The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-01
GOVERNOR JOHls|bllla[,! bll[
SPEAKS IN DaElDf
Candidate for Vice PHRRlrl
on Progressive Ticket j =
Large Crowd. .,igatc
GREAT PRAISE FOR :.
Taft Is Declared a Neg ~
Quantity So Far as IS :,
ton Is Concerned. !,
GREAT PRAISE FOR

| DENVER, Colo, Aug. s1-cI
Hiram johnson, Of Cali9ornia y
sive vice presidential cand;aI
rived In Denver tonight and AL
an audience that filled the bio
: pal theater. During the day Gd
, johnson spoke to large crowds
ley and Platteville, Colo, whils
: way here from Cheyenne, WydI
: reception in Colorado was ma,l|
enthusiasm.
Governor Johnson was introdrI
, q. P. Costigan, Colorado candidd
] governor On the Progressive tick
referred 70 the Californian ss !
by common consent, held TO be I
only for vice president but prssid|
the United States.
Governor johnson digressed f,d
set speech which he has been d|
ing on his western tour TO point q
likeness between conditions in g
MIA before the Progressives
power and conditions in Color
the present time. He declared tia
had been overrun by bi-partissa
and that the only way for Color,
free itself was by taking up tn
gressive banner. Zone of the
ideas Of the Progressive party
the supreme duty of government
conservation of its human resou
he said.
Reviews Situation.
The speaker viewed tbnor,N
uation in California. ,}m GaG,Htlcs
in 1910, when therogressive ele
went into POT, to the Repub
conventin5t Chicago and the bir
ne .Fr6SIesslve party as natIona
anlzatIon, which was the resul,
ald,- OF a. shameless injustice
In al! time, IN all history b,
JARED just such oppression has
llted IN an upheaval and the trir
right: 1t was just such iniustic
10 mother country that caused
merlcan revolution; it was the or
on of the privileged class that
nth to the French republic; it ws
rong, Of slavery that brought fr
'r all men in the United State
lis year it is given to us to be q
the great contest where social
'onomic justice is the goalD
Governor johnson IS references tn
lei Roosevelt were productive of
,monstratlons amid waving banda
Many great things have been {
Theodore Rosevelt,' hs said. *
eachments have upifted a. great
IN and quickened the conscience
at nation.'
eferenee to Taft.
He dismissed President Taft with
claration:
II think l am fairly within &C
y when I say to you that ct the
mber election Mr.. Taft will b
eligible quantity"
touching upon the humanitarian
IT'S OF the campaign which. he
ted represent the basic princinIs
fight which the Progressive pa
ma king. Governor Johnson said:
VI late years psychologists and
DTS have been grouping to solve
at human problem, to bring a. Iii
lrer the under man to the more !
ate fellows by a little greater eff
! sympathy and aid: to give lii
ldren. victims Of misfortune :
Mt, the opportunity in life that {
ant for US all; to tighten the Il
the overworked woman, to lift fr
despair and his darkness, the ov
dened man. These are the thin
eh the Progressive party wol
h to accomplish, and il at last
TO all of these hope. It beliey
legislative action FOR the preventi
'ccuPatlonal diseases, in a. minim,
.e for women, IN a wage that sb
living wage, in an eigbt-hour d
women aud young persons, in o
or rest IN seven for all workers.
abolition of the convict contra
r system. substituting in its pls
uctlon for the government; in pu
v as to wages, hours and condition
by all these things, ii gives to b
10y, STRIVING and struggling, a hol
ter Governor johnson had finish
,rnor Carey of Wyoming spoi
ly on the fight the ProgressE
making in the Rocky mounta1d
Production of Cotton