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Show DEMOCRATS HOLD RALLY A large audience gathered at the opera house Monday evening to hear Senator King and J. W. Funk, can dldate for congress. The Senator was late in arriving, owing to his having made a stop at Minersville to make an address, j The chairman. Russell Parsons, in jtrduced Ma Funk as a banker and a : merchant, and as one who had serv-I serv-I ed his people In the State legiola-j legiola-j ture for the past ten years. Mr. Funk, in his remarks, referred refer-red to Simon Bamberger as a capable capa-ble business man and a good Governor Gover-nor and asked his hearers to compare com-pare his business ability with that of his opponent four years ago. He said the Democnrtic party hart redeemed re-deemed its pledges made four years ago. and Inumerated some of them, nmong which were prohibition, public pub-lic utilities commission, which he said by one decision Tn coal and ore freight had saved or would save Eureka Eu-reka $1200 per week or $600,000 per year. The workman's compensation law which he said was "fair to the working work-ing men and more than fair to the common people". He claimed the credit for the revised re-vised educational laws, the part-time educational hill and the health education edu-cation for his party. He said that when the U. S. Government Gov-ernment designated the State schools of Utah as training schools, and re-ouired re-ouired the state to provide quarters for the students. Governor Bamberger, Bamber-ger, or the state authorities had good substantial build Insro erected, which will be of future use to the schools, instead of erecting temporary quarters quar-ters to be torn down when the war ended. Speaking of increased taxes, he wanted to know how the Republi cans would go n'.out reducing them. What bills, which the Democrats had passed, would they repeal. Would it be prohibition, which the Republicans refused to allow to become be-come a law; would it be the utilities utili-ties bill or would it be the work-ingman's work-ingman's condensation law. He asked, where is Utah's Senior Senator? and said that he was comfortably com-fortably located in Salt Lake in one of the big hotels, instead of being out over the state telling the people where he stood and finding out what the people wanted. It appeared to him that the Senior Senator was shirking a big responsibility, while the Junior Senator was conducting a strenuous campaign and carrying the fight Into every part and cornr I of the state. I We regret that our'ronresontp.tive I was called awnv .iust before Senior King arrived and only got bark to the opera, house as he was rtrawinsr to a close and we give only a report of the last few minutes of his speech. Senator King said the weakness weak-ness of the League was the difficulty, there would be in enforcing its orders or-ders or requests, as In his opinion, no troops could he furnished without with-out consent of congress. He said that the cry was sent out that England anil her colonies had six votes in the assembly and we only on-ly had one. This he said, was of no consequence, as really the assembly as-sembly was only a debating society, and was made up only for the pur pose of giving the smaller members some place to come and "put their feet under the table with the big ones." He said he had voted this year for $800,000,000 for our navy and for $'600,000,000 for the !r-iy and next year expected to vote for even n'w. He said that if the Let sue had been adopted we would have had to vote for only S20O.OO0 ono. this year and perhaps J100.0on.no0 next year nad $50,000,000, next i-j-t di-armament di-armament would have reduced our taxes by vast amounts. He paid Candidate Funk a glowing glow-ing tribute for his work for labor In the State legislature, and he said that Mr. Cox was the most progressive progress-ive man in the United States, or next to President Wilson. That he had done more for labor than an- r-nvr-nor. and more for the school svstem In Ohio. He said that Samuel Gompers had reviewed hie work and given Mr. I Cox his endorsement. : He said that he wished all to vote against Senator Smoot because lie was of the stand-pat type. At th" close of the meeting a reception was held and many went up to be introduced in-troduced to the speakers. |