The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-02

before February. In the winter, too,
many residents of the city who were
absent on business in the summer. had
returned. The Liberals carried the city
by something over 1,400 majority, and
when the election was over Judge Pow
ers produced his books showing every
cent he had received and how it was
dfsbursed. The Peoples party mana
gers never did. If necessary, it would
be easy to recall the leading incidents
Of that campaign and show that it
was such campaign as no friend Of
Utah would like to see repeated, and
where the chief trouble was, but it is
not. President Cannon knows the his
tory, and therefore there could be no
excuse for what he said, even had he
been making a political speech. In a
religious gathering his words are the
most discouraging that, TO our knowl-
edge, have been spoken in Utah for
two years past. (ApplauseD And the
supplementary words by Mr.. Seymour
8. Young are just as reprehensible.
Continued and repeated a few times
and the territory would be in blaze,
and all the old approximations, if not
the old battle-fires and animosities OF
the past would be kindIed anew. Even
if Mr.. Cannon felt outraged by what
had been done during the past three
weeks in the name of Democracy, and
nursed a belief that it had been chiefly
due to Judge Powers, still there was no
justification for his words, especially in
such place, for they were calculated
to infiame his hearers, who were. neces-
Sarily, ignorant of the real facts, and to
reawaken animosities here which we
all had hoped had been put to sleep for
ever.
las to the lapse of memory night be-
fore last and yesterday. we have moth
ing to say. The human mind is like
electricity. 1t cannot be seen or ana
lyzed, but its work is most potent.
Then, again, the machinery called the
body, for which the mind is the mo-
tive power in life. is most complicated,
and it is possible that the mind, like
the body, has its spells of somnambu-
ism. But the few words spoken at
Brigham City We're a direct encroach
n1ent of the church upon the state, the
ecclesiastical upon the civil power, that
is, the second highest officer of the
church stopped to unfairly criticise an
individual in way directly calculated
to injure a political party, and that
under free institutions, is intolerable."
Cheers and waving of hatS.)
Mr.. Powers closed by saying that
there was nothing whatever to discour-
age people as there was every indica-
tion of Democratic success. 1t was to
the interests of every Republican,
every Democrat, every Gentle, every
Mormon, to keep out all sinister and
Interior matters from politics and that
being so they could not afford to have
Republicans win this campaign by such
methods.
Judge Dusenbury, of Provo, was next
introduced and made brief but force
fun speech, saying in substance.
Il have been in this campaign for
several weeks and most of the speeches
L have heard have been my own. We
have been engaged in running down
the mother goose stories of the Repub-
hcans about hard times and low wages,
etc, being due to Democracy"
He referred to the attitude of the
Democratic party as a grand stand-not
a grand stand play but a grand stand
that would be known in history as a
grand stand.
Il am myself a member of the domi-
nant church in this territory and
want to tell you that Judge Powers has
been the conservative man throughout
all this contest. 1 have been time and
again restrained from giving full vent
to my Indignation by him. More than
once 1 have had TO have my coat tail
pulled. AS fellow church member in
Sanpete said this has ceased to be a 20
liticaR question but "a question of the
faith when men high in church author
ity come amongst US and in true Ju-
das fashion put their arms about a
mans neck and whisper in his ear"
The meeting closed abruptly as the
speakers had to take the train, but it
closed with cheers for Democracy.