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Show H TRIBUNE MAKES ANSWER TO ROOSEVELT. H ' The Salt Lake Tribune attempts a reply to Colonel Roosevelt's H ' -review o the Presidential campaign, but, with all its clever twisting H of facts, makes a dismal failure. That paper says: H ' a matter of probability, the battle he refers to will LH never amount to as much in any other campaign as it has amounted to In this. As we lwe stated heretofore Uijs Roose- LLH vn t movement will be likely to have the same effect upon the M , Repugn party that the Populist "oVemont had on t he pern- IIIH ' ocritlc narty. Populism seemed for a time to shallow up the LLH Democrat party altogether: but where is Populism today? Ju8t M frte ProSPressive organisation will fade away after stirring up j the Republican party to throw out its standpatters. H The Tribune so far has proved a disappointment as a political H prophet. During the election, it pointed out the "absurdity of H Roosevelt claiming more votes than Taft, and predicted that the new H partv would prove a fizzle. The Tribune is so far removed from the H thoughts of fhc plain people and tin appreciation of the psycnol- H ' 0gy of the movement on their part which has given to the Progres- H , sives 4 500,000 votes, that it is utterly incapable of measuring the 1 I possibilities of the third parly. 1 Now as to Populism, the Populists were at their heighth in the H year that Weaver ran for president. Tn that year Cleveland was re- H elected President of tlie United States. Why, atr. Tribune, do you H say Populism seemed for a time to swallow up the Democratic party? H ') Tlie states in which Populism was accorded greatest support were H 'I Republican states, such as Kansas and Nebraska. But Populism, in H . the twenty years of its most active campaigning did not obtain onc- H fourth of the vote that the Progressive party received in ninety days. H Nor did the Republican party in its first campaign obtain a fraction H of the support given the new organization. H As to the theft at Chicago, it has been abundantly shown that the only H attempt at thett was by his own forces, which brought upwards of -0(1 H II fake contests for delegates, contests that were bowled over at a breath as H 'I soon as presented, the Roosevelt members of the Republican national H committee making the vote unanimous against them, since, as Senator 130- lah of Idaho stated, "they had no merit." ,,,,,.. , .n The propriety of all that is a thing so thoroughly established that we H should suppose Colonel Roosevelt would be ashamed to renow his fool- H iBh and vindictive accusations that the action of the Republican national H committee on the contests presented in Chicago was "a theft," for it was Hl absolutely fair, and the decisions were not only according to precedent, but H according to justice and right. H Listen, Mr. Tribune: There were 72 delegates stolen from Roo.s- H evelt. The election returns prove that beyond doubt. But, ns to H the contests which were presented from the Southern states and Hj unanimously turned down by the national committee, do you main- H tain that the irregularities in any southern Republican primary are fl ( not sufficient on which to base a content 1 Show us one state in the H South, the Republican primuries of which are not a disgrace to H American polities! The Progressive committee in charge of coil- H test, was obligated, under those conditions, to take up the fight of H every Progressive delegation from tlie South that had u grievance H and to defend those delegations before the national committee. Wab H I that a crime, for the Progressives to demand a hearing for those LM Progressives that came up from the South with recitals of outrages H I committed against them? Docs the failure of any one. or all those 1 southern protests, vitiate the honesty of purpose of the Progres- H .sives, or rank them with the men who turned the credentials of the H j Roosevelt delegates fi'oni the State of Washington a state that in M i the last election gave Roosevelt almost as large a vote as Wilson 1 I and Taft combined over to the contesting Taft delegates? LM ' Tlie longer this robbing in the Chicago convention is dwelt on j tlie more evident will be the seriousness of the crime on the part H ' I of the Taft forces. H Tle Tribune seeks to show by the figures brought out before H the campaign committee of congress 'that Koosevell's .statement that H the Progressive campaign was made "without much money" is a H I gross exaggeration. To have been on even terms, tlie new party 11 should have had three or four times the money which went into the B J old party treasuries. The legitimate work of organization alone call- H , ed for thousands of dollars. On the other hand, the Republican and H Democratic parties had the aid of precinct, city, county and state H organizations, and the contributions to party strength of all the of- H ficeholders in those divisions of the government, national and state. M For instance, here in Weber county the Progressive party did not LLm ' have a dollar from the national committee, while the Republican H . party is said to have drawn $4,000 from the Republicans in office j j I and the new candidates for office. Now multiply that by five 1 h thousand similar city and county organizations of the Republican H party in the United States and you gain a faint idea of the money H j spent for the Republican cause, and then you can grasp the mean- ing of Roosevelt's assertion that the Progressive fight was made almost al-most without funds. The Tribune further says: " 'With the channelB of information Lj the public Jaigcly choked ' Here is another audacious misiepvescntatlon. The pa-pers pa-pers of the country gnvc a good deal morn spaco from the first ' to the Roosevelt candidacy than they did to the candidacy either I of Taft or of' Wll&on Undoubtedly the newspaper space was ghen to Roosevelt in excebs of that given to either Taft or Wilson, at least in as great deniec as the money contributions showed him to be ahead of either" Yi'i. I ho telegraph carried much of what Roosevelt said. That is true, but papers like the Salt bake Ilerald-Republican nnd their name is legion suppressed much of the telegraph reports, and, tliu.Mi that did not, devoted ten columns of space to cver one of telegraph in garbling, misconstruing, denying the utterances and cartooning and libeling Roosevelt and his supporters. Three-fourths of the large papers of the United States are Republican, made so and sustained sus-tained b the interests of special privilege All those papers, with a very few notable exceptions, screamed their maledictions upon the head of Roosevelt, from early last summer up to the day of the election. elec-tion. Is Roosevelt justified in saying the channels of information were choked? lie could have used a stronger expression and then have stated the facts mildly. .We have not the space in which to answer in every particular the dissembling criticism of the Tribune, but will do so at a later date. Here is one paragraph though that demands attention now, in which the Tribune, closing its editorial, says: "We believe, however, that the Progressive party movement will effect a rejuvenation and uplift of tlie Republican, party, substantially sub-stantially ns the PopullBt party gave new vitality to the Democratic Dem-ocratic party The standpat element in the Republican pnrty was its ruin, especially in the action of the standpat senators at the special session of congress in 1U09. Those standpat senators sena-tors were in offico and were dotermined to rule or ruin. They ruled, and they also ruined There will never be anything more ot that kind in American politics, either in the Republican par ty or in any other party For in a republic it is never sate to set up an absolute, defiant and stiff necked rebellion against the evident demand of the free-voting ahd Independeht public. Tho lesson will be enough for tho Republican party, and the standpat butchers ot that party must take their positions In tho rear and adorn private station, since they have so conspicuously failed to adorn their public station They arc party wreckers, ...v. -a biicn an- uangerous men, who must be kept out of all opportunity op-portunity henceforth to impede the reorganization and rejuvenation rejuvena-tion of the Republican party " How any writer can confess to the foregoing and at the same time remain a defender of the Standpat cause is a mental and moral obliquity that pesses our understanding. Had all Republicans followed in the footsteps of the Salt Lake Tribune there would have been no protest recorded against the mercenary gang that controlled and continues to control the Republican Re-publican party and the hands of the crooks within the party would have been upheld and their nefarious deeds condoned and even applauded. ap-plauded. V |