The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-29


ny or yesterday and tomorrow will and
| together, doing our duty, Loyalty demon
strating our fitness for confidence, and
we will fight on. no matter what we are
toid the signs OF the times may be- nut
Ting ourselves right and fighting for that
right, not for ourselves alone. not for the
candidates alone. but for other Repuh-
| llcans OF the state and land, for other
Republicans in days 70 come for other
candidates to he nominated In 1912 and
| In 1915. and In many and many q wear
to follow, not for our candidates alone
but for our country
Chairman Roots speech was heartily
! chsered.
Mr.. Prendcrgast OF Kings county read
| 10 the convention the report of the reso-
| lulions committee.
References TO President Taft and Gov
ernor Hughes created rounds of applause
Speaker Wadsworth moved A minority
| report. which, he said contained a SUBJ
stltute for the direct primary plank In
| the majority report
Roosevelt's Plea
Colonel Roosevelt took the platform in
advocation Of the najority report He
said.
We have now come to the vital mo-
mcnt IN this convention. and now by your
votes you are 10 determine whether the
| Ropunbcan party in the state of New
nork Is TO be the party Of progress
| the party of the rcactionary
And In the first place let me correct
one OF or two misapprchensiona as to
| tdct The system OF direct nominations
| ihS n'l Dcen &DnDuDned III other states
OF the union l have listened to men
| here holding up the Republicans of the
west as people whose example we should
thc state of Wisconsin. They have lust
| held direct primaries I'm Wisconsin All
| The money WAS used against The side that
| won the overwhelming fight and the side
| that won spent an amount OF money that
YOU would not consider adequate To run
| a congressional campaign in the state of
/, Here the colonel was interrupted by
| laughter and cries OF oh"
Exactly" he continued with emphasis
amid more laughter and cheers
Takes Rap at Sibley.
AN aluSioI has been made 10 the
case of Congressman Sibley. Great sums
| were spent and improperly spent in
| curing the nomination Of Congressman
| Siblcy. They were spent In influencing
| a direct primary just as they have been
spent in influencing a convention.
The difference was and again the
| colonel was interrupted. this time by
| mingled cheers and misses.
Il will give you 4 chance to express
your dissent again retorted the cH-
"The difference was that Mr.. Sibley
won't be a congressman whereas he
would II they had not direct primaries.
THE gentlemen who present the mi
publican tradition. They represent ma
jority of the Legislature composed of the
ma iority of the Democratic members and
a minority OF the Republican party.
Here the convention broke into
tumultuous applause. Flags were waved,
the band played and il was some minutes
before the colonel continued;
Goes Straight to Issue.
II ask that this Republican convention
of the state OF New York put itself be-
hind the Republican governor OF the state
of New York and behind the majority
of the Republican Legislators of the state
of New York. and that il do not put
itself behind the minority Of the kepub-
anu lN.11
Here great applause again interrupted
the coioDel'S speech.
The minority represents what would
have been progress a quarter of century
ago. and IL the gentleman had intro
duced il in the New York legislature
twenty-five years ago 1t would nave been
laughed out OF court by the the splFituaI ha ri, a.
now" he declared.
1.-THE principle expressed in the report
of the minority does not represent a NJ
tie concession" said Colonel Roosevelt.
at does represent little progress. 1t
does represent IL enough TO make absurd
the argument that TO have any progress
| means ruin, II TO have any progress IN
vites revolution then do not pass even the
minority report.
Makes Purpose Plain.
1T has been contended that You can
not tell what is meant by the majority
plank You can tell IL means just what
| il says II means that as speedily as
possible we shall introduce the system
| of direct nominations AS advocated or
| approved-I forget the exact language
| hv Governor Hughes, which necessarily
means practically what President Schur-
man embodied in his resolution; that Is,
that as an irreduciole minimum there
| shall be the nomination by direct primary
| Of the legislative officers or the state.
| ..'Thc reason is perfectly simple for dis
eliminating between them and other OIL
GERS, Those are the people tnat maze I
mary applied to the members OF the leg
| islature then the people have II under
| their control to say whether that system
/ shall be continued or discontinued or
whether II shall be enlarged and still fur
| ther enlarged.
"Gentjemen, the differences between us
| here is indeed radical, We trust the
people and you do not IL has been said
ONLY by our opponents that they don't
believe in a pure democracy. do.
Defines His Attitude.
81 hold II is our duty TO try to guide
the people right. hold that the man
| vino incites the mob to violence is the
equal in wickedness OF the man who
| seeks to corrupt legislator. l mold the
man who in any way misleads the peo-
! plc is the enemy Of the people Try 10
educate the people and when you have
tried your best abide by their decision
IN has been said here that in given
cases the direct primary has worked I,f',l
| badly Friends, II the people lose their
honesty any system of government VIII
work badly. In the long run, ana gen
orally the people Will act well. we
are in error in that BELIEF you won save
the republic by refusirg 10 introduce d.
rect nominations. II YOU are right IN IN
your distrust OF the people. In your lear
~ The peopIe YOU won't save this gov
eminent long by simply foolinS them a
little and doing for them what you thlnk
they cannot do for themselves by a sys-
ten of control Of party nominations
which, IN 100 many cases. denies 10 the
!. average voter all rights except TO Choose
between two men. neither Of whom he
. had had a part in nominating. and neith-
er in whom does he absolutely trust
Broad Statements.
MY friends. the Republican party owe
It's existence to the fact that IL is lnt
party OF progress. the party OF tle plalf
people. tile party OF popular rights, tIt
party which believes that the peopi'
shorid rnic. and I ask you today TO ne
!, party in the past and TO apPiy '"VS, W.,
!. principles IN the living present, 10 lh'
: needs that we have today,
"f ask YOU 10 put yourselves unequi.ip, .i,,
,nt