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Show REPUBLICANS MUST NOT DIVIDE. There is discord developing in the Republican party in the nation which should be overcome by a spirit of conciliation. This Is also true ot conditions at home. The Republicans of Utah arc allowing personal animosities animos-ities to piny too great a part In the affairs of the party. There should be a get-together movement to which all discordant elements should bend their energies In the hope of bringing aboui a harmonious whole. Boston Republican papers lately have been assailing Roosevelt and this manifestation of an old bitterness bitter-ness has prompted a prominent New Hampshire editor to observe: "The gravest dangor which threatens threat-ens Republican success this fall Is the possible revival of the factional spirit which brought disaster four years ago. Every Republican newspaper newspa-per and every Republican leader owes a responsibility to the party not to promote or foster any renewal of that sririt. Things which make for recriminations re-criminations between tho two former factions are far bettor left unsaid. The Doston Herald should not forget, when it slightingly refers to Roosevelt Roose-velt as a 'party-wrecker,' that more Republicans voted In 1912 for Roosevelt, Roose-velt, than voted for Tafl, and It is only human for tho four million Roosevelt men of 1912 to resent such language and Impute the party-wrecking to leaders of the Taft wing Thore is a minimum of excuse In the present status of Republican affairs for this sort of accusation. Obviously, Obvious-ly, if Justice Hughes Is willing to become be-come the standard-bearer in the approaching ap-proaching contest, his nomination, unless un-less something intervenes to wholly change tho face of affairs, must be conceded. And he would be a tremendously tre-mendously strong candidate, whose views we have no doubt would be In thorough harmony with that spirit of genuine Americanism which pervades the Republican party and which will find strong expression in Its platform. plat-form. If Hughes is available, and becomes be-comes the candidate, the men who today are strong for Roosevelt, Including In-cluding Colonel Roosevelt himself, will all be staunch supporters of Hughes. If, on the other hand, Mr. Hughes reiterates the views to which he gave expression four years ago, and thus eliminates himself, It Is practically certain RooBevelt will bo the substantially unanimous choice of the convention. Under all of these conditions pre-convcnUon bitterness and rancor are wholly regrettable, undesirable un-desirable and useless." The division in the party In 1912 olected Woodrow' Wilson and, if the party again is split by factional strife, the Democrats will gain a second victory vic-tory Both sides to the old quarrel must yield their rancor in order to reunite and place the Republican party par-ty in power |