The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-02
TELLING SPEECHES BY POWERS
AND DUSENRERRI.


and make an address of a few min
utes' duration Soon the room was
filled and crowds began to block the
sidewalk. Seeing that this place would
be inadequate the central committee
changed the place of meeting to
Thomas hall Then the crowd set in
toward that place and very soon the
seats were about taken.
The Ogden Glee club sang two selec-
tons. Chairman Civilian introduced
Judge Powers in as few words as pos
sible, for the visitor had to leave for
the north on the first train. AS Mr..
Powers rose David Evans proposed
Three Cheers for Powers
They were given with a vim that
actually made the windows rattle and
brought crowds in from the street to
see what was up.
Boys, you seem to be alive up here"
said Mr. Powers. This was the sig
nal for another burst of cheering and
when ii subsidized some one remarked,
This is Democratic year. 1T is
truly Democratic year." said the
speaker, "and recent events justify the
remark
l did not come here to make a
speech. ! brought two gentlemen along
with me to do the speaking, but l
wanted to shake hands with the people
and TO say just few words about the
conduct of this campaign. If you will
notice / have been made the target for
a great deal of abuse. Game and
Web erget off scott free, while Powers
is accused of all sorts Of trickery I
am on my way to Willard and Brig
ham City to plead TO an indictment
that was brought against me up there.
Not that l care to Vindicate myself
personally. but when L am attacked
holding the position that 1 do the whole
Democratic party is attacked. The
Democratic party claims not to have
had a square deal in this campaign,
which the Tribune itself had claimed
should prevail (Cheers.)
The Republicans. instead of discuss
ing the real issues OF the day, begun
by asserting that we were running a
Doodle campaign and then by appeal
ing to religious prejudices in a mean
and dastardly manner. I thought it
had all eliminated the other day when
they promulgated a circular signed by
an irresponsible jeweler named Swaner,
which charged that l had got out
SacrilegiouS badge for The purpose of
influencing voters in this campaign. l
want to say once more that whatever
have done in the past. never have.
1 do not now and L never will ridicule
any IIldIl . ItlISlOU. VLHSGIS.J Ile
Democratic party has asked for peace.
1t has assaulted no man. 1t has asked
only the privilege of fighting a cam
paign on legitimate principles and with
legitimate methods. The other day at
priesthood meeting some words were
said which ought not to have been
said The Republicans caught them
UP and whispered over the land that
they were said for the purpose of de-
ting DeY0Oorafi,. Marty IL
right? (Cries of No" No from all
quarters of the house) I say there
fore that l was right in the stand I
took. GCheers.)
At Brigham City the other day an
attack was made upon myself which.
in view of the position 1 have the
honor to hold, demanded atten-
Cannon said that ''one man
had stolen the city election of Salt
Lake. and had received $4,000 for it,
and that now I was at the head of an
other organization; that troops of men
and women were following me. "a
voice, that latter clause is true')
daughter and applause.)
l called upon the men who were with
me in that campaign to Vindicate me,
and on Mr.. Cannon to prove or with
draw his charge. And, by the way.
when two men appear on the political
platform in the campaign, no matter
what the social, civic or ecclesiastical
status one may have. both are under
our form of government equal
(Cheers9
1 found to my surprise that Mr.. Can
non denied in the most unequivocal
terms that he had ever said the words
attributed to him; that he had ever
mentioned my name or had me in mind
while speaking. So that | read in the
Salt Lake Tribune the next morning,
0han which, by the way, there is no
greater authority in matters ecclesfas-
teal, knowing, as it does, all the mat
tiers pertaining to church doctrine and
government of the seYenties), read in
an editorial which, while it agreed with
all l had said, concluded thus:
1T viii be seen by the above that
what Judge Powers speech lacked was
a reason for making it.
"A good many people are getting a
little weary of ringing in this church
business on the public every morning"
Mr.. Powers then told of the subse-
quent steps in setting himself right
and of his sending a letter to the Tri-
bune stating that another statement
might be had from Mr.. Cannon by
sending a reporter to him He said it
was not for linn to judge Mr.. Cannon
on that reply. 1t is not for me to set
up the plea here that Mr.. Weber and
myself can set up in courts of law for
a client when he has stolen an over
coat and say he has forgotten all
about it. 1t may be that the somnam-
bulistic state theory which the Tribune
sets up in its editorial of this morning
is the correct one. If~se, it is only an
other argument that we should keep
people high in ecclesiastical matters off
the stump. (Cheers.)
Mr.. Powers then read the entire ed
itorial from the Tribune. The applause
at times being fairly deafening:
Night before last Jpdge Powers, in a
speech, read dispatches from the north,
stating that in a sermon President
George Q. Cannon had referred to some
one who had received $4,000 for steal
ing this city, that he is now at the
head of a great political party, and
commented upon it. A Tribune repor-
ter found Mr.. Cannon and received
from him a positive denial that he ever
used such language or even thought of
Judge Powers while speaking.
Yesterday, when surrounded by some
Of the persons who were with him and
heard his sermon, he denied again, and
appealed to them to corroborate his
statement They told him he had
spoken that way, and then Mr.. Cannon
said if they said he had made such a
statement it must be true. but that he
still had no recollection of it, no recol-
lection Of even thinking such a thing.
This is the case to date, and it is a bad
one for President George @. Cannon.
When the Democrats filed their indict-
ment against some of the chief church
leaders, we said there was but one