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Show 241 for "mess of potage." At the convention in Chicago, it captured by the Bourbons of politics and finance, and like the they, Bourbons of France, IInever learn." a was We submit the conduct of the Republican national com mittee at Chicago to the candid judgment of the people of the state of Utah. The plain facts are there: 1. The national committee unseated sufficient of the delegates chosen by the people to subvert their expressed w.i Ll, and replace them wi th creatures of the "ma ch Lne ;" 2. The and upon seated persons determined their by own the national committee passed to sit as delegates. right 3. After seating themselves as delegates, tional commi ttee from their own number character as the old national committ.ee. a new 4. be they elected na in a Four yea r s hence this new national to repeat the acts of the position committee and so Thus the vicious infinitum and ad on circle ad of cornra old the same i t t.e e w.i Ll, national nauseum. completed; and if the re hand-picked and steam-rollered convention is acquiesced in and is permitted to becoe the rule of conduct in ;;merican politics, w-e submit that our government, though it may remain a republic in name, will in fact be an oligarchy of bosses. sult of was such .. Such conditions in the nation are insufferable and con diticns in this state are no better. From a party devoted to social service, the Republican party of our state has become dominated by an aggregation of persons banded to Those persons have throttled gether for personal ambition. the most beneficial and humane Leq i s La t i on-c-, They have manipulated conventions, dictated platforms and named vIe have tickets w i, thout regard to the voice of the people. remained patient under these and many other abuses, striving for reform within the party, but all hope of such reform has long since passed away. We believe that hepe for substantial achievement is not For years past be looked for from the Democratic party. there has been, and now is, waging within that party an ir reconcilable conflict between reactionaries and progressives. These factions have neutralized each other. to We but as are, we that many do of therefore, compelled regret so we us have been to to leave the old parties; pat company ith organizations identified with for years. In the |
