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Show 4 fAj i YES, GREAT ORATOR! All the Salt Lake papers declare Attorney General Hicks of Wisconsin Wis-consin made an eloquent and forceful plea for the re-election of President Taft in the Salt Lake theater Sunday night. We have read the speech and fail to find one sentence that is not pure buncombe. The orator's greatest hit came when a Democrat shouted, "We will do things in November." "Yes, you'll do things," replied Hicks. "You'll do things like the Texas steer and the bull moose the animals' with long horns and cloven hoofs, that bellow louder, make more noise and give less milk than any animals in existence." That, we must confess is both eloquent and forceful, but is not quite complete without adding the bull elephant. Arguments of that kind indicate that the Standpatters arc not unlike the Chinese who, when driven into the last ditch in the war with Japan, threw stinkpots. "On November 5, next one of the two great political parties will be triumphant." said General Hicks, "and one of the two will be responsible re-sponsible to the people for the government of the countrv during the coming four years." Why don't you say three?" asked a Bull Moose in the audience. "Oh, no, my friend," replied General Hicks, "there are only two. Some time ago there was a tumult about the birth of a new party, but it was still-born. It has gone to an untimely resting place. There are some mourners with tears on their treacherous oheeks, but they are crocodile tears." Hocus-pocus ! In every primary election, before and since the Chicago convention, conven-tion, the Progressives have defeated the reactionaries. In some of the primaries the vote was 10 to 1 in favor of the Progressives. With those facts before him, an orator must be brazen who attempts to d ceive an audience into believing that the third party was still-born. |