Goodwin's Weekly I
VOL. XXI. Eleventh Year SALT LAKE. CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 2, 1 91 2 5 Cents the Copy No. 29
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THE COMING ELECTION.
IN the wreck of the ballots next
Tuesday the saddest spectacle
. that will flash itself before the
American people will bo Presfdent
Taft. For he owes his defeat in this
; campaign to the fact that he let some
one else do his Avork aB he silently
acquiesced in the vicarious perform
ances of his administration.
, Tho demand of the times is for ac
tion and the present occupant of the
White House has failed to supply that
demand, so it is not strange that the
following dialogue should find place
,in the Press club show this week:
Office boy: Melord, Mir. Taft waits
without.
. Editor: Without what, varlet, with
out what?
Office Boy: Without an electoral
I vote.
I Either one of two things is going to
happen next Tuesday. It is folly to
t calculate upon the occurrence of one
of four, for the election will not be
I close enough to throw it into the
' house and President Taft will be so
decisively defeated that there will
not be any doubt as to the sentiment
. of the American people regarding
J such things as that which happened
j at Chicago laBt June. The result of
i, the election hinges upon two contin-
gencies the overwhelming election of
H Woodrow Wilson and a probable land-
slide for Theodore Roosevelt,
j Tho certainty is that the Taft vote
J "will be so inconsequential as to re-
! move him, as he is already removed,
1 from being a factor in the race.
' If one were to forecast tho result
( of the election upon the aspect of
tho betting boards that stretch in a
telltale string across the country, no
j one ,would venture a prediction
i against the election of-Wilson! Here
the ofds are given showing that the
talent figures Wilson to be elected
with Roosevelt a close second. No
sane man has had tho temerity tc
' bet that Taft will defeat Wilson or
T
get more popular or electoral votes
than Roosevelt.
But how about Utah? Which way
is this state going to bend?
Along about conference time any
one who offered to bet that Taft would
not carry the state would have found
eager takers. Today the sentiment
has drifted in another direction and
Utah is in the doubtful column where
it will rest until next Tuesday. Any
man who offers to bet, one way or the
other, .on the outcome of the election
in Utah or in Salt Lake county is
making a plunge predicted upon the
instinct of the gambler he is taking
a chance on tho stopping of the wheel
or the turning of a card.
The election of Wilson may appear
to bo certain, but the calculating gen
tlemen whose enthusiasm sways their
judgment have not taken into consid
eration the likelihood of a landslide
for Roosevelt, which is just as prob
able as it is possible.
Tho campaign all over the nation
has been fought on strenuous lines.
With a personality less strenuous
than the Colonel's the battle might
have been tamer, but with him In the
race the campaign Was predestined
to be one of bitter rivalry. The
matching of candidates and of Issues,
tho employ of all known resources of
political activity have accentuated a
contest that will stand out in bold
contrast against any other Presiden
tial campaign in all of our rather in
teresting political history.
Anyhow, the publication of cam
paign contributions has revealed tho
THE WEATHER MAN
Bv JOHN T. McCUTCHFON
Once there was a man of Great Atmospheric Displacement who
had been quite a disappointment as a Public Official. He had been
elected to carry out certain Policies which the people strongly ap
proved, but when he got safely in office he carried them out on a
shutter. The people who had elected him felt that they had been de
ceived and so they grimly waited for a chance to show their disap
proval. Whenever the chance came they showed it in unmistakable
terms. Landslide after landslide fell upon him, but he didn't seem
to take the Hint. Whenever he asked the people if they wanted
him to run again the people arose and in a thunderous voice said
"No."
Notwithstanding these symptoms, he buried his Pride and de
termined to run whether the people wanted him to or not. Certain
powerful Politicians who had benefited by his failure to carry out his
ante-election pledges, succeeded in nominating him after one of the
tiCoarsest pieces of political manipulation ever known. The will of the
"people was ignored with lordly contempt.
Having been nominated, it then became necessary to frame up
some reason why people should vote for him. So he went to the
people and pointed to the record-breaking corn and wheat crops which
1 -.filled the land with prosperity. "Look there," quoth he. "See all this
1 ' prosperity. Now you ought to know who to vote for."
"But he isn't running," answered the People, with a broad grin.
1 "Who isrj't running?" exclaimed the Candidate.
"Why the man who is responsible for this properity the Weather
Man, of course."
fact that J. P. Morgan is quite as H
liberal with the Republicans as the H
Bull Moose, and the Harvester trust H
dropped a little oil in the gear of the H
Democrats. H
ON INDEPENDENCE. M
NOT long ago The Weekly said a H
word or two about the leader- H
ship of tho Progressives in Utah. H
It caused no slight ripple on the pollt- H
ical surface, occasioning, as it did, H
the issuance of several pronuciamen- H
tos from the Bull Moose Btate head- H
quarters in which it was variously H
charged that what we had to say H
about the self-constituted leaders of H
the new party in Utah was influenced H
by financial support from the Republl- H
cans. Some of the Progressives, un- H
derstanding the situation, were pretty H
hot because the Indication of lnde- E
pendence should have been so sadly H
misconstrued, and other Progressives, H
out of touch with the real situation H
in this state, were pretty hot at The H
Weekly because it dared to discover 11
political rottenness in the fabric of '
the new movement. H
Today the Progressives -in Utah are iH
more familiar with the internal situa- H
tion within their own party. They H
agree with us those who actually are H
Progressive enough to let their judg- H
ment supersede thier enthusiasm H
that the people of the new party) H
should have been given a chance to H
say whether the self-conBtltuted lead- H
ers who set up a provisional commit- H
tee should have been permitted to H
continue in the leadership of the new H
party in this state. H
Many who resented the charge of H
political bossism in tho Progressive H
party have revised their opinion and H
have indorsed the courageous stand M
taken by The Weekly. HI
When the call was Issued for a Pro- H
gressivo state convention at Ogden H
the provisional state chairman who H
issued that call had the opportunity Bff
of removing all criticism of bossism H
by giving the delegates to that con- H
vention a chance to select their own H
state committee. But this clause was Jm
carefully omitted from the call and M
the delegates were not given an op- M
portunlty of voicing their sentiments IH
in the matter. They might have sus- M
tatned tho provisional committee but H
they should have had the opportunity In
of saying whether they wanted to or D
That is merely a flagrant illustra- IH
tion of the high-handed methods by M
which tho Progressive state organiza- M
tion as been formed and maintained H
in this state. It is a close political M
trust designed and constructed to H
control the Progressive party in fl
Utah, The independent thinkers in H
the Progressive party, and who com- H
pose the great majority of that party, !