The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-02
ASK EVERY WOMAN
To Do HER DUTY
Senator George Sutherland
and James D. Murdoch
Speak to the Club.

James D. Murdoch and Senator George
| Sutherland addressed an enthusiastic
| meeting Of the Womans Republican club
yesterday afternoon at Republican city
| Headquarters, and in a talk of not more
| than five minutes the Republican candi-
date for mayor aroused the determine
! ton OF every one of his hearers to work
for the success of the entire Republican
| ticket today, knowing that every vote for
| James D. Murdoch would be a vote for
decency in civic affairs and a protest
against licensed crime.
Mrs. Fred Price worked effectively in
arranging for the meeting and contributed
| largely to its success. and Mrs. Howard
| King presided. Before and after the adj
| dresses several musical selections were
rendered by the Hawaiian Troubadours,
and refreshments were served.
James D. Murdoch was introduced as
the next mayor of Salt Lake and he was
applauded with enthusiasm He said his
| first political work was when he carried
a torch in Pittsburg during Grants sec
ond campaign. He said in Salt Lake the
Republican campaign is in good shape
and it would require some surprising aero
| baltic feats to prevent a sweeping Repub-
Ecan victory.
Mr. Murdoch said that during the pres
ent campaign everything possible had
been done and said against him, but he
| had no explanations to make. His life
was an open book, and as councilman,
| private citizen and business man he stood
| on his record. II elected mayor, Mr..
Murdoch said he would strive to the
best of his ability to stand for a decent,
clean city government and a decent, law
abiding community; The laws must be
| obeyed, and, he said, if there were any
Objectionable laws they should be re-
| pealed
Speaking of the prohibition question, Mr.
Murdoch said he had been a prohibition
law unto himself for the last 50 years, and
| q total abstaineT for 80 years Of that
time. He said d campaign of education
would bring about prohibition as soon
I l. ia 81,
said the present ordinance required that
all saloons should be closed at u o'clock
and all day Sunday. That ordinance,
which he helped to frame, he believed a
/ good one, and as mayor he would see
that 1t was fairly and impartially en-
| forced.
'I pledge myself. if elected mayor, to
see that the saloons all close at midnight
| so long as that ordinance remains law"
| said Mr. Murdoch 81 do Lot mean that
some saloons shall be allowed to remain
| open while others close, and If any pO-
| liceman shows any lack of vigilance in
! enforcing this ordinance he wifi soon be
hunting for another job"
/ Mr.. Murdoch said If he was elected
| mayor there would be no red light dis
| trict on the west side and this state
ment, he said. was all that he believed
| necessary to make on the subject.
Il have been called a reactiOnary dur
| ing this campaign, and want to say
/ that if my course in the city council in
| insisting on the observance of the law is
reactionary, 1 plead guilty. These ques-
| tons have been either right or wrong,
| and I believe my stand has been right"
Senator George Sutherland said the
work that had been done by the WOm-
ans Republican club in Salt Lake and
| by similar organizations throughout the
state had demonstrated that Utah had
/ done well when it had given women the
right of suffrage. He said he had at
| first been opposed to the plan, but ne
| had since become convinced that it was
| right and proper that women should have
| the right Of the ballot. He commended
| the women on their independence and
| heartily commended James d. Murdoch.
| the Republican candidate for mayor, as
/ man who had led an absolutely clean
and upright life, who stood for Republi-
| can principles. The senator closed with
| the paraphTase: THE Republican party
| expects every woman to do her duty"