Show K MAKES OPEN STATEMENT OF OPPOSITION Influential Senator in Address I Takes a Decided Stand J Against Prohibition HIS ONLY PLEDGE I IWAS WAS FOR REED SMOOT TELLS WEBER WESER COUNTY DELEGATION DELEGATION a TION THAT HE FAVORS STRICT REGULATION 3 H j H H 1 C For my part I believe in hi man 4 stringent regulation the strict en 4 4 4 f ment of f ad aO liquor laws lawn fewer fer 4 t 4 saloons and the revocation of liquor lIQuorI 4 f I for tile the tb lightest infraction of 4 4 the liquor regulations I am unal 4 4 opposed o to io statewide f 4 t 4 Senator Rudolph Kuchler In Inan 4 v 4 an address a to the tile members of a dele 4 4 gallon from Weber county t tt tAt f fAt t 4 4 4 At a meeting hold at the Wi hotel yesterday morning at which the best beat of ot feeling was di despite the differ differences t in opinion Senator Rudolph RUdelPh ler told a delegation of or of Web Weber r county that he was op opposed opposed opposed posed to stateWide prohibition The son sen senator ator in a neat speech s sot Nt t the side of or the opposition before his visitors In hi language that tb t was wan unanswered uRan He Ill conceded th the evils evEs in inthe Inthe Inthe the liquor traffic hut but declared that these theas r 1 r HW 1 4 p L Lr Lj r j 4 t SENATOR S RUDOLPH KUCHLER One of the most meet Influential members of the legislature who declares his opposition to prohibition 4 were due to the lack of the enforcement of the law laws in existence rather than ball to the lack of laws f I Senator huehl r i j nf at the f of on Un urr and om fm m c merE merre which will have haH the consideration c cof of alt aU hills bilU coming before the IP on the prohibition question lie will bear b ar the t I brunt of the prohibition fight in the th leg I C Already lie he has haa been the sub ul ulo I of many maDY attacks be h has hall been ben I counted as opposed to prohibition yesterday y he hf has haa never fI made mad a complete r J L statement of his liis position pot and wd some come of or the themore themore t more niece ardent prohibitionist hoped that ne ie i might be classed as fi III The Th state statement ment meat of hi hIs position made yesterday to th the committee committe waited d on him re ye remove move all aU doubt on m the th subject and he heis heIs heIs is absolutely y on 01 r J 1 as v s opposing oP eli all lef hf ion for prohibition though favoring i measures meu s Named at Mass Meeting The Vinh J railed on Senator Kuhler yes yeater n was nab as appointed at a 8 amass amass mass meeting held in open Ogden on Wednes Wednesday WednesdAy day evening e last To this meeting Sena Senator Senator tor Kuchler was Invited but owing to the fact that he bad had previously arranged to 0 attend the meeting ing of the house Judi ItoI committee In Salt tIt Lake bake he was forced fored to decline the invitation Imitation This meeting adopted resolution favoring pro prohibition prohibition and appointed a committee to call callon callon on Senator and to urge that he lie work woric and vote VOle for the prohibition n mess eo ure Continued on Page 3 I I I II I i I I I KUCHLER MAKES I OPEN J STATEMENT OF OPPOSITION I Continued From Page 1 Tilt Th of if the committee tee who WiO via vis visited Seater 8 nat w I Kuehter yesterday were Apostle IV fit O 0 McKay Judge t C L C nich J ch ards president of et the Ogen O Gen stake of the Mormon church Parley T F Wright man manager manager I Iager ager of W W V Wright Sons iri J l d de p store I I L I Clark of I 1 L Clark lark ClarkSons I Suns Sums department store I of the Belnap Lumber company and Rev 1 Guy GU W V of or the M IM ii church The commute committee i tio tc ie most mORt influential of r the t r ir IH at ot Ogden both lau s and a l d l ill men By Uy appointment they met mel Senator ler in his rooms at the Wilson Tilson hotel at 1099 1010 The matins mo was very er cor cordial cordial cordial dial and there WM wu no DO breach broach of at the tle good feeling existing between the senator ator and his hie constituents constituent CO The addresses d were Yen along general lines linea and th re was WIlS nothing of a I personal nature saki by anyone At the close do the members of or the party and the committee parted good goo friends During the course of the talks by br the committee Senator was told that with him as M the leader of the prohibition movement there would be no doubt of its Ita passage The T e people would look to him himas himas himas as the champion of their rights He would be returned turned to the senate nate of Utah in triumph nay he be would be bc sent to the States senate s ate the peoples friend fr nd I and the tIle people peoples choice All AH of this was apparently no temptation for it had hall no effect in swerving Senator Kuchler Kuebler from his stand against prohibition Apostle McKay Talks Apostle D O 0 McKay McKa was the first to speak at the conference nce He explained that in view vie of the fact that various pe petitions petitions had beta been be n sent from Weber county to the legislature through various routes some through the medium of af the be Anti Antl Saloon league some through other ather rep representatives of the people or Wener WeDer coun county ty the mass meeting held in Ogden to consider the prohibition question had de do decided decided on the necessity of