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Show POWERS SPEAKS AT OGDEN. Democratic Rally at Which There Was Largo Audience of Bare Scats. Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEN, Oct. 2$, The Democratic rally at tho Grand opera-house tonight was somewhnt of a fizzle, 10 far as attendance was concerned. When Chairman Johnson called tho meeting to order a sea of vacant va-cant seats confronted him There wore barely 100 persons lu tho house and the meeting, with the exception of the address by Judge Powers, was of a frigid nature. C. S. Varlan, nominee for the Supreme bench, was tho first speaker and worried tho audience for half an hour with a slow, uninteresting discourse confined principally principal-ly lo the experience of the various candidates candi-dates on the Democratic ticket, referring but once to local conditions, wherein ho claimed to take much comfort from the fact that there lias bcin a split and a bad one, in his opinion, In the ranks of the Republican party and through that ho believed be-lieved that the Democrats had a chance lo win. Ho said, however, that the new party presented a very gravo question to tho peoplo of tho State, inasmuch as tho division was not upon political, but religious relig-ious lines, and he feared very much that It meant a return to old conditions. Judge Powers was chen introduced and tho audience woke up. He was greeted with rounds of applause and In the beginning be-ginning of his address ho referred to charges that had been made against him and other candidates on the Democratic ticket by tho leaders of the Republican party, and, while he mentioned no names, ho said: "If Mr. Howell will say that there Is aught said of him that Is untrue by myeclf or any ono of my political friends, I will denounce those things on every platform in Utah." Ho then proceeded pro-ceeded to scorch those who wore responsible respon-sible for tho slanders against him, and brought many cheers from tho audience. He took occasion to pay a compliment to Gov. Wells during his plea for support of Mr. Moylo. Ho said: "However wo may dlsagrco with Gov. Well3, wherever ho has gone ho has upheld tho dignity of the State of Utah, and wc havo never had occasion to bo ashamed of our Governor. Gov-ernor. And wo want another man llko him." The Judge then proceeded to have some fun at tho expense of tho Republican candidate for Governor, and Bald that Inasmuch In-asmuch as the audlonco had not seen him. he wanted to tell them that he was the nicest little fellow they had ever seen. Then ho stopped nnd gavo tho audienco tho inference that that waa all. Ho said that ono of tho pleas made In behalf of Mr. Cutler was that ho had seven children. chil-dren. Ho pointed to Mr. Movie and said: "Our candidato also has sevon children and ho 13 a young man yet." Tho Judgo then launched Into a discussion discus-sion of Democracy from tho National standpoint, referring to tho rural free delivery de-livery system, the irrigation bill and tho tariff, and then closed with a statement that Cutler, tho Republican nominee, wns before his nomination an unknown quantity quan-tity In Utah; so much so. In fact, that many of thoso who voted for his nomination nomina-tion supposed that chuy were voting for his brother. He also scored Chairman Spry unmercifully for the famous Interview, Inter-view, and closed by saying that he wna confident that Spry could not carry out his threat. Mr. Moyle was then Introduced and spoke for about twenty minutes, confining his remarks mostly to National Issues. |