The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-26
NEWS OF UTAH AND
ADJOINING STATES
GREAT ENTHUSIASM
IN CACHE COUNTY
Large and AppreCiative Audi
enCeS Greet Senator SmOOt
in Several Towns.
Especial to The neutrality-suspicious.

especial 10 The herald-Hep u Dl4cdn.l .
Logan, oct. 25.-Not since the days
OF Moses Thatcher have such recep-
tons been accorded a political speaker
in Cache county as those which have
been given Senator Reed SmoOt
throughout the county today. Today
was the second day of Senator SmOot's
campaign in the county, and he deliv-
cred addresses in five towns OF the
county the enthusiasm in each Of
them being d repetition of that dis
played in the former towns visited.
On tOday's tour of the north Cache
valley the Senator was accompanied
| by the Republican candidates Of
| Cache county and by W. +. Rydalch
of salt Lake. At each of the towns
State senator Herschel Bullen, jr.. OF
Cache opened the meeting with a brief
Introductory address.
Talks on Tariff.
Senator SmOOt dWelt at length upon
the tarif, declaring that never in the
history OF the United States had 4
tariff law been enacted which could
compare with the Payne tarin bill. He
spoke of the criticism of the measure.
but stated that ne had worked eight
cen hours a dag for three and a half
months studying tariff laws and tariff
countries, and believed his word on
the tariff should be taken as freely
as the word of those who know moth
ing of the tariff further than the raw
lngs Of yellow journals. That the re-
vision of the tariff had been down
ward, and not upward. on those neces-
sites on which the duties as applied
in the Dingley law had been altered at
all. was his stanch declaration, and
he cited instances to prove his asser-
tiOns.
Speaking of the products Of Utah,
he said there was no interest in the
state that had not been guarded by
him in the framing Of the measure,
and that every known industry in the
state had been protected by the law.
Liquor Traffic.
Leaving the tariff, the Senator took
up the discussion of the liquor prob
lem and defended the Republican plan
for control of the traffic, using as his
argument against the Democratic
principle of statewide prohibition il
Illustrations from the states already un-
der statewide prohibition rule. De
claring that he would not for the
world do or work for a thing which
would throw temptation in the way OF
boy. he reiterated his belief that the
traffic could only be controlled locally
and that he was fully convinced from
observation that the Democratic theo-
~ would only tend To make a bad
matter worse.
Charleston was the first town on to-
days itinerary. where a meeting was
held at 10 o'clock this morning. De-
spite the early hour of the meeting,
the, large han in which the speaking
occurred was crowded TO the limit or
its capacity. TremOntOn was the next
town visited. a meeting being held
there at l o'clock. From TremOnton
the party went TO Lewiston. where a
, o'clock meeting was held. the fourth
being at Richmond at o'clock. and
the tour ended with a night meeting
at Smithfeld at o'clock.
Answers Erickson.
At the Smithfeld meeting Senator
SmOOt took occasion 10 answer asser-
ti0ns in the speeches of Judge Erick-
son and Matt Thomas who had pre-
ceded him week ago. and dwelt more
at length upon the questions which
he had touched upon in his speeches
throughout the day.
In all town visited listeners were
heard 10 declare that they had been
convinced by Senator Shoots ad-
dress that he was right and that they
would cast their votes for the Repub-
lican ticket and in endorsement of
the Republican platform.