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Show - . American candidates ' f ' address the voters ) - - . Enthusiastic Crowd Greets .County Nominees of New Party at Salt Lake Theater. The American party rally at the Salt Lake Theater Friday night was an enthusiastic en-thusiastic one, attended by more than ' 2000 persons. A.' number of candidates made stirring, speeches, the secretary of the Women's Auxiliary made an interesting in-teresting addreeal the American party drum corps gave a series of selections . that were heartily applauded, and Held's band discoursed patriotlo selee- tlons. In addition to these features the Utah Ladies Quartette and Mrs. Nellie .Plnkerton Moore gave vocal selections that were genuine treats to the music lovers present. Held's band and the American Fife and Drum corps gave numbers, after which County Chairman George L. Nye , opened the meeting. He said that those who say the American party movement , . la dying out will reverse their opinion on November 9. They will then realize that "they did not know it was loaded." The Utah quartette sang "The American Amer-ican Flag" and responded with "A Chinese Chi-nese Baby." S. P. Armstrong, candidate candi-date for City Judge, was the next speaker.. He appealed earnestly to young men to come out on the side of liberty. He declared that the young men of Utah were controlled in business busi-ness and politics by a -few men. They are denied, he said, the privileges granted grant-ed the young men in other States. The fact that there is no political liberty in Utah, he said, gave rise to the birth of the American party. The Utah quartette than sang "Annie Laurii," and B. S. Rives was Introduced. Intro-duced. He called upon Utah to rid itself it-self of ecclesiastlcism. There was more music by the band, and John E. Wlscomb recited a poem, "The Voice of the People." Mrs. Nellie Pinkerton Moore sang a solo, responding to an encore with "The Star-Spangled Banner." Ban-ner." the audience Joining in tho chorus. A. y. Taylor, candidate for the Legislature, Leg-islature, said that Utah had violated a fundamental law In sending to Congress a man high in ecclesiastical power, and then said that the people had to be shown the necessity of arousing themselves them-selves to their danger. Mrs. W. H.' Smith, secretary of the Women's Auxiliary of the American party, told of the earnest and hearty work being done by that branch, and of its results.4 N. D. Coreer, another Legislative candidate, can-didate, made an effective speech and declared that the sugar Industries of the State were' sold to the sugar trust by the Mormon church. Frank R. Chrlster.sen, candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Instruc-tion, spoke from the standpoint of a member of the Mormon church, weary of church domination in politics, protesting pro-testing against alleged conditions. The meeting was closed with a selection by the ladies' quartette. |