The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-21
HUGE AUDIENCE WILDLY
CHEERS NAME Of BRYAN
MOnnett Tells How Supreme Court Of Ohio
Was Adapted to Needs of Stand
ard Oil Company.
Declares Huge MonOpOeS Are Menace to Safety of the Re-
pubic-PoWerS Talks of Local Conditions.

In a masterful exposition Of cold. hard
facts Frank S. Monnett, the Ohio trust
buster" last evening arraigned the huge
monopolies Of the United States as a
menace 10 the safety Of the republic. HIS
attack was directed more particularly
against the Standard Oil trust. a corpo-
ration with which he is the most Ia
miliar. having conducted most aggres-
sive prosecution Of it under the Ohio
antitrust law.
Mr. Monnett told Of the details Of the
prosecution of the trust and said that
The prosecution was successful until the
standard Oil trust because Of its contri-
buttons 10 the Republican campaign FUND
was allowed 10 name the personnel or
the supreme court of Ohio. whereupOn all
OF the Standard Oil cases We're promptly
dismissed.
Democrat.
Taft Demonstration Misfires-
Whenever the name Of Bryan was men
toned the audience cheered VOciferousiy
for several minutes. AT one point Mr.
Monnett mentioned the name Of Judge
TAFT. and an incipient demonstration was
begun. one man in the first row started
10 clap his hands. Mr.. MOnnett waited
quietly for the Taft demonstration. Two
others IN the audience clapped their
hands few times. then blushing un-
der the attention they were calling to
was another Taft man in the house, he
failed 10 join In the faint applause Of
his three Republicans. And those
three We're evidently cow arted 10 De-
mocracv long before the meeting ended
for, although Tsft's name was mentioned
frequently. after that there was no more
applause greeting IL.
Judge O. W. Powers made parucu-
larry happy talk on local conditions. with
particular reference to the position of the
Bryan electors on the Democratic ticket.
saying that the Democrats cid not pro-
pose 10 make it difficult for the voters
10 vote for Mr.. Bryan if they chose TO DO
so. lie said that the election of Mr..
Bryan as president of the United States
was far more important than the cleo
ton of an the other Democratic candi-
dates He said that the Republicans were
nph aettlg In good faith when they with
drew Tie Taft electors from the "Ameri-
can" ticket. He asked whether or not
they would have Withdrawn their legis-
lative ticket If the americans had seen
III to endorse It
Theatre Is Packed.
The theatre was packed when the meet
ing opened last evening. Every seat was
filled and hundreds stood during the
meeting The theatre was tastefully dec
grated with American flags and bunt-
ing Over the stage the motto. Shall
the People RuleI' was hung. with "A
picture Of Mr.. Bryan. on one side OF
the stage was an oil painting of Jesse
William knight. who viii be the first
Democratic governor of Utah, and on the
other side was a painting Of Mr.. Bryan
a border of pictures of Bryan and Kern
extended around each gallery Of the the
atre
state Chairman Samuel A King called
the meeting TO order and in a few words
introduced Judge .. W. Powers as the
chairman OF the meeting Judge Pow
CTS then introduced Frank 5. Monnett as
the first man who had ever brought
John u. Rockefeller before a bar of JUS
tice and forced him to testify in court
Mr. Monnett began by calling atten-
ton to the fact that in Utah the educa-
uonal facilities Were~as great. or greater
than those in any other state in the
Union. and that an exceptionally large
number Of citizens owned their own
homes. He said that he would thereafter
speak TO them as educated hearers and
as owners of homes. This, he said. was
rather more IN his line than entertaining
them with vaudeville stories.
The first issue taken up by Mr.. Mon
nett was the guarantee OF bank depOS-
To Prevent Bank Failures.
With forgeful argument he showed that
f thu banking laws now in existence
were enforced. 90 per cent of the bank
failures would have been prevented. and
that if the Democratic guarantee plan
were adopted leo per cent Of the failures
would be averted. He pointed out the
TACT that the government. in spite of the
fact that it has at all times access To the
books of a bank through national bank
yNamirers requires Silt-edSed security
Tor an government moneys deposited in
banks
How can we expect an individual TO
Nut money I'm unsecured banks" he
asked, since he knows nothing OF the
inside workings Of the institution. when
Ne EoEerhmcnt. with full possession OF
every detail of tie Intricate business of
'ech individual bank. requires the best
'' security for its money!
MI Nunnetr read a letter sent out by
De Treasury department to the bank eX
af the law
II Tor twelve years all of the Repub-
l.aA federal officials have failed TO en-
.1tce the laws let us get rid of them all
,E putting i'm a new set Of federal office
holders on Nov 3"
lie spealIor described in detail the