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NEPHI L. MORRIS'
GREAT SPEECH
Delivered Before the Progressive Convention in the Court House Last
H Satnirdoy Corruption in Politics Pointed Out Utah Politics
H Dictated by Five Men Both the Old Parties Under the
M Thumb of a Railroad Agen-State Money Misused,
H Wr. Chairman and Ladles and Gon-
H lemen; Fellow and' Sister Progres-
Hl Rives: Jt !p a delight to meet a bodv
H of Progressives on the event of their
H placing In the county political field
H a ticket (hat shall attract the Buf-
H fragos of this very Important county
H In the state of Utah Having been
n Invited to addrcsE you just before we
H lako up the business of the conven-
H tlon. I sincerely trust l may ho able
H to say something that will kindle the
H fires of true Progresslvlsm in the
H hearts of all who ere not already
H aglow with the sacred fire of pa-
H triotlsm and love of righteousness and
B good government.
H This is tho first time In my life 1
H have ever stood before the public as
H a recipient of their honors and favors
H , in a political way. It Is a thing I
H never thought I should do. I am not
H oven now soliciting votes, although I
H have some busv friendB who acora to
H bo pretty good at thai work. I am
H vrry much out of place In asking for
H favors from the public. I would much
H rather serve than ask for favors, as
H I believe In service to any good and
Hj righteous cause. Tho poflitlon which
H I occupy today as a nominee, not as
H a candidato, If T may be technical, Is
H a position which some of you citizens
H will hold after the conclusion of this
H ' conventon. You will be the chosen
H representatives or nominees of your
H party and the party will solicit the
B support of the present citizenship for
H T went to the Ogden convention on
H September 13, earnestly working for
H the selection of another candidate for
M the office of governor, but it was
M borno In upon me rather forcefully
M before we reached this city that If the
M expressions of (be delegates could be
relied upon that that high honor
M might bo forced upon me. and In this
M respect I am very much like the
H young man who was attending his
H own marriage reception, as most mar-
H rled men do. and, being new at that
H kind of an enterprise, was very much
H confused and embarrassed and to add
B to his embarrassment his friends at
M the reception requested that ho rise
H and male a fow remarks. The young
H man rose very awkardly and placing
H his trembling hand upon the shoulder
m of his sweet voung bride, he stain-
H merlngly said- 'This dear thing was
1 forced on me!' I feel very much like
H that young man In the unexpected
H position which I find myself In. But
B like most young men, I 'hope I shall
H be true to the sweet young thing, at
H least for another thirty days, and af-
H tor that it Is up to the people of the
H state of Utah, and I shall abide by
Hl their decision very cheerfully If they
H elect some one else to serve as gov-
M enior. If, however, there should be a
H demand, a free expression of the peo-
H pie for me to fill that vacancy, I shall
H still pursue my natural trend, that
H public office is a public trust, and
H does not belong to the man who fills
H the position, but belongs to the peo-
H pie who created It and placed him In
Hl Progressive Movement.
H Now perhapB a few wordB may be
H said in regard to the movement which
H brings us together, and I hope, if
H there are any in the town who arc
H interested In our cause, but not cou-
H verted, that they may be here today
H -It Is not at all likelv wo would have
H such, however, as this is a mass con-
H veution and not a dolegate convention.
H so I take it you are all already con-
H verted. But we underestimate the
H force and the importance of this great
Hj movement, if wo regard It as being a
H political movement, which revolves
H around the ambitious 'of any particu-
Hj lar man. We mistake the signs of the
H times if we believe this Progressive
H movement in the United States is
H limited to the United States. If yon
H have kept in touch, and I know all
H true Progressives have, with the
Hl world movement for the last ten
Hl years, you will appreciate the fact
H that this is but a concordant note In
H the great demand which the raasscB
H of mankind are making the world ov-
Hj er for a larger ljberty. for a more
V equitable social or economical condi-
Brr tlon under which to live and toll.
K Have you not seen turmoil in the
Wmhl Bouth. In the groat republic of Mex-
H lco. Republican in form, though do
tty spottc In spirit, not wishing, however,
KgV to detract from the splendid achleve
j& ments of that great statesman. Diaz,
UK who ruled, bf Bismarck did, with a
Wfc mailed flBt or hand, yet he drew
Wi around him a class of men who were
yjp tho benoflclarles of state franchises
Kc and of legislation which created class
H distinction Thore wore the favored
H. few, there were tho trammelled and
W oppressed men. thero were the vast
mM land grants which establish a sort of
n landlordism, depriving the people of
HH the natural right which Providence
H designed them to enjoy, to live upon
j the soil and till it for their livelihood.
