The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-08
DEMOCRATS HONOR
|LLUSTR|0US IDOL
Spirit of Jefferson Abroad in
the Land Gives Vigorous
Demonstration Here.
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
IN STALWARTS' BREASTS
Good Old Doctrine EXpounded
by Speakers Who See Tri-
umph Near at Hand.

II is dead, sure. certain cinch that
the Democrats of Utah are not dead.
1t is, moreover, dead, sure. certain
proposition that they arc hard to XIII.
The Democrats Of Utah passed through
siege of talk Thursday night that
would have. in the words of the late
President Cleveland, thrown less sturdy
than these Utah Democrats into a state
of inDocuous desuetude, never moro to
emerge. At half after twelve there
were still n good number of Democrats
hanging on with grim determination
TO hear or TO he heard
The programme arranged for the
banquet Of the Utah Democrats at the
Commercial club was mauifcstly ar
ranged with view TO offending none
by omission. On the programme there
were tweuty-four listed speakers. Hap.
PLY for the rest, some of these were
unable To be present. else the toast
master would have been obliged TO
stop the clock
Testing aside. however. the banquet
of the Democrats was a genuine success.
Everybody was full of the .Jcffersonian
spirit, which he or she poured out in
! lavish measure. The Democratic prn-
ciples with the good old ring were
preached and cxpounded. and the men
and women gave vent 10 their feel
ings in good old Democratic cheers
cheers that were far from the taint
of the gum shoe. And the orchestra
played good old Democratic tunes
music of the southland, " Suwanee
River FOld Black Joe, and
90 Dixie. Altogether the gathering of
Democrats in the banquet hall was n
| rousing rally,
Attendance Flattering.
The exact count of those who sat at
the table at the beginning of the feast
was J46. but more came in later. so
that there were perhaps l60 present
Judge W. II. King was the ioastmaster
Judge o. w. Powers was down on the
| list of toast response 10 talk on ''To
Succeed 1t Must BE Progressive. Not
Reactionary; Put Manhood Above
Money. Conscience Above Cunning. and
Stand for the Golden Rule " Judge
| Powers. however. had not time 10 touch
the topics enumerated more than in =
skimmine briefness. Everyone wanted
TO hear what Brigham II. Roberts hal
TO say OH the subject, '|The Rights of
Man-Religious Liberty, and Universal
Education. Mr.. Roberts could not hope
to cover this vastly great topic in the
4 llWe dt OlS com SO ne PO0IenIeu
| himself with an excellent talk on the
necessity of free press.
The guests of honor were: Judge Il.
| " Baskln. j. b. Miner, Col A. c.
Ellis, John Seaman. w. " Cluff. Judge
| w, \. Dusenberry. James Andrus. Mrs,
| Il. j. D. Roundy. John K. Barnes, Jesse
Knight, Mrs. Rebecca Brown, Mrs Mac
Farland, Mrs !. Fewsou Smith.
Judge King Pleasing,
Judge King was introduced by his
brother Major Samuel A. King. chair
| man of the state committee. The in
troductory remarks included the declar.
alton that ;he Democratic party was
not dead. but that the Republican
party is disrupted, Cannontsm dead and
! Mr.. Taft himself n disappointment
Judge King also said that the Dem
ocratic party in Utah is not dead, ''In
the past he said, cit has been made
the victim of an unholy alliance be-
tween members of the dominant church
and others in the state having for its
object the perpctuation of the federal
bunch in Utah.
In spite of this. said Judge King. the
Democratic party had always stood for
fair play and il stands for a complete
separation of church and state and IN
sists that no church shall lay its hands
upon it, He said that the Democratic
Mr. Smoot or any other churchman, but
ii would insist upon church non-inter.
ference.
''The Democrats will meet the is.
sue. - said Judge King. 1--WE Will not
Try 10 placato anybody. We are going
into this campaign with dctermlna-
tion. We are going to Say to Smoot,
Howell and the federal bunch that they
have not given good administration
and we are going to emphaticaIly and
unuuaHhedlv deuv the constant reports
that the congressional delegations ha,
done any good for Utah. The Demo
Gratis ask no quarter and will grant
none II stands for the principles OF
Jefferson.
Becoming Forgetful.
Judge King said the American people
are forgetting state rights. There IA
a tendency he said. to look 10 Wash
ingtou. to the federal government, 10.
everything, even to permission for mar"
riapc. There must he n renaissance, ho
said and il is the Democratic party
that will bring about reconstruction.
The Democrats of Utah, said Judge
King. could well congratulate them
selves 1t had no great organ, except
the SUNDAY Times, and the people OF
Utah though naturally pemocratlc,
were being fmislcd by The Tribune
and tho organ of the Republican
party.
Judge King declared that the Re,
puhicans were divided and many of
them recognize hat the party has been
given over to thc trusts and corpora
tions. There is an awakening through
out the country and Utah must awaken
also. he said The Democratic party
proposed 10 wage campaign of ag'
gression and not n defensive one. The
Democrats were going 10 condemn the
administration of the governor, the Re
publican state officials and the copgres'
sioual delegation. he declared.
Miss Alice Reynolds Of Provo spoke
on jefferson, paving high tribute to
the illustrious statesman. whom tho
Democrats faithfully idolize
Judge * r. Thurman spoke word
in tribute 10 the distinguished dead Of