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Show H WHAT REED SMOOT SAID. H H Who went up and down tho state just before election, assuring H i the people that the contest was between Wilson and Taft, and Roose- H f j velt was. a joke t H ' j Echo answers, "Reed Smoot!" H Who gave the voters of Utah his solemn word that the over- HI whelming majority of the Republican party was for Taft, and that H ' Roosevelt had not been robbed at Chicago? H Reed Smoot! H 1 A man's sacred assurance before election, in at least a small ! ra degree, should measure up to the facts nft-er election. The popular votes of the states of Washington, Arizona. Texas. California and all the southern states in dispute in the contests before, the national committee prpve conclusively that popular sentiment within the parly was outraged by the decisions of the national Republican commit- I tee, and that not a contested vote, including those from the southern ' i stales, should have gone to Taft. Wz The outrage perpetrated at Chicago is unmistakably disclosed to I the American people by the popular vote of this election. ! Arizona gives Roosevelt 13,7.55 and Taft only 4,755. J Texas gives Roosevelt 32,000, or 4,000 more than Taft. J Washington gives Roosevflt 126.265, or 51,000 more than Taft. I& And yet the delegates from these three states, in the face of jL., the most strenuous protestation, were turned over to Taft by the 4' national committee. Two of the California delegates also were plaocd 3 j in the Taft column. K- m In every southern state, with two exceptions, Roosevelt has far II more votes than Taft. , v, r. pj Now what do you think of Utah politicians positively slating be- ft I ore eectl0u that there was no robbery at Chicago T |