The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-13
TAFT CLUB AUDIENCE
PROVES TO Be FOR BRYAN
Great Crowd in Theatre Cheers Bryan and
Knight and Has Much Fun With
Beveridge.
Indiana Senator Angered by Demonstration for Democrats
While He ShriekS for RepubiCanSm.
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Beverage on Smoot. y

= Il have been in the Chited States y
y senate for ten long years and in point y
y of service | am the senior of nearly y
y fOur-fifthS of the members of that y
= BODY. During that time have y
+ watched with interest the new sena- y
+ tors who came To that body. And l =
y want to say that when / see men in y
= that body who stand for what is y
, right and just and for the best in y
y terests of the people. my soul is Civ y
y en- an inspiration for good and l am y
= their friend no matter what | may y
= have thought of them before they y
y came there y
+ The two senators from Utah have y
+ always been on the side of right and y
y they We're among the most valiant y
+ who fought for the furtherance of the y
= policies of President Roosevelt And =
= / congratulate Utah on her two young
y senators.
4 i want to say word of apprecia- =
y ton for your senior senator from
+ Utah, Senator SmOOt- have become =
= intimately acquainted with him since y
y he has been in the senate and / have y
4 never known man more devoted 10
= the interests of the people than he IS
= He has been a real statesman and y
= leader | believe him to be without y
. question the best equipped man in =
, the senate to defend the presidnts y
y conservation policy
y y am not given TO tattery ana
= when / praise "A man for the service
= he has done for his country l feel y
y sure that he deserves IT. nave
= praised some and denounced others.
y both in my party and out and never
= i'm the ten long years that l have
+ been in the senate have L done so to y
\ anyone whom / DO not beleNe de-
= served what ] said of him. Senator +
= Albert J. Beveridge in speech IN SAT-
y Lake City, Oct. 10, 1905
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| ask is that you give me fair play and
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it will be your chance. Then you can
ask any question you want to- and VIII
answer YOU
At one point he asked: Am not
right?''
Then where am I wrong
Someone started to tell him. and the
senator from Indiana lost his head and
shouted in disgust:
The Republicans were the only ones
lost sight Of by the enthusiastic crowd
The auditors were apparently very much
anti-Republican. whatever else they were,
and in the cheering The American party
was included.
For several minutes Senator Beveridge
had struggled along without renewing the
Bryan or knight demonstrations
Beveridge Makes Slip.
We are not Democrats and we are
not Republicans; we are all Americans,
he declared ill-advisedly.
a yOungster in the gallery shouted;
You bet we are,' and wave Of ap-
piauSe swept over the theatre.
Senator Beverage was unprepared Tor
the applause and wondered whether or
not the crowd was trying TO guy nm:
He was puzzled about the cheering ana
applause. but Reed SmOOt was not and
the frown on the senatorial forehead deep
ened-
Tom Fitch. the rOtund Republican OF
many states and many climes. who closed
the meeting with "A series Of funny sto-
ries. referred TO the meeting as a Bryan
tea party
The theatre was filled TO Overlooking
before o'clock and the Republican dig
nitaries on the stage smiled blandly At
the success Of the gathering But soon II
was apparent that though a decidedly sue
cessful meeting that il was not Republican
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