The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-23
Enthusiastic Voters Fill the
Hall at Fire Station No. 4
on | Street.
THREE GOOD SPEAKERS
PRESENT THE ISSUES
SmOot Mouth" Is Roasted to a
Brown Turn Because of Its
Mendacity.

One Of the most largely attended and
successful rallies held under the aus.
pices of the American party thus far
during the campaign was that of Thurs
day night in the hall at No, fire sta
tion on l street. The gathering was the
occasion for marked enthusiasm.
The meeting was presided over by H..
,. McCann, candidate for representa-
tive, and in his opening remarks the
chairman said he believed the success
OF the American party was assured al
the coming election, and he urged
everybody. men and women, TO work
individually for the candidates.
The first speaker Of the evening was
George j. Gibson, candidate for the
state senate. Mr.. Gibson pointed TO the
long delay in the admittaucc OF this
state TO the Union because of the prac
tices indulged in by the Mormon body,
and that all the surrounding states We're
admitted years before even though their
population was not nearly as large Us
that Of Utah. He said that Utah fin
ally was admitted after the Mormon
body promised that there would be no
union OF church and state; no illegal
marriages, and that the church would
not in any event attempt 70 dominate
affairs politically. "How we'll this
promise mas been kept everybody
knows" be declared. "All the pro-
gyessive men are IN the American party
(applause) and what we propose TO do
is TO make the county and entire state
American before our mission is ended. -
He asked for the support of the voters,
SAYING that lie had figured upon ma
joritv of 5000 and had already been able
TO count out 1880.
City Attorney Speaks.
CITY Attorney II. j. Dininny followed
& selection by the quartctte. Mr.. Din
inny declared that the American party
bas no fight or quarrel with any reli-
gioa, but il does have with q man like
Joseph L. Smith, who had publicly
branded himself a perjurer and falsifier
by his own words
Mr.. Dininny roasted the smoot
the advent Of the smoot mouth and
lis stand for temperance. the paper
which. after getting big slice OF the
yake.off from the saloon keepers.
temperance since. He declared that the
Il. G. VI. l. drug store sells more whisky
every dav than all the other drug stores
in the entire city. ''and yet Joseph +.
Smith is it's president Smoot g drug
store at Provo "sells all it can. and
tepees of this scurvy paper and crowd
are truly sickening'
In closing mis- remarks, Mr., Dininny
said that the red light district had beer
moved to where it now is by Mormon
friends, but ne promised that while ne
was city attorney il would never be
moved 10 the West Side as was threat
fned. Furthermore, he would arrest
and prosecute the keepers of these
places whenever a complaint was made
10 him, and would never be satisfied
with fine by way of punishment but
would insist upon q Jail sentence. His
remarks were greeted with great ap-
plause.
Mir, Rogers Heard
The last speaker OF the evening was
Assistant City Attorney E. 4. Rogers
He prefaced his remarks by reading an
editorial from ;he Intermountain Re
publican, which purported to be an
answer 10 the statement in The Tribune
OF last Sunday made by John A. Street.
candidate FOR governor on the American
party ticket. This editorial was picked
20 pieces in a manner which plainly
enough showed how ridiculous it was,
and Mr., Rogers declared il TO be the
most senseless twaddle ever penned
by the hand OF man.
Recently" :" said Mr. Rogers, "this
paper said that the American party
'don't care a damn for the nation
That is Just the kind OF a statement
one. could expect from such paper.
ism u it? They must resort to such vile
tactics because their weapons of de-
fense are SO weak that they carry abso.
lutely no weight with the thinking
people,
The purity crusade being con.
Quoted by Sheriff C. Frank Emery was
gone into by the speaker, who declared
that this official was permitting gam
bling and wide open houses of prostitu-
tion TO flourish in Bingham without the
least attempt TO stop it.