H In this way thero has grown up In
j Mexico a species 6f feudalism, which
M is republican In spirit, but despotic
H in fact, and the masses, no matter
V how lncongruouB they are, how incap
W able they may be of administering
K enlightened self-government, vet they
H; have arisen to protest against the
' hand of tyranny that has oppressed
H. thorn for these many years. You have
K rebellion, tou have anarchy, yon nave
war and bloodshed. What tho out
come may be we may not see clearly,
hut it must result in the betterment
of social and political rsrTtlons
there.
What have you 3een in Great Brit
ain? The same thing unrest and
discontont upon the part of tho mass
es. You have seen that archaic In
stitution called the house of lords
trembling upon its foundations and
the gouty old lords coming from then
vast estates to uphold the toppling of
their dynasty, for fear it will crumble
to pieces You have seen splendid
statesmen, like Lord George, provid
ing old age pensions and other pro
gressive legislation, aiming at tho
betterment of the economic and social
conditions of the English people. In
spite of the historic stability of the
English people, you have seen the
same unrest and disquiet which the
philosopher, tho historian has called
divine discontent permeating the
wholo British empire. The same
thing may be seen In Austria, Turkey,
Italj-. Germany, and you have wit
nessed, my fellow citizens, in the last
two years, the miracle of history, tho
birth of tho republic of China. Did
you ever conceive of such a thing as
that five years ago, that the four
hundred million pigtailed Chinamen
would becomo a republic?
Even If you try to leavo out tho
progressive movement in tho United
States, of our nation alone, you close
your eyes to the great world move
ment whioh Is striving for the
amelioration of the oppressed, tolling
masses who suffer at tho hands of
tho favored few who are tntrenched
In the seats of government, who con
trol and manipulate, sometimes In
unfair and corrupt moans, the affairs
of states and of nations, and it Is but
the promise, In a large and splondld
way, of a square deal of honeBty In
government, of the righteous admin
istration of public affairs. In Eng
land the power of feudalism Is being
opposed. In France protest Is being
mado against occlesiastlcism. In Ger
many It is against Imperialism, and In
Austria and Italy against landlordism,
while In Turkey and Persia and China
it Is against autocracy. In these
United States against what form of
wrong-doing arc the people now pro
testing In a most emphatic manner''
lit is against that Insufferable part
nership which haB grown up between
corrupt wealth on the one hand and
'corrupt politicians on the other hand.
I wonder If wo may be regarded as
radical If we assert that there Is a
partnership established between cor
rupt wealth and corrupt politicians?
Utah Men's Experience.
Now, T want to tell you of two in
stances which confirm the assertion
I make conclusively State Senator
Love was selected by the 1'tah Traf
fic association to go to Washington
'In response to an Invitation extended
,by a senatorial committee having In
charge railroad legislation. Mr. Ix)ve
was accompanied by Mr. Stephen H.
,Babcock, a prominent railroad man
of this state, now in Colorado. They
were Invited, as I said, bv a commit
tee of the senate, of which commit
tee Nelson A. Aldrlch was chairman.
Upon their arrival at Washington,
they were invited to tho office of
Senator Aldrlch, who has been called
the general manager of the United
States of America, because of the un.
equaled power In the control of leg
islation and the harmful Influence
which he had upon the chief execu
tive. He was regarded as being the
most powerful man In the United
States for a number of years and of
course there were reasons for his ex
ercising such power. One of them
was his close association with the
railroad Interests of the country, by
reason of his vast holdings in them
and in allied corporations. When Mr.
Lova and Mr. Babcock were received
at tho office of Senator Aldrlch, they
were greatly surprised to find him a
most affable gentleman, instead of an
austere and dignified person He was
a good mixer as a politician seeking
for office. He received them in that
courteous, winning way, to make
them feel they were really in the
house of their friends. They were
Invited to mako the office of the Sen.
ntor their headquarters, and the of
fice stationary, stenographer, desks,
and everything necessary for their
convenience were placed at their dis
posal and they were very tenderlv
and carefully placed In the hands of
a genial and a very capable looking
man In the office of the senator,
whom thev innocently thought to be
the senator's private secretary. While
waiting for him to answer some tele
phono call, Mr. Love overheard the
mention of some names that were
familiar to him, aB he thought, in
railroad circles, and after the tele
phone message waa over he inquired
who this gentloman. In whoso care
they had been placed, wan, Whom do
you think that man was' Tho vice
president of tho New York, New Hav.
