The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-02

result of the election, he believed, would
be felt not only today, but tomorrow,
this year, next year and for all time
we must determine next Tuesday"
said he, whether we are to establish
peace here al home and start on the
highway to honor abroad. ] bring YOU
a message Of good cheer from the Dem
ocrats of the southern part of the state
If the Democrats of Salt Lake City and
Salt Lake county viii do their part. il
they are true TO their principles the
Democrats Of the south will 90 their
part and the Republican machine WiIl
be absolutely overwhelmed
Judge Powers took up the plank in
the Democratic platform that declares
for a separation of church and state
and asserts that il was unWise 10 elect
an apostle TO the United States senate.
THAT platform has been denounced in
certain quarters" he went on. hut on
this very platform few nights ago the
junior United States senator sta.ed
that he had opposed the election OF
SmoOt, not or personal ground but be-
cause he Gid not believe an apostle
should be elected to the United States
senate.
1T was all right for the junior sena-
tor to make such d declaration. 1t
seems to be all wrong for the Demo-
Gratis to make it. There has been crit
icism of the Democratic national plat
form for declaring against the union
of church and state and against pOlyg-
amy If that declara ton was wrong
then the manifesto issued by the first
presidency of the Mormon church was
wrong.
Deseret News Quoted.
Because 1 have had the temerity to
attack the Smoot machine the DeserCt
=
10 defeat me. It's editorial declaration
that there is no SmoOt machine. that
editorial entitled The Tragedy Of False
hood can be construed III 40 other
way If that was not the purpose Why
was the SmOOt machine defended? Was
that the only falsehoOd. admitting frI
arguments sake that 1t was in this
campaign? Have not men gone whis-
pering around the state saying I WILL
if elected. vote TO disfranchise the
Mormon people? Could there De a lie
more mOnStrouS?"
Judge Powers read Senator Shoots
own testimony before the senate COM
mittee on privileges and elections, the
testimony in which Smoot boosted OF
his machine. He said the excerpt had
been furnished him by that stalwart
Democratic paper. The Salt Lake Her
AID His comment was that religious
papers should keep out Of politics II
they don't know what political ma
chine is" The speaker also took up the
News statement that the cry of i'm
perialism had much 10 do with the as
sassination Of President Mckinley.
This" said he, sis another direct at
tack on the Democrats. Our great
leader, the man who will be our next
nominee for the presidency, and who
will be elected. William Jennings Bry-
an. raised that cry. And the Deseret
News knew it. And the cry Of i'm
perialism had no more to do with the
assassination of William Mckinley
than the discussion of any other per-
fectly legitimate campaign issue.
THAT editorial was written with
purpose, but the purpose will fail. The
Democrats of this state were not raised
i'm the woods to be scared by owls. The
Democrats of this state believe the
voice OF the people is the voice of God.
Why doesn't the Deseret News get out
into the open l dare it to get out into
the open and make a square. honest
fight against me. And. my friends. II
it does tell you I viii beat it.
Much Lying by Republicans.
There has been a good deal of lying
in this campaign The Republican or
gan has said that / will. if elected. aid
in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Nor
mons So far as 1 know that declara-
ton has not been disputed by any Re
publican. That paper has not made
fair fight Take that quotation from
! The Salt Lake Herald that the Repub-
lican organ has sarbled and used over
and over again in this campaign, the
quotation about the Idaho Democratic
| ticket"
Here Judge Powers read the complete
! editorial from which the extract was
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