The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-03

pOilslCS mas Dee0 Drought IN tnlS meet
that the wooden mills stock should go
down Git is down to 30 cents now and
nobody wants it at that: suppose ii
| went to 10 cents, and he would be
away out there in Washington busy. of
| course, and some outsider would get
the stock at 10 cents. Now, if you
don't send him back there he will be
here and see to it. Then if it does go
down to 10 cents he will get it. So 1
thing the only thing you can do is to
see that he doesn't go back there. So
in the event of the stock going down TO
10 cents, he will save the American
party from getting it.
Now / would not have thought of
mentioning what I am about to speak
Of, but think the thing that started IL
was what they said about losing me
and nv business if Will went away.
have good reasons to know that Sen
ator Smoot said the following Il read
in the paper at Tintic): The first
money 1 ever made put into the Sioux
mine, and 1 did not have to ask my
father, either I do not know what
Senator SmOot meant. 1 do not know
whether Will was the one he was aim
ing at or whether he wanted to make
every one believe that he did not have
to ask his father. OF course, we think
he wanted every one to know he did
not have to ask his father He said
that, and I can prove it.
There is one thing that I am going
to mention here. 1 think 1 am the most
overrated man in the state of Utah,
and 1 think that Senator Smoot is the
next, and I don't think l will say a
word here tonight but that is absolutely
true and / know this is true.
1T has been said by some of the big
Republican guns who are travelling over
the state that it needs something more
than money-that It needs brains for
offices. It has been said also that a
man did not need any brains in the
mining business. That is a business
that doesn't require any brains, the
taking of money out of the ground. /
am not disputing it at all, but think 1t
referred to myself because that has
been my business for the last twenty
five years. When l refused the NOM
ination it was ample proof that 1 did
not think I was brainy enough to be
governor of Utah. That should have
satisfied the Republican leaders when
myself thought I did not have brains
enough for the office, 50 that it does
not seem necessary for a senator of the
United States to trouble himself and
the people of the state with what
myself had already confessed. So far
as ]. William Knight is concerned he
is the right kind of a man for COVER |
nor. He is not hankered with the
gaining of money like others. He Is
not hankered with seeking office and |
does not owe any man a dollar.
T have heard some people whom / |
am well acquainted with. wnom 1 have |
known for many years, tell about when |
they were small they knew that when |
they grew up they would be superin- |
tendent of some big institution some |
day. I have heard some people tell this |
until it rang in my ears like a song |
You have heard this yourselves, and he |
tells everybody about it. Now, the |
first money 1 knew him to make (un- |
derstand, l know this) the first money /
he ever made was made by giving or |
ders on the Coop. so that his workers /
could not trade anywhere else. Then |
once a month he would go around and |
draw ten per cent on account of Civ /
ing the people these store orders OF |
course. 1 do not know what he did with |
the ten per cent. don't care anything
about that. but this was the first money |
ever knew him to make Of that l
am sure and ] have known him about |
as long as anybody else. / bought the |
Coop. store and after I bought. it he
wanted me to give him ten per nSsr
sending customers there. told
would not be party IN that kim
business. He said he would go to sofnSi
other store and give his orders. I said
did not care, but that I would not be
4 party in that kind OF a transaction
and take some poor mans wages. You
see. he got the commission on every
1ne's orders that went there.
Now, there are different kinds of
brains and l am very glad have not
'aised a son that has a brain, a de-
oraved brain that wants money badly
enough to get it in that kind of way
read IN the paper tonight that the
,nly recommendation that Will has is
lis money ] want to tell you that he
las a brain and an honest one, and i
want to say that IL you vote for him
I won't do any harm to Provo.
hank you
Chairman Giles called the meeting to L
rider and introduced Mrs. z. r. Beebe
PRESIDENT of the Ladies' Democratic
Tub of Provo. as chairman of the meet
ng. The other speaker of the evening :
vas j. L. Rawlins. who made a very
bile speech on national and local poll
les This is the greatest demonstra-
ion that the Democratic party has seen
n Utah county. IT looks as though J.
". Knight will have a 1000 majority
n this county. II