-nomination re-nomination there is going to"1 be no small" defection in the east from the foepubliqan party. With flaming words the papers named arc burning the bridgos behind them. ( J The west welcomes the schism. The new alignment has got to take place, and the sooner tho better. Men of all parties in the less trammeled empire this side of the Mississippi stand ready to meet the issue unitedly, confident of the 'outcome., The hat in the rini our symbol The masses in the east are not reactionarj-. It is Their old leaders in politics and journalism. Things are goiug to happen to them of which they seem' neither to wot rior dream. |