The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-10
KING SPEAKS
AT C0ALvILLE
Pays Some Attention to Senator
kearnS.
STORY OF SENATE BILL
CHARGES THAT JUNIOR SENA-
TOR APPROPRIATED IDEAS.
(sneeial to The HeraldN


COALVILLE. Oct. 9.-Citizens of
| Coalville this evening turned out
en- masse to hear Judge w. H.
King discuss the political issues of
the campaign. About one-third
Of the population availed them
selves Of the opportunity af-
forded them TO hear what the ex-
congressman had to say upon the
questions which divide the two great
parties. For more than two hours he
held the undivided attention Of his
audience, which almost filed the opera
house. II was not only one OF the
most representative assemblages that
ever gathered in that place of amuse-
ment to listen TO a campaign disser-
tation. but was larger than that which
the night before gave ear TO Joseph
Howell and Ben Rich. The audience.
numbering about 900, sat throughout
the speech, the finest one Judge King
has yet delivered since he took the
stump, and applauded him frequently.
1t was the general opinion, expressed
after the meeting. that Judge King
was by far the superior of the two
congressional nominees.
The first part of Judge Kings speech
was devoted TO a few remarks on what
Senator Kearns had done for the state
since his election. The speaker said
IL was his intention al the outset OF
the campaign not to mention the name
of Senator Kearns in any of his
speeches except in a mosr casual man
ner, but inasmuch as the Junior sena-
torial representative had seen fit at
oil nd Will
malign him, he thought II in
cumbent upon him TO strike back. The
Judge said Senator Kearns had made
the assertion that he had accomplished
nothing while in congress. In return,
the candidate inquired what the sena-
tor had done. what bills he had passed
and what relief measures he had forced
through the senate in behalf of Utah.
After recounting a few of the meas
ures which he had been instrumental
in getting through the house, the
judge said Senator Kearns had Sc
cured two appointments other than
those which likely belonged to him.
One was that of John AXton as chap
lain in the army, man who was
elected 10 the state senate 10 vote
for Mccormick for the United States
senate and then helped to elect Kearns;
a man who signalized his religion by
going into the first Republican con-
vention after his appointment and
working for and voting for a man for
the senate who owns seventeen saloons,
many Of them the worst dives in salt
Lake. The other appointment was
that of minister TO far away Egypt
He then told how Senator Kearns
introduced his bill in the senate to
open the Uintah reservation. He said
George Sutherland wrote a bill to
throw open that vast territory and in
troduced il in the house. Senator
Kearns borrowed a copy of the bill
and it was this that he introduced in
the senate as his own.
The remainder of Judge Kings dis
cussion was an able and lucid ex-
PLANTATION of the issues of the day. Al
though Ben Rich, the night before, had
said that Judge King would deliver
such a profound and arrogant speech
that his audience would not compre-
bend what he was talking about, only
one man in the audience saw f1t TO
ask the judge a question of explana-
ton, although every one was invited
several times to interrogate him upon
any point he had brought out, or any
assertion he had made.
County Recorder s. II. Wright pre-
sided over the meeting.