en & Hartford railroad. In control of
Senator Aldrlch's office, and tho
western traffic men. about twelve In
number, were Invited down to be
given a hearing before th Interstate
Commerce commission, or the sena
torial commission which had In hand
Irailroad legislation affecting tho In-
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lerstate Commerce commission. Tho
twelve men from the western states
uero Invited, as Senator Aldrlch put
it. to be given a hoaring in confer
ence with the railroad mon, who were
only four hundred In number, and
these twelve western men were sup
posed to effect some kind of a satis
factory compromlBO with thoso rail
road mon. As the senator said, "You
know all legislation Is In tho nature
of a compromise of some form" and
ho hoped lhat these twelve men, in
discussing tho various measure? pro
posed with the four hundred railroad
officials would effoct a satisfactory
compromise of their differences, and
that there would bo a perfectly har
monious adjustment of all their diffi
culties; In other words, that the lamb
and the Hon might He down together
In perfect harmony. Now the lamb
and the Hon can Ho down In har
monv together, they can any time
that" the lamb happens to be Inside
of tho Hon
They Were Disgusted.
When Mr. Love and Mr. Babcock
saw what kind or a game thev were
up against, they were disgusted, and
didn't make Senator Aldrlch's office
their headquarters. They knew, to
,use i common slang phrase, that the
cards were stacked against them,
thero was no hopo of a square deal,
or or an honest and fair considera
tion of tho proposals that they had to
make, so Mr. Babcock went homo in
disgust, believing his mission thore
to be futile. Mr. Love, with more
perservcrnnce, went Into tho senate
and engaged some of tho senators In
an interview. What kind of senators
do vou think gave him a hearing"
DIdBoies Penrose? Did Guggenheim
er? No Albert J. Beverldge and
Senator Dixon, progressive men then
called Insurgents, were the only men
that would give him a hearing, and
thev were cry eager to get the facts
which he brought them by the arm-
Kansas once sent a man to repre
sent that great state in the house of
representatives, one Victor Murdock,
a man who had a very uncomfortable
habit of gathering facts, digging for
truth. Thero was no surer way to
unpopularity in either house a few
vears ago than in pursuing such a
habit, with a tendency such as that.
When ho went there about eight or
ten vears ago he was received by tho
czar" of the house, Speakor Joseph G
Cannon. with considerable attention,
because ho appeared to be very prom
ising timber. He was appointed on
committees of some importance, he
was made chairman, I believe, of tho
postofflce and po3tal roads commit
tee, but, as I Bald, he had the very
unpopular faculty of digging after
facts, and here Is one or two of thu
facts he dug up in the house of reu
resentatUes A ay back In 1S73 the house of
representatives, with the senate con
curring, pa3scd a measure providing
for the averaging of tho daily malls
that were hauled by the railroads. In
r.tead of weighing each day's mails
they were required by tills provision
to weigh tho mails of ninety succes
sive work days, and then divide the
total bj ninety and gat the average,
and for four years the average would
stand, and the postmaster general was
required to make an average on the
dally mails in this way at least once
in four years. Now those legislators
or representatives of 1ST3 did not
think that Sunday woulti some daj
become a work day, and away back
35 ears ago they began to figure
thoso averages by taking up the 30
successive work days and the fifteen
Sundays in between, so that tncy
got 10n days of mall that was hauled
and then divided by ninety, instead
or 105, and got the average, which
meant that they would get paid for
reven days' work when the' only
worked six, and in the year 1 90Fi that
contemptible .species of graft it was
graft ten years ago, but since Roose
velt got to talking It has been called
theft In 19f5 the government waa
robbed by the railroads of the snug
sum or five millions of dollars by this
method of computing the average
dally mall. For 35 jears that thin?
had been going on with the assent and
approval of the corrupt politicians,
who were In partnership with cor
rupt wealth, and corrupt wealth kept
them In power for its own benefit.
Now 1 have said there Was a part
nership between thoae two evil things
wealth and the politician When Mr.
Murdock came back to Kansas, after
having a hard fight for a few years,
ho made a public statement which
read something like this:
"You men of Kansas. In supposing
you are represented In the congress
of the United States, you are laboring
iinder an appalling delusion'. Your
member is such in name only Unless
ho bows to a machine bossed by the
speaker and a llltle coterie of his
friends, he le voiceless! His voice
cannot be officially heard expressing
the free will of Kansas until he has
satisfied the speaker's demand: "For
what purpose does the gentleman
rise?'"
