Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-02-23 | Page 23 | [Illegible] Recalls Utah Ballots Cast in 1912

RECAllS BALLOTS ALLOTS Hi CAST IN 1912 f. f Dinner President d ent G GI Guest of i. i Honor at Big Banquet I i t Attended by Ic crowded the than oo ore Hotel Utah early f hall hail o of the quit former President c l night to greet Howard lIoard Taft Tart as 8 the tho honor honoret lUSIn dinner given as a special at a a. et t In Mountain coni congress ress of tho the i ure o st of or nations I f Ir o Of oC a league hall hail vas was jammed to spacious executive tI i tho the former chief hen chen tilT Accompany by Gov GO Simon SimonI terL prominent TU and other I erger speakers to the tho ond nd visiting hns Ills His appearance was the tho sigI sig- sig rc g-rc cheers the tho monr mon- mon enthusiastic I fOr tor f fo rising to its feet and r thC of or the league o of the fIring the strains of or The Star- Star midst lions anner b the banquet immediatelY m of the Moun- Moun JK chairman I C C. Cut Cutler hn III introduced Governor E ss Intro feb In a as the presiding officer of ot ote lie JIO in turn after a short e declared Utah had hadIS which he b in u IS r demonstrated demonstrate its Ita readiness to tore of the tho 1 responsibilities in 10 tho the re re 9 introduced Mr Ir Taft ced league J V p i II Felt I in opening his hiser President be former 1111 speed referred laughingly h to toS fler er Peculiar pleasure in being LeinS' Inh in inand peculiar S and of the support given him In InI h of his told tho the state slate tc Ho lie then I by in Salt Lake Lalo and of the ef- ef talon K he and the other speakers now ts In the interest of ot the tho proposed iVf tour Mir of nations wore were making to edu- edu K Jue gue regarding tho covets covet cove cove- 4 te the people aMs t ts of ot the union a cf- cf be successful In our not na na may tWe States a mem- mem the tho United make the make to l said zaid Mr Taft But Bu t league le of oC the 1 ff f ita calling attention to the crisis t t aTe are Were Wo We 4 confronts us and tho the worM world bleb to tell ten re trying to induce In the people to see seo that this naj na- na tl congressmen r t j on n does docs its Us share to malo mako this the thet theM r. 1 M t tWe ye We dont don't claim lm that the league saide of or for tor war said is a sure eure cure former Pr President But if It the live five e enter Into the covenant jat powers his his- aid in the strongest Twill wiil prove It Is tho the people who orr rf r to stop atop war ivar the penalty of or war and another 1 y world orld suicide New NOW discover discover- Mold be bt Implements of or 1 gases and other rare would make another even more than tho thu great war var i Another War or I r Yr Mr Taft TaCt was emphatic in his declara- declara 1 that war would como again at any me 8 0 under the present conditions In rope and that the next one would L troy whole communities with a sine sin sin- lie told ie e blow from poisonous u g.-u gases es I Utah showing its Interest and sup- sup I rt ni of ot a league ue of ot by contrib contrib- Ingmore ogmore ng more In proportion than any oth- oth tate state He lIe referred to the men and men here In the tho Interest ot of the e eDue all cast Due gue ue as an star I Dr r r. r Henry ry Van Dyl Dyke former minister tb the Netherlands followed Mr Taft Tart 5 th an a address dress In which he declared 1 tory tor in tho the war must bo be made mado praial al 1 by a league of orl nations He lIe scored d ator Borah o of Idaho for COr his m n to the proposed league and dered dered de- de of or red ired him colossally Ignorant Is 1 league proposals lIe Ho said he lie would fer ter to pin his faith aith to Wilson noose Roose- t It t I and Tart Taft rather than to Borah