Show POWERS i EXPOSES MACHINE LIES LIESt t C l p L rf fn I cratic Nominee Nomi ee for Con Big Audience fin Tiu Ogden Opera House ps 1 u W v Powers Bowers was the prin t t sp at at an enthusiastic c Demo Democratic D mo mod cratic d r IJ held h eia ld in the h Grand opera house hou e eh hg h 1 t la time lIe he was as d until the close of his address which covered c one hour and twenty min minutes minutes mm utes he h was war given much applause His Hiss speech s f ch was as delivered in an earnest earne t man i ind logical lines unes Throughout hd h 1 as careful attention and from Ih applause it WAS w S evident nt that bis iIi hi audien S him He made a It lift hit with the assemblage at the beginning of f hi li address ss The hall hafl was but dimly lighted when w n he h speak and he roundly scored the rs for or renting out a L house for such in that toh rendition A few minutes ml later when additional lights were turned on he ho stopped topped in his hI address to say Sometimes when man says ats Let there be he light it t comes but it took some strong words to bring it While lIne referring reC to the possibilities of ot a n religious war if It the Republican machine i permitted to continue in power he was interrupted by bt an intoxicated into man from the balcony who said You Tou ou are deserving of the highest office oice in ili the gift of the people but hut you ou wont be he b elected Your statements will defeat you ou Judge Powers was in no way discon disconcerted at the Interruption Int and replied I L do 10 not care whether I am elected or not I 1 will continue to denounce those who are in bringing these condi conditions conditions about whether It is popular or un unpopular popular I want to see peace Richards Makes Speech Attorney C C Richards acter as chair chairman chairman man of the meeting and delivered a short but hut interesting address He pointed out that J D Sheen Skeen n H II H him himself self had been singled out as targets ts in the present campaign He said ald that I had huid boon ben exonerated that Skeen could io JO 10 nothing without him Richards so j that he lie was really the issue i sue in this cam campaign campaign He denounced Bill Glasmann as a I petty lOttY characterless scoundrel who stands behind the skirts of his wife so as to es escape escale Rue cape judgments in suits filed against him I for or libel Ir 11 referring to the charges that Glasmann had made against him through the columns of his paper of be ing irig a grafter he said that summons in a zi lin libel suit would be served on Glas Glasmann Glasmann mann Monday r in which he would have hav an opportunity to prove prOe the charges he hc had made Ho He also referred to him and an his hi petty henchmen as defaming the char character 1 actor acter of his Richards dead father and ant i then directed attention to an editorial in ir I last l st evenings evening issue of ot the Standard in hr I which Glasmann got on his Ilis knees and an bogged in his bellyaching way to escape tile the issue Mr lIr Richards then made a statement concerning the charges charge that had been made against him and am I attacked Joseph Sanford C R B Hollings Hollingsworth worth and other of the tiie county officers Judge J ge Powers opened his address by b entering upon the local situation He ex cx tle tIe hope hop that J D Skeen would I be hp elected county count attorney on the Demo Democratic Democratic cratic ticket He paid a high tribute to ti Mr 11 Sheen Skeen and said that the town should I IO be he O proud of such a fearless ami iril conscientious man He said the greatest trouble with the state stale is ig that it if is governed by bya b V p pa a political machine and that it has be become ome come so of oC late that a person verson who does doe beS S not belong to the tile machine cannot secure a nomination for office He lIe then paid a i I compliment to the Weber county Demo Democratic cratic platform and said that the work workingmen ingmen and especially the railroad men mer should sustain that ticket on account of ot o k th it contains Judge Powers Power S I then Ihen took up the veiled attacks made mad upon him by b the th Deseret News and nd called calIe upon that paper if it it desired his defeat I to come out in the open and say so He H said aid that the thc newspapers rs can no longer longe Hr r dictate to the people how they shall shaH vote In Tn reply to the silly amy claims that have hay C lsen iHen men made that a Democratic victory victor y would mean the disfranchisement of the th C Mormon people he be said that he had llad no ii 0 desire to disfranchise them and an if iC such sue U a 1 move was attempted he would oppose it with all an of his ability He insisted that the Mormons have the right to vote yote vot and wanted them ti