The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-12

| Utah delegation at the Democratic ma
tional convention, returned TO Salt Lake
I last evening after a ten days visit In the
| convention city. Judge Powers won the
universal appreciation of the 800 citizens
of Utah who attended the convention.
As chairman of the delegation. Judge
Powers came into close contact with all
! the visitors and worked early and late to
the end that all might be comfortable and
seen last evening Judge Powers said with
reference to the part that Utah played In
the convention:
THE entire delegation did splendid SER
vice to the Democratic cause. Each one.
| delegate and alternate. was amply quail
| fled, and each endeavored so to act as 10
make the name OF Utah honored and re-
spected. 1t would be invidlous TO single
out any member of the delegation for mis-
services. all did so uniformly well
| National Committeeman Nebeker was
! interchangeable in his efforts for the com
fort and convenience of visitors from
| Utah. His entire time was devoted TO
their interests. As the number of visitors
| increased and tn ere was a corresponding
increase in the demand for convention
seats. Mr.. Nebeker by means OF strong
| influence with the national committee;
was able to secure additional seats, ana
| this at time when tickets were almost
MIR. Newhouse came all the way from
New York specially 10 attend the conyel-
day evening Mr.. Newhouse had the sat
isfaction of knowing that the substance
of his proposed amendment to the inter-
state commerce law was adopted by the
committee on res buttons and the conven-
ton substantially as he had drafted II
and in part in almost his exact language
$. S. Smith on the committee on perma-
nent organization. j. ID. Call on the COM
mittee on rules. A. j. Evans on the Gre
dentials committee. were all intelligent
! workers and active all the time.
Judge W. II: King, the Utah member
of the resolutions committee. secured
pracalcally unaided great personal viz
tory IN accomplishing the exclusion Of
an ant-Mormon plank. Probably il was
.ne sreatest political victory of his life
when he defeated Senators Dubois and
Hettegrew in the resolutions COMMITTEES
| Iney mad the active support of a number
OF senator's who we're friends of theirs in
the senate, but despite the tremendous
| weight OF this influence which was thrown
against him. Judge King was able to CON
vince the committee that the plank of
Tour years ago was contrary to Demo
| Everybody in Denver was greatly
pleased with the ticket. The platform Is
regarded as strong and Democratic. The
consensus OF the leading newspaper men
Is that Bryan will be elected Walter
| WeHman, one of the best newspaper OBJ
servers and writer's in the country. al
though he has strong Republican leanings
and writes for a strong Republican paper
believes that Bryan starts with an even
chance of election.
Denver was splen6idly hospltable The
their attention to their guests. The ar
engagements for the convention were per-
feet and seemingly the Denver idea of hos
pitality is to be in sympathy with the
guest for apparently. every person in
Denver wore Bryan button. There may
have been Republicans ir Denver last
week. If there were they didn't show any
signs 81 it. For the time all were Demo-
Gratis. L never attended convention
where the arrangements were altogether
themselves Snlandld1V VIZ
drinking l didn't see a drunken man in
the town. So far as l learned. there
wasn't pocket picked during the con-
vention Other forms of crime were
equally lacking.
One feature hitherto untold of the fight
made by Dubois and Pettigrew to secure
the adoption of an anti-Mormon PLANK
was the circulation OF the Deseret News
editorial in favor of Taft Both men made
much telling Use of the editorial.
Judge Kings argument ia the executive
session of the resolutions committee is
stated by other members of the commit
tee to have been marked as much by the
clearness of its logic as by the elegance
of the dction with which 1t was clothed.
Two ideas were involved in the plank
polygamy and separation of church and
state. Judge King explained that if the
polygamy aimed at existed in Utah or
Idaho. then the resolution was worthless
in the form presented. Both states, he
= said are buttressed by constitutions. The
federal government can interfere in the
private affairs of neither. If the desire
is to reach such cases of poiygamy as
now exist, under a federal statute then
an amendment to the constitution is nee
essary and the plank in the form pre-.
scented is worthless. AS to the union OF
church and state. Judge King asked what
generally admitted fact that for years
many of the most prominent members OF
the Methodist clergy had taken an active
part in Republican politics. Yet you
would not assail the Methodist church for
this reason" he argued Neither would
the committee attack the Catholic church.
affront on the Mormon church and alien
ate many good Mormons who desire to
vote the Democratic ticket?
In the wonderful demonstrations on the
| floor of the convention Utah was prom
jnent on the first day w. f. Tribble,
the Utah assistant sergeant-at-arnls;
seized the Nebraska banner and carried
II to the platform. and on the occasion
of Bryans nomination 7. III. Fitzgerald.
Sam King Alternate Olson and Roger
, W. Powers tore loose the Utah standard
and packed 1t about the hall. getting IL
upon the floor among the first of the
states. and they followed II about like
a band of how1ing dervishes- Sam King
| and T II. Fitzgerald are past masters OF
the art of emitting gentle howls, which
sraauaI1v grow in volume as the excite
ment increases during convention cy-
clone.
Governor johnson of Minnesota VIII
campaign in Utah this fall. Major SAM
uel A King secured definite promise
TO this effect from the johnson managers
at Denver.
One of the amusing incidents at the
! | Utah headquarters was the arrival of a
letter addressed to Senator Smoot care
Of Utah delegation" The delegates were
= unable TO determine whether the writer
intended to convey that Smoot had the
. care of them or if he believed that no
assemblage of Utahns could be truly rep
) resentative without the presence OF
, Smoot Judge Powers has charge Of the
! letter and will bring it home.
! During a lull. when his duties as a
Tammany leader temporarily were not
pressing Tommy Thomas went out and
did a little business for the Grand Ma
| tional Eisteddfod" in Salt Lake this fall.
Mr. Thomas secured the entry OF the
Denver competition chorus. an organiza-
ton consisting of 125 singers. in compe-
tition for the grand prize of $1,000. DR..
Henry Housley is director of the chorus
The Denver organization is said in Den