Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-13
LARGE AUDIENCE
HEARS B:E:VER|DGE
Senator from Indiana Takes Up
Republican View Of Ma
tional Questions.
. INVERTEBRATES R MR. BRYAN
:INTER / MR. BRYAN
Some Answers Arc Desired by tho
Young Orator from the Demo-
cratic Nominee.

cratic Nominee.
The Salt Lake Theater was packed
from PIT to dome last night by peo-
PIE OF all political persuasions, and
hundreds We're standing up, who had
assembled to hear the brilliant young
senator from Indiana, Albert Bev-
erldse, talk on the questions of the
hour They were not disappointed In
their expectations Of seeing, and hear
Ing, one of the most eloquent and fluent
speakers in this land of eloquent mon.
ana they We're not disappointed in theii.
expectations of hearing the national
issues. burning problems of national
Importance demanding intelligent sou-
ton. ably treated from a Republican
point of view
one OF the statements made by the
gifted sneaker which ELECTED deafon-
Ing applause from the audience, was
his reference to the work of the two
!, Utah senators in the Congress OF the
\ United States Senator Beverldge de-
CARED that In the senate OF the United
\ Statcs there was no man more level
headed. none more Industrious, none
more devoted to the purpose than the
senior senator from Utah, Mr.. Smoot
QoSiu liiSIt was IO llluu III the senate,
the speaker said. more devoted In sup
porting the immortal policies of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, than he.
PROUD OF BOTH MEN.
Than Mr.. Sutherland, Mr.. Bevcridge
5aid, he knew Of no more deeply
learned lawyer in all the senate. no
more careful or Industrious man in the
United States senate. He declared that
he had been proud to work alongside OF
the Utah senators. and was proud of
the work they were doing and would
continue to do. Mr.. Beveridge said
that when the great battle over the APP
preparations for a navy commensurate
with the development of the country,
the votes of the two Utah senators
We're cast in favor of greater navy.
On the stage was a representative
gathering of the Republicans of Salt
Lake and Utah; also present and in
terested listeners to the evenings ad-
dress. wore Hon. Thomas Fitch well
remembered in Utah from a dozen
years ago, and State Senator Flanagan
Of Nevada, who is a candidate for the
United States senate from the Sage
brush state; Chief Justice McCarty and
Associate Justices Frick and Straup of
the supreme court, and many pro,ni-
nent members of the legal profession
and many ladies. The boxes and stalls
we're filled with distinguished individ-
uals and the parquet and galleries
were crowded to the limit
DEMOCRATS ARE HEARD.
One of the amusing incidents not on
the program, was the outburst of APP
plause which swept over the audience
whom the Taft Glee club, In singing a
parody. came to the words Uncle
Jesse" in the course of the song. All
the Democrats in the house set up
handclapping and cheering which last
I'd fully three minutes. The singers
were compelled to await the restora-
lion of order, before they could pro-
iced with their number, and everybody
N the house laughed good naturedly
Ut the Democratic wave of applause
sweeping Republican gathering.
Col. A. r. Irvine called the meeting
TO nrder, and In few delicious re-
marks introduced the chairman of the
meeting. Senator George Sutherland.
SUTHERLAND ASSUMES CHAIR.
It was usually the duty of the chair
mar Of a meeting to preside, and not
70 speak, he could not refrain from
songratuating the Republican party in
The state and nation on the prospects
Tor success at the coming election.
Utah" said he. favors the party
which carries with 1t a guarantee OF
work ard wages for the people rather
han party which offers to guarantee
bank deposits which under Demo-
cratic administration few would have"
Senator Sutherland introduced Sena-
tor BeveridSe as one whom the great
Itate Of Indiana had honored with the
highest gift within its bestowal because
" his ability. and said that the conf
fence which the state had reposed in
lin had been fully justified.
SENATOR BEvERIDGE.
Senator Beveridge was given an ova-
lion by the audience. When quiet had
peen restored, he spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Chairman. ladies and gentlemen:
American history Is the story of the
building of the American nation. and
svery advancing step the American peo-
pie have made in their mighty march
has been led by 81 man full of faith In
American destiny. When our war for
independence was fought, and even
when Washngton's army was reduced
to 1900 ragged men whose bleeding
feet stained the SHOWS of Valley Forge
nothing could cloud that great mans
faith In Americas future.
Fifty years ago in the reddeSt day
Of the reddest war of which history
tells nothing could overcome the faith
Of Abraham Lincoln In the cause or
truth and right. And 50 today IN the
mighty moral movement in which the