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Show A FALSE MODESTY AND DIGNITY. The Salt Lake Tribune is delighted to learn that President Taft is preserving the dignity of the office of President by keeping off thcstump. The truth is concealed. The Tribune is not rejoicing over any dignity, that is being maintained.'' What the Tribune really finds comfort in is that Taft. in his blundering public utterances, has been silenced by the Republican National committee. The President, while he was uncensored and was free to express himself, never made a speech on the political issues that he did not embarrass the entire party and require a thousand columns of apology and explanation in the Standpat press, dating from the time he said the people were not fit to rule down to the time of his defense of Lorimer. What a fine display of hypocrisy to discover in Taft's silence a dignity comporting with the high office he occupies when, had Taft the tact and broadness of view to appear at advantage on the stump, his every utterance on the huskings would be the signal for wild acclaim, and the duty of a President to get close to the people and open his mind to them would be dwelt on in proud commendation commenda-tion by those who, like the Tribune, arc now pulling long faces in deprecation de-precation of anything su indecorous. |