OCR Text |
Show Appeal to President to Call kH Fe (1 e ra I 0 f f i c i al s i n Jj: BEG HIM TO COMPEL 1 BUNCH TO KEEP HANDS 0El Executive Committee Addressgf Letter to Cliiei Magistrate Which Contains Demand. l' Pernicious activity in politics is tiM reason why (ho Republican Proliibitidjfi& league of Utah asks President Taft remove the federal bunch in this greiiW state and in their stead appoint meVftl who have no axes to grind politieall but who have the best interests OjEfo nearly a half million people at hearflP, Thursday morning the RopubHcawj prohibitionists of Utnh. that is tllS2 executive committee of the stale, hellE: u meeting. This committee diseusaojHWi several matters in connection with Hii liquor question in Utah. There waafEfo good attendance. jgg .'It will be remembered (hat on FcfflSf, ruary 2o last there was a great maill, meeting held iu the Salt Lake thatsk compo.-icd of delegates to (he church RSg publican party. These delegates werWi representatives of a. pnrfv which theiRl had control of tho legislature, wbicK? was then iu session. Senators and mcnil: hers of the legislature were iuvitcd ariff.' were present in the famous old pluj2' house. There were speeches galore-, there were resold I ions, adopted. Tt wajR a love feast upon the part of th5 church Republicans. There were othSRV church Republicans present, but tho"ftJ were not prohibitionists. At this meeting there was a serielfif of resolutions adopted in favor of prfljB hibition. These resolutions were draMg" tic, Tiy their attendance the legislwS tors gave quasi-consont to the nrtS&j (.codings. Temperance was the watdlK? word. Afterwards, when opportunitmjj was presented, the legislators vot'eg against liquor legislation. .up Federal Bunch Too Active. JS Tt is stated, by members of the TiaK publican Prohibition league that this uSff tion of the legislature was due to tb'S federal bunch, who made a deal wittS the brewers and liquor interests of iYmff state that in return for a deli", cry of thJpf vote of the liquor iuterests in Salt LakjB count- to the church Republican partE that no legislation should be had detrigg menial to tho liquor men. BJ Tho great mass convention of the SjP publican Prohibition league adopt $Bi resolutions which it believed representee the church Republicans of tho statK f'oiiies of those resolutions wero sulB mitted to each member of tho IcgislsjlE ture. and also to both senate and houjfi collectively. Action in accord with thjfl resolutions, if is alleged, was defcatfp bj' the federal bunch." sSK Appeal to the President. 9Kt Thursday was the dato of the firjjj? meeting of tho Republican Prohibit! jM league' sinco the mooting of tho legMB lalure. The executive committee inU dulged in somo pretty plain tallijfl .Kin ally a letter was draffnd addiossoijH to the" president of the Tinted StateB in which tho substance of the TcsolrH lions was set' forth; the actjvity of fojjP oral appoiutces in Utali in defeatinB temperance legislation, as the activiH of this bunch iu all political affairs iP Utah was set forth, and the chief maa istrate was appealed io call off tu9P members of the bunch in their'jiiterfowB ence in tho politics of Utah, or othcjB wise the. party would be so disruptoH that. the. state would bo lost, lo tho party Efforts to Keep Mooting Secret. lrivery effort was made to keep HV details of the meeting secret, as ilujfr reply from the executive upon tho matMy ie.r,it was believed, would be ;i grcajte campaign document, and it was also bi licved would put a quietus upoWb further open efforts of the bunch. Bujflp the detail leaked out. The letter tKT the president, it. was stated, was signtiHBfc by Wesley K. Walton, chairman of tKjj State Ncpublican Prohibition 'eagulHii and Xephi Morns, president of the coiBfr venfion. at which the resolutions WCM adopted. |