appointing a ape special cial elal committee to take charge of the large petition and to present this petition to Senator Kuchler huchler I The speaker gave to Senator Kuchler the petition con von contained contained tamed mere more then than 4 names of Weber county count people Apostle McKay McI ay made K l claar that taa the people of pf Weber e r county count wanted no corn com compromise promise measure It was prohibition or nothing Expresses Great Pleasure In reply Senator Kuchler expressed great pleasure at the honor bestowed b upon UTon him by the visit of this commission of at his constituents lie said that ho he was war always more than pleased sed to 0 receive visits from the people of or Weber county count and to hear expressions of af confidence in him Continuing he said When hen I 1 was nominated for slate state sena aena senator se tor tot from rom Weber W bel count county by acclamation and elected to that position by b a flatter flattering flattering ing majority I felt that It was due to the fact that the people of Weber county had bad confidence in me and in my ability to represent them in the state senate I Imade Imade Imade made no pledges on any an question before the people and felt that my election therefore there tore fare was due to the confidence c that the people had in my m judgment on all of these questions During the campaign I of af my closest friends that In the tha event of my election to the tho senate that I would i wok work and anil vote ote for far the reelection of Reed Smoot to the United senate enate 1 i took this action not because of any in 11 influence I fluence brought to bear on me but be 00 because because cause I felt that Senator Smoot Smout should be reelected These made not on the pub public ImbI lie lic rostrum nor nol In my party part platform but privately to close friends I carried out at my m earliest opportunity As s you well wen know I not oRb only cast east my fly vote ote for Sena Senator Senator tor or Smoot Sweet but used all of m my efforts to tomake tomake i make his election i I During the campaign I recall r a conver conversation conversation with Mr Ir McCreery in which he urged that I 1 pledge myself to vote for a aldal Ideal l al option law Jaw At that time I was not prepared to say S Y that local option was the best thing for the state I had not fully considered the matter and preferred not notto notto notto to pledge myself The platform of the party nominating nomina tin me had no reference to I Ithe the local option plank while the opposition ton tion party part bad a plank lank in its It platform For this reason Rev Re Mr tr McCreery op ap opposed apposed opposed posed my election to the senate and sup supported supported supported ported my opponent Studies the Liquor Question n Since my m election to the senate I have devoted a great at deal of time to the study stud of the liquor question I have endeavored to ascertain the best methods of controlling controllIng ing the liquor traffic In a manner the most to all the people and I i have come co to the conclusion that the 1 I Ionly only proper prO cOre er law governing g this question I would be beo local option It Is in inline I Iline line with that great principle of af I American liberty to be found only ony on in the United States that hat the people should a al always always I ways rays rule and that the will of the ma majority of the people should govern all I Under Cader th provisions of such a law the people of o the state the district the coun county county I It ty t or the municipality whatever unit might be chosen ch ell should vote on this que question and their intelligent in ent decision j would be final on the prohibition ques question Lion tion j But nut the question of local option is elim eliminated elimInated mated because of the fact that you come here hem he now and say that you 01 do not want I local op optiOn on You want pro prohibition prohibition and ml you ou want that only I Apostle McKay would It not Dot liars have been i I had bad you 00 taken the th people who have signed this giant lant petition to the I offices Iff thE mayor and the members of I Ithe the cit elt council of Ogden and demanded I of them what you now demand deman of me mp meIn meIn In their land hands Is the power absolute to i I grant wb what t you ou are asking for To the I the city council of If mayor maor and to every city In th slate state the law now gives the I power to any an and all alt licenses license This law Jaw Sw makes it for your mayor and your city council coundi to close every eEl saloon in inO O Ogden den It Tt makes It for the mu municipal municipal off of or the state stat of Utah to prevent tl th t P operation of or any anT saloon In the entire There arr ar Jaws IR now on otI the statute hooks books whit m Ih they were re enforced would make malil Itah Pta as pur JU a state as u there is to ton In n the tM nation Then Thea taws laws art arc at not en enforced forced Yet Vt you PU o ioni oni here and avid ask me Ole meo Oleto to o I enact new laws while you TOU are over overlooking looking the of the laws which now exist I IOn On the evening on which you held your mass me in Ogden and to which you yet invited me I attended a J meet meetIng Ing ng in Salt Satt Lake at which the prohibition question WitS