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Show oo THE PROGRESSIVES, THE STAND PATTERS AND REED SMOOT. Charles S Bird and Augustus P Qardner are running for Governor of Maseachusetts. the former as a Pro gresslve and Mr. Gardner as a Progressive-Republican. Collier's is opposed to Gardner as surnlng to be Progressive while bold ing his old party allegiance, and says "Mr. Gardner has observed that some changes must be made in the Republican party If it la going to continue con-tinue to endure, and to provide offices and distinctions for himself and his followers Having observed this, ho has decided to try to make these nr ganizatlon changes This, in his judg raent, constitutes him a reformer In the same aenee that Mr Bird is. We hope the voterB of Massachusetts do their thinking more clearly and with better faitb. "A naive evidence of the real slg nlflcanco of Gardner's candidacy ia to be found in Lbeae words from the dov ager of all atand patters, the Boston "T ran script." "'Gardner will command t he sol id support of a reuniting Republican party par-ty and will attract in addition thou sands of independents and of Cleveland Cleve-land Democrats Gardner is looked upon by Republicans as thoroughly Bound upon fundamentals.' "Of course he is And that is why the Republican party throughout the nation hopes earnestly that Mr Gardner Gard-ner may succeed in foobng the people ct Massachusetts. The. Republican party la the Republican party. It hasn't changed. Its stockholders. Its aelf-perpetuatlng board of directors,' direct-ors,' its soul, may be found in any standard book of reference. We take these names from the official list of tho Republican National Committee: "Colorado. Simon Guggenheim; mined mi-ned a, Roy O. West; Massachusetts, W. Murray Crane; New Jersey. Franklin Murphy; N ew York, William Barnes, Jr.; Utah, Reed Sraoot. "Every vote caat for Gardner and against Bird is a vote for the continued contin-ued domlnanco of these men in our national life " Collier's emphasizes the fact that remaining a member of the Stondpat organization while pretending to be a Progressive is an anomaly, in fact a contradiction equivalent to an ab surdity. The perpetuating of the control of the Standpatters, as Mr. Gardner's altitude al-titude faTors, would bring none of 1 the reforms for which the Progres aivea contend 11 eVeiry Prog.-eseivt did as Mr. Gardner is doing, the cautv-of cautv-of reform would be engulfed in parly fealty We do not look upon Reed Sniool of Utah as persistently on tho sldo of the reartionarle3 and it is just possible pos-sible that Colliers is wrong In so classifying him. . The senator will prove r-sponsive to the sentiment of the people of Utah and. If the parry in this state decides that the time has arrived When Progressive principle should prevail. Reed Smcot will abide by that decree or his constituents His position has been that of a representative |
