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Show STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION FAVORED BY DEMOCRATS Continued from Pago Tr- trust so outrngeouB, that Utah's congressional congres-sional delegation did not welcome and applaud. ap-plaud. Oratorical Pyrotechnics, When tho platform had been read there were a score of delegates upon their feet at nnce clamoring for recognition. recog-nition. Thoy were pregnant with speech and desired to be heard. State-wide prohibition was out of the ordinary in a Democratic convention and they wanted to talk and they did. John II. Anderson, who was a delegate dele-gate from Sanpete, obtained the floor by accident. He proceeded to deliver an address upon the money question which was not germane to tho platform. He was called to order several times and finally was squelched. Opposed to the Plank. A. O. Smoot of Utah county opposod the prohibitor' plank in the ' platform. He was opposod to prohibition because it put the party in an inconsistent position posi-tion and he favored having the question submitted to the people of Utah first. He cited some history in Provo made at the recent Democratic convention. Efforts made to speak upon the question ques-tion there were denied. People, he said, wanted tho question to come squarely before the people. Ho believed in referendum ref-erendum and if an attempt was made to cram this platform down the throats of the people of Utah it was the gravest grav-est mistake that the .Democratic party ever made. The senior senator now has the absolute majority in the state in his pocket if this platform is adopted. adopt-ed. He wanted to be fair. He asked that the people have a chance that they bo taken into the confidence of tho party. He know more about the proposition prop-osition than did the senior senator from Utah. Ho therefore moved to refer this plank back to the committee with instructions in-structions that they submit in lieu thereof a plank declaring that the ques-tion ques-tion be submitted to tho people. Jesse Knight was then recognized. He gave some facts regarding the kind of officers the liquor men of Provo elected, and scorod City Attorney Anderson mercilessly. He was loudly cheered. Weber County Hampant. C. A. Body of Weber county said that when the prohibition plank was reached the convention wont wild. There must be no union of church and state. The Democratic party could not afford to bo cither hypocrite or thief. This question is not a paramount issue; no new issue is needed. This convention was too much like a Republican convention too much gag rule. A motion to limit speeches to three minutes" caused several votes to be taken. Frank Stephons Talks. Frank B. Stephens was recognized and declared his belief in state-wide prohi-tion. prohi-tion. and would vote for it, and while he disagreed with Mossrs. Smoot and Boyd, he believed that a mistake was" beinnr made in not submitting tho question ques-tion to the people. He believed the plank should be for state-wide prohibition, prohibi-tion, but that this plank should contain a clauso submitting the matter to tho people. He said that, the state W. G. T. U. in session in Provo had submitted submit-ted a plank to tho committee, asking that the next legislature pass a constitutional consti-tutional amendment for submission to the people by which they could decide for themselves the question of prohibition. prohibi-tion. This done, then the matter would bo decided absolutely. Mr. Call of Box Elder county advocated advo-cated the adoption of the platform as presented. Mr. Howard of Emery count" stated that tho convention in his county which elected delegates had instructed those delegates to vote for prohibition. He said that if the people had the freedom they wanted, that everything would have to be locked up. . TTe advocated the adoption of the platform as read. An Aged Man Heard. Judge John B. Milner of Utah county, who had always advocated Democratic principles, who had been a student for seventy-eight years, spoke for young Utah, who wanted to voto upon this question. He was opposed to prohibition prohibi-tion on high moral grounds, and he stood with A. O. Smoot on the question. I He wanted the question submitted to tho people at a special election. He demanded that the people bo given a chance. A. B. Morgan of Utah count v declared the liquor question was a political issue in Utah, made so by tho Federal bunch, and we must moot it, he said. Looked Like Glasmann. Mr. Owen of Cliche county, recognized, recog-nized, declined to come to tho platform for fenr he would be taken for Bill Glasmann, and this would be an awful thing. His county was for prohibition, and would vote for prohibition, he said. Cache county, if this platform was auupieu, wouiu, no sain, senu a senator and throe representatives to the legislature. legis-lature. J. P. Overfield of Salt Lake declared he would support state-wide prohibition if tho partY so declared. Ho hoped the plank would be adopted, but with a clause that the matter bo submitted to the people. J. H. Moyle Talks. J. H. Movie of Salt Lake, while strongly in favor of slate-wide prohibition, prohibi-tion, declared that he would vote for the amendment which would submit the question to the people. . Mr. Boyd of