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Show MR KING SAYS MONEYED ! INTERESTS SEEK TO BEAT HIM Tiaker in Tabernacle Address Declares Big Blows Know He Will Vote to Unseat New-try New-try and So They Are Supporting Bamberger jtah; Only One Man in Audience, Says He, Ers Seating pf Michigan Solon arlnp thR' it.- rrf.ii moneyed E of the nation desired his de-Smusp de-Smusp the position which he Co and would take as to tho Kf Truman 11. Newberry, and Lrly because of the position Wa hoi.j with reference to rc-Hf rc-Hf an attempt to declare the fcupled by that senator vacant Cert congress, Senator William J at the i )c;.l u t i; rn la st J urged ih. pr'Tf--siv forces Hbublican party to rally to tort of his cause, and d-noufv;-freactlonTy elements of both to an udi.-n.-' Si. ). . rowd- Kjlld lr Werencn to the Newberry' cas bothetlcnl. yet occupied a con-kpart con-kpart of the ynator'8 address fcommentod on the fact that membership on the cominltteo u ar.d privileges, the coinmtt-fen coinmtt-fen hai Investigated the La-ICtJe. La-ICtJe. H." ,rl;' '' r ' "' nnd ifbsrry case Mention of the l he had helped pre parr a fhlch recommended the un-Fjfewberrv un-Fjfewberrv brmnrht a (Treat Bplause. which diverted the Hrom tho main trend of his fTE VOT( V s At Ks. I Eared that a few had not I Khe applause and asked if & there u .r.,l ia v.tod to 1 Kor Newberry. On. lono Hied "Yes " The ...n.itor re-he re-he ln.i I LI i i ! in stand, say- I HS felt the i ns Ogden mow the man who justified (berry seating, but no one J Kiln g the N'. v. berry matter King r. ! l i 1 1 ". t i-om-I Been made during I BUt th. Liidldacy of Henrj I KoppeesM Newberry In the RDecla rlnir that he was Hfthe movi-ruent to place Mr Komlnatlon for th. it. siden- diil favor the candidacy of Mbbs McAdoo, the speaker jHa comparison of Ihe two I Bribing s ( rry n :, v., al- Iwho had an armchair Job I Brk during the war. living Brlous hotel, married to an ossessini: 3r, mi'llons of dol-aelf dol-aelf the son of a man who I HT wealthy exploiting the ources of Michigan, an I b - fected v.l'li rr.'-n pT'-at e..- Hirhlch amassed fort i in period, while Henr p'ord f building Eagle boats for HStatcs without any prof'.t CKED BY P fkv By. he said, was picked by 11 of Will street he was not of th-- people of Michigan. ncTiman, a Mr. Kins: Blchinn to examine into tho far of Mr v. uli rr'.H andl-Kad andl-Kad wn.-d La.!: to his cm-Bpu'll cm-Bpu'll have to Bpend n lot You'r. hardly known mi J Thi- fact. Senator King was deeirp d In the com .1 restlgu'i n In P.,- senate IBtiey?" asl-'-d !'i- speaker.) jHs political machinery, to' corrupt voters, to buy newspapers, and to control the result of the primaries. It was progressive Republicans who lodged a protest against tho seating of Newberry " HE IS POI NT) GUIITY. Newberry was indicted, ho declared, declar-ed, under a federal act prohibiting tho spending of more than $10,000 In connection con-nection with the primary campaign and general election by one seeking the office of United States senator, was Indicted by a grand Jury, most of whose members were Republicans, tried before a Retubllean judge, and a Jury' composed of Republicans, and found guilty The supreme court decision, de-cision, the senator explained, found that that part of the act which ma le it applicable to primaries was in conflict con-flict with the constitution of the United Unit-ed States, and that since there was no evidence Introduced at the trial rela-tle rela-tle to fraud at the general election that the conviction could not stand Ho declared that Newberry was guilty of three or four breaches of the state i j law relating to corrupt practices at i elections, but that the machinery of justlci-, including the offices of prosecuting pros-ecuting attorneys In Michigan were rilbd with Newberry supporters, nnd I that no prosecutions had resulted there. He added tiiat practically every ev-ery federal appointment made in Michigan by the present administration administra-tion had beezl nf a man v. bo had been Jointly indicted with and convicted with Senator Newberry'. SHOULD HE BE SEATED,? "But what if he did not break the law?" asked the senator. "Will any here justify his seating thon? Suppose Sup-pose that a man went out In this state and spent one hundred thousand dollars, two hundred thousand dollars, four hundred thousand dollars, to secure se-cure his nomination and election to the office of United States senator would you feel that he was entitled , to obtain and bold a seat in the Unit-el Unit-el States senate by such means9 You1 might just as well abolish our form of government, because If the time Is to r-n m o tv n, n the UTJhO.lfrli of n m n n : !s to determine his fitness to occupy that high seat, and by such expenditure expendi-ture thereof he may be secured Ln that seat, you will hae an oligarchy of rich men, who ln time will be ablo to perpettiate themselves In power, and to retain in their hands the governing gov-erning fori I'd of the nation. Better one despot than a body of such oligarchs." oli-garchs." RESOLUTON