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Show C.-C. RIGHMDS GUEST: IT S BANQUET II SILT LUKE SALT LAKE, Dec 2S. In honor of C. C. Richards, formerly of Ogden, and in recognition of his leadership In the recent county campaign. Democratic officials-elect and campaign workers of Salt Lke county met at a banquet last night at. the Rotisscrie Inn. A. j J. Wober, justice of the supreme court, ! acted as toastmaster. Brief addresses were mado by legislators-elect and by successful candidates on the county ticket, as well as by those who devoted their energies to the success of the campaign - i Mrs. Elizabeth J, Hayward, member-elect member-elect of the state senate, told of what she knew of women as lawmakers, declaring de-claring that she did not believe in making mak-ing too many laws, but expressed the hopo that the coming legislature would j enact some laws which. the last session i failed to enact and which she considered consid-ered necessary. She urged the women I of the next session to treat the men ' with more consideration than the men j treated-1 the women 'at the last s"cs i sion. 'I Urges Need of Newspaper. Walter Sloan spoke of "The Demo-1 era lie Press of Utah," declaring that i there is need of a Democratic party l newspaper in Utah. Attorney Allen j T. Sanford spoke on "Tho Need of Leg-1 islation in Regard to Banking in Utah," urging the passage of a law regulating banks similar to the Oklahoma law. Judge John F. Tobin spoke on "The Judge and the Law." County Commissioner C. F. Stillman reviewed some of the "Needs of Salt Lake County." referring particularly to tho need of improvements on the state highways. He urged the establishment of a girl's' home to take care of tho unfortunate, un-fortunate, and the segreation of patients pa-tients in the county inflrutury and hospital. hos-pital. R. E. Currie spoke on "The Workmen's Compensation Act and Amendments Which Should Be Made to It." and what the Democratic party had pledged in that direction. He said that an effort was being made to bring Thomas J- Duffy of Ohio to Salt Lake, that he may appear before a Joint session ses-sion of the legislature to explain state insurance. J. W. McKiuney, in speaking on the subject of "Looking Forward," eulogized eulo-gized President Wilson as the greatest statesman the world has ever known. "Thomas Jefferson," he said, "wrote the Declaration of Independence for the United States, while President Wilson Wil-son has written the declaration of independence in-dependence for the world." President Wilson, he declared, belongs not only to the whole world, but to the ages, and will succeed in bringing about a league of nations to eliminate war for all time. In responding to the honor of the occasion, oc-casion, Mr. Richards said that the Democrats were successful in the last campaign because they ' hooked on" to President Wilson's kite. While the Democrats had a majority of 4000 in Utah in tho lats campaign, he declared that in the next thoy would have a majority ma-jority of 10,000. He spoke of the corrupt cor-rupt practices act as the greatest piece of lau making performed by any parly in the history of Utah. |