The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-23

| the convention, anu WIFI over ohe
half the states already voted the
contest is narrowed down to such
circumscribed limits as to make II
almost thrilling.
In any case somebody is going to
be nominated by the Republican par.
~, whether the choice shall fall upon
Roosevelt, or whether it shall declare
FOR Taft, one thing has been demon
strated by the present campaign, and
that is: that the man who now occu-
pies the lofty position Of President,
and the one who preceded him are,
after all, Just common beings! They
have demonstrated to the world that
the United States OF America is big.
broad democracy. That It's highest
executives are not above taking AN
active part In genuine, rip-roaring
battle royal for supremacy. 1t has
come as an awful shock to some OF
our half.caste Tories, whose desire
Tor romp and ceremony in connection
Will, our diplomatic functions and
whose alteration of the gold-braid
tol'de.riddles Of European counts Is
their all prevailing ambition, but TO
the average American It is just the
thing.
This Is a Eeputlic. 1t is COVE. d.
ment Of the people, for the people
and be 1t rememh'Ied-by the people.
Why shouldn't the President and the
ex-President CAIN aim IL they want
to? Aren't they, after all, just plain
American citizens? And is the fact
that they are making a good, live,
vigorous campaign for reelection 60,
ing to diminish-in even the slightest
degree-from the dignity which the
American people attach to the office
OF Chief Magistrate? Not by long
ways! This government Is ours-the
people of these United States. II
Europe wants to stand with head un.
covered until the royal sovereign feels
disposed to sit, that's Europes busl.
ness, but here in this land we don't
do business in that way. Here men
are men! and the individual, or the
| class of individuals, who call loudly
for the dignity" and Difference" OF
European courts had better take pas.
sage to Europe where they can in.
dulge their hobby to the full.
Meantime, the great American pub.
lie Is content to get into the center
of the crush and to put to shame the
efforts of the Comaches with its
yells of give it to him, Taft" and
soak him, Teddy
II Il i.
1t was mucky morning and there
was smell of rain in the air. The
eastern sky instead of being radiant
with the morning beams of the rising
Fun was banked heavily with lowering
clouds. The birds were hushed and
the whole atmosphere was redolent OF
storm. Everybody felt 1t. The men
on the street corners talked Of il. Ii
sombre tones they expressed thelI
utter dissatisfaction with the prevail
ing order of things. why should
it rain when there had scarcely beer
three successive days OF good wealth
or all spring." The shop.keepers st5ot
idly in their doorways and discon
solately prepared to wait for thu
customers whom they felt sure would
not come out on such morning
The truck drivers clucked at thei
Flooding horses as they took thei
way YEARLY down the street. Nov
and again passing pedestrian cast al
apprehensive glance heavenward u
though momentarily expecting III
coming downpour. Sadness-subtlC
solemn and certain-reigned suprem
everywhere.
Suddenly sound OF someone whis
? ling broke oUt upon the air. 1t cam
from down the street and every ca
$ was startled by the Inconsistency Q
e the thing, II was as though a ma
4 had suddenly appeared in a confer
= ence OF suffragettes. Louder an
5 louder 1t grew. 1t was drawing neal
c er. Soon the sound began to becom
5 more coherent. Mercy II was a tun,
Y An such a tune!-"Turkey in III
|. Straw" Out the notes umbled on
r after the other, as though vieing wit
r each other in their eagerness to swe
i the melody. Instantly the atmospher
I lightened The tone OF the men o
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