The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-06
WIRE FROM BRYAN
ON POWERS'S DEATH
Distinguished Nebraskan Expresses His
Sorrow; Incident of Life
Recalled,

Secretary Of State William Jennings
Bryan yesterday wired The Salt Lake
Tribune, expressing his grief at the news
OF the death OF Judge Orlando w. Pow
ers, who had been a close friend for near
ly eighteen years, Secretary Bryan was
not in Washington and did not learn OF
the death of Judge Powers until his ar
rival at Kansas City yesterday. He
"I am distressed to learn Of Judge
Powers's death II is a loss to the party
and TO the country. as well as grief to
us who knew him as II personal friend"
Judge Powers first became intimately
acquainted with Mr.. Bryan In 1896
Judge Powers was a delegate TO the
year and became associated with Mr.
Bryan on the committee on resolutions
and assisted In the drafting OF the free
silver plank. The judge was not sup
nation. He placed in nomination John
w. Daniel of Virginia. However. after
the convention Judge Powers stumped
tingulshed Nebraskan. In 1908 ne sec
onded Mr., Bryan's nomination at the
Denver convention.
Friends OF Judge Powers are recalling
many Incidents and anecdotes Of his life
that displayed the stalwart character OF
the late Jurist. d, s. Spencer recounts
an, incident of one OF the early cam
paigns in which the sentiment between
the Liberal and the Peoples parties was
almost evenly divided.
At that time the Union Pacific ticket
office was located in the Wasatch block,
where the Kenyon hotel now is. The
senuTlnet of the employees OF the office
was almost exactly evenly divided. The
emblem Of the Liberal party was the
carpet bag and the emblem OF the Peo-
pies party the anchor The Liberals had
been called carpet baggers in derision by
their political opponents The Liberals
accepted the challenge and made the car
pet bag their emblem. The emblem OF
the Peoples party was the anchor. typi-
flying solidity and stability, Employees
OF the ticket office decided on a truce
whereby the anchor and the carpet bag
were to alternate above the outside en-
trnnce TO the office.
On a day that the carpet bag was above
the entrance an overenthusiastic Liberal
passed the ticket office and became eN-
cecdingly wroth at seeing the anchor dis
played above the entrance. He denounced
the displaying of the emblem as an OUT
rage and soon had crowd around him
He called for a stepladder and began
to climb up to tear down the emblem,
At that time Judge Powers was chair
man OF the Liberal party orga nization.
He happened along In time 10 see what
the fellow member OF his party proposed
doing. Judge Powers induced tho irate
enthusiast, to come down and the Judge
took his place on the ladder and ad-
dressed the crowd In masterful I'M
promptu speech Judge Powers urged
fairness and tolerance. He said that IL
thoy would be doing just what they had
been accusing the Mormons OF doing He
urged spirit OF broad llberality and
begged the crowd to leave the emblem
where II was, After three cheers had
been given for Judge Powers, the Judge
himself proposed three cheers for the
Peoples party and for the anchor. which
were given. and the crowd dispersed with
above the doorway.