The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-17
WILLIAMS AND KNIGHT
ADDRESS GREAT AUDIENCE
Gifted Massachusetts Orator Arouses Great
Enthusiasm With Speech on Issues
of Campaign.
Jesse W. Knight Pays His Compliments to SmooteS and the
"Amercans'' and Announces His Own Platform.

strife and turmoil which is destroying the
peace of the people of Utah.
Il am asking for your votes at this
election. not because l am d politician.
Being a politician in Utah is not the
best recommendation a man may have.
| am before YOU as a candidate for gov
ernOr and | expect your support rather
because / am not politician.
4 never have beer in the public eye.
/ am known to the people of Utah be-
cause my father has in q modest way
done something to promote the welfare
OF TAN IN the upbuilding of industrial en-
terprises. While / have been associated
! with my father in these enterprises
have never sought nor expected anything
more than to earn the respect of my
neighbours by doing what / could for my
/ fellOwman in a quiet way. When the
Republican pane swept the country We
were forced To smut down our mines be
cause the shelters would not take our
ore but We gave employment to many
as possible in pushing the development
work on all our prospects and beginning
the construction work Of our new smelter
I This We preferred TO do rather than To
purchase journals for self aggrandize-
ment.
rs Il not better TO build up the in
dustrial enterprises of the state than TO
publish such papers as the Salt Lake
/ Tribune and the lnteTMOuntain Repub-
/ lican to advertise Utah as the blacklist
! spot on the map and to circulate false
I hoods about all of her people. Both pa
/ pers are equally vile and equally detri-
/ mental to Utah. Who is there in Utah
who Will believe either one of them?
President Smiths Statement.
| Not long ago Joseph F. Smith declared
| in the tabernacle that he thanked God
that we had such good representatives
l IN congress. / agree with President
/ Smith and | thank God that after such
/ representatives as the Republicans have
sent from Utah to congress in the past
/ that we have men even as good as the
Republicans We have there now
| After this talk of President Smiths A
good brother came to me and said. Now
don't you wish you were out of ito And
/ l told him that it was such men as he
! who were hurting the church far more
than anything that President Smith might
say; that 1t was sdch as he who were
puTposely misconstruing any. hing that
might be said by any church leaders into
| an instruction to vote the Republican
ticket. And if I may advise any good
Mormon how 10 vote ] will tell him to vote
his honest party convictions without re-
spect to creed. and | challenge him to
obtain any other instruction from Presi-
dent Joseph F. Smith.
/ Another brother came to me and in
I terrified voice told me that the 'Ameri-
/ cans would drive the MOrmons from Utah
J if they secured control of the state.
asked him if that was what he believed.
" Then | said. my advice to you is
I to Join the Democratic party Just as
quick as you can. for Democratic vic
tory is the only thing that will bring peace
/ to Utah A"
Applause for Mr.. Knight.
/ Mr. Knight closed with word Of praise
| for ". J. Bryan and the hope that he
| would receive the vote of the people OF
! Utah. He made excellent impression
and was cheered TO the echo.
! Mr.. Roberts said that although Provo
was noted as the home OF statesmen. there
! were some in Provo who had other ambi-
tions. and he wished TO introduce talent
/ ed quartet Of four of Proves prettiest
girls As the young ladies came before
the audience Mr. Roberts asked:
! What is your verdict2'
The audience with loud applause not
only sustained Mr.. Roberts opinion. but
went him one better and declared the
| blushing young ladies to be the fairest
! in Utah.
When the Boys Begin to Vote for Jesse
William" sung ny the girls. provoked a
great cheering for Mr. knight. and the
young women had to sing an encore The
response was When Knight Takes the
Governors Chair" which caused another
burst OF applause. which was probably
equally divided between the young women
/ and the candidate for governor.
/ When Mr.. Williams rose to commence
his address there was loud cheering
Taft and His Platforms.
when candidate is nominated for
president of the United States began
y Mr. W1lliamS- II IS IAe cusloliaIN tiiliiS
for him to stand on the platform that his
party has adopted or TO reject the nomina-
ton This has always been true except
I at the present time. This was formerly
the practice in the Republican party. But
] things have changed since Hanna died
+ Now we have the candidate Of the Re
! publican party before the people on sew
/ eraI distinct and contradictory platforms
! First there is the platform adopted
/ at the Chicago convention which nOminat-
! ed Mr. Taft To this platform is added
: the letters of acceptance of the candl-
dates for president and the vice presi-
dent and the New York convention en-
dorsed all three as the platform of the
Republican party Of that state. And as
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