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Show Crowd so Great at Jefferson j Banquet that at Salt Lake ! He Did Not Get to Talk j Mayor Frank Francis reported tin's j morning that the attendance at the Jefferson banquet at the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake was so great last night that the program of the meeting was seriously interfered with. "There were reservations for 7G0 diners, but over 1300 tickets were sold, and the dining room was congested with a crowd that could not be served and hundreds of people were turned away. Dr. Elmer 1. Goshen, whose public appearances in Salt Lake are always looked forward to was unable to be present on account of sickness. The delay in serving the dinner was so great that everybody gave way to the speaker of the evening, William Jennings Bryan, who demonstrated again that he is still very much of a drawing power and one of tho finest .public speakers in American life. Senator Sen-ator Kobert Owen has a distinguished 1 presence, a fine enunciation, and a uiLitii uii ai.iio ui eiieeuii unit cum- mends him to his audience." The mayor, who was to be one of the spenkera, came home with his speech in his pocket, he said. |