RECITED. In concluding his remarks on the Newberry case, the senator rcf rr d to the resolution which was pass d in closing the matter so far as tho present congress Is concerned. a u resolution which said In effect "Whereas. It appears that the amount of money expended by Mr. Newberry and his associates was large, and In fact much too lorwe aim Whfcreas tho exjiendlture of s?icb excessive sums on behalf of any candidate, being contrarv to BOUJld public policy, harmful harm-ful to the bcm"- and dignity of th si nate, and dangerous to tho perpetuity perpe-tuity of a free government, such ex-j cesslve expenditures are hereby se- vrroly condemned and ijlsapprovd ; ' therefor since It appears that too ' much money was spent on behalf of ' Mr. N'owbcrry, be It resolved that Mr. N'ewborry be seated." It wa following thtfl thnt. Penntor ! Klnpr declared that bin CAmpaUfn for 1 re-election to the BOnatl vn meeting I the opposition of the moneyed In- terests stating- that ;is a member of the ' committee on privilege! and elections-, j he would be ajfaln called to p;iss upon I the Newberry case, that at tbut time; despite the fa:t brought out at the I senate Investigation that lh books covering" the campaign had been humeri, he believed with Um aid of the progressive Republican senators, tifH ink bOOkt Showing expenditures i could be forced out from concealment land that with the additional evidence I which could thus bo produced, it could plainly be shown that Mr. New- berry had no moral right to his seat, j' AUjDES TO BAMBERGER. I He declared that Mr. Bamberger, i Judging from pronouncements made In his behalf, would vote against such j matters, and that to remove him from the committee which would consldor ; the matter, and to seat a ftenator from Utah whose voice would be against i such an Investigation was the purpose pur-pose of the fight made by the moneyed Interests upon him. "I'M vote to unseat Newberry," he declared. "A vote for Mr Bamberger Is a vote for Newberry " The main thene of the senator's address, ad-dress, from which he digressed to cover tho New-berry episode, was the trend of progrcssl vlsm in American public life He recalled that the Democratic Demo-cratic party was once known as the i Republican party, and was the successor suc-cessor of the Anti-Federalist party, lied by Thomas Jefferson against tin Federalist party led by Alexander Hamilton, and other such men as Rufus King, the senator's great-great uncle. This Rufus King he recalled, was the last of the leaders of the Federalists, being defeated for the presidency of the United States by James Monroe in an electoral college In which at first all votes were rant for Mr Monroe, one delegate Inter hanging his voie on the ground that he did not think any American after Washington wa-? entitled tb be .s ated by unanimous vote The Republican party s name, he recalled, w as soon changed to that of the Democratic party and when that party, after the longest lease of power ever held by a party In this country, became reactionary. re-actionary. Abraham Lincoln led a new-Republican new-Republican part to victory JEFFERSON QUOTUD. The fundamental truth of government, govern-ment, he said, had been laid down by Thomas Joft'erson In the declaration, "Eijual and exact justice to all and special privileges to none." and this truth he declared had been expounded by the emancipator Yet, he said, Lincoln before falling before the assassin's Luilet had prophesied that the time would come. If his party held to long a lease of power, when it niiebf become th. tool of the :reelii ! Interests, and that prophecy had been I soon fulfilled. With its fulfillment, had arisen great trusts, nnd the amassing of fortune, by the admls- slon to this country and the exploitation exploita-tion here of pauper labor from abroad, and by hitch tariff exactions. ) He recalled the rise of Theodore INio.s. x i it. paying high compliment to the former leader of the Bull Moose, j the administration of William H. Taft as president, and the passage of the i Payne-Aldrlch tariff bin the change .in policy which followed the election of Woodrdw Wilson, and brought the house into an outburst of great applause ap-plause by reading a tribute which he had paid on the floor of tho senate last March to the Democratic leader, Following this, ho devoted his time largely to an attack upon the tariff bill recently passed by congress t.iti :t ntoriTs i i i r A feature of ihls part of the address ad-dress was the production by the senator sen-ator of an article of cotton einth J a knife, and a pair of scissors which he declared were furnHbfd him by the I'alr Tariff league, an organization of Republicans devoted to tho ad-rocacy ad-rocacy Of a fair protective tariff. He Cite? reat prof.ts. aggregating in ln-crcase ln-crcase in surplus and dividends paid some $74,000,000 on n capital of M.OOO.OrtO by the Amoskeag companv, maker of the cotton cloth exhibited, whlcb profits, he declared, would be enhanced under the present tariff, and chargen that the tariff