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Show I THAT ADULATION IN UTAH, re The following is from the Salt Lake Tribune: y The Ogdcn Standard, noting our atiltudo toward Colonel Roosevelt, says 1 that he Is "the same Roosevelt in words, thoughts and deeds" to whom -j the Tribune- has given allegiance and "words of adulation." But he isn't Ihe same Roosevelt that he was before he turned loony. And as to the "adulation" we call on the Standard for proof. When and where was the Tribune guilty of adulation toward Theodore Roosevelt? During Roosevelt's first campaign the Tribune sought 'to deify -. the Colonel. In fulsome praise, it compared him to the greatest I men of history. The Tribune continued to sing his praises until " I Roosevelt refused to be a party to the unseating of Reed Smoot in the United States senate and declined to throw the weight of his I high office on the side of the makers of a bitter war in Utah. I The Tribune then became resentful and drew away from Roosevelt. On the other hand, the men who were saved from national disgrace dis-grace by Roosevelt, as soon as Roosevelt left the chair in the White House, took up with Taft and curried favor with him. They are today open to the charge of being ungrateful. t; The members of the federal bunch in Utah, now in control of j the Herald-Republican, praised Roosevelt to the skies, and then snapped at the hand that fed them, and the hound dawg of the 1" bunch ever since has been barking at the heels of Roosevelt. The Tribune, through pique, may be so soured as to be wholly unable to do justice to Roosevelt, but the Herald-Republican has no such extenuating circumstances to plead. The latter paper, with cold-blooded calculating, had figured that Roosevelt could not come back, that the bosses within the Republican party would be strong enough to thwart the will of the people, and so Roosevelt was made the object of venemous attacks. The Herald-Republican spit upon i Utah's benefactor for no other purpose than to prove to Taft that lr( the federal bunch in this state is servilely with him, even to the extent of violating every tenet of friendship which Roosevelt might - expect common decency to exact in his behalf. 1 We refer to both the Tribune and Herald-Republican in ans- -1 A wer to the Tribune because our editorial charging adulation cm-'- ; braced not only the Tribunebut the federal organ and the Taft papers in general. |