The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-24
Sutherland and Murdoch the
Men Selected to DO the
Talking.
HEAVY FROST FALLS
UPON THE GATHERING
Murdoch Attacks Pat Moran,
While Sutherland ASsallS
the Americans.

WAS u. j. Murdoch. church-h -htNUpll'@'u
candidate for mayor; the other was the
jack Mormon senator from the state
of Utah Mn. Murdoch 5 address was
confined almost entirely to an attack
upon f. j. Moran, while the iack.Mor'
mon senator devoted his time TO de-
fcnsc Of thc gang that dominates the
politics of the state, and abuse OF inc
| Americans who control the city OF Salt
! Lake His address was unusually DIT
| ter
This fact, however, might be attrIb-
utcd 10 the stage setting, which repre-
scutcd q forest scene and brought 10
his mind in a forccful manner the lhei
Il bat tho church Republican party had
thus carly taken TO the woods ana
also 10 The fact that II frost fell upon
the meeting early. While the meet
ing had been called for s O clock, it was
! &: 50 clock before Chairman Lnofbouf-
row called the meeting TO order hnd IN
troduced James Dcvinc AS the chairman.
What it Looked Like,
AZ S:2O clock the church Republt-
can leaders who we're npoD the stage
acted and looked like = stranded the,
atrica company. ono iof whom would
pocp around fhe corner of the pro
sccnium arch every little while 10 sec
whether enough people had passed the
box Office TO enable the performers 20
get their trunks ont of hook and have
enough left TO get breakfast,
The church Republican drum corps
| had got lost somewhere in the shutllc
and were wandering armlcsslN about
town There was . chill on the audi
ence and apparently it could not he
shaken off Once or twice there was an
effort made 10 induce those IN charge
TO call the meeting TO order bat ~ was
without avail. Finally someone found
the drum corps and stccrcd IT TO the
| tbcatcr. 1t was then $50 o clock. and
the audience had become very impatient.
After the arrival of the drum corps
piece was played by the corps and Il
qusrtette sang America.
Then Chairman Loofbourow called
the meeting TO order. Al this time the
parQucttc and dress circle were two
third s full. - persons were IN the hrst
balcony. and three in the second. During
the two hours that the meeting was IN
session others entered the theater. so
that when the Jack Mormon senator was
called 10 the front, the lower portion of
the playhouse was four-hfths tlIled. On
the stage were members of the federal
bunch, half dozen deputy shcriiis and
Sheriff, Sharp, county officers and former
state officers and church Republican can
didates for place. There were no repre-
sentative church Republicans in the
laudiencc. while the box set apart for
Joseph f. Smith, president Of the church,
was vacant,
Chairman DeNinc 5 remarks were
brief, He cited the fact that Murdoch
was present, likewise Sutherland, but
he neglected TO point with pride to the
fact that the members of the federal
bunch were present in force. Then he
introduced J. II, Murdoch.
Murdoch Reads Address.
The church Republican candidate read
his remarks He bad, according 10 n
brief mention of his pedigree, lived in
Salt Lake for some time. Then he
opened up on Pat Moran. He cited
bills which had been presented by the
contractor, who, il might he sand, has
LAID the best paved streets in The coun-
try, and whose bitteresi enemies have
never accused him of sighting or doing
inferior work. But Murdoch had Il
Ngrievancc against Contractor Moran and
he aired it. He declared that il he
should hc elected mayor that he would
that he would favor Improvement when
il would add 10 the comfort of the
people, and when the property owners
petitioncd and when the city could pay
its proportion Of the work. He would
vote for a bond issue 70 build new
high school building, aud then he made
| a grandstand appeal To workiugmcn rs
10 how he would receive them, were he
elected lie neglected 10 state, how
ever. that during his counCilmanic
; career he had opposed every and all
) public Improvement
The quartctic then sang "The Star
Spaueicd Banper. the drum corps
PLAYED. and when il concluded. Chairman
, DcNinc introduced thc Jack Mormon
senator. colleague of the apostolic en-
hassador from the polygamous hierarchy
to the SENATE Of the United States.
Jack Mormon Breaks Loose.
Sutherland began his address by say.
ing that he had been away from Salt
Lake so much during the past two years
that he was not thoroughly familiar
with local questions, so that be could
orally, He regarded conditions here as
. misfortune, where. he declared the
cleavage is along religious rather than
political lines That such condition cX,
isted he declared WAS not due 30 or
the fault of the Republican party. lie
declared that the American party was
so narrowed by prejudice that it could
see but one question
3c said that history disclosed that
communities had become mnniacS over
certain questions. aud referred to witch
craft IN the old DAYS in New England
Here IN Utah. he said, there were q 9th
er forms of tanatIcism, where il took tho
form of hlcrarchphobia. an insane
dclusion which the misguided lunatics. -
as he designated them. in The persons
OF the owners, editors and paid scrib-
blers of the Salt Lake Tribune. who
have no regard for the truth. and who
go up and down the land seeking for a
hierarch, and those who do moi agree
with them arc denounced rs lunatics or
Jack -Mormons, aud who should be
hanged for treason -
The American party nc said. was
organized to fight the Mormons. there.
fore he wanted the Mormons to fight
back, and anyone who would not DO so.
was, he said, beneath contempt. IIc
declared that mans he'd "A right to
fight his method through national
party and said that those who did not
were either born blackguards or paid
blac6guards.
He charged that Mayor Bransford
'stoud for a law-defying but police,
protected stockade;h that while be was
his friend he could not uphold him. He.
OF course, enlogized Joe Sharp. sheriff,
archy.
When he concluded, there was song