The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-05
TAME MEETING
Of REPUBLICANS
The Theater Had Plenty of
Room for All Who Cared
to Go.
VERY TAME SPEAKING;
BITTERNESS is BEWAILED
But No Enthusiasm Came, and
the Audience Dissolved
Early.

NlGUOuI III oDN DHaHhtl CBlSoSb'
ing the facts. OF attempting to belittle
the supposed Importance OF the occasion,
it must be said that the Republican
meeting held at the Salt Lake thenter
on Friday night was the tamest and
coldest political rally that has ever been
held in Utah. The audience was unen-
thusiastic, the speakers were dry as
bags of rattling bones, apologetic and
without spirit
Judge Charles S. Zane acted as chair
man OF the meeting and it could not
but be noted that the venerable and re-
spected Jurlst s heart was not IN his
task. Senator George Sutherland, Gov
eruor William Spry and Representative
Joseph Howell were the ''orators' of
the night. They paid attention in
small way to national politics but ad,
dressed themselves chiefly to the aues-
tion of prohibition and the bitter feel
ing that it has engendered. InciGen-
tally President Taft was praised and
Colonel Roosevelt was reproved for hav
ing arrogated to himself the title of
Progressive, the claim being made
by Mr.. Sutherland that that term be-
longed to the whole Republican party,
and not to any man OF set of men with
in it.
Judge Zane s opening address was very
brief. He seemed merely to desire to
remind his auditors that he had become
member Of the Republican party in
the early Cos, after that organization
had grown out of the old Wing organ
i2atlon.f
Mr.. Sutherland made an attempt to
defend the Payne. .Aldrich tariff law,
and bestowed bit of faint and half
hearted praise upon President Taft, and
then he broke into the prohibition ques
tlon. His contention was that the ac
tion which the Republican party of Utah
proposed to take upon the liquor Ques-
tlon would bring better results than
would statewide prohibition. He ex
pressed his regret that in the present
so much bitterness, vituper.
alton, abuse and scandal had been in
troduced. About the most important
thing that Mr.. Sutherland said in his
address (and III reality that amounted
to nothingl WAS when he made mention
of the deal that it is charged was made
between his party s bosses and the Ii
point Mr.. Sutherland said
SIT is said that two years ago deal
was made between the so-called leaders
of the Republican party and the liquor
interests. happen to be somewhat
acquainted with the campaign two years
ago and | think ] know little of what
was going on and want to say to this
audience with all the emphasis / can
rut into it that any statement of that |
character is absolutely and infamously
false. Now / don I want to say any
thing of discouraging character about |
Ananias. He IS having a good deal of
competition in this campaign. There are
u good many Democratic spellhinders |
going up and down the state in an an. |
Parent effort to deprive Ananias of his
tight to seat at the head of the table
But ! will say this. that if an arrange
ment can be made for contest be.
tween some Of these Democratic spell
binders who are going up and down tell |
isg this story. and Ananias. for the
cha mpIonship belt. | am willing to
wager n reasonable sum. say the cost
of wears subscription to The Salt |
Lake Tribune against the value of it, |
which would be equivalent to bet OF ,
$l2 against nothing at all. that An.
nnias will throw up the sponge and re.
tire from the contest in disgust at the
end of the first round.
why. when YOU come to trace the
story back you find that Brother King
and Brother Roberts say that the deal
was made, and when you pin them down
fhey heard II from somebody else, and
when YOU find that somebody else they
heard it from somebody else, and when
YOU finally get down to the last fellow
you find that what he said was that it
looked very much like n deal'
The senator went on to say that the
trouble. with the country was that the
professional reformer was abroad in the
land, working up strife and contention
without real cause. ''The demagogue
is running amuck throughout the coun-
try,' said the senator, "and much con-
fusion of thought has resulted. The
professional reformer afficts the peo,
ple.'
Considerable relief was felt when an
octette of young ladies from the Six,
teenth ecclesiastical ward, under the
direction OF Sam Spry, appeared on tho
rostrum. They sang two selections in
very creditable form and voice, and
then Judge Zane introduced Governor
William Spry, who followed about the
same line as had Senator Sutherland,
except that he paid more attention to
local matters, He said that the cam
paign up to date had been most re-
markable one for the ill-fselng that had
arisen. He had concluded. too, he said,
that If persisted in this prohibition ag
tation would prove to be vastly more
troublesome TO the state than has the
Mormon question. He had been through
many political contests, but had never
experienced one quite 80 unusual ms this
one. He declared that it was difficult
TO locate the Democratic party whose
speakers had been talking about every
thing that should not have been dis
cussed and had neglected to speak OF
The things that should have received
their attention. 1t was somewhat diff.
cult to catch his drift in this, unless
that 1t was his intention to intimate
thar the now famous and Infamous deal
with the whisky men should never have
heen mentioned He told a story of
Grantsville without mentioning the
towns name, and said that when he
was n member Of it's city council he had
helned 10 pass 8 resolution that even
tually had the effect Of establishing
SCORES of "hlind pigs in the dugouts
and barns of the elders out there, in
which the bows were given all manner
of booze to drink. He declared that in
one week in that church ruled little
town over 1900 bottles Of beer were
shipned in. besides large quantities of
the fiery LIQUOR
A quartette composed of Messrs. Ash.
worth, Graham, Christopherson and
Sduires sang n couple of selections