Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-05
Hotel GOSSIP:

Judge orlando W. Powers of Salt IL Ne
is registered al the Butte. He comes
here in the interest of the Postal Tele-
graph company of the City of the Saints.
which has retained him in condemna-
! ton suit against the Oregon Short Line
! road.
Not even the chief dignitaries of the
! Mormon church have wider reputation
4 throughout Utah than Orlando w. Pow
! ers. Saint and Gentle have feared and
admired him. hated and loved this mag
netlc political organizer. staunch Amer
lean and great criminal lawyer. The
history of Utah is incomplete without
record of Powers as the foremost Gentile
IN the campaigns to right the wrongs
| inflicted by the Saints upon Americans
seeking homes in the territory. through
his magical political skill and matchless
oratory. He is a born leader of men
lnstinctively the Gentiles of the terri
tory. i'll the latter part of the sos and
early sos. perceived in this Michigan
lawyer who came to make his home
among them. the man who would lead
/ in the overthrow of Mormon control
in the two cities of Utah which con-
tanned an American popula tion-Sals
Lake and Ogden. Park City and the
mining camps of Utah embraced but feH
ished by Brigham Young to leave min
ing alone and confne their attention
chiefly to agriculture. But Salt Lake
and Ogden are the chief cities Of the
state. They We're the distributing points
tor manufactured products, the centers
OF business. the seats of POLITICAL liter
airy and social life. When Powers took
charge Of the liberal. or Gentle. party
in Utah. both these cities We're governed
by the Saints.
Powers put his whole soul into the
work entrusted to him BY his fellow Cen
tiles. The liberal party was reorganized
in a manner that would command the ad-
miration of the best workers in Tam
many or even such lea lers as Hanna and
Quay. Judge Powers put much stock IN
the enthusiasm aroused by brass bands.
uniformed clubs and torchight process
sions. The t1ambleau club of Salt Lake.
arrayed in uniforms of red coats, white
pants. cavalry boots and helmets, pr
sented a most striking appearance. The
liberal band. an organization of the best
eastern musicians of the city. would not
suffer by comparison with our Boston e.
Montana band. Band, drum corps and
tlambeau club paraded every night dur
organizations. Not a street was paved
at this time, and the mud was ankle
deep, but if the slush on the street
reached to the hip, it would not dampen
the ardor of the liberals.
The Mormons. not to be outdone by
Powers and his party initiated the Cen
tile organizer in parade show and added
other features The Saints are must
cal people: so they enlisted the mandolin
and guitar clubs of the city, and cav
airy company of woman turned out one
mght IN the most unique political ma
r;tde ever seen in this country. At no
time before or since, except when Utah
celebrated it's admission to statehood.
was there ever such a parade or display
of fireworks The Mormons were ORGAN
lied under the name of the people,s na,.
ty. All this took place in the latter part
| of 1889. and up to February Of the ydstr
following, when the city election tot,k
place. resulting in the complete triumph
OF the Gentiles, excepting a very few
Mormon aldermen from one or two lot
their strongholds. The day after ele
ton. flags on Mormon buildings were
half-masted. Ogden was also carried By
the liberal party.
49,
the wealthy Gentiles of Salt Lake CITY
| got together, made up purse and o
| written testimonial expressing their re-
| spect for the man who brought theb in
triumph through the Red Sea of politics
in the capital city of the territory. Judge
Powers was presented a check for $40. 900.
His friends say that he expended this,
and much more. out of his private means
while conducting liberal campaipns in
the territory.
Judge Powers remained the chief of
| the liberal party in Utah until it's dis
| solution in 1898. Up to that year Salt
Lake city and county was in control
Of his party, Powers winning out at
| every election.
Meantime the Mormon church leaders
decided to postpone polygamous mar
! rlages. declaring that the first presi-
dent had received a revelation from
heaven. advising him to such action. "A
manifesto was published in all the Nor
mon tabernacles and pledges We're given,
Placing faith in the sincerity of the
SAINTS. few Gentiles united with the
| 'Mormons. and measures were taken ito
divide the people of Utah on party lines
1t was successful throughout the state
generally. Salt Lake held out to the Iast
in its loyalty to the liberal party, but
political ambition, business reasons and
the feeling that reconciliation was bot
ter than luminosity in great city like
Salt Lake constantly grew. The Liberal
party was beaten in the city election Iin
1894
Judge Powers called his party together
at the old Salt Lafe theater one night
after election. 1t was memorial BILE
night, almost pathetic in it's environ.
ments. The old guard We're sue
cessively called upon to express them
selves. All but one said it was better tC
abandon the liberal organization and
align themselves with the national par.
ties of their choice. So the old liberia
flags We're furled and laid away. The
drum corps struck up something thai
sounded like funeral dirge.; The grant
American party of Utah passed into his