was discussed At that meet meeting Ing ns the question was raised as to bethel or not prohibition really prohibited At Atthe the conclusion of her talk In which she I oed that a prohibition measure did not strictly prohibit that admirable and j t i highly educated ed lady lad A a leader in the fIght for prohibition Mrs E B Eo Shepard salti ahl that she ehe would prefer the blind pigs and the blind tigers to which the might be lured rather than th the attractive saloons with gold goldi i that would Invite or entire ent the tb public pu Ik into the bar rooms In Ii reply to Mrs Irs Shepard pard I would like hIts to t ask you ou i which h is th greater geter g evil erti Would OU on have haH your our boys boy go into dark alleys skulking and sneak S g t f tie blind Wind tiger to associate with wit h Ni h lous criminal it not nut b he bet beti bett I t tf i t f drink r 11 must 1111 tn to I have hare him go JO JOI irO I tO a aloon Endl I and en n kr ro stant sup to te C get this drink II Ir rr r t t the Ih Mind Ilind tiger would vou U T tt t pre tHi h a saloon as I 1 would a ar T a pta pla ii hr r Is la sold un und Und d dl tat at v Or ul uld l reduce lt Its evil rr re ts h to t a i 1 l a f loon contain B g in i A a or ne 0 tal I a saloon the th win Hews IV I vf f ii u jl nut hot screened by b any nn tain taEn or blind wh where whre re no obstruction impedes s th thE ie pw w from one l end to the cra tua sing m containing only a oJ abar tar bar and ud hack hac b k i ai Ii I The Ih evil or of which you 00 speak corner comes oom arg ly iy 1 fron th tt brew brewi be saloons I ant ent to say that r I am unalterably op Sd to saloons in Inin any in cases saloons are low tow dives d by b men unable mahle to read or write writeS S Sah h men IDen in ii the liquor traffic do the great harm Laws should b 1 passed paRed mak malt making ing og it impossible for such mh men to secure a liquor license tic Ilc nse nac o For my m nr i in more stringent stringent stringent gent regulation of the h liquor traffic a strict of or the law fewer Se a ioos 1001 higher licenses li alel and arid upon u the first infraction of 0 any fl provision of or the tho liquor regulations a r vocation of the license licence For the thC reasons I have hae given you OU gen gun gentlemen gentlemen tiemen 1 I am absolutely opposed to state stateWide statewide Wide prohibition Questions Are Asked Following his address a Senator Kuchler I was asked several questions question by b the mem mern I bens bers of Ire tro in reply to tu one an ani I in which nc ic wilb whether or not noti i be he eolith rid me te aspect or 01 orI orte I tn te m tiC of r a prohibition law nc lie said To my In mi miL l the question of or dollars dollar and nt should not enter cuter into this th ques luca quest liim ll u t l all iIi lute t I ala Ail is a moral gut Nit CIt it i and ami 00 is tar far beyond any eni an Such Iun eli eliUT UT 10 Ve l e must mut do what Is right no mat mai maii matLer i ur Ler it r what hat i tue ne I coSt ct may mey bi Lit in dollars anu nu vents Tie Tec Ti c cost in ill human humn HI HIthe n 1 the evils villi attendant upon the lh liquor trai lab i r lie ile and the tram train of or evil which nel arlly accompany al aid iad d im li iw v vI l 1 I SuitS suit good gOO or QI which ma nay ilay o oi J fit nt uy U the and e ML ut ot or a stringent mea masur for regulation ana correction of the liquor in ill my opinion so o outweighs all oh Ii other consi a atlon x Ions an as to L e the only side to be investigated and considered Senator Rev Mr Ir I McCreery outlined a 8 Han Ilan lan by b h n U would enforce a prohibition law it II n t passed the state legislature He would organise all ot prohibition pet pen petitions Lions Into what he termed a ment league lIgue and make each member ot or orthe the tile league feel reel a personal responsibility In the enforcement of af the law By fly B relating Instances of af young Toung men whose downfall was due to strong drink Parley T f Wright made a strong plea for prohibition at the th coee of in ir ina Ina ira a situation he lie Invited Senator Kuchler to champion the cause of the people to take lakE up their fight and win their battle He lie said We are art secure In the righteousness of our ow cause lUe We e have the support of the th people Senator Kuchler Kuehler all we Jack lack is isa ISa isa a leader We had hoped that you OU might champion our cause and win a great victory for prohibition such a victory that would cause the people to rise up and demand your return to the state stat senate more than that o r election to the United States senate Hope of political preferment did not change the little senator from Weber eber and he reiterated his determination to oppose e prohibition legislation I li L Clark said he was wu opposed to lo local local local cal option because of ot the fact act that Salt Lake would lath fall to adopt prohibition while Ogden would go BO dry dT The ih result in his opinion would be bt that Ogden boys would go to Salt Lake and stay ta drunk drank for weeks at a time not hot orlly to their own downfall but to the injury Jory l of ug og ogden den by taking so much money moneT to Salt Lake Judge C C Richards in an excellent address dosed closed for the pe When the conference was concluded Senator Kuchler Kuebler shook |