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Show HUGHES CHIPS HU6E I, AUDIENCE AT SALT : LAKE TABERNACLE Thunderous Cheers Greet Him As He ,J V rExpouses Democratic Errors and Outlines Remedies For Ills "FLAG AND HONOR ARE EVER FIRST" Salt Lake, Aug. 25. With the greatest outpouring of people who ever recclveil a presidential candidate candi-date in this city1, Salt Lake yesterday paid tribute to Chas. Evan Hughes, Republican nominee for the Presidency Presiden-cy ,of the United States. ) The climax to a stirring day catno last night when 12,000 persons filled every available inch of sitting and standing room in tho Tabernacle, massed themsolves iri the aisles and packed thomselves into the doorway of tho great structure to glimpse at tho distinguished visitor and to bear Ms address. And hundreds unablo tu gain entrance to the building i wero forced to stand on the outside , in tho hope of gaining' a view of him later. Tho coming of Mr. Hughes to Utah was marked by a wondeiful display of enthusiasm. From the time that Mr. Hughes stopped from the train and with Mrs. Hughes on his arm made his way through a thousand cheering admirers at the Oregon Short Line union station until ho - was ungulfed in tho vortex of the maelstrom of welcome accorded him I at tho gigantic meeting last nlfjht, he was classified as a man of the pcoplo A by all of those who came in contact W' with him. I Shows His Democracy 1 Tho first step of democracy by Mr. I Hughes was taken when he dismissed 1 a closed automobllo which had been I sent for him to tho railroad station H With a wave of his hand he sent tho I machine away and climbed Into an open car that, to use his words, "I J may see tho pcoplo." It was a cosmopolitan audlenco that beard him at the Tabernacle. Every walk of life was represented. And tho women of Utah paid their candi date a tribute such as no other presidential pres-idential nominee has - over received here. Thoy attended the meeting by the thousand. Also there was notice-ablo notice-ablo a liberal sprinkling of tho uniformed uni-formed mon who aro studying tho war gamo, i't Fort Douglas. Personality Grips Audience , Tho magnetic Pewnallty of tho nominee, his strongforceful; at times eloquent and over emphatic manner of annlyzlng his topic of dlsousslon in n simple, concise manner, nud his way of driving home his polnte In logical sequenco and Impressive de livery, yot'ir. language thot nppeaiou oven to tho humblest cltlzon present, gripped tho Tabornacle audience, who in turn stamped tholr Indelible ap-, ap-, provnl on his Individuality and wnnn ., sympathetic person. Whllo his appearance before tho While was tho signal for am outburst orapplauso, tho pent up feelings of tho audience burst forth when, as ho waB pleading for undiluted American; turn, ho said: "Wo proposo to hold before tho world tho (lag of tho United States as tho flag which has wovor botrayod a truBt." Mr. HugheB' speech was a straightforward straight-forward presentation of tho problems that confront tho country nud tho remedies as ho, as tho cnndldato of the nopuhllcan party sees them, In J , torsporsod with criticisms of the pol-kr pol-kr r Idos of tho Democratic administration administra-tion ns appllod to tho Internal proh-lems proh-lems of tho country and Its deficiencies deficien-cies in mooting tho questions tinolv od In its relations with other .nations Tho tariff, commercial and military preparedness and tho solution of cc onomlo nrobloms that ho said will ho tho war's aftermath, woro tho chh'f matters discussed by him. War Will Not 8avo Dourbons "Tho Democratic party will not ho navcil by tho Etiropoan war," tnld Mr. Hughes and tho meeting cheered again. He then dissected the position of tho Democratic party In regard to the tariff, and declared that the pcoplo pco-plo of the United States had no right to expect from the Democrats adequate ade-quate protection for American Industry. Indus-try. Ho recited tho history of tho party on tho tariff. Ho wonf" Into the propnultlon of tho Increases of exports from this country to Europe and declared de-clared that the country's prosperity now Is dependent on tho demands created In Europe for American made goods on account of tho war. Ho urged urg-ed tho voters to look forward to the end of tho European military holocaust holo-caust and' asserted that the American people could not bo fooled Into believing be-lieving that tho prosperity which has ci. ru o about as a result of the war will contlnuo when the soldiers or tho fighting nations lay down their arms and return to work In the mills-factories, mills-factories, mines and fields of Europe. "To say such a thing, that prosperity prosper-ity will bojbcrc after the war and that exports will be the same as now" said Mr. Hughes, "would tax the credulity of even the n ost export compiler com-piler of Democratic figures. Hoasscrtcd-that the Republican Tarty would stand by the Philippines. He declared that to give up the Islands Isl-ands now would be a betrayal of the promises which had been made to tho peoplo of tho Islands and that the American flag should never be hauled down until schools teaching right and knowledge and free Institutions had been established there. Ho asserted that no nation could progress If It had at the head of one of tho Important departments of the government a mnn who was unablo to fill the requirements of the department. Talks On Preparedness Mr. Hughes then took up the question ques-tion of preparedness. He asserted that the administration had made several sev-eral proposals whereby the country could bo prepared and ho declared that such an emergency existed that tho then secretary of War L. M Garrison Gar-rison preparetfBTp"r&gra$ and' that 'It met with thq approval of tho administration admin-istration until such time as it was thought by ,tho administration that another program should be Inaugurated. Inaugurat-ed. Mr. Hughes assorted that when the secretary of war's program went the secretary vent with It ' "Wo want to be propnred for"dc fense and we want to bo so prepared that we will bo understood to bo ipady for an emergency so that our words wltl be taken at full value," do-clared do-clared Mr. Hughes. When tho cheering and npplauso had subsided ho turned to tho Mexican Mexi-can situation ns regards tho sending of tho national guard to the Moxlcan border. Ho declared that tho men of tho factories of tho ofllcen and the professions should not have been taken tak-en uway to tho hordor. H pralaed tho patriotism of tho members of tho nnllonal guard and asserted that as far as ho could soo they thought thoy were taking tho federal army oath In order that they might go to the front, "My Idea of this matter Is that the United States Bhould havo large enough nrmy to prevent raids of bandits, ban-dits, bordor Incursions and petty fighting fight-ing 'without calling upon the national guard," said Mr. Hughes. Declares For Suffrage Ho closed his address with a declaration de-claration favoring woman's suffrage. Mr. Hughes ?ald tho women of tho United States could not avald tho responsibility re-sponsibility of government becauso thoy did not nil havo the ballot, and asserted that ho hoped tho tlmo would come when till should otu and shurn In tho responsibilities. His declaration declara-tion brought forth rousing cheers. |
