The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-29
HOW PORTLAND
INSULTS GUESTS
Utah Delegates Bring Details
From Mining Congress.
JUDGE POWERS TELLS STORY
FILTH AND FALSEHOoD WEAP-
oNs OF DENVER ADHERENTs.
JUDGE POWERS TELLS STORY


Wis. Mrs. Davis. w J. HaHorau. Rule
Balloran, John Dern and W II. Child.
" bile regretting the defeat of Salt
Lake, the sentiment Of the delegates
was that the loss would have been
greater had the prize been greater.
Tho congress, they discovered. is not
- important as was supposed. Less
than 2e9 delegates were present. and
save for the trouble precipitated BY the
attack on Utah. the proceedings were
Of little interest.
The Utah delegation IS stiIl inclined
10 be indignant at the treatment re-
ceived in Portland. and individual
members Of the delegation have prom
ised TO pay the debt at the earliest op-
poTtunity.
Powers Tells How it Happened
I desire TO tel the people of salt
Lake the story Of the contest at the
mining congress at Portland for the
permanent HEADQUARTERS Of that insti-
tuition said Judge Powers last even
ing. 1T is a story that all Of our peo-
Pic naturally have an interest in
7 viii premise by saying that with
the exception of Oregon. our state had
the largest representation at the con-
gress OF any section, and the Utah
delegation was at each and every sta &c
ar the contest in entire harmony and
acted in unison without a dissenting
voice. Every man in the delega ton
worked hard and Loyalty for cur city.
and 1t would be invidious to make spe-
cial mention of the work Of any midi
Vidual ] also desire to saw that while
we were defeated in our efforts to have
salt Lake City selected as the per-
mRnent headquarters, we do not think
that Salt Lake has lost anything of
value and we think that we would not
have had value received if we had ex-
changed our building lot for the con-
Sress. At no time during the congress
were there 200 delegates and members
IN attendance, and unless there be
radical REORGANIZATION Of the institu-
ton it viii be of no value to the min
ing fraternity and it VIII shed no glory
upon the city OF its adoption Hence.
We are not grieving over defeat We
are indignant at the manner in which
il was brought about. We are indig-
nant over the treatment that we re-
ceived and we all protest. in the name
of our state. at the uncalled for insults
that were offered
Punic Faith Of Oregon.
when we reached Portland we at
once opened headquarters in the par
lOrs Of the Hotel Portland and begun
advertising our city Without the
delegation from FL Paso,- which was an
enterprising delegation and splendid
lot Of gentlemen, and the delegation
from Salt Lake, there would not have
been any interest IN the congress. We
entered into compact with the f.
Paso delegation, which that delegation
faithfully kept until the end and worked
and voted with Us. We entered into a
compact with the Oregon delegation.
which compact was violated, and its
stand that IL went over 10 the cause
OF Denver upon the promise Of the lat
ter city TO aid Portland to secure the
next session of the Irrigation congress.
But whatever was the cause, we did
not receive more than ten votes from
the big Oregon delegation.
On Tuesday morning the Oregonian
in a review Of the claims Of Denver and
Snlt Lake. very unfairly presented our
cause and declared that the Mormon
question would be a factor in the con-
test saying salt Lake City is a slab
Of the Mormon church At the same
time we did not believe that IN a bust
ness organization the question would
be permitted to play a part. We no.
ticed, however, that there was coldness
toward US. Not one Oregon delegate
50 far as I know, called at our head
quarters. We continued a good ma
tured. earnest fight and on Wednesday
we had every reason to believe that
we would be successful. We did not
know of the undetermined means that
were heinz used.
Resort 10 Lies and Filth.
I'VE have since learned that a Den
yer man went among the delegates and
the guests at the Portland hotel and
pointed out several of our delegates as
Mormons and p0lygamists. Delegates
were told that If the headquarters wer-
located at salt Lake no building would
&c erected. as the MOrmons were now
In complete control. It was alleged
that eastern capital was stunning salt
Lake as II il were a plague spot Wo-
men of Portland buttonhoIed delegates
and urged them 20 vote against US in
the interest Of good morals. All this
we were unaware OF at the time. a. it
was a whispered campaign, the mean
est Kind Of campaign that can Be
waged We simply knew that some
influence was at work that was nulH-
Tying our efforts. We decorated the
convention hall with banners and ap-
propriate notices and continued our
work
''On the day set apart for the selec-
tion Of headquarters, with our ladies
we rode to the convention hall in
-fOur-horse tally-hO. headed by a band,
ana SereDaQeQ Inc delegates at the coll
veution hall During the week Lafe
Pence Of Idaho had been in the city,
apparently taking no interest in the
congress on Monday. when the head
quarters fight was 20 be pulled of. he,
or some one for him. put up s.. which
made him a member Of the congress. /
and his subsequent assault upon Utah
has already been printed. But its vir-
ulence has not been and cannot be de-
Scribed lie made no invidi0us diStinC-
ton. but included every man, woman
and child ia Utah in his denunciation.
our ladies' were ia the hail as specta-
tors and he so tar departed from the
course of d gentleman as to address
them personally during his TRADE ana
10 place them in an en- barrasstng posi-
ton. His disgusting harangue seemed
10 meet with great favor. the Oregon
delegation being especially conspicu-
Gus in the applause. We made answer
10 him and he got what he deserved
rom Professor Talmage- If we could
have had "A vote that night. we would
have been victorious But an adjourn
ment was taken until morning Many
Of our friends left the city in disgust
and an effective anti-Normon cam
paign was carried on during the night /
No olive Branch for Pence.
Friday forenoon the debate was cor
tiuued We did what we could to stem
the adverse tide and presented our
claims in a cOnciiiatory manner But /
there is no truth I'm the Associated /
Press report that we extended the olive
branch TO Pence and the others who had I