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Show THE THIRD PARTY. f The Salt Lake Tribune is the most effective advocate of Taft in the state of Utah. That paper has been most vigorous in the defense de-fense of the President and most emphatic in its opposition to the third party, but the Tribune is not so partisan as to be blind to the tremendous force of public opinion which is back of the Roosevelt Roose-velt fight and, in its issue of today, it openly acknowledges the possibilities pos-sibilities of the third party m Utah, declaring: -.. Th.G ?ddrcss ?f lh? Ilon, HenrJ J- Allen of Kansas in this city on Tues-aa Tues-aa opening awakoned much enthusiasm among the progressive citizenship citizen-ship here. There Is no doubt but thai tho Progressives are wide awake and actlvo In Utah, and that they are determined to make themselves felt in the ensuing election. In spite of tno dictatorial and arbitrary demand of the Smoot organ that no Republican must tako part in the Progressive movement, largo numbers of staunch and sound Republicans are actively ongaged in It, and appear to bo In oarnest In their determination to carrj it through. But no Progressive movement h0re will amount .to much unless it Is thoroughly organized and Its action is complete. It would amount to but Mttlc, for Instance, for the Progressives merely to send delegates to tho Roosevelt convention at Chicago If ihoy would really cut any figure in Utah politics they will have to nominate state and county tickets to go to the polls, demonstrating their strength. Nothing else will lower tho haughty crest of the Federal bunch than direct opposition at the polls In the local elections So that, unless the Progressives Intend to make a real flsht of it, thoy might as well keep out of the fight altogether Rut If they nominate full state, legislative and county tickets In the counties where they ha've strength enough to make a showing, thero will then bo a future for the party in this state; but If the movement merely contemplates the election elec-tion of delegates to tho Chicago convention, it must end as a flash In tho j pan. It only remains to say that It will not be possible for thp Federal bunch gang to say that this Is a bolting movement, since the leaders of that bunch themselves bolted the rc-sular Republican nominations In this city In 1903, and were given control of the stato party organization by a power which had no possible business to tako any political action at all, much loss to Interfore and give a set of bolters the control of the regular party organization. When all their plans have been worked out, the Progressives will not disappoint the Tribune. There will be a fight all along the line and the "Federal Bunch" will be attacked in the most vulnerable vulner-able point. This campaign will prove an eye-opener to those who cannot grasp the full significance of the third party organization, how thoroughly the people arc aroused and how earnestly the)' arc resolved re-solved to clean out the Augean stables, where political foulness has been accumulating for years. |