Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-03
Republicans and Democrats Hold
Closing Rallies in Provo
Last Night.
GLAsMANN AND"UNCLE"JEssE
Are the Leading Speakers for Their
Respective Parties at Closing
Scenes in Garden City.

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Provo, Nov. s.-The campaign
closed in blaze of glory last night.
| There were bontires and ratification
galore.
The Republican held rally In the
| opera house in when nj. Glasmann, OF
ogden was the principal speaker.
In the Mozart hall the Democrats
held a rally in which Hon. Jos. l..
Rawlins was the principal speaker,
Mr.. Rawlins claimed that the enapl-
ing Bill only passed the house and
the senate after 1t was promised that
Utah should go Republican.
JESSE KNIGHT SPEAKS,
Jesse Knight made speech which
in part was as follows:
Ladies and Gcntlemen-I hope l will
make the most OF You or all of you
hear the few words | have to say this
evening. There is no need for me to
make any apologies You all know
that / am no political speaker; have
never made any pretensc at being a
speaker. but / could not refuse this
invitation on account of 1t being the
ladies who invited me. | have refused
continually to so out and try to do
anything In the way of speaking, or
say anything in favor OF the governor
60 be, until the ladies invited me. Or
course, / could not refuse then and be
much of a gentleman. Now, in the
first place / would like to say some
thing in favor of the next governor. j.
William Knight. He has been criti-
cized by the Republican party con-
sidcrably, as you all know, as well as
by the papers because he has the mis-
fortune to have little money. They
have seen fit to find fault with him and
say that his money was the only thing
he had to take him through, but that it
needed brains as well as money. A
great many things of this kind we
hear from the Republican party, and
from men whom L would not think
would mention such things.
In the first place 7 want to tell you
that VIII Knight did not put himself
up for this position, but rather than
defeat, as it looked like 1t might do,
because they could not find anyone to
accept the nomination, after l refused
In the first place, John Dern refused
in the second place. and the Lord
knows how many III the third place,
so as | told you before rather than
see the Democratic party be defeated
he concluded to accept the nomination.
! make this apology for VIII because
] know he did not accept only because
of the Democratic principle, which
means Charity always. Now one thing
thought / would mention tonight. r
have heard it from number of
sources, but / think 1t started from the
Republican party. and T have heard
too that it was started by some of the
officials around the bank corner up
here.
WILL NOT LEAVE PROVO.
t. ID ~ s.. p
IT has been reported by a good
many that II VIII accepted the nom
nation ne would move to Salt Lake
city and then take all our business
there. They have been telling around
town such yarns as that, yarns without
any foundation. Now I want to say 10
you that none of his business or mine,
either, will ever go to Salt Lake City.
moved to this town, Provo, on
account of this university here being
the best school In the world That
school has helped mo raise my child
rem, and expect it will help me raise
my grandchildren, and perhaps hun
dreds and hundreds of grandchildren
and great grandchildren, and therefore
you need have no worry, but that Will
will come back in four years. He has
already told be he would not accept
the nomination for another four years
for anything. He Is not a politician
and know he will not want another
term. II he does, refuse to vote for
him for another four years
AT this point Mr. Knight went on
to indulge in review Of the history
of the Provo Woollen mills and some
remarks regarding Senator Reed Smoot
Mr. Knight concluded by saying:
Now there are different kinds Of
brains, and am very glad I have not
raised son that has a brain, de-
PRAYED brain. l was reading in the
paper tonight that the only recommen-
dation that Will has is his money
Right now l want to tell you that he
has a brain, and an honest one, and 1
want to say that IL you vote for him
| will guarantee to you that 1t won't
be any detrinent to Provo. 1 thank
you