The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-28
Enthusiastic Gathering in the
Parlors of the Cullen
Hotel,
ATTENDANCE Is LARGE
AND INTEREST GREAT
Members of the Club viii Do
Much for Success OF
Ticket.

| members, WnlCu gives lta dIlSgl3uCc ana
places its services at the disposal of
the American party, held in the parlors
of the Cullen Hotel Thursday night,
was grand social and political sue
| cess.
The ladies and their friends began
TO assemble before clock, and with
in half an hour the pariors and halls
| were filed to overhowiug, so that 1t
became necessary to throw open the
doors of the large apartment until re-
Gently used as dining room.
When the assemblage was called to
order by Mrs. Joseph NJ. Cohen, the
clubs president, there were at least
400 present, a large majority of whom
were women. The proceedings were
opened with "The Star Spangled Ban.
ner' rendered by Miss Corrine Harris,
in excellent voice, which was well re-
ceived and warmly applauded,
In opening the meeting Mrs. Cohen
said that the largo assemblage served
notice that the Women's club was
strong organization and that its power
and influence in this campaign would
be felt by all opposers of the American
party. She urged upon all present to
make II personal matter, within their
respective spheres TO see that every one
was registered and then see that they
voted right.
j. L. Danner, County Chairman, was
introduced and Ia happy vein congrat-
ulsted the club upon its past work and
said that with the splendid work It
would accomplish in this campaign he
felt assured that the American party
would overwhelmingly win out on the
day Of election. In order, however, TO
make assurance doubly sure, he urged
that every one work. Each one must do
his or her duty. lie expressed himself
as highly gratified at the great spon-
taneous outpouring N this early stage
Of the campaign. It showed that there
is something radically wrong, and that
the American party proposed to right
that wrong.
1.-The church says we are tghting
phantom The church knows better, as
do the church political parties. We
hoped they would right that wrong, and
waited long and patiently for them to
do it, They have not done it, and 50
we must, and by and through the
agency Of the American party, we Will.
We have made q good beginning in
the city. Since the American party
has had control in Salt Lake, capital is
coming here without hesitation, proper.
ty deals, involving large considerations.
have been and are being made that
could not have been made or even CON
sidered a year ago.
County is Needed.
EGive us control of the county and
the benign influences Of the American
party felt and experienced by the city
will have. a corresponding expansion,
| The wrongs incident to city. county and
State politics by participation IN and
control by the Mormon church VIC have
long felt and heretofore have protested
in whispers. We have now, acquired
enough moral courage to speak our pro
test aloud-so loud that even the
church, hedged about as 1t is by its
two political parties must hear and
take heed. -
In conclusion Mr. Danper pledged
the support Of the County Committee
TO the work of the Women S club.
S. P. Armstrong, Secretary OF the
! County Committee, uppn invitation OF
| the President, explained the steps nee
essary to be taken in properly getting
| all voters upon the registration list,
and explained how the voting machine
was used, by A model which he manlPu-
! lated IN sight of the audience,
Frank r, Christensen, candidate for
| County Clerk, was introduced and made
splendid political speech, which was
| frequently punctuated by applause. Mr..
! Christensen is a forceful, lucid speaker,
| and if he ever measures swords WITH
| opponents in this campaign. they viii
| find that they have come IN contact
with man who is a past master IN his
| KNOWLEDGE Of the Mormon hlerarchlc
methods, in all political manlpulatlons
and commercial methods.
The women s clubs, he SAID, organ
| lied TO work In the interest OF the
| American party. will be Telt throughout
the county. In speaking TO those pres
| ent he said: a." You have, as we all have:
consecrated, yourselves 10 the work {, OF
destroying the power Of the hierarchy
in the politics of Utah. There never
was,a time in the history Of Utah when
, the people felt that loyalty 10 the nag
and this Government that Is felt By the
people Of other States. II is dream
Of more than 80 per cent OF the MoE.
mon people, and they have been taught
down through the ages from one gen
Grafton to another that this Govern
ment viii eventually. sooner OF later
be destroyed, and the Mormon HE
rarchv, clothed with power from on
high, viii rule in its stead.
Consecrated in Service.
The American party has consecrat-
ell itself TO the work OF making the
law supreme. 1t means that the Law
shall be enforced regardless OF eccles!-
astical station or boarded wealth. The
leader of the dominant church SAID 1n-
der oath in Washington that he was
violating the law OF the land every
day, and asked What are you going
TO do about itl He knew he was, safe,
as he could atop or set the legal ma,
chinery here at will In our fight Of
the future, our friends who are lovers
OF law and order in the Mormon church
will be with us. and in the end, which
is not far distant, the efforts now be.
ing put forth by the American party
viii encompass the State. He closed
by exposing the ecclesiastical trusts
which have always been destructive Of
competition and injurious TO the peo-
pie.
Allan T. Sanford, candidate for State
Senator, spoke briefly, and said that
thie contest here Was 10 so shape con-
ditions that they would conform TO
those existing elsewhere.
Mrs. Kate Brdewell Anderson sang
"'Little Old Salt Lake, to the de
light Of the audience. 1T is a good
| campaign song and cannot be 700 often