The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-27
GARFIELD PEOPLE
ARE OUT IN FORCE
Senator Sutherland Accorded
ROuSing Reception by the
Voters of Smelter Town.

Senator George Sutherland opened
his address at Garfield last night with
the declaration that he had known
Republicans who were so contemplate
that their only good quality was the
fact that they were Republicans. He
also stated that he had known Demo-
Gratis whose besetting sin seemed 10 be
that they were Democrats. for other
wise they seemed all right, and de-
clared that because OF this he could
have no conscientious quarrel with any
Democrat. as an Individual
The senator's speech was made in
the l. o. o. F. hall. and the room was
crowded 10 its capacity. Arriving late
the speaker found the audience await
ing him patiently. Immediately upon
his arrival, however, Professor Kent
opened the meeting with a baritone
solo. and the crowd was repaid for the
long wait.
The Difference.
The difference between the two old
parties, declared Senator Sutherland.
is that the Republicans are generally
right and the Democrats are generally
wrong. Indeed, he could remember
no time when the Democrats had been
right. He believed that the same test
made with the individual held good
with the party.
In this matter he placed the propO-
sitiOn squareiy up 10 the voters who
were in the audience. declaring that
in business dealings with their fellow
man, the man whose policies had
proved right. year after year. would
get the business of any Of the hearers,
rather than the man whose policies
had, year after year, failed.
I fnapfrfe time said
speaker. s'the Republican party of the
United States has been writing the his
tory of the United States. No piece OF
great constructive legislation has been
written on the federal statutes in the
last fifty years that has not been writ
ten there by the Republican party"
Contrasts Results.
Going back an equal time in the
history OF the Democratic party, SEN
atOr Sutherland outlined the stand
| taken by that party on the paramount
issues of the several campaigns and
cOntrasted the results as they would
have been under Democratic rule. with
those brought about under Republican
administration. He then cited the
thirteen national elections there have
been since the time of Lincoln, show
ing that the parties had gone before
i
OF these eleven times, the people had
returned q verdict in favor OF the Re-
publican party. and followed this WITH
the assertion that a party which had
always been right would be more like
| ~ to be right again than a party
which has always been wrong.
The greater part of Senator Suther-
| lands address was upon the question
Of prohibition, much time being spent
| in an explanation Of the Republican
| platform as IL deals with the subject
/ New ideas were expressed by the
/ speaker and the crowd was vel
| pleased with the address.
| Professor Kent followed the ad-
dress with several songs, which he
| interpreted with funny stories, and
| the crowd was 10th TO excuse him
/ when he had 10 stop from exhaustion
The meeting at Garfield was ar
4 ranged on short notice, but the Taft
| Drum corps was sent down in the
afternoon. under the leadership OF r.
| NJ Randolph, and aroused enthusiasm