Think of it! In tho house of repre
sentatives of the United States of
America a man representing a sover
eign state of one, two or ten millions
of people, when he receives the recog
nition of the chair, of the speaker, ho
la not permitted to speak until he is
asked the Impudent question. 'For
what purpose does the gentleman
rise?" And if he wished to speak on
the postofflce or the postal roads ho
was not to bo heard. That is rather
tho duma of Russia. The ermine
should be placed upon his shoulders
and the sceptre In his hand, instead
of a great big cigar.
That is not American at all!
His vote muBt be cast, aye or no,
for or against the hills prepared by
the speaker's selected chairmen of
committees or alternatives, being cut
off by tho rule of the house! (J3y tho
rule of the czar, It should read.) The
theories that the laws are written by
a free majority in response to tho peo
ple's will is a lie and a sham. Rep
resentative government no longer ex
ists In the one branch of your con
gress designed by our fathers to bo
truly representative.
"Now, my fellow citiaens, le there
any occasion here for the American
people to acquaint themselves with the
facts and manifest their sentiments In
regard to this kind of procedure, which
has been very, very common for these
many years In both houses of our leg
islative department? Do you doubt
further that thore exists a partirershlp
between corrupt wealth and corrupt
politicians? Take your Standard Oil,
the great tobacco trust or the beef
trust. There was enacted by the con
gress of the United States in the year
1902 a law which authorized the to
bacco trust to collect tho Spanish wur
tax. amounting to twenty millions of
dollars, but they were permitted to
keep that tax, instead of turning it
J over to tho governmenL Isn't- that a
I partnership between corrupt politi
cians and corrupt wealth? Thero ls
tho beef trust, which by its manipu
lation or politicians, or by some pe
culiar handling of them, bad the gov
ernment Inspect all beof, and when
the government certificate was placed
upon this beof, It was exported to for
eign countries and we wore forced to
consume tbo beef which was unfit for
consumption. The cost of thus In
specting tho beef trust exports fell
upon the government, which was a
big Item; in other words, tho govern
ment became the inspector for the
beef trust, which gave its product bet
ter standing and brought a better pric
for It,
Now we could go on Indefinitely
with this kind of thing. Undor tho
decrees of the courts the oil and to
bacco trustB Htill can raise prices un
justly and already havo done so Thoy
still can issuo watered stock and
surely will do so. They still can
throttle other business men and tho
United Cigar Stores company now la
doing so. Thefle arc the Tacts which
exist today by the enactment of lawr.
by tho congress of the United States.
Have you heard nothing of the pork
barrel, that great big barrel which
Influential senators and representa
tives can dig into with their long
forks and feed their constituency?
Haven't we heard the argument made
for a long time that such and such a
senator and such and such a congress
man should he sent back to Washing
ton because he has such influence
thero and can get so much out of
tho government? One city in tho Uni
ted States of only 2.000 people got
a public building for which tho gov
ernment paid 5157,000 That Is about
all your federal building coBt here,
and you have nearly fifteen tlnios that
population, because you haven't tho
right kind of a senator from Ogdon.
Another little town of 2,300 people has
a public building which "nclo Sam
put up which cost ?G5.000 and a little
village, off In a remote corner of the
United States, with less than 600 peo
ple In It, fifty miles Trom a railroad,
has a haudnorae building erected by
Uncle Sam, at a cost of $75,000. That
is called the pork barrel.
.loseph G. Cannon, late speaker of
tho house late czar of trie houso
lived In a little town called Danville,
with about 65.000 people In 1L I be
lieve the po3toffice, or federal build
ing of his town, cost the government
about $2G6,000. while other cltlos In
Illinois, with one or two hundred
thousand inhabitants, have feacral
buildings wnlch have not cost S7fi,000.
That is the pork barrel. He ought
to go back, because he can get so
much out of the government for his
constituency.
Ladles and gentlemen, if you will
arrive at the cause of the decline, of
the decadence of national honor, of
common honesty, of true patriotism,
you will find it in this kind of thing
called the pork barrel, where men are
measured, not by the service they
givo to their country, but by the
things they get out of IL If that
3tandard is pursued, we will lose the
very integrity of our national life, our
citizenship will bo debased to a state
of barbarism and we shall not com
mand the respect of tho world We
shall not long endure, for when any
nation arrives at that low ebb of hon
esty, just common honesty, disinte
gration Is bound to set in. It Is ripe,
and ripeness and rottenness are not
far apart
Politician to Blame.
