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Show SEN'S KING & FUNK ADDRESS VOTERS Present Democratic Arguments for League and Discuss Issues With Local Citizens. Senators W. H. King and James W. Funk opened the campaign for tho . Democratic pnrty in Cedar City at the Ward Hall last evening, where a fair sized audience greeted the speakers. As Senator King divided his time between be-tween Cedar nnd Pnrowan, driving , the 20 miles between sessions, it was i rather lato when ho reached tho Cedar City meeting. But in tho mean time, I Senator Funk of Cache county inter-, inter-, estcd his hearers with some history of I tho achievements and omissions of the ! respective political parties in Utuh. j Senator Funk was very courteous nnd I considerate of his opponents, nnd appeared ap-peared to be a thoroughly honorable .and honest person. He criticised tho J Republicans for their fnilure to cn-( cn-( act the Prohibition lnw when they had a chance, nnd claimed the credit for the Democratic party for the passage of this measure, also for the Public Utilities law, the Bluo Sky law, the Workingman's Compensation law and other bcneflcinl measures. He made a good point in relation to the comparisons compari-sons of statu flnnncea now nnd nf. thn end of Governor Spry's term, by calling call-ing nttention to the fnct that the state treasury would naturally bo in better condition at tho first of the year after the taxes had been gathered than a short time before tax gathering time. Senator King delivered a very fluent flu-ent nnd graceful address, employing all the wiles of the gifted orator to persuade and enthrall his hearers. To Democrats who have been heard to express ex-press themselves it wns inspiration and enlightenment. To Republicans,) for the most part, it was a clever cam-1 ouflage of the real issues and an appeal ap-peal to the emotional side of his susceptible sus-ceptible auditors. It is not the purpose of this article to to enter into a political discussion,: or to belittle or tear down tho argu- ments of the speakers, but since Sen-1 ntor King Invited nnd challenged qucs- j tions or criticisms from this hearers, we cannot refrnin from calling atten- tion to a few glaring inconsistencies in his remarks. j Senator King claimed for tho I Democratic pnrty the prosperity and , progress that has resulted from the , war, and which he very much exaggerated; exag-gerated; he arraigned tho Republican majorities in Congress for not repeal-' ing some of the Revenue nets, notwithstanding notwith-standing thero is still a national deficit , even nftor tho administration budget had been reduced n billion nnd n half jof dollars; he blamed tho Republican pnrty with tho failure of the United States to enter tho league of nntions, notwithstanding tho Sonnte approved tho Peace Treaty and covenant of the league of nations, with certain Amcr-ican Amcr-ican reservations which were accept- (Continued on page five) I SENATORS KING AND FUNK J ADDRESS CEDAR VOTERS (Continued from first page.) able to the allied covenimcnts, and Pres. Wilson himself vetoed the mons- ' ure; ho assumed that the Republican party generally was opposed to any aw ort of a league of nations, and averse JBjjL A to entering tho league, and then pro- ffi ceeded to denounce them for thiB nt- '' titude. He showed a covert dislike for and jealousy of Senator Smoot, whom ho sought to compromise in various var-ious ways, particularly for supporting support-ing a tariff measure for tho protection t - of the manufacturers of dye stuffs in this country against foreign (Ger-i (Ger-i man) competition, and chnrged that , i this was the only legislation attempt ed by tho Republicans during the past f two years and that this was obstruct- s cd and prevented from passing by f the filibustering of himself and others of tho Democratic minority, and this in the face of the oft-repeated claim ; of the Democrats that the tariff is no - longer a political issue between the two parties. Senator King hns been styled "the silvcr-tounged orator," and certainly he is a most accomplished speaker, but t except for those minds in the audience which were predisposed to "run along with his" it could hardly bo viowed as a convincing talk. And to tho minds of many, particuarly Republicans, tho remarks of Senator Funk, with all their plain homeliness, were far mom reasonable and plausible than were the polished and studied phrases and sentences of the Juni6r Senator. We believe it would have had a far better effect if Senator King had been tendered a non-partisan reception as Senator Smoot was in this city recent- , ly than to have mado tho political address he did last night. |