The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-25
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NEW PARTY AND REo FLAG.

We imagine that those who arr
launching tho new paIty viii rot riud
the enthusiastic welcome amurc the
people which thcy lead themselves 20
hope. 1t is all v,ry we'll for lot OF
enthusiasts 10 get tcgcthe. AMI con.
e'udc tL1t they Will form new Ma.
tlonal party and 20 into il with q
rush and fUro,e; and as long as they
all shout together. it seems uuanimoGs,
! though they are but few. and spread
over the whole country. The spread Is
thin indeed. But wren those men &c.
back home among the quiet. thinking
/ people, those Who have been accus'
toned to act for definite purposes
through organized effort by means OF
established organizations. and to trcat
large issues in ii rational way, they
| will find scant encoura cement. Tor
there Is really nothing upon which 10
! organize a uew party except Inc mere
personality Of Col. Roosevelt, lie pre-
sents nothing Of any reasonable Pfln-
ciple and nothing of nation wIdc nm
portance. Even his notorious outcry
for the recall of Judges and judicial
decisions does not affect the judges
! of the Federal courts or their decisions.
but only State courts There is moth
ing then, that is left Of consequence
to form new National party upon.
When we recall that only about one
third to onesixth Of the Republican
voters came out at the primaries about
which there was so much heat, and
when we recall that all Of the clamor
the fireworks, and the fevyent eXhor
tation failed TO move the mass Of the
voters, il is a clear case that the couu-
try does not see any crisis in ITS af
fairs. and is not stirred in favor Of a
mere outcry for progress'yencss. The
people want to know what progress
siyeness means. and what is proposed
by the Progressives. And since there
has been nothing worth while proposed
in National way, and that which has
been proposed for State action is revo-
lutionary and contentious merely, the
room for forming a new party is so
extremely scant that it will not have
a basis to rest upon broad enough to
cover more than one State at time.
Governor johnson of California APP
pears to be the leading spirit, aside
from Roosevelt, in this proposed new
party. Governor HadIey of Missouri
quietly went away without identifying
himself with it. Governor Deneen of
Illinois positively refused to have any
thing to do with it. There will be left |
then, as sponsors for this new party, |
Col. Roosevelt, Governor Johnson,
James R. Garfield. Clifford Pinchot,
and few OF like-minded 2ealots with
them. Cummins will NOS 90 with them,
neither will La Toilette, for La Fol |
lette is fully persuaded that Roosevelt
is faker and unreliable, weak pillar
for the people to lean upon.
1t only remains to add that the en-
blem Of the new party, the red ban
dana handkerchief, serves so clearly |
to identify the movement with an
archy, that the conclusion cannot be
escaped that anarchy is the true aim
and basis of the new movement. The
red flag, whether called the blood flag
Of anarchy or the bandana handkcr-
chief, must necessarily mean the same
thing under whatever pretense it is
waved. 1t stands for anarchy, and |
those see red who rally under its folds.