Righteousness- exalteth a nation, but
sin Is a corrupter of any people. I
hold just one creature responsible di
rectly for the debased condition of our
politics, and of our public administra
tion of affairs. Indirectly you. I we,
tho American people are responsible
for these things, because we have
surrendered to that Insidious and craf
ty animal, called tho politician, the
reins Tf government which we shouil
have held. Feu men can long exer
cise power without being corrupted bj
It, unfortunately Thore hae been
some men who have rlson above the
leel of their kind. Your Washington,
jour Lincoln and your Roosevelt so
far. Neither wealth, nor power, nor
popularity has been able to corrupt
them, or turn their heads, but tho vast
aera?o of mankind cannot long en
dure wealth and power, because cor
ruption and disintegration have set In.
Don't you remember the awful con
dition of our great big financial insti
tutions, six years ago. when those
great life Insurance companies, which
controlled hundreds of millions of the
people's money, were under examina
tion'' Ten or twelve years before lhat
time, men were sought for throughout
the whole nation, who could be trusted
with the safe and honest handling of
those tremendous aggregations of
wealth which were held In trust for
the policy holders, whose monoy this
?reat accumulation was. Mch like
McCurdy and McCall were looked upon
as men who rose to the full require
ments of the occasion, who measured
up to the situation as perhaps no other
men in America woiild, What did ten
years do for those men9 Under the
searchlight which was turned upon
their corrupt practices, during the ad
ministration of Roosevelt, their deeds,
which were done in secret, were pro
claimed from the housetops, am thoy
went off, into ignominy and shame, to
tho madhouse, to tho suicide's gra.o,
to oblivion, because thoy wero cor
rupted by power and by wealth, the
American disease which disintegrated
their moral fibre robbing, grafting,
as It was then called.
Story of Dolllver.
Now I hold as responsible for this
condition directly the American poli
tician Not that every man who par
ticipates In poblic affairs is a corr ipt
politician, but he Is sorely tempted in
nearly every case, unless ho has a
backbone which cannot be bent by the
power of wealth or the lust for office
I hold directly responsible that animal
called the American politician, who
has broken tho airongost ties that
have ever bound honest and clean men
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together, when their severance- was
ncodful for his weak purposes. I
charge the American politician with
having blackmailed men and ruinod
their business Interests, with having
assassinated the characters and rume-d
the reputation of honorable men and
driven thorn Trom public service into
oblivion, not having the courogo and
the power to resist the attacks made
upon thom by the purchasable press
and by the crafty and unprincipled
politician, who wishes to romovo a
good man out of his way. I charge
the American politician with havine
fostered vice and crime In a thousand
cities, and by extortion has fattened
upon them both. Ho has shod human
blood when exposure- stared him In
tho face, he has inflamed communities
and brpd strife, ho has perpotnated
Immorality for the money that It
brought him. he has trafficked in the
virtue of girlhood and womanhood, ho
has plunged cition and states Into
debt and tied the millstone of bonded
Indebtedness around the necks of na
tions yet unborn. He has crushed and
baffled the courago nnd the nobility
of freemen, he has ruined clilcs, he
has quenched the noblest and the
most virile patriotism, and ho hafl
made the virile patriotism, and he haB
mado this nation a laughing stock bo
for the nations of tho earth. That
is what your American politician has
done. I say he has quenched and dis
couraged the most virile patriotism.
The most brilliant men have been re
stricted and confined and abridged in
the exercising of tholr rights, both
In public and in private llfo That
brilliant statesman. J. P Dolllver. a
short time before his death, delivered
one of the m03t masterful efforts in
the form of a Bpecch over heard upon
the floor of the United Stato senate.
The day after that great address, ho
was walking back to tho capital, In
company with Senator Beverldge.
Mr. Boveridgc complimented him upon
his mastorful effort and, after a Ions
sllonce, Mr Dolllver made this reply:
Senator Bevertage, l uavo a con
fession to mako to you. When I spoko
yosterday morning, that was the first
time In my sonatorlal career that I
have enjoyed mental freedom."
Think of it! A man of his ability,
of his brilliant attainments, a man
with the constituency that he had be
hind him, restricted, abridged, intimi
dated, so that ho could not serve his
people nor the nation fearlessly, be
cause of this corrupt partnership
which exists between corrupt wealth
on the one hand and corrupt politi
cians on the other, which controlled
even the senate of the United States.
Victories Won.
