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H 4 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY H up. For fourteen years the people IH had clamored for a national food law, H and every effort toward its adoption D ( met With failure until Theodore Roose- Hj volt became president. He got' out H his big stick and demanded that con- H gross pass such a law. Pie recom- H mended the law in his message to con- 1 gress, and he pulled off his coat and H worked l'o it in person. By his ac- H tivity in is light he brought down H on his head the lasting hatred of all H the food adulterators in America. Un- H til this day no name is more abhorrent H to them than that of Theodore lloose- H velt. And that organization of food H adulterators is one of the most power- H ful political influences the country H has ever hack to deal with. It has H openly defied the national and state B ' governments for a quarter of a con- H tury. The enormous profits it realizes H from the processes of imitation and H ' adulteration permit it to have a H mighty barrel to spend in influencing H legislation." IB This barrel will now be used freely E to defeat Oolonel Roosevelt, declares m the National Food Magazine, a sug- H gostion worth following up at Progres- M sive headquarters. The record of the H Taft administration, including the res- H " ignation of Wiley, the support of Wtl- JH son and MeCabe, etc., shows where rH the manufacturers of fraudulent foods H and drugs will direct their influence H and their power is huge. It should be B ' corrected by publicity. H TAKE YOUR CHOICE. THIS is from page 12 of the Herald-Republican, the official organ M of the standpat party in this H From the overwhelming vote H by which the Republican state con- ' ' vention refused to incorporate in- B to its declaration of faith a pro- B vision favoring the direct pri- H mary, one gathers that this sys- H tern of nominating candidates is K not popular in Utah. H Turn back to page two of the same H issue and read the following plank in Hfl the published platform: H We favor the ratification of the H constitutional amendment provid- H ing for the election of United H States senators by direct vote of H the people. H So you may pay your money and H take your choice. What is good for H editorial discussion may or may not H bo equally good for presentation in the H news columns. H ANALYZING THE VOTE. HERB are some startling figures from 'Maine. In 1908 the Re- H publican vote for Taft was 66,- B,: 987; the Democratic vote for Bryan V was 33,408. The Republicans curried H the state by 31,584. M In 1912 the Republicans cast 70,880 H votes for their candidate for governor, H Mr. Haines. The Democrats cast 67,- i 848 votes for Plaisted, their guber- Ht natorlal candidate. The Republicans H increased their vote by 4,000; the V Democrats added 32,000 votes to their f strength. Thus about 36,000 more 1 votes were cast in the aggregate in B that state. The Democratic party H drew eight times as many of the new votea as the Republicans. This year the Progressives stood wdth the Republican organization, In deed, they control the organization, making an agreement with the reg ulars that they would help restore the state to the Republican party and then fight it out afterward on a straight Progressive vs. Republican basis. The asinine claims of Mr. Hillea and others that the result in Maine augurs well for the Republicans is on a par with, the prediction of Hilles, subject to revision, that Taft would get a majority of the electoral col lege. The Democrats in Maine will not lose much of their strength in November, although it is admitted by all parties that there will be many Democrats voting for Roo3evelt at the coming election. The Progressive ele ment in that state is far stronger than the Republican forces and there isn't a chance on earth of the Repub licans polling a higher vote than the Progressives. The Democrats are practically as sured of the six electoral votea in Maino. Local issues won't figure at the November election. Perhaps ten per cent of the Democratic vote will fall away to the Bull Moose. A mighty sight more will be drawn to the Bull Moose fromi the Republican party. Thus the Republican vote of 71.000 will be Bplit while the depreciation of the Democratic vote will be nominal. INTELLIGENT VOTING. VOTERS should prepare themsel ves for the November election by learning how to vote a split ticket The habit of voting a ticket "from top to bottom" or marking the party circle and "letting It go at that" Is vicious. It is a habit which has been fostered by unscrupulous poli ticians to secure the election of in competent and dishonest men to min or positions through the "regularity" of the voters