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Show Wl MUST GOME, DECURES W. H. KING Senator-elect Asks Nation to Meet Situation With Sober Thought. Special to The Tribune. OGDEX, Feb. 17. In a plea to meet the situation with sober thought and to be prepared for a call to armi: in defense of American rights upon the high seas, United States Senator-elect William H. King, in a speech here tonight declared that in his opinion war between Germany Ger-many and the United States cannot be averted. 'SVhile still hoping that there might not be war, he declared that he could not yet see a way out of it and that the only thing to do is to be prepared pre-pared for it. The senator-elect, together with Con-gressmaii-elcet Milton H. Wellington, was the guest of honor at a banquet in the Weber club given by the club officials, of-ficials, the Ogden publicity bureau and members of" the 1919 celebration committee. com-mittee. More than forty business and professional men were present, Colonel C. A. Boyd presiding as toastmaster following fol-lowing the dinner. The affair assumed the nature of a gridiron meeting, in which political jibes were flung by both Democrats and Republicans. W. H. Wattis, president of the Weber We-ber club and Chairman of the Hughes national alliance during the 1910 campaign, cam-paign, confessed that he could not cou-i cou-i trol the Democrats along about is'ovem-ber is'ovem-ber 7, so ho turned the toastmastership over to a prominent Democrat. Mayor A. K. Hey wood was introduced as "the mayor of Corinne, Utah," the city executive ex-ecutive having referred to that town in his recent paving campaign. ' Former For-mer Judge J. A. Howell took upon himself by reason of his campaign speeches much of the credit for the Democratic victory. Among tho other' speakers were W. V. Bay, United States district attorney; H. 11.' Henderson, W. Ij. Wattis, Judge A. V; Agee and C. C. Kiehards. . Congressman-elect Welling said the citizens of (Igden should not feel that they were the only onr3 interested in the proposed commemoration in 1919 of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. It is his opinion that every citizen of Utah is keenly interested in the event that has been proposed for commemoration with a celebration in this city. Kcnatnr-elect Kinir, who was the last speaker, .-irouseri his hearers to a pitch of patriotic enthusiasm with a plea tnr A niericai-.ism in (his hour of need, iireing Ihm tn fnrL;et partisanship In their sup- ! pc-i-t of tile piesi-ir-nt and congress In whatever mav he the result of the crisis. In part, in; said: My friends, r pray that we mav nnt have var, but 1 am afraid we are po-in? po-in? to have it. There is one thins tn do at this time, and that is to t;et ready fnr if. We niLst stand behind our president and cnn.Erress in uphold-in? uphold-in? the Integrity of the Stars and Stripes. (Jr-rmany ha s announced it propositinn which rannnt he tnlorntc-1 l.v the I'nited Slates. It lias said Hint the liicli seas are not nnen to (lie i-nmni'Mfc of tho 1'nited States, and J nnr fjn-.: n meat will iipvpr submit to any country tn sav that an.- American citizen may not travel the sc;;s iipnn an Amcri.-an vessel. The tlilnu to do Is tn call 10 arms a million men. vft want tn he sober t0 I11Plt tll(s rp stonsibilty and I now ask vou. my friends, to think, not as Ininrrals f not as Republicans, hut as Americans! i .Tire sr-mlor-elect declared In ron.-ln- i smn that at t lie dose of the European . wnr the 1'uil-d Stales will dominate k-try k-try country of the to",:. Unth he and , i nnsressnian-eleet WV-Hln-s rlcdced their ' support in the plans fi- 1c, nnv decide npnn for eommemorallnc the completion of the first transept mental railroad with a celebration in l o I f. |