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Show FOUNDER'S DAY, Next Sunday is Theodore Roosevelt's birthday, but on Saturday the event will bc celebrated as "Founder's Day Qn that day the Progressives of Ogden will keep open house at their headquarters on Lwenty-fourth street, where every one will l,c welcome, regardless of party affiliation. The woriicn are to observe the day by serving moose sandwiches and coffee free. The ladies feci they should rejoice owing to the fact that the Progressive party is the first national political organization to advocate ad-vocate equal rights for women, in a declaration of partv principles, and Roosevelt is entitled to their songs of praise and thanksgiving, as the head of the party. to .ho "f oXPrmiBeS l b th biggra! "'et lh " in Ono of the women in charge o tlie ceiemLies on Fount's I Day, in speaking of the recognition of women's rights by the Progressives, Pro-gressives, says: "The women of Ogden, in common with women in every city and slate, are rejoicing over the plank for our feet and the first welcome extended us aboard the staunch and clean political ship of a virile national party. The national universal suffrage plank brings a flood of hope to the people who arc toiling for the world's social uplift. It is to the understanding and acceptance of its advantages on the part uj " "":" s-uuiiiuy, mat we may expcci 10 largely auevmie, nna often cure, poverty, degradation, bad social conditions and degeneration. degener-ation. "This national suffrage plank is the clearest recognition, the squarcst treatment, the most colossal slice of justice ever dealt to womankind. Like many free institutions in this free land today, it breaks the records in human advancement of all times, lands, and ages. To have placed the women of this nation in a Position to EFFECTUALLY KNOW AXD TO DO, to have openedvide every avenue of social improvement and working opportunity, is surely a deed, although unattended by the appeal of war, as luminous and significant in fact as the unshackling of the slave-bound South! Most of all, we rejoice because what has been granted us nationally is not the result of idle sentiment but rather the fruit of thoughtful conviction among reasonable men" "If the vitality of a political' parly burns out by reason of its own corruption, shall we, upright men and women, sit idly by and wail" ingly extol the thing in a lingering wake? Or shall we, with renewed renew-ed courage and good will build anew along cleaner, deeper, broader lines according to our need? Progressives in every portion of our country have auswered these questions by the formation of the splendid splen-did Progressive National party. Breaking fearelessly away from the drifting hulk of Republicanism and growing, substantially entrenched, entrench-ed, within these few brief weeks in every state, we shall now fiiting- m' ,?1!!?.fV? Foilnder's Dfly on Saturday,. October 26th." |