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Show H WHAT A FORMER OGDENTTE SAID. H There is so much pleasure expressed by the "Standpat" press H ver the illness of Senator La Follette that it is evident the Stand- R. patters would rejoice if the Wisconsin senator were assassinated, V , such is the spirit of the crusade againBt La Follette and such is H the fear of his masterful mind and wonderful energy in a righteous H Had (La Follette been the weak proclaimor of purity in polities m that his enemies have declared him to be, his campaign would have K held the attention of but few and the entire "Standpat" press B could have devoted itself to the maligning of Theodore Roosevelt, B Senator Cummins or any other earnest friend of the common peo- Bf pie whose pominence might have promised an interference, with B J thcir-fiJcd program of refilling the White House chair with 300 m pounds of easily moulded putty. H La Follette has made his impress on American politics Ilis H earnest pleading for an aroused public conscience and his dis- H closures of a mercenary group of high financiers who play with the H welfare of the people as a cat trifles with the life of a mouse and HL who tend to corrupt our public men and make a mockery of gov- B eminent, eventually must find expression in our laws and their B honest enforcement. Hj We were talking with a former Ogdenite, now a resident of Hj j Salt Lake, who at one time was a Cleveland Democrat and" later Hf , became a Republican. He is a man of prominence in the affairs B ' of the capital. He said he was in favor of going to the extreme in B uprooting the evil of the powerful combinations which are destroy- B ing competition and making impossible an independent livelihood Hf for au3r but a chosen few. He said he was for La Follette. We Hl remarked that he had experienced an awakening, as he had been a H conservative, always pointing .out the danger of upsetting business Hl in displeasing the "big interests." B "Yes, I once was as blind as a bat," he said. "All I could see H was the side of the very rich. 1 was afraid that if the powerful H ,' were angered, they would crush us, and I held to that view until H a friend one day twitted me as to my lack of courage and my near- H. sightedness, and for the first time I began to realize how cowardly Hl : was my attitude of trembliug every time Rockefeller sneezed in re- H sentment or Morgan coughed in displeasure, and I resolved to be a m i militant American, demanding the full rights of a citizen, conced- B " r ing the same rights to others and exacting Of the most powerful financial interests in this country the same honesty of conduct that I yielded. Since then I have leaned toward the'Trogressives, in fact I am heartily in favor of everything advocated by. Lu, Follette." Fol-lette." , ',''"' This is the story of thousands of citizens of thus great republic. repub-lic. They have ceased to yield to the pleadings of the Standpatters Stand-patters that to curb the trusts will hurt business; they are no longer long-er placating the very rich; they arc at last asserting their manhood, man-hood, and putting on the panoply of war. resolved to fight for equality; they arc joining the forces of the Progressives; they are i for Bob La Follette. and if the intrepid Wisconsin senator, through ill health, can lead no longer, then they are for Roosevelt or auy other trustworthy advocate of good government who is equal to the physical strain of a mighty crusade for right |