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Show BIG RALLY HELD flTENfilHflUSE Woman's American Club Pre- j sides Over an Enthusiastic I , iMccting. ! PROMINENT PARTY MEN MAKE STRONG ADDRESSES Excellent Musical Programme Adds to Pleasure of (lie Evening. ', I Engine house No. 1, on I street, between be-tween Fourth and Kifth avenuea, was the scene of :i verj enthusiastic rally under the ' auspices of tho Woman's Amcricun club Friday evening. The firemen fire-men had decorated the hall beautifully with American flags and spared no efforts ef-forts to make the rally a success. Firemen Thomas and Hoffman rendered ren-dered a lively duet on guitar and mandolin mando-lin which was warmly applauded. Curtis Cohen followed with a spirited campaign song composed by himself, his sister Miriam acting as accompanist. Mrs. Cohon. chairman of the meeting, then introduced Allen T. Sanford. congressional con-gressional nominee, as the llrst speakor of the cVening. Mr. Sanford stated that' tho object of the American parly was i not the luilding of office, but the spreading spread-ing of the principles of true American- j Ism; to bring about Lite day when men; shall not be commanded to vote thus i or so because It is the will of the Lord, but shall vote according to their own! honest convictions. Mr. Sanford then , declared that the American party has grown stroimer steadily, profiting by Its defeats, until Its principles are now cf- ! fecllvc In Salt Lake City and it has' the county well within its grasp. Iloi spoke of the rich acrlcultural possiblli-' ties of the stale held dormant, under tho t Iron rule of prlesliaft and contrasted ; It with the progress and development of the city under American rule. Speaking! of the control of the federal bunch in tills st,ale Mr. Sanford said: '' Question Is Answered. "Why Is It that the national Republican Republi-can party gives over to the church politicians poli-ticians the absolute control of the patronage pat-ronage of this slate? It Is because of a deal between the national Republican leaders and the leaders of the Mormon church whereby tho latter contributes largely to the national5 Republican campaign cam-paign fund and are In return assured control of Utah, Idaho and adjoining states." Mr. Sanford referred In scathing terms to the letter of Governor Spry, saying its main purpose was to obtain some fifty paid workers for the church parly, lie also called attention to tho manifest mani-fest unfairness of Governor Spry in not calling In the mayor and chief of police and consulting with them before requesting re-questing the appointment of the deputies. depu-ties. ' At the close of Mr Sanford's ro-marks, ro-marks, Mr. Dunuesno rendered the song, "Good Night, Dear." Rives Nails "Gimlet.'' T5. S. Rives was then introduced and proved a very popular and witty speaker, lie spoke in glowing terms of lhc work of the ladles of the American parly ip the past and In the present campaign, saving that Ihey were first to catch the spirit of Americanism and will be the last to give up the fight. He. recalled the. contempt with which the priesthood viewed the first appeaniRce of the American Amer-ican party and contrasted It with their present attitude of fear. Speaking of Ihe. federal bunch, he said: "On the Slh of November they arc going to take a sail, in a. bark water-logged, loaded with political carrion, with miid-sllng-Ing tie vices, gum shoes, and with that rrd-licaded newspaper nailed to the masthead mast-head as their flag, out upon the unknown un-known sea to the Island of oblivion." Answering An-swering the question asked by tho Republican Re-publican press as to what Is done with the monev raised bv taxation In this city. Mr. Rives slated that' SS.saB.OOO In round numbers, hud been spent for Improvements, Im-provements, the city's portion of ' this being $2,2R1.000. and that of abutting property owners 5.", 051. 000, showing conclusively con-clusively where the money raised by taxation has gone. That in other cities the entire cost of such improvements Is borne by the abutting property owners, and that If this were the case in Salt Lake It would bo possible to lower the rale, of taxation. Curtis Cohen then gave another campaign cam-paign song entitled "Joseph and Smoot," which provoked much apptansc- Blgllt to tho Point. .fudge J. E. Darmcr spoke of the purpose pur-pose of the American parly to rid tho slate of church ronl'rol and expressed a decided opinion that the fact of the federal fed-eral bunch calling upon Governor Spry to Issue his outrageous letter Indicated that tho bunch felt that II. could no longer count on the support of President Smith; that as the head of the church' he would not in this campaign come forward and call upon the Mormon voters to vote tho Republican ticket as In tho campaign two years ago; that their calling call-ing upon Governor Spry was an evidence evi-dence of absolute weakness, lie slated that this is an American yenr In Utah and that the party will receive a largo increase of votes in I lie county. Mrs. Cohen then urged all who had not registered lo do so on November 1, without fall. Mr. Dunuesno sang "The Garden of noses,' being accompanied by Mr. "Mann. At the close of lhc rally refreshments were served bv, the ladles of the club, and Firemen Thomas and Hoffman gave several excellent musical selections. |