Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-25
All Republicans, He Declares, Are
Not Represented in New
Taft Club.
AGREEMENT is ANNOUNCED.
Fealty TO Established and Recently
Expressed Principles is Pledged in
Officially Adopted Instrument.
lspeclal 10 the .News..l

Ogden, June 2b.--The TAFT Republican
club of Weber county, which was or
ganized Tuesday evening at the court
house. has come in for it's portion of
roasting from the evening paper
owned by Postmaster William Glas-
mann. who alleges that the club was
formed behind closed doors by the ma
chine which claims to control the whole
situation in Weber county"
According to the Glasmam paper, tho
club was organized before all the Re
publicans of the county were invited to
join. The article also states that a list
was prepared before the meeting and
accepted at the meeting with one or
two exceptions.
The officers OF the club are Rudolph
kuchler president: David Madison.
secretary and N. p. Matthews, Pleasant
View, treasurer.
The following. as part Of the agree
fnent which was accepted at the meet
ing, was given out yesterday afternoon.
l. We. the undersigned Republicans
OF Weber county meeung together for
the purpose of organizing club for the
support of the Republican candidates,
renew cur fealty to the principles Of
the Republican party as expressed in
the platform adopted by the National
convention held in Chicago, June, 1908,
ana as eNemplified In the lives Of its
leaders from Lincoln 10 Roosevelt, and
pledge ourselves during the coming
presidential campaign to the support of
those principles and the candidates who
We're named al the national convention
ana such other candidates as may be
named at the various local conventions
OF our party yet to be held.
:. We believe there should be a unit
Ed effort on the part of all those who
faVor Republican principles and who
are desirous of supporting the candi-
dates named at the national convention
IN order that the Republican party may
De succession al the coming election.
3. We invite the co-operation Of all
who believe IN Republican PRINCIPLES
ana all who are willing unreservedly
10 support the candidates of the Re-
publican party, both national and To-
cal.
4. We depreciate the formation of
any factions or cliques within the
ranks OF our party, and we pledge our
selves to the utmost to discourage and
destroy any such clique and factions.
TO the end that all Republicans NAV
nave an equal voice in the selection OF
candidates and the PRONUNCIATION of
party principles.
D. we do not propose that this or
ganizaton shall be used for the mr.
pose of furtherlng the interests of
any particular candidate for office or
any iioHtpet OF Lnls CluD but We shall
INSIST That every Republican has the
right to be candidate for any office
for which he is qualified by the law
ana that all shall be given an equal
opportunity to be designated as such
by regular Republican conventions.
.. renewing, then, our allegiance
TO Republican principles and especial
~ believing that the best interests of
me country VIII be subserved by the
election of WilliDtp1 7 NJ
presidency OF the United States as
the natural and logical successor of
Theodore Roosevelt, and the election
OF James S. sherman to the office of
vice president, as the natural and log
ical successor of Charles w. Fair