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Show K ' UTAH HAS THE RIGHT SENTIMENT. H . The organ of the Republican party in Salt Lake City is inclined H fo do some boasting over Taft carrying Utah. Aside from the ques- H tion as to whether the boast is in good taste, we doubt that thero H ( is any real cause for Standpat rejoicing. H " Four years ago Utah gave the Republican candidate for Presi- H 4 dent over 61,000 out of a total vote of a little over 100,000. This H year Taft has received less than 40,000 in a vote one-fifth larger H than at the last presidential election, and the Republican party in the H state becomes a minority, the Democratic and Progressive forces out- Hj numbering the party of Taft and Spry. H Returns so far reported give Taft ,30,000, "Wilson 25,000 and H Roosevelt 19,000. That means an overwhelming majority of the H j" people of Utah arc not in sympathy with Standpatism and have J1 virtually repudiated the policies that have given to us senators like ) George Sutherland. I ' Weber, Cache, Wasatch, Uintah and Utah counties voted i against the reactionaries. Wherever a vigorous campaign of pub- licity was prosecuted, except in Salt Lake county, heavy inroad were made on the Republicans. 1, From now on the Republican party, as at present constituted in Utah, representing as it does the entrenched privilege-seeking class, W- j must dwindle. jp Eventually Utah will take its rightful place among the Progrcs-j I' sive states of the union. The people of Utah, by their -otes on t fk Tuesilav demonstrated that they arc possessed of the right spirit, f O" but the reform forces in this state were divided into two camps, M h. othcn"se tncv would have written their sentiments in words of P- triumph. i |