Show RALLIES the last to t no lays days of the week neek just passed nele repete with avith political doings friday evening the democrats democrat held a lall with kith U S senator wm will H king and aslia snow democratic candidate fol foi the U S senate as speakers saturday both major pal pai ties republicans in richfield and democrats in held then county conventions convention saturday night the republicans had a rally rall and U S senator reed smoot congressman Con giessman giesman don B colton and a prominent pi eminent salt lake attorney richard W young son of the famous general addies addressed addi essed ed the meeting we are treating the subjects of these in our news nevis columns and in some later issue we will lis cuss the nominations made by the two parties editorially tonally edi As far as the rallies are concerned we feel inclined to say a few fein words about it right now while the impre impressions recorded are still fresh upon us first of all we cannot hold back with the observation that the s system stein and custom of holding rallies seems to us obsolete and antiquated we came to this conclusion from several premises comparing the rallies of our days as far back as about eight years with those of former lays days we see that the attendance is not as good as it used to be As to the enthusiasm a certain lack of it is easily noticeable noti cable also there might be wo two reasons for this phe first that people have lot IOA interest in polities politics and second that in our day we have none of the orators that have the genius of real oratory that with hypnotic power captivates the hearer and changes ili hl bias for these lesions the rallies do not leane aae am deep impression and only onh the highest of high points of the talks are le for a while 0 ich a high point NN was as reached in the rallies on friday and saturday friday da evening senator win H king made the statement when speaking of tariff my vote ote saied the tariff on in MOW ien of the tariff policy of the junior senator and his part such a statement was nas quite surprising the next da day congressman colton as well as senator smoot emphatically came back with the state ments that the records tell a diffrient stor tore while in the case of senator king we ne have to take hi his word nord in the case of the two other speakers w ne e are told of documentary evidence it will nill therefore be easy to find out whether or not the beet grovels ol oi utah ove oe a vote of thanks to the jun lor senator and his party |