The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-23
ALWAYS Broad Minded.


4 have opposed his views. ana
opposed him, sometimes in private,
sometimes N puOlic, but when the mat
ter was settled-sOmeti mes on one side.
sometimes on the other-I found him
large minded enough rot TO allow those
differences of opinion 10 unsettle our
friendly relations When it VAS sup
posed at one time in our political ex-
psrience that there was ecclesiastical
interference iii politics in this state,
Judge Powers bent all his energies
against those alleged iuterferences: but.
on the other hand. when some years
later the Democratic party placed in
nomination a man for congress-who,
1t is not vanity to say, was your candI-
date since he was elected by nearly 5000
majority-yOu viii perhaps remember.
l say, that a most bitter assault was
made upon him because OF his relations
10 conditions which had prevailed in
the past, and which were the outgrowth
of religious beliefs. Thatcyvarfare made
upon him was relentless and cruel in
the extreme. Finally, when the high
est official in the state lent the weight
OF his position to that scurrilOus war
fare, t. was Judge Powers who rushed
into the arena ike a new herald Mer-
curry, beating back the assailants.
The services then given to the Dem
ocratic party and to its nominee were
not the result of cold calculations, but
from the impulse Of the mans nature
10 come 10 the aid of one unjustly as
sailed. The high Official speech re-
ferred TO was made from the stage of
the Salt Lake theatre one night. The
night following Judge Powers was fac
ing an audience who applauded his
mastery denunciation Of the governors
assault, and this defense he continued
throughout the campaign. rotwith-
standing il involved the risk of the
judge being misunderstood. by his
friends outside Of the state Of Utah.
and his GeDtile friends within the
state. II would be base ingratitude on
my part if did not remember the
courage and the ability with which
Judge Powers met my assailauts. and
now 4 pledge him my word that / will
do all in my power 20 resent and de-
feat the dastardly assault that is made
upon him; and I only wish that there
was some process by which my words
spoken here tonight might reach his
cars and give him cheer and comfort.
The Portland Incident.
We have a more recent illustration
% Judge Powers willingness to defend
the people OF our state when assailed
We certainly have not yet forgotten
the Portland episode. where a paid
reprobate by sly insinuatiOn and i'm
pudent innuendO, cast reflections upon
the good faith and character Of our
population-perhaps 1 ought to say
upon our Mormon population, for the
lnsinuaHons in question were leveled
at them The echo OF the words of that
assault had not died away when Judge
Powers. ahame with righteous indigna-
ton, confronted him who uttered them,
and was defying him TO shift
from vile insinuation TO plain
statement that what was i'm
piled might be met with proper
denunciation. That was not deliberate
" thought out and planned. judge
Powers responded from the very inn
pulse OF his nature TO resent the i'm
putations cast upon the good name Of
Utah, and TO that assembly. as l re-
member it, he declared The ability of
the people of Utah to settle all issues
that could arise within our borders:
and as he masterfully resented the, inn
piled charges in the cowardly assault
referred to, so, too, you may depend
upon it, he would resent all such i'm
proper charges upon the floor of the
hauohaI congress. or anywhere on
earth. and work to the limit of his great
abilities. which we all recognize, for
ire best interests OF Utah Ladies and
gentlemen. ! commcnd to Won Hon
orlando w Powers as the most fitting
man at this time ia The Democratic.