The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-19
CONDEMNED
BY SCANT PRAISE
Republicans of State, Nearly
One Hundred of Them, Rati-
fy National Ticket.
GLOOMY MEETING is HELD
SALT LAKE OFFICE SEEKERS
PLACED ON GRILL.

Inc chill salt breeze that cooled the
1eVered oratory Of the eloquent ex-
Founders of Republican doctrine yester-
day was not colder than the reception OF
the eulogies OF William II. Taft by these
speakers at the ratification meeting
held at Saltair last evening under the di-
rection of the Taft Republican club OF
Logan.
Scarce a hundred people-men, women
and Notwithstanding curious tourists
and young people impatiently waiting for
the orators to cease that the dancing
might be resumed. were gathered in Il
sort of family group in one corner Of the
dancing pavilion when the ''ratifylng
began. There were not as many there
when 1t was concluded.
An Anomalous Position.
The Taft Republican club of Logan is
said TO be an anti-machine organization.
Its president, Willard Hansen, is a leader
OF the insurgent faction. For some pur-
pose, however, the Taft club of Logan
chose two of its three speakers from the
machine dictatOrs They were Congress
man Joseph Howell and United States
Marshal William Spry, the anointed Re
publican candidate for governor. The
other speaker was DR.. A. l.. Condor of
Ogden.
II was the oratory of the non-machine
speaker that might have occasioned
alarm had 1t not been that there was
apparently no one at the meeting capable
Of alarm, enthusiasm or any other emo
ton. Perhaps the Taft club of Logan
felt that il was appropriate the meeting
should be presided over by Joseph Smith
of Logan. IL was he who introduced
DIR. Condor. the first speaker, as the
"Oliver Wendell Holmes of Utah
The "Oliver Wendell Holmes of Utah"
began his address by urging a unity of
action. He abhOrred the rupture in the
"A ''hOuER divided
against itself must necessarily fall :"
Then he scored the machine politicians
for assuming that nOne-Or scarcely any
--of the present state officers were from
Salt Lake.
81 saw in a Salt Lake paper last week. "
he said. that in spite of the fact that
officeholders in Salt Lake lived and voted
in Salt Lake, they were still residents or
Salt Lake
And Myton Applauds.
Whereupon Major H. p Myton candi-
date for state treasurer from Salt Lake
county burst forth into vigorous ap-
plause. When the major had subsidized the
doctor continued:
"Oh. no. my brother. you cannot dis
own the man who has lived with you,
taken part In your political and social af-
fairs, and helped you win elections. You
may not want TO claim your undesirable
citizens. buI think of the other fellow.
The man who casts his lot with Salt Lake
he seeks TO further his candidacy for
office look 10 the old folks at home y
Major Myton evidently thought his ap-
plause was premature. and no one ap-
plauded this section of the speech.
The doctor continued with a little praise
for Taft and a little for the United
States marshal. the candidate for gov
ernor. who. he predicted with an Oliver
Wendell Holmes delicacy of humor would
be too spry for his enemies.
There was somewhat of a relief to the
machine men when DIR. Condor subsided
and Congressman Howell was introduced
as zone whom we all know" "One whom
we all know also praised the Taft club
of Logan. and urged a spirit of unifica-
tion-this seemed to be on each speaker s
program. He characterized Taft as the
right-hand man and cOnfidante of that
royal-and he really emphasized royal
friend of the people that intrepid cham
pion of truth. Theodore Roosevelt"
Congressman Howell said the Demo-
cratic party was the party of broken
nledges; the Republican party the party
III the people. He blamed the Democrat
party for the business depression and
Industrial ruin of 1885. When he referred
10 Bryan an aged auditor arose and in
sisted that the Democratic candidate he
referred to as Colonel Bryan. The
Congressman graciously acceded 10 the
old mans request. Then he said that If
Colon.l Bryan were elected which
heaven forfend," there would probably
be a repetition of the calamity of 1893.
He closed with the declaration that Sher-
man was known TO him personally as a
man of presidential timber. He was tho
only speaker who mentioned the Repub-
lican vice presidential candidate.
"Even In Salt Lake County"
The next governor of Utah" was then
introduced. The next governor made
a hit from the start when il was seen
that he had no manuscript, and 1t became
apparent that what he had to say would
~ DE a recitation" not a reading" He
made a bigger hit by making IL brief
f!e merely urged the organization OF
Taft clubs Throughout the state. declared
that there was never a greater unity
among the Republicans Of the state than
at present. and prophesied that Taft and
the Republican ticket would carry the
state by more than 10000
There is a spirit of victory among the
Republicans" he said. lin every county
of the state. not even excepting our own
county of Salt Lake