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Show BRIMHALL REVERSES SELF; GRANT CALLS IT SLANDER Special to Tho Tribune. PROVO Oct. 22. B. F Grant, in his spooch at the opera house hero lust night, defended George II. Brlmlmll. president pres-ident of the B. V. university. In tbla way: " have hoard a. damnable slander against a gentleman and I wish to refute re-fute It. It has been stated that tho bead of tho Brlghnm Young university wus going out to speak ng-.tlnst prohibition prohi-bition I do not believe I his for tho reason rea-son that a year ago that gentleman told me that the only way to protect tho young men and women that luivo como here to uttend the university was statewide state-wide prohibition. I will not hcllovo now that ho Is going to take the slump and speak against prohibition until I hear hlni do it, and therefore, 1 wish to defend de-fend him against thin unjust chnrgo." Brlmhall Is billed to speak In several of tho Utah towns against the Democratic Demo-cratic platform, and In favor of the Republican Re-publican mnkcshlft. He was tho principal prin-cipal speaker aL a Republican rally In Springvlllo tonight. A yonr ago this llmo Brlmhall gathered gath-ered together all the studonts of the university uni-versity and paraded thorn through tho streets of Provo with Instructions for each studont to hollow for nlato-wlde prohibition. In tho front ranko of tho procession a banner waa carried wJiich declared that iitatc-wldc prohibition wns the only proper way lo deal with tho liquor evil. This same student body are now asking each other. Why have Brlmhall and President Keclcr changed? Was stale-wide prohibition right a year ago and wrong now? |