Now a protest has to be made
against that kind of thing. When
men asserted their individual liberty,
in spite of the consequences, though
thoy were threatened afterwards and
intimidated and coerced and waited
upon by the attornoys of great cor
porations, though tholr constituency
were also intimidated and coerced,
yet did they do their work courage
ously and manfully, but wore brand
ed for it with the title of Insurgents.
Don't iou remember the band of In
surgents, headed by Dolllver. and
Nelson and Borah, and Cummlngs,
and Norrls, and Murdock. this group
of insurgents, who first made war
against the intolerable conditions that
prevailed in the congress of the
Uniten Slates: nat was me ursi
thine that they made war upon? That
thing called Aldrlchlsm. Not upon
the man personally there Is quite a
difference between Mr. Aldrich per
sonally and Aldrlchlsm. AVe do not
make war against men, but against
their wrong practices and asalnst
their sins, and we would reform them
and retain them, with all the abilities
thev possess. If possible, but it is
mighty hard work to reform some
criminals mighty hard. Aldrlch was
the Mrst one at whom the insurgents
levelled their guns and Aldrlch, be
ing a wise and sagacious and, states
man and seer combined saw the
handwriting on the wall and an
nounced forthwith his withdrawal
from public life There was uo oc
casion for it, from all of your view
points. He owned the little state of
Rhode Island and carried It aB snug
ly In his vest pocket as vou might
vour Waterbury watch and he could
wind it up nnd "regulate it just to suit
himself, as easily as ou can wind
your watch. For ten, twenty years, ho
could have been sent back to the sen.
ate of the United States, without ever
having to go back to the state of
Rhode Island to look after his fences,
built of American steel nnd other
such good material There was noth
ing to arouse his anxiety with respect
lo re-election; If ho bad willed It.
he could have been olectcd senator
rrom Rhode Tsland as long as his nat
Inral life should havo endured, and I
Ibolleve, speaking temperately, had ho
!so willed it. he could have boen elect,
ed fifty1 years after his death.
Pivo Men In Utah.
Mv rriends, In Utah we have a
omewhat complex condition existing
I read in the Literary Digest that
came today that there is only one
state in the Union which is suro to go
for Mr. Taft, and that is the state of
Utah. I believe that Mr. Taft will be
n very poor third In tho election which
is to be held on November 5. The
Republican party Is honeycombed
throughout this state of Utah because
of Its wrongdoings, because of Its In
ability to bo downright honest with
the people. Tho party has destroyed
the confidence of the people. Wheth
er It shall survive this coming elec
tion or not I do not know, but I am
thoroughly convinced that the na
tional Republican party can not sur
vive the election of next month.
Lot me call your attention to the
last timo the people of Utah had the
task brought to them of solcctlng a
governor and how they wro relieved
of the task of selecting ono. Governor
Cutler had served four years very
satisfactorily to tho people, bat not
to the bosses. And no man who can
not bo handled by a bo6s will bo long
In office if ho continues to be boss.
Just as soon as a man asserts his in
dependence tho boycott, the black
mail, the boss with his knife is after
him, and unless the people rally to
that man's support he sinks Into his
political grave, as things have been
going on those many years. Governor
Cutler had given us an honest, busl-noRs-liko.
clean administration of the
affairs of this state. He announced
his candidacy for re-election by the
dally pres6. He had beforo him the
well established precedent that one
satisfactory administration deserves
another Five men went to dinner one
evening; thoy sat around tbo table
and said nice things of each other
One said. "I think you. had better be
governor." Tho other man said, "No,
I think vou had better be." Ho said,
"All right, I will," and he was.
(Laughter.)
The Republicans came down to oaii
Lako and went through the formal
ity of a convention. It wns useiees..
You and we voted for tho governor,
but it was altogether formal. It had
been done at that table.' He had nam
ed himself. Wo do not like self-op-polntod
officials In this state. Although
Governor Cutler had announced his
candidacy, whon those five men had
decided upon one of their own num
ber for governor Governor Cutler
withdrew his candidacy, knowing how
futile it would be for him to run a
campaign against what? Five mon.
That i what we call a machine; those
arc what we call bosses.
Railroads In Control.
What has been their history politi
cally? Individually, I havo no partic
ular grievance against thom. I do
not think a Moxlcan rebol in very
dnngeroUB alone, but. In company, he
is a mlghtv bad institution. It Is the
combination of these three or four
follows that has mado them a men
ace to popular government to the
ripht nf tho neoole to ml themselves
who select their own officers and
have laws enacted to thoir liking. 1
snv that Is a very harmful thing, tho
combination of these men. I hav on t
a word against any one of them indi
vidually, but together I have consid
erable to say against them for tho
things they have done.
