The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-05
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dearly like to ask that they and senator
Smoot. in order to prove tner "io,a,
courage and answering honesty ana
high mindedncYs as statesmen ana Jour
nalists. publish the tardy reply 10 inc
telegram, and also To ask tho senator
10 make known his own correspondence
which he directed he read TO us as
answer TO OUT telegram.
/ am still resolved however, to keep
quiet in this campaign for reasons good
could not refrain from telling you thai
regard the methods OF the Federal
bunch at being as mean and base as ever
in branding YOU as q liar, and as beinS
Of the standard OF infamy and treach-
cry Of which they are fully capable
whenever emergency requires. L shall
reign of rational politics and common
honesty in all our political affairs
Very trnly yours,
NEPHI l.. MORRIS.
Bores Into Smoot.
At it's conclusion. in voice filled
with emotion, Mr.. Roberts went on:
Before leaving Salt Lake / called up
Mr.. Morris and told him that | could
not make proper acknowledgment of
the letter ut that time. But here | wish
to say that the cause of truth owes a
vote to Nephi l.. Morris; God bless
him -
Turning to "EUncle" Jesse Knight
Knight the speaker declared that he
wished 1T was not wicked TO. swear
meaning that he would like to give vent
to his feelings for the Herald Repub-
lican slander. Referring to the letter
which was sent TO Salt Lake in reply to
the famous telegram, Mr.. Roberts con.
tinned, "What revelation there would
be if it was published. ] say to Sen
ator Smoot if you do not publish that
letter you are guilty of being in league
with the liquor interests and the federal
bunch, in defeating the will of the
people. And l call upon the people OF
the state 10 rebuke the impudence Of
this Senator Smoot and his me-to
George Sutherland.
'fI am not unmlndful of the serious
ness of the position ] take, but Smoot
having assumed the role of sponsor for
the Republican party and the saloon
element, | now call upon him to eX-
plain.
Reading from Senator Smoot s speech
mt the state convention at Ogden, IN
which he brands as liars those who
charged deal between the Republican
party and the liquor interests two years
ago, Mr., Roberts referred to Reprcsen-
tative Ashton, Representative Thomp-
son, Representative Cannon, Senator
Wilson, B, +. Grant and Nephi l.. Nor
ris, each of whom and many others
made those charges repeatedly, Brlm-
hall also fixed the responsibility for the
LIQUOR deal upon the federal bunch. for
which Smoot stands sponsor, ''These
are the men, said Mr.. Roberts. "to
whom he is now appealing to re.elect
Sutherland and Howell. If a gentle
man branded me as such and asked me
me for my suffrage-well. | can t say
what ] would do without cusslng, so
you will have to draw upon your imag-
inatlon.
Concerning Telegram.
"There has been considerable vexa-
tion because that telegram sent to our
representatives IN congress has been
made public 7 have been pleaded with
by many people to say 1T was private
communication. but the fact is that the
three men who signed it represented, as
a committee, great many others with
the same view.
The Herald Republican denies me the
right of speech, 1t charges me with
being insincere because fifteen or six
teen years ago | stood against prohibit
tion They do not fairly quote me. |
think our party was right in declaring
for prohibition and so said IN my letter
to Mr.. Moyle. The great ma ajority Of
the people want ii and who am /, that
should stand in the way7 What kind
of a Democrat would | be if | should
not Join in the popular demand of my
party. When the liquor interests gath
cred together large sum of money to
defeat the will of the people, when
saloonmen undertake to defeat the will
of the people by corrupting legisla"
tion, it is high time for. the people to
rise up in their majesty and put that
crowd out of business. And yet they
deny that there has been compact be
tween the Republican party leaders and
the saloonmen after the overwhelming
evidence And Senator Smoot has AS
sumed the responsibility for the de-
nial.'
The meeting tonight was called to
order bv Chairman w. W. Browning of
the Democratic executive committee.
He introduced "Uncle' Jesse Knight
as the first speaker Mr.. Knight declared
against high tariff. He charged Senator
Smoot with Introducing bill in the
United States senate. which was drawn
for him by l., l., Num-, president of the
Telluride Power company, regarding
power sites in Utah. Smoot, declared
the speaker. is stockholder in the Tel
mride company and the bill was intro
duced to protect his special interests
in that concern.