The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-21
POWERS THROWS
DOWN GAUNTLET
emOcratic Congressional Can
didate Hammers SmOOt and
His Machine.
AP0ST0LIC-SENATOR IS
HANDLED WITHOUT GLOVES
Judge King Declares That Re.
publican Party i'll Utah
is Bastard.

Despite the intolerable cold and ter
ritc windstorm which prevailed Satur-
day night, the amusement hall of the
Sixteenth ward Westinghouse was well
filled with people who went TO listen
to a political address, which it was pre-
viously advertised Judge 0. w Powers,
Democratic candidate for Congress,
would deliver. w. J. Newman, member
of the Board of Education of Salt Lake
City, was chosen chairman of the meet
ing.
The exercises opened with q song bv
a quartette Of male voices. entitled,
"You All Have Heard of Smoot, No
Doubt which put the audience in
good humor to listen to John F. How
ellis, Democratic candidate for Sheriff,
tell them that he had been about the
best Sheriff Salt Lake county ever had
when he had charge of the Office some
years ago, and if elected this time, as
ne had many reasons to believe he
would be, he would endeavor, if pos
sible, to improve on his past record,
| by remembering his friends in the
| ward.
Candidate Howells was followed by
! ex-Mayor Richard P. Morris, who spoke
a few encouraging words TO his Demo-
cratic brethren.
Ovation to Powers.
Judge Powers, upon being intro.
| duced, received an ovation. The Judge,
in his unmashng of Smootism, was at
his best. The audience appeared to be
| in full accord with the speaker, if
the hearty applause with which each
telling point was punctured, was in
| dicative of Democratic sentiment. The
speech was intended to be the Demo
cratic keynote in this campaign, and
as such it will go to tho public.
Judge King, in his speech which fol-
lowed. complimented Judge Powers on
the stand he had taken and emphasized
it in its every salient point. Judge
ment political parties are necessary.
We want a Republican party, genu-
inc Republican party, rot the bastard
kind we have in UNh.' In closing,
| he made an earnest appeal for the elm
ination Of religion from the arena of
! politics.
Judge Powers, rs the standard bear
er of the Democratic party IN this
| campaign, spoke in part as follows:
| JuQSo HOWerS AQQreSS.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The local issue in
| Utah casts into the background all questions
| OF national policy. II forces itself TO the
| front and il will continue TO agitatc the
people OF this State until it be finally set
! tied and settled right. Before the peopls
are ready 10 listen to a discussion OF the
| matters which divide the voters OF the East
| ern States, there must be settled here the
! question TO whether shall be ruled by
political boss and whether political
affairs shall be manipulated by selfish and
graspng political machine. In other words,
whether shall sit supinely By and ALLOW
the conditions TO continue which have been
sptly termed 'Smootism, the fruits OF
which are bitterness and strife. Tinid
souls declare that the Democratic candidate
for Congress in Utah ought not 20 attack
''Smootsm. They declare that he should
not criticise the politics or the political
action OF Senator Smoot Whyi Because
the candidate Will invoke the wrath OF the
dominant church in Utah. The fact that
such fear docs exist in the breasts Of good
people, and the fnct that good men urge .
trucking course in order TO gain votes. is o
strong and unanswerable argument in favor
OF that plank in the Democratic platform
TO the United States Senate was unwise and
that il has resulted in grief and trouble to
these people fenr to have political attack
made upon Senator Smoot or his policies is
that he is IN apostle of the Mormon church,
and herce they feel that he is hedged about
with divinity that does not surround the
ordinary candidate But 10 me the political
flesh of Senator Smoot has no more sanctity
than the political flesh of Senator Suthsr-
land. He has made himself an issue in this
campaign. To satisfy his ambition the
State has been brought 10 the very brink
of religious war; and people are dividing
politically along religious lines. The time
has come for men 20 speak right out in
meeting and TO denouncc without finchng
that which they conceive TO be wrong.
AS to Howell
The Republicans have n nominee for Con-
zress. Possibly you have heard that fact
stated before They have nominee in tho
person of Hon. Joseph Howell. an able and
eXcellent gentleman: but am aware that