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Show BAMBERGER IS GUEST AT KEWYORK HER Governor-elect Pays Tribute to Mormon People as Being Be-ing True and Upright. Special to The Tribune. NEW YORK, Dec. IS. Simon Bamberger, Bam-berger, go vent or-elect of Utah, the first non-Mormon to be elected as the executive ex-ecutive of that state, was the guest of honor tonight at a dinner at the Hotel Astor. Mr. Bamberger said that the Mormon element of Utah had contributed largely large-ly to his election and that it would oc his purpose to do everything in his power to aid them in their just rights. The Mormon people as a class, he said, were true and upright. Leon L. Waters presided. Among the speakers was Ealroi Stephen S. Wise. He cared little, he said, that the people of Utah in electing Mr. Bamberger had elected a Jew, but he did care because of the honor that Mr. Bamberger was sure to bring to his people. "For twenty-six years," he said, "1 have lived in a city, or shall I call it a disease? ' ' West of the Rockies, he added, was found, the true American genus and purpose, and the. west way. now. a power to be reckoned with. The election, said Rabbi Wise, had shown that the east is no longer in control.. "Simon Bamberger," he saidj "is a Jew, and, as a Jew, he will do his duty.' it is the duty ot the American Jew1 to give to America more than America gives, to him, to repay whatever America Amer-ica has given to him." Utah, he said, as a result of the election elec-tion of Mr. Bamberger, would bless the day its doors were opened to all races. |