rates nlaced on the knife und scissors, re-ipectlvely, re-ipectlvely, would admit of profits of .'100 per cent and 1 -I ." per cent, l Ks PROTECTION. During his speech, the senator tdjk occasion to declare thai lie favored i protective tariff, and had favorod particularly a tariff on the wool and sugar Industries He stated that ho was paired with Senator McCumber, i.nder of the Republicans in the senate sen-ate in the fight over the tariff bill and that the spectacle had appeared r" the Republican leader, McCumber, paired as voting against the sugar schedule, while he, Senator King, had been paired In favor thereof He referred re-ferred to tho tariff of 1846 ln one part of his uddress as being the sort of tariff he faored, and doclarod that James G Blaine, ln his memoirs had referred to this tariff as having been the fairest tariff ever placed ln effect a tariff which favored no section, sec-tion, no class and no commodity. The senator declared that he had joined such Republicans as Senators Norrls. Cummins. Nelson. Borah and LaFol-lettC LaFol-lettC In protesting against the bill as trained, although he favored some individual schedules, and added: TOO Ml ( H DE4 LAREO POISON. "Because a pinch of strychnin might be good for me. Is not a rea-j rea-j son for taking a pound of Strychnine, a pound ot arsenic and a pound of Paris green The pinch of strychnine might be a tonic for the stomach, ana aid the system, but the pound of strychnine, the pound of arsenic and the pound of parls green would mean a short trip to the cemetery.'' The senator spent a considerable portion of his time in referring to tho community of Interests which, he declared, de-clared, exists between progressive Republicans Re-publicans and Democrats and that existing ex-isting between tho reactionaries of both parties. He referred to an oc- I caslon when he had asked Senators I Borah and Kcnyon to state their po- ' liilcaJ faith ln writing, he to do tho ' same, and had told them that when that wan done, he would venture that there would not be a whit of difference differ-ence oetwoen them He declared tnat bo voted with tho progressive Repoo-llcans Repoo-llcans on most matters and that the i names of Republican and Democrat, should be disregarded the label look- ed beneath and tho voter ai-K-ertaln ; for what the man parrying the laoel I stood, and vote accordingly. "I am what ls known as an Ind ?- ' pendent on many matters." he said, i ' which means that I do not always follow my party loaders or my party i ln all things. I think that In the senate sen-ate of th.- United Slates a man should follow the dictates of his con- j science I will follow my party when right, and refuse to follow It or It j leaders when wrong. I will go back to Washington with no man's collar ' and no party's collar around my I neck " This statement elicited groat applause. ap-plause. In concluding his address, Senator King, perhaps, with the recent attacks at-tacks on his record made by some ,.f his political opponent In mind, recalled re-called ids services on the Judiciary, Immigration, privileges and elections, und other committees, his selection as assistant to the senate leader of the Democrats si the very start of bis i i-reer, i-reer, his connection with the passing of much important legislation, and hi service on many Investigating committees commit-tees and important sub-committees. He ended with an impassioned oration! ln which he paid tribute to the Independent Inde-pendent voter, nnd declared that he would continue, after his re-election to wage tho fight he had carried on for justice to the common man. and for equal rights, und abolition of special spe-cial privileges. MAYOR IS CHAIRMAN Mayor Frank Francis was Introduced Introduc-ed as tho chairman of the evening, and In introducing Senator King, Bp il of his services to the people of the state. He recalled that tho Utah solon had been a member of the territorial ter-ritorial council at tho age of 21 yearn, and president of that body at the age of 26 years, had at the age of 27 years been appointed federal district fudge for the territory of Utah, orobably tho youngest federal Judge over appointed In the United States, and has served two terms as congressman from Utah before his election ns Senator, ;, nd later, served during the period of th" great world war Ho declared that there was an issue ln the campaign for every father and mother to meet, the Issue of whether they would set their approval on the selection of a senator sena-tor solely on the grounds of hla wealth and thu? i-.hut tho door of political advancement ad-vancement to their children. "Any at-t. at-t. mpt to put a man In tho United States senate solely on the basis of his possession of money." he declared, "should be rebuked by the voter at his own party." A meeting was aleo held last eve-nine eve-nine by the democratic party at Fair West, where Joseph Rlrie. Ernest Wilkinson, Wil-kinson, nnd W R. McBrlde, were tho speakers, A meeting will be hold next Monday evening at Uintah, with tho same speakers. |