Will they give you anything In the
wav of progressive legislation? They
never have yet They never have yet
given vou a good, wholesome piece of
progressive legislation because they
cannot; because thero la a partnership
botween them and corrupt wealth,
which exists here juBt aa definitely
as it exists in other placos,
If you have ovor been elected to a
legislature, as I was upon one occa
sion, tho first notification you got that
you havo been elected a legislator Is
a free pass over the railroad, and
whon you go to the capital one of. tho
first men to receive you Is a repre
sentative of the railroads in the form
of one of its officers or a railroad at
torney. Now, they tako care of you
and they von kindly inquire li'your
wife wouldn't like a trip to California
some time during tho summer, and
you are ridden around on junkotlng
trips hither and thither at their ox
pence nnd when a piece of legislation
Id proposed which would make a rail
road do the square and honest thing
what happens? Well, you reel in your
heart toward those fellows and the
bill Is passed up, not passed through
the legislature.
Wrote Committee List.
You know that when one legislature
assembled the president of the senate,
In naming his committees, did not
name a cortain well-quallriod mnn on
the committee on railroads, but with
an apology for not naming him the
ono of whom I speak is Senator Love
showed him a list of the committee
men on railroads, and every name on
that committee was written in the
handwriting of the assistant ticket
agent of the Oregon Short Line rail
road, (Applause.) He had selected
the railroad committee right here m
the state of Utah.
1 said something about a corrupt
partnership between corrupt wealth
and corrupt politicians. Now It may
not be that flagTant form of corrup
tion which bribes with money. But
what is the difference a bribe of
money or a bribe of favors the
trampling of the people's rights by
destroying Independence and the mor
al courase of their representatives''
It is a criminal offense and a man
who does It. I don't care who he Is,
if he doc3 It rrom now on, while the
moral sense is awakened, according to
contemporary standards of morals, he
ousht to bo in Jail.
You don't know how severely you
are dincriminated against In Utah.
Speaking or railroads, a year or two
ago I wrote to a business firm in Phil
adelphia for a catalogue of certain
products the manufactured. They
wrote back the most ln3Ulting lettei
I ever received. They said, "We do
not care to send our catalogue to -people
we do not care to Go husiness
with people like .ou people In Utali,
who will submit to such railroad dis
crimination an you submit to. Why."
they said, we can ship our products
from Boston to Salt I,ake City and
will have to pay 51.90 per hundred
weight freight on it. hut we can ship
It through to San Francisco for 51.10
and we can ship it to Tokio, Japan,
for $1.10, and you pay $1.90. We will
not do business with you."
Now. then, isn't It time that the
railroads should ghe' the people a
square deal' Shouldn't wo have a
public utilities commission, as you
have declared in your splendid plat
form here that we shall have?
Railroad Discrimination.
Why should all the peopio south of
Salt Lake City pay 5 cents a mile to
ride on these railroads and north of
Salt Lake two and one-half cents?
Isn't that discrimination7 Aren't
they made a public carriei. and aren't
they under contract to Ecrrc the pub
lic in an equitable manner? But you
dare undertake some piece of rail
road legislation that will place the
railroads in a position where they
must do the right thing!
We do not want to harm tncm. Thoy
aro the greatest benefactors of our
Industrial earth; they are the means
of progress that perhaps nothing else
can fill in the way of industrial prog
ress of our country. But they should
be regulated so that thoy deal with
the public In an honect Tvay. That Is
all.
Democrats Just as Sad.
Now I have a great deal of respect
for our Democratic friends. I think
they are a pretty good lo.. of fellows
and unusually clean because they have
been out of office so long. (Applause.)
I was assured by a gentlemen, whose
word I could not doubt because of
long acquaintance with him that he
went into tho Democratic state con
vention hold a fow weeks ago, jU3t as
they had cast tholr fourth ballot for
governor, and he congratulated the
chairman of that convention upon
having a good, progressive platform.
"But," he said, "you are going to got
a standpat governor." "Oh, no," said
Mr. Roberts, "that Is impossible. We
will elect Mr. Richards on the next
ballot."
