The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-08
DEMOCRATS HOLD
ANNUAL BANQUET
Honor Jefferson, Rap Taft, and
See Sunshine Through Po-
IiticaI Clouds.
STATE COMMITTEE MEETS
WAYS AND MEANS FOR NEW
CAMPAIGN ARE DISCUSSED.

Democrats from all parts of the state
were in Salt Lake yesterday. During
the afternoon there was a meeting of
the Democratic state central commit
tee in the Office Of S. A King, state
chairman, and last night at the Com
mercial club the Woman's Democratic
club joined with the Utah Democratic
club in the annual Jefferson banquet.
More than 100 were present.
Many spirited partisan speeches were
made. Colonel Roosevelt was accused
of killing a hundred elephants in Afri-
&c, while President Taft, it was said,
had killed only one.
At the banquet there were a large
number OF speeches-many of which
were brilliant oratorical efforts touch
ing upon issues to which the Democrats
pin their hope of success In forthcom-
ing campaigns. The speakers touched
up the Aldrich-Payne tariff measure,
Uncle Joe Cannon, referred to Presi-
dent Taft as being disappointment to
his own party. and by inference called
attention to Mr.. ROOsevelt's incident
with the pope The trend of most of
the speeches was along national issues.
and local and state politics were only
slightly referred to.
Echoes Democratic Triumph.
The sentiment of some of the speak
ers was that there is a rising tide in the
affairs of the nation which echoes afaT
Democratic triumph. Some of them
even went so far as to say that the
Aldrich-Payne bill has killed the Re-
publican party.
Thomas Jefferson was frequently re-
ferred to as the Democrat who secured
for his country an empire without
bloodshed; as one who founded a great
political party, and still lives in the
hearts of his countrymen.
Music by the Hyde orchestra and a
song py Miss Eva Jones, accompanied
on the piano by her sister, Miss Pearl
Jones. enlivened the banquet.
William H. King was POSTMASTER. S.
A. King made the opening address, in
which he declared that the people of
Utah We're naturally Democratic peo-
pie, and that the state now being IN
the hands of the Republican party Is
due to the fact that the people had
been misled. He said that it had never
been the policy of the Democratic party
to antagOnize any church, but that il
had always stood for the absolute sep
aration of church and state.
In a brief talk. Alice Reynolds of
Provo outlined the "Incarnate Princi-
pels Of Democracy, Pure and Simple. -
S. R Thurman spoke in eulOgy Of stall
wart Democrats who have died within
the past year. Farley L. Williams, in
place Of Frank K. Nebeker, was given
an ovation when he arose to speak upon
the subject Of Equal Rights to All;
Special Privileges TO None" o. w
Powers was also one or the principal
speakers at the banquet. He dwell
upon the subject that manhood should
stand above money. Others who made
brief talks on various subjects bearing
upon Democracy were Martha Hughes
Cannon, w. r. Wallace, w. F. Olsen,
Joseph Judd, Ferdinand Erickson, A.
B. Morgan, George Skidmore.
About fifty members of the state
Democratic central committee attended
the meeting In the afternoon, when
business matters left over from the last
campaign were closed up and ways and
| means for the campaign this fall wer<
discussed.