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Show fl THE NEW PARTY IS HERE TO STAY. H The Standpat papers in Utah are making most beseeching ap- H peals to the Progressives to enter the camp of the reactionaries. We H recall how, less than a year ago, the same papers read the Progres- H sives out of the party, later fixed upon them in derision, the nomen- H clature "Bull Moose," and finally, noting that Bull Moose was made H a highly attractive title, began to call them the "Bull Con" party, H , No party ever received meaner treatment from an adversary Hj j than did the Progressives at the hands of the Standpatters. The Hl ' movement was ridiculed as without strength and the Republican H press declared that even Debs would go ahead of Roosevelt. The H Republican papers knew at the time they were falsifying and they H kept up their untruths to the very day of election. H A party that has a press of that kind and a leadership made up j of politicians such as Aldrich, Barnes, Lorimer, Ballinger, and men H of that stamp, has no attractions for the Progressives. H The Progressive party has a better platform and a far cleaner H leadership than the Republican party as constituted today. H In the last election, the Progressives received 946,000 votes H more than the Taft party, or about 30 per cent, and furthermore ob- H tained approximately 100 electoral votes to 8 for Tatt. That makes 1 the Progressives the second strongest party in tho nation, and if J there is to be any uniting, the Republicans must come into the Pro- j gressive camp, otherwise remain where they are, as the Progressive 1 forces intend to go on regardless of what the reactionaries decide on. H There is some adverting to the Chicago convention to prove that M Roosevelt, in leading the new party, proved to be selfish because M he did not fall into a trap prepared by the Standpatters when they M 1 started to hurrah for Governor Iladley of Missouri. Ilad Roosevelt, H knowing that the Republican convention at that very moment was 1 committed to dishonest politics and stood convicted of robber v, ac- H cepted the overtures to whitewash the foul structure by placing H Hartley in nomination, he would have been looked on as the lowest m and most vulgar of party politicians. Every one familiar with the m proceedings of the Republican convention knows the boom for TTiid- M j ley was intended to flatter that susceptible individual and divide the M ( Progressive forces. The men back of it were nothing more than H scheming politicians who cared not a straw for principle and simplv m aimed to hold their political power. Fortunatelv thev butted up M , against a stone wall and fell back battered and beaten' H Many of the Standpatters still fail to realize that the clav of old H political rottenness passing; they fail to understand Xm decep- M turn and trickery no longer arc the sole requisites of a political party- H they are unconscious 0f the new awakening and arc dreaming of the M , dead past when aparty fortified with special privilege and a great M , medium of false publicity could win elections bv deceiving lhe Hl 1 people. t " fa I ,tiA "eW P";--V '". beC11 b0rn a,uI is llcre t ty- When tho re . fotzrer;e ' grcnt mist s,mu i,avc bcn swe"t fr |