The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-16

6. That state committee be selected.
Credentials Committee Reports
The committee on credentials report
ed that each county shall have the rlgpt
to call the full vote of the delegation;
and that if the delegation Is not fnl6
the ones present cast the full vote OF
the county, and that there were no con
tests, The report was adopted.
While awaiting the report of the com
mittee on resolutions, there were n mum
Der of five minute talks by delegates
The first one heard from was John
Seamon Of Weber county Mr.. Seamon
is good talker, and his brief address
was we'll received.
Mrs. Roundy Speaks,
The Shubert quartette then sang a
song, after which Judge King miro
duced Mrs. Z. D. r. Roundy OF Salt
Lake, who said ftI was born Demo
crat, and while life lasts I hope to con
tinue a Democrat The delegates from
this convention should 90 forth as ms,
sionaries to endeavor to recall those
Democrats who have been led astray;
especially those who had been carried
away by the liquor interests. Mrs.
Roundy said she became Democral
years ago, when she was in the United
States treasury department. She urged
her hearers to stand firm in the faith
Abel John Evans followed MIS-
Roundy. He said that he was an orig
inal member Of the sagebrush DemoG.
racy and had stood firm since then. IL
had been so long since the Democrats
had elected any Of their candidates that
he had lost faith. but since coming 10
this convention he had changed ms
mind and he would leave the hall more
firm in the faith than ever. We Will
not all be pleased with all that Is con,
tanned in the plaform, but we shonld
stand as one upon this platform, and
victory would be assured
Nestor of Democracy Heard
Jndpe W. H. Dusenberry, who had
presided over the first Democratic state
convention held in Utah, was the next
speaker He said that while he had
been Ill and was Just recovering from
that illness. his Democracy had not
been affected but was as strong as
ever. He cited the GimleJ on the Name
election, and said that while that sheet
had not made any allusion as TO the
cause of the landslide there, it had on
that day commented upon how The ducks
got it in the neck on Bear river. That
was what was the matter with the u.
O. p. They got it in the neck. He
reviewed the history of Democracy In
Utah. He asked what the Republican
party had done for Utah; delegate
said, "It gave us Smoot - The ]udge
concluded his remarks by appealing to
the Democrats to stand by the party
that had always stood by the people:
Then Stephen L. Richards Of Salt
Lake was introduced He urged that
the best Judgment of delegates be
brought into use in the matter Of select
ing candidates for position and the
making of a platform. The candidates
named should be men who can hold up
the standard of the party In the state
His convictions were that the coming
wear would be one of education for the
people of Utah.
When lie concluded. the Shubert quar-
tette sang another song. Marching to
Victory. - which, like the others, was
splendidly given.
Ex-Mayor of Provo Talks.
Former Mayor William M. Roylance
of Provo was then introduced, who said
that he had never regretted that he was
a Democrat There had been a good
many things done in Utah that made
Democrats shiver; there have been a
good many things done by the Repub-
licans of Utah that they should be
ing to be fooled any longer, He scored
the Federal bunch for building up the
kind of machine they have. This was
going to be a campaign of education
against bossism and federal rule. He
declared the Democrats would name a
ticket that would win.
J. B. Morgan of Utah county fol
lowed Mayor Roylance. Mr.. Morgan
said that if the people of Utah were
question but that Utah would be in the
Democratic column. He paid high tri;,
butte to William ]. Bryan. who had led
the party for so long. He had no use
for men who voted with Joe Cannon in
the house when the crisis came. He
urged the Democrats to stand by their
guns.
Judge Erickson Speaks.
Judge Erickson of Sanpete and mayer
of Mt. Pleasant, was called He is
one of the few Democrats who could be
elected in that district The Judge de.
clared his belief that the American
people would this year vindicate the
Democratic party by electing the can
didates of that party. He charged that
Roosevelt had appropriated many of
the ideas advanced by Bryan as his
own. The masses, he said, were with
the Democrats. The Republicans of
Utah. he declared, had misled the peo.
pie that after they had fooled the peo.
back upon their advocacy of this ques-
tion and had allied themselves with the
liquor interests of the state.
D. H. Morris of st. George followed
IN a characteristic speech in which he
gave away some secrets of the last leg.
islature, His speech was a corker Said
Mr.. Morris:
Mr.. Chairman. Ladies and Gentlemen
thought when l got out of the last ses-
sion OF the legisla ture that l would drop
down into oblivion and not be made so con-
spleuous hereafter as had been before.
But Judge King will insist upon my COM
ing TO the front. Now. In relation 10
Democracy. l hall from the only county
In the state of Utah that never elected
a republican TO office. and l want TO say
IT not because there were not many Nor
mons there. because there were 90 per
cent MormoDs In the county, and while
they have made some inroads upon MS hy
the gumshoe brigade. we have generally
mad enough men of backbone to get right
on their trail and camp there until we
drove them out OF the county
AS member OF the dominant church
and the minority party Qaughter), I have
never yet seen one day that required me
TO be hypocrito in living my profess
sions. l don't believe In church and