Weber then offered 'a substitute for the motion of Mr. Smoot, viz.. "We pledge the Democratic members mem-bers of tho next legislature to refer the question of state-wide prohibition under un-der the initiative and referendum to a vote of the people for their approval or rejection within ninety days after the adjournment of the legislature, and we bind our legislators to such action. Stephens Amendment. Frank B. Stephens moved as a substitute sub-stitute that the last clause be not stricken out. which was read as to be stricken out. Mr. Kimball of Salt Lake spoke for tho platform. Ex-Mayor Roylance of Provo was for the platform as presented, liny Van Cott of Salt Lake said that tho passage of the law as proposed iu the amendment would be unconstitutiou-al. unconstitutiou-al. Ho favored the platforn) as pre sented, and wanted to go before the peoplo now on the proposition. John L. Tobin of Salt Lake favored submitting the question to a special election. elec-tion. Pavors State-Wide. Mrs. S. A. Kenner of Salt Lako spoko in behalf of mothers, even' one of whom, Bhe said, favored state-wide prohibition. pro-hibition. She was in favor of the platform plat-form as presented. Judge Erickson of Sanpete spoke to the amendment. As to referring the question to tho people, he as mayor of Mt. Pleasant had been "urged to have a law passed to close saloons, but he declined to do so until there was stato-wide stato-wide prohibition He was in favor of taking the bull by the horns, meet the issue straight and tho Democrats would win. Judge Burton Vehement. Judge J. W. Burton of Salt Lako and member of tho committee on resolutions, resolu-tions, opposed tho amendment to refer the question back as the committee was unanimous in favor of state-wide prohibition. pro-hibition. Mrs. Eoundy of Salt Lako, the oldest old-est oorson in the convention, 80 years of age. appoaled to the convention to adopt the platform as presented. J. F. Tolton of Beaver then moved the previous question but withdrew the motion to permit Judge King to be heard. William H. King Speaks. Judge King said for j-ears he had been president of an anti-saloon loague of Utah but with all his predilections against Baloons-be would not force his views upon the humblest citizen. He believed, he said, that large numbers num-bers of Democrats were iu favor of prohibition. pro-hibition. Mauy Republicans were likewise like-wise in favor but would not vote for it when tho question was submitted by the" Democratic party. He favored the submission of the question to the people. peo-ple. Platform Adoptod. J. F. Tolton then moved the prcvioul question which was adopted, and the main question, the Stephens amendment, was put. Abel John Evans then appealed from tho decision of tho chair thut the previ-ous previ-ous question had been ordered. Tho chairman was sustained. The Stephens amendment was then lost amid great cheering. Then the plntform as originally presented pre-sented was adopted after two hours and twenty-nine minutes of talk. Final Judge Erickson of Sanpete was nominated for congress by acclamation, accla-mation, and Judge C. C. Richards of Ogden for justice of the supreme court. Then the cenvention named tho fol lowing stato committee. Beaver, John R. Tanner; Box Elder, J. G. Call; Cache, Hyruin G. Hayball, Evan R. Owen, Ai W. Funk; Carbon, Car-bon, N. M. Madscn, David L. J. Muir; Emery, William Howard; Grand, F. A. Robinson; Juab. Mag Sennel; Millard, R. W. King; Summit. George Smith; Salt Lako, W. R. Wallace, F. F. Fern-strom.-Ray Van Cott, T. H. Fitzgerald, James ,H. Moyle. John F. Tobin, S. R. Thu rmau; Tooele, A. J. Green; Vash inglou, E. II. Murray; Wasatch, A. W. Clyde; Utah, .lames H. Clark, ITyrum Lommon. W. S. Giles; Weber. F G. Smith, John Seaman; Sanpete, Joseph Judd. L. P. Helton. The committee will meet next Monday evening at James H. Moyle 's office in Salt Lake City, and a state chairman will be elected at that meeting. Knight a Candidate. Just as the convention was about to olosc, Wilford S. Giles, a delegate from Utah countyarose and stated that Uncle Un-cle Jesse Knight would be a candidate for governor of Utah on the Democratic ticket two 3'ears from now, and Mr. Knight wished to say a few words to the Democrats beforo the adjournment. With cheers and loud apnlausc Jesse Knight went onto tho platform und made a short talk. He said: "You will know before J get through where I got my education. I got it while driving driv-ing oxen across phe plains. T have felt" guilt' ever since two years ago, when ! I refused the nomination, but my judg-nient judg-nient was then that I ought not hike it, but T have since then got a little sense. Iu caso f am elected, which of course I will be, the Republicans need not worry about the money part of it. T will not accept any salary. I can tell the Democrats how to run thiuf cheaply. " Thon ho told of how he drove the give-out ox team from Provo to the southern part of tho stato, and when ho got to his journey's end, the man who owned the ox team would not pay him a cent of money. He then rode an Tndian ponv back to Provo, stopping with friends en route. He declared "the lying Hcrald-Rcpnblican need not worry itself about, whether or not I paid ! any campaign expenses; I will do just' as I please about that.'' ' I |