The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-31

am happy to say that he was van
guished and | hope to repeat the per
Torrance this year,
The gubernatorial candidate said
that if he were elected he would strive
TO serve the state with the best Of his
ability and energy.
At the night meeting Mr.. Toton, in
his brief talk, declared that he was
unalterablly opposed TO mixing and
intermingling of religion and politics
and firmly believed that church and
state should he kept apart. He was
devoted to the principles of his church,
he said, but he was also devoted to
those principles which make for the
upbnilding of the state and the uplift
Of mankind.
J. D. Call of Brigham City said that
lust as surely as the sun would rise
on the morning of election day in No.
vember, just so surely would Woodrow
United States. The people Of the east
were determined, he said, and it was
time for the people of the west to be-
come determined
"Box Elder will be in line" said
Mr.. Call. "Two years ago we elect
ed a Democrat in rock-ribbed Re
publican section and sent him to the
legislature and we will send him again
this year. You need have no fear Of
the result in the north
"Dean Of Legislators"
D. Fl. Morris of st. George, the
"dean Of all the Legislators who ever
came to the capital,n as Judge Pow
ers put it, said he was for Tolton for
governor because, for one thing, Toll
ton was from the south, and for an"
other thing, 81 want governor Mr..
Morris told Of the tremendous Difficult
ties that confronted the Democratic
minorities in Utah legislatures here
tofore because Gall of the bills must
be approved by committee of the po-
litical ring that has run this state so
long He wanted real governor who
would put q stop to that kind Of bus
mess, he said,
M. T.. Wilson, Salt Lake attorney,
who had always voted the Republican
ticket, addressed the meeting. He said
he was going to vote for Wilson be-
cause he (Wjlson( was Nnot Repub
lican as a Republican is defined by
President Taft and he was not GO
ing to vote for Roosevelt because he
regarded the candidacy of the Bull
Moose chief as a personal ambition.
Wade Johnson of Ogden, son of I.
said few words. The younger Mr..
Johnson is a graduate of Princeton, and
he paid a glowing tribute to the man
who was formerly the president OF
that great school and who is now the
Democratic candidate for president.
Judge Thurman Talks.
Judge S. r. Thurman opened the
night meeting with good oId-fash-
ioned Democratic speech He declared
that the Democrats this year were go
ing in for campaign of education,
and were going to be the aggressors
on every issue. Judge Thurman said
the Democrats intended to send out
publicans to debate with them, if they
dared. The Republicans saw the hand
writing on the wall. said Judge Thur
man, aud they trembled. In the split
between "the cvangel of plutocracy
and the Bull Moose OF Armageddon
the Democratic party would come into
its own, he predicted.
Major Samuel A. King took Judge
Thurman IS place as chairman OF the
Just returned from a trip through the
east and on that trip had become abb
solutcly convinced that the Democrats
would he successful this fall
Thomas Talks Tariff.
Mathonihah Thomas, candidate for
congress, discussed the tariff He SAID
that the Republican party at its be.
ginning had adopted the principle or
the protective tariff as means OF
raising money to liquidate the war
debt. From a virtue. it bad become
vice, said Mr.. Thomas In the guise
of protecting infant industries, the
protective tariff had been employed to
fatteu the special interests and to
build MP gigantic private fortunes.
Charles England Of Logan, candidate
for secretary of state, and John r.
Mendenball, candidate for state treas
urer, spoke briefly,
Johnson Is Heard
Tillman d. johnson of Ogden, can.
didate for congress. made an extended
address on national issues, with dlgres'
sions into local politics. Mr.. johnson
discussed the tariff and the trusts,
and said that the peoples eyes were
being opened TO the iniquities OF prac-
tices whereby the favored interests
benefited.
r. n. Fitzgerald of Salt Lake, can
didate for presidential elector, was in
troduced and bowed his acknowledge
ments, after which the meeting ad-
iourned and the crowd made rush for
the train,
Music was furnished by the Mt,
Pleasant band, which accompanied the
Sanpete county delegation to the state