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Show POT BAMBERGER II U. S. SENATE SHOOT PLEADS Salt Lake City, Oct. 4. Before an audience that filled the capacious Orphium Theatre to the doors last night, Senator Reed Smoot flrod the first real gun in the campaign with a poweri'dl appeal to the voters of Utah to send to the senate a man who would work In harmony with President Harding and the Republican Republi-can administration. Senator Smoot was Introduced by Carl R. Marcusen, chairman of the Republican state committee, and for more than two hours he told his audience of the work of the present administration, vicissitudes of national na-tional life and the reasoning as to why Ernest Bamberger should be sent to the senate to assist him In the work he is doing there. "Remember, my friends," said Senator Smoot, "It Isn't always tho man who stands on the uoor and talks and talks that wins the respect of all. There Isn't a body In the world that can size up a man as quickly as can the senate of tht United States. When our friend, Ernest Bamberger, comes to thu 'senate I am going to see that ho goes on the claims committee. If he hasn't got the stuff in him to make a success there In six years he never will make a success 3s a senator. "Twenty years ago," said the senator, "I was a candidate for tho United States Senate. I felt my weakness at that time, but that wasn't all I had to face. Even before be-fore I was elected, there wns a plan on foot to prevent my taking the seat in the senate to which the people of Utah had elected me. It was founded on a falsehood, and more than that, they dragged my religion into the contrversy, here In Utah where of all places, the religion should not be questioned." ' Senator Smoot mentioned the appointment ap-pointment of Geo. Sutherland to the United States Supreme Court, and amid much applause, said that it was an hour for Utah for which he had worked but had hardly dared to hope. He also referred to what he called the propaganda in favor of -cancellation of the debts which foreign countries owe to the United States, saying that this was being done by a small group of men under the direction direc-tion of foreign countries. He opposed op-posed the movement Btrenuously. "Do you know," that the budget of France for 1913 included an Item of 5,000,000,000 francs for military purposes? What do you think wcjld have happened If we had taken a mandate over Armanla? Where would our boys be today ' I tell you that this world canno1. stand another war without the destruction des-truction of civilization." He entered Into a lengthy discussion discus-sion of the tariff bill, saying that he could talk on It all night, as he had 3lopt with It, walked and run with It. Then ho asked If his hearers were iioing to send the Benate a man who voted against that bill. He wau reassured by many "noes." "If the public preBs ls correct, we are to have Pat Harrison and Senator Sena-tor Walsh of Massachusetts here. If Seuatofc Walsh had been given his way no Industry In Utah would have survived. Those orators divided up their duties so as not to Interfere with their own Btates. There ara no dyes In Utah so Senator Kinx was assigned to damn the dy) schedule. There was no wool or sugar Industry In Massachusetts, so Senator Walsh was assigned to fight those schedules." , In cloning, the senator said: "I want an assistant In the United States senate from my own Btate, who, I know, believes In the principles princi-ples I believe In and you believe In." He was given a big ovation as ho finished, as well as when he had first appeared. When the speaker took his seat Mr. Marcusen expressed express-ed the gratitude of the audience and assured Senator Smoot that the people peo-ple of Utah would send Ernest Bamberger Bam-berger to the senate and also would return there Congressmen Don B. Colton and E. O. Leatherwood, |