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Show JUDGE III AS A RANTER Makes Many - Rash Statements. Speech Full of Demagogical Utterances Wholly Unjustified. Un-justified. Appeals to Church Hatred in One Sentence and Deplores It in Another. r Special to The Tribune. SPANISH FORK. Nov. 2. Judge John B. Mlln'er of Provo City and Hon. William H. King spoke at the Democratic rally hero last night. Each paid his respecta to tho Representatives which the Republican Repub-lican party had sent to. Congress Brown, Cannon, Kcarns, Howell and Smoot King said that Kearns, Howell and Smoot wero not much of anything arid d n little of that. Personally ho had nothing against Smoot, believed he should be rc- talned In his scat, and wonki gladly do all he could to secure hl3 retention. Tho Republican party was responsible for tho Smoot Investigation and should be rebuked re-buked at tho polls. Kearns, Howell and Smoot had done nothing for Utah. They had drawn their pay, which a dumb man could do, Jolly for Polygamists. There was danger of a constitutional amendment aimed at a certain class of our citizens and we must have a man In Congress who would be heard. That irian was Judge Powers .no i ejjuumieu mo statement inai u Powers was scratched with a pin he would be found a Liberal still. Years gone by Utah had been pictured as a black spot on the map of the United States and at the present time there was n National nnd almost world-wide antipathy for the Mormon people and their religion. Blamed Republican Party. Ho blamed the Republican party for this. .After serving his church abroad and returning re-turning to Utah he was one of the llrst to lift up his voice In favor of division on party lines as a means of allaying prejudice and securing Statehood He said he Joined the sage brush Democracy Dem-ocracy and worked for that end. He deprecated the formation of the American party and laid the blame at the door of the Republicans. He made frequent quotations quo-tations from the Dcseret News and was significantly silent as to the other papers. Jumped Onto Roosevelt. Taking up National Issues, ho opposed the re-election of Roosevelt because ho had not killed tho trusts, which he had the right and power to do. He waxed warm and eloquent In endeavoring to show that Roosevelt was the man with the big stick, a man of war, ambitious for world power, favored by the peoplo of Great Britain as they wished to have a great navy that we might aid them pulling pull-ing their chestnuts out of tho fire. Mayor James Cuer presided. M. I. A. band furnished the music. A small audience au-dience greeted the speakers, which Increased In-creased till a fair audience was present at the close. |