continue in their thel i rights as their consciences dictated He H HIi Ii 1 Ie dared d that the Mormon ormon people cannot lc 14 1 disfranchised by any other means than tIm U their own acts That If when election day da y men meR any nn man belonging to the Mormon ii hurch permits any to dictate e row low he le l should vote yote instead of voting ac m conscience that man ma fl franchises himself Judge Powers then read an article writ I t ton tn n by b Joseph F Smith and printed in I n he Improvement Era He said this had ha d noon construed as being an instruction to I Lo ib r Mormons ns to vote Yoto the Republican fl ticket I aSKing them to stand by their the ir friend He said that if the th v tlc ui article JH is open op tr t that construction It tt is wrong and ar bt be condemned but until he was w Is ill by b absolute proof that such uch was w ts tended intended he ho would not h bel im Ewe th t i 1 church l ch r h was In j politics B that h f n he hel t J had hl l been advised that th t tb president r nt of the th church ch chan had steadfastly refused lo to take takey any an y part in politics Although the article r cle was w as signed by him it lt was only his per personal wo onal o the have no right to follow it unless it coincides with sith their judgment ju jt juIta ent He Be granted that even teo man mand Ita d the right to express hi views vi ws and this th is applied to Joseph F JT Smith as well WeIl ItS us others He said that the reasons he hed had ha d for question was that thata a statement had bad been wade made that he dar dart not no t do so r Ghouls Defame the th Dead He referred to the dangerous appeals that th at had been made to the Mormon peo pea people people pI e by b Y the official organ of ot the Republican Republican lican be ben bese an party part and defended President Snow on n the charge that Senator Kearns was Avas vas sent se nt to the senate by interference by b him himin himin in politics He Ke then referred r f to that in instance Instance stance st ance as well as is the theone one ne brought out by b y Mr Ir Richards and said that the theRe Re publican p ghouls must dig diginto into the graves gr es of the dead 0 I 1 condemn such politics I r regret that the th e senior senator is not big enough to denounce d enounce the of the paper in which he h e holds stock Deplores Religious us War He said that if lt Smoot had not been elected el there would have been no Amer k party He H B asserted that he did not believe b the problems ms in this state can tan be solved s by b p linking the Mormons on one ono onedo side Ide l do and the Gentiles on the tIle other and andt andre t b re ve them tearing at each other Her He H said that th at he believed in bringing the people nearer n together by and in Sn the supremacy of oC 0 1 the law lawhe The he question had bad been put to lo him as to what w hat his course would be if he was de do defeated d h by the tho direct interference of the Mormon M ormon church He declared that he would w not join the American or any an another other ther o party part as that would be a n show of 0 1 insincerity That the advancement of f the th e state of Utah was far ahead of the advancement a of any individual In He said sali salie we w e cannot afford to go back to the old conditions c and that we e cannot afford a religious war war referring to the sorrow und t nd that would follow an attempt to t o drive the cross of Christ into politics In III concluding ins nis remarks c Judge Powers Powen said s aid that if i the Democrats remained firm z iid true to their political convictions convi victory victor v would bo 10 theirs at Tuesdays s elec election tion ien Ut t That a Democratic victory meant no n o more mo e of the American party part He IIo appealed a to the Mormon Democrats to ac c well before they the joined the American party part He promised that if ife be he li e was elected to congress he ho would not bond bend b a knee to any ecclesiastical or other ower u and that he lie would be le a representative tatie t of all the people using all aU his l and ability to bring the people to together together gether g ethier toward harmony and to make malte Utah like ike l the tha other states Yesterday afternoon the Democrats D held h old a 3 rally rall at Huntsville which was at attended tended ended t by b y a representative gathering g Judge l O 0 W t Powers J D Skeen Sheen and W WW Wv V W yo v Browning were the speakers As an evidence e of the results obtained it is stated s that a number of Republicans who attended a the meeting stated afterward that hat t with the explanation of the existing conditions c made by b the thc speakers they the would w not support their ticket The speakers s returned to Ogden O den immediately after a fter the meeting |