The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-20
KING SCORES
SMOOT TACTICS
ExCoriates Men Who Would
Try to Form a Church
Party in Utah.
DECLA"ES THEM EDWARDS
AUDIENCE CHEERS IN SYM
PATTY WITH SPEAKER.
DECLAcES THEM EDWARDS

In most impressive speech at che
Sixth ward meeting house last night,
to a large audience composed almost
exclusively of members of the Mormon
faith, Judge William H. King gave
utteraHce 70 some scorching truth.
Himself a lifelong Mormon, d firm be-
lever in the cardinal principles of that
religion, Judge King spoke in all can
dor, in all sincerely and with compel
ling eloquence to his own people.
In the manner of his delivery and in
the matter of his remarks there was
no attempt to gain a petty partisan
advantage. Judge King spoke as one
whose heart is full of his subject, as
one who seeks to guide those he loves
from darkness into light. He took for
his text an editorial published some
weeks ago in the SmoOt organ, an edito-
rial in which Mormon Democrats were
urged to vote the Smoot ticket, not be
cause it is a Republican ticket, but
in order to sustain Smoot, the sena tor
apostle.
Pleads Against Church Party.
Judge King solemnly emphasized the
fact that if Mormon Democrats went
over TO the Republican party that party
could under no pretense be called Re
publican. II would merely be a church
party, no matter what label was at
tached to il. Such a STEP" he went
on, with great earnestness, would
drive all Gentiles, even against their
normal inclinations, into a Gentle par
~. If the Mormon people destroy party
organizations and form A religious
party, the Gentiles will form like par
ty And within ten years it is quite
probable that the non-Mormons win
out-number the Mormons.
IF the Mormons set the example of
destroying party lines you cannot blame
the Gentiles when they get into power,
If they deny to Mormons the privilege
of participation in the civil affairs of
the state Nothing could be more Grim
inally unwise than for the people of
Utah to respond TO the appeals of the
Republican machine and it's organ.
"SpineIess, Degenerate Cowards."
'I say to you in all solemnity, and
with all candor, that the peace of this
state. the welfare of you and me, of
your people and my people will be sub
served only by the election of the Dem
ocratic ticket -
CHOW can you reconcile the atti-
tude of being true to religious
principle and false to political con-
Viction? The man who is false to a
political principle will, when the cri-
sis approaches, be false to religious
principle.
"Men will come to you with long,
sanctimonious faces and urge you to
be false to your conscience and your
party. Yet those men, and | say il
20 their teeth, would be the first to
be false to their religious convic-
tons. like men and people and
communities that stand four-square
TO the world. These elusive, WiIi-o'
the-wisp, spineIess, degenerate cow
ards that run with the Smoot ma
chine would be the first to quit their
church and their state in crisis.
~ want to say Damn this infamous
Ecampaisn that is being waged by the
'emoot machine'
Let us rebuke these people and their
methods. The election Of the Demo-
cratic ticket means a redeemed and a
Tegenerated Utah, a state securing and
deserving the love and the confidence |
of the people at home and the love and
confidence of all people abroad"
Judge Kings remarks were listened /
TO with the most careful attention |
Again and again he was interrupted |
with cheers. The audience was evident |
" with him and when he concluded his /
remarks the applause was long con- |
tinued.