or the popularity of the leading candidate. To this jablt, as much as to any other element, is due the general in efficiency and dishonesty of minor of ficers in the United States. Of late years the voters have shown commendable intelligence in picking out the better qualified men of all par ties. Some states have been so pro gressive as to abolish the party circle, and some even have gone so far as to abolish the party column. The minor offices are frequently of more importance to the average man than are the governorship and the presidency. So he should be careful that in registering his preference for Roosevelt, Taft or Wilson he doeB not saddle on himself by carelessness or accident a horde of rapacious politicians. THE "POPS" A MEMORY. THE People's (or Populist) party met in national convention In St Louis recently. Eight delegates attended. Though shy In number the delegates preserved the historic traditions. Six hours wore occupied in impassioned oratory. Thus Ladies' Suits Ladies' Coats Ladies' Hats All the smartest modes for fall wear are now being displayed. We invite you to see them. A wide range of fabrics and models to suit all tastes and figures. ', ' .n a movement, conceived amid the stiff breezes in Kansas, born no "larger than a man's hand," but nurtured by vocal disturbance until it grew Into a cyclone that swept four states and shook the nation, has fizzled to the whisper of a zephyr. Memories alone remain. But what memories! Poffer, the only living Pop who ever broke into the United States sen ate. Peffer, whose speeches were as long as his whiskers and whose whisk ers were "continued in our next." Peffer, now an ex-Pop, who went back to the Republican fold, but whose status politically is in doubt since the June unpleasantness at the Coliseum. Peffer, once bearded prophet, now, at the age of 82, in a hospital at Topeka, writing a history of the Populist party for posterity. Leedy, who won a governorship by "blowing blood out of his ears" one hot night when leaders of a deadlock ed state convention paraded five can didates before 1,000 sweltering, limp, and weary delegates. Leedy, whose first message to the legislature set a nation laughing by citing "the dogs of Egypt barking at the Pyramids'' Leedy, whose privato secretary was Edward Campbell Little, just bofore that consul general to Egypt and much discursive of the fact. Leedy, now In Alaska, grappling with sterner prob lems. M'ary Ellen Lease! Lantern Jawed Mary who wus proud of the protuber ant cheek, which stopped not at phy sical definition. Mary Yellin', who tore up and down the land seeking whom she might devour, and general ly finding some. Militant Mary! Now grown conservative and talking not at all. Jerry Simpson! Jerry, who went to congress as a joke went to congress sookloss md emerged In silk hose and patent leathers. Jerry, town character of Medicine Lodge, who pin ned a laugh on the late Mr. Dingley in congress by showing that that stanch homo industry advocate wore a silk hat made in London. Jerry is dead, but before he died he had ceased to be a joke. And so on ad. lib. Memory could write more than space permits. It could tell of the various brands of Pop the fusion Pop, the middle-of-the-road Pop, the Bryan Pop. It could recite the Blump in the barber busi ness in those bewhiskered days. It could indite the long list of panaceas and poppycock advanced. It could enumerate the Cross purposes and sel fishness that gradually disrupted the party. Eight loyal members of the grand army left! But these are not all that are left. Look through the platforms of the sur viving parties and of the new party, state platforms, national platforms. Look, too, Into the statutes of not a few states. There you will find many of the once derided "populisms," many of the proposals harried up and down the land by conservatlce ridicule. No ' longer sockless and bewhiskered, no longer breathing blood, populism no longer populism. Now it is received In the best political society, is bowed to respectfully, oven if with hostility, in the public ways and also in some states clothed with authority. Causes sometimes live by dyings Chicago Tribune. . i If the Maine election cured Taft's ankle, he is due for an awful setbapk wflien the Maine returns come In Nov. 5th. - When Chairman HUles hears of the big -Bull Moose meeting out here in Utah we expect him to make a atafe ment evincing great pleasure. Isn't Mr. Hilles making an effort to get altogether too much pleasure out of this campaign? The most charitable words that may be said of Benner X. Smith are that he might have been nominated. There Is considerable difference be- ' tween "favoring" a proposition and "pledging" candidates to support ifc.