Show MONT FERRY IS BRANSFORD FOR I Lauds Mayor at American i iLove Love Feast Though Other Speakers Ignore Him I MEETING IS ENTHUSIASTIC BLIGHT STILL ON tHE STATE SAYS VV W V H BRAMEL I v i 3 Tit The American 4 rl n party p ri was s par Pa fortunate in having baving as asIN tx IN ts first mayor of Salt Lake City Ezra Thompson And It was just justas as fortunate in his successor our i resent mayor There has haa never been bean a man mayor of Salt Sait Lake ity ty who has bas given gIvet more of ot his time and worked harder for tor Salt Lake City than has John S 5 Brans Bransford Bransford Bransford ford I wish that I 1 might here and n 1 v nominate him to succeed him himself i elf self as 31 mayor of or Salt Lake City c W Mont C CAt At an enthusiastic love Ioe feast of the at atthe atthe atthe American party pan held last lut evening the Auditorium on 00 RIchards street Councilman W VIr Mont Ferry Fem launched a boom for or the of Mayor of Bransford The mention John S I Mayor name aroused arou ed con considerable I enthusiasm In hi the audience but all of the other speakers at the banquet either cither through oversight or de design dEsign design sign made no mention whatever of the The mayor may r himself was wa practically practically the only city official not at the gathering The rhe love Ioe feast was a of Americans as an a preliminary move moe movement ment meat to the Inauguration of the city I campaign and as such was a successful one Six hundred people all presumably pr m mably ably members of the American party remained In the cold hall hail from rom 8 S till tm nearly midnight and ami listened to sev several se eral comparatively long and uninteresting ing In talks The room was prettily decorated with American flags and pennants and car carnations carnations carnations nations were on every guest Six long tables were filled and a de delightful delightful delightful lunch was served s W J Halloran Presides At the speechmaking following the th banquet W J Halloran presided pr He opened the talks with a short resume of o othe the work of the American party He was followed by Thomas Weir who told Why Wh I am an American W J Bar Barrettes Barrettes Barrettes toast was The American Par Party Part Party ty t the Party Part of Progress M 1 E Wil Wilson Wilson Wilson son spoke soko oko On n Republican R Misrule in inSl Salt Sl Lake County He said that It was such that tried tiled trie even the patience of Job What Wat the American Party Has Done for Salt Sal Lake Le was wa the toast that gave Councilman W Mont Ferry the opportunity ge to launch a modest boom for the of Mayor Brans Bransford Bransford ford He said that after aner four years of or careful study of the affairs of the city he was thankful to be in a position to toIa say Ia with wih candor that under Ameri Amen American American can administration the affairs of the city ci had ha been carefully wisely wis and hon boa honestly honesty estly esty administered d He congratulated I I the tho American American party panty in having had two such mayors as Ezra Em Thompson and John S Bransford He paid pId Mr Bransford a high and closed cosed by saying saIng I 1 wish that I might here and now re nominate John S Bransford to succeed himself hImsel as a mayor of Salt Lake City Former Senator Thomas Kearns Kerns was wag the orator of the evening He told the Americans to look lok to the future and anti not the past pt It I was up to the Amer Americans AmerIcans leans he said ad Ild to demonstrate the ability of the people of Utah to govern goern themselves If I this generation did not do so the next one would The ladles ladies the American beauties beautes should In Instill instill still sti into the minds of or the children the th budding hopes of the nation the true tre principles of or Americanism One Oe God Go G d dOne one side country one home and one fire fireside fre fireside One of the most moat spirited talks of ot the evening was as that of W V H Bramel Bramel Mr r Bramel declined to talk to his subject I The Te Woes Woe of a Defeated Candidate 1 Speaking of the need of the te existence of the American party he said For fifty long years before the American party part came Into Inte existence the dead ded hand of Islam was on Utah UtaJi The blight caused by that withering in influence influence fluence has lias been ben removed from Salt Lake only through the efforts of the American party panty Its blight Is still Is sti on o the state tate Who is there who can ean deny that tha the real governor of Utah lives In Inthe inthe Inthe the tithing house Who Wo Is there who can deny that the real legislature of Utah sits sit In the tithing yard rd There is an idea Ide prevalent in Utah Uth that the Mormon church through its authorities has the right to name DU the public officers r of the Ute state Smoot and There is an Idea prevalent that the Mormon people are bound to choose officers selected by the presiding officers of Ute the Mormon church Smith and And there ther Is the Idea that the tho president of the Mormon church and antI a council counci of or OfIs orits its Is other officers have hae th the right to con control control control the destinies of the state the dead hand of Islam J W McKinney spoke on Amen Ameri Americanism Amer and Allen Alen T Sanford on The Mormon Church In Commercialism |