"No, you won't. Don't you see
that crowd of men over there at
work?" Ho named five of them the
man who wrote that list of commit
tees In the senate, one of thom and
tho other men from Utah county and
some of the eastern counties five
men whom you all know woll. If you
go around a legislature they a.i al
ways there; they are al-r elected
to the legislatures and they get about
$10 a day, while the legislators ge
only $4. There they wore turning the
trick.
Tho gentleman said, "Mr. Richard
will not be nominated by this con
vention. Mr. Richards' voto drop-
? ,m 77 down to about 1 vote and
Mr. rolton -went up to about m and
he won nominated by thono men who
turned the trick right there before
Tiyes f y Wend, who had watch
ed them for ta yours and -who knew
them a;l knew what they wero there hB
for. He Ib a very' excellent gentloman Jm
but his legislative career ohows that 'IB
he has alway6 been favorablo to rail- 3
road legislation. Tho mon who would jM
havo stood for reform of Eomo ot fl
theso awful practices wore defeated JJ
by this crowd of manipulators who m
are hired by the railroads. fl
On Governor 8pry. 9
Now, then, with regard to tho state, II
I respect Governor Spry as a cap- fl
ablo governor, as a clean man, for all II
I know; I would not charge him with ft
any serious wrongdoing; I think ho
has administered the affairs of the K
state successfully and with credit. I V
am not so narrow and so biggoted I.
I am not a partisan In ono sonso of fi
tho word, to the extent that I oannot f
seo good In others Tho trouble with
our friend Mr. Taft Ib not that he J,
personally is wrong; I cannot tolor- t.
ato anything of disrespect being eaid 1'
Of aim; I believe him tn hn n mnil 1
man, honorable, high-minded, oxcel- 1
lent In all his nature, but, unfortu- ju
nately, as Woodrow Wilson says, "ho '?
is In bad company;" as Mr. Cummins tf
very aptly described it, "He Is a
large, amiably body entirely eur
round by men who know what they
want," That Is tho situation with
him And so it is locally in a way.
Wo have an excellent executive, bnt
he Ib surrounded by a crowd of men
who know what they want-, and tho
trouble with them now Is they are not
getting what they want, so thore lo
war In camp and the machlno is kind
of discontented just now a little bit
and not making as good headway as
It did down in Chlcngo whon it ex
ceeded the speed limit thero In the
convention.
.Now, tiovernor bpry has had nls
mind awkenod to the fact that per- j
haps the public fundB could be put
out at Interest That Ib why about
two wookg ago or a month ago he J
said, "I believe that would- meet with I
public favor." Do you know that wo i
have down there Jn tho treasury of j
the stato something like two million J
dollars, upon which we are paying in
terest in part, upon which wo are not
getting one cent of Jntorost? I don't
know whether anybody else is, but wo !
are not It is our money, io.
I want to read to you here a bank
statement which waa sont to us. First . !
let me speak of this question hore. I i
have a letter here of groat interest
from Mr. John C Cutler, president of j
tho Deseret National bank of Salt ij
Lake City, dated January 13, 1012. I
That is just about the very date that r.
the commission form of government
down there arranged with this same
bank to handlo its funds on about a r
two and one-half per cent Interest on
dally balances. They said the law '
does not provide for It, consequently
It would not bo lawful to do It; and
he offered the commissioners a two 's
and ono-half per cent rate, and they
netted at once $30,000 by that ar
rangement to the city. Governor
Cutler on January 13, 1912, addressed
one of your fellow townsmen;
"Mr David Mattson, Utah State
Treasurer Dear Sir: We beg to
Bubmit you the following- proposition.
We will" allow thotstate of Utah in
terest on state funds deposited in this
bank at the rate of two per cent pet"
annum on daily balances. We wjll
furnish an individual bond satisfac
tory to the state officials which bond
will guarantee monies on deposit with
this bank. '
"Trusting that this proposition will
meet with the approval of yourself
and the state officials, we remain,
Yours truly,
"JOHN C- CUTLER, President "
Now, I want to read to you the
bank statement of another bank. TMs
was sent to us in Salt ljike City quit
generally They advertise here that
their growth of deposits has been j
phenomenal. On a certain date de- :
posits amounting to $97,000.00; on a j
subsequent date. $1,800,000 00; on an
other day. $1,302.000 00; and again
Sl.G77.i00 13; and thirty-two days la
ter, just one month, "their deposits
had Increased so that they had on
hand, $2,025,S5I."1 ; or an increase In
one month of $318.1-11.73. The bank
is very proud of this Increase of Its
deposits, and also very proud of Its
directors; and on tho other side of
the report you will find the directors
headed by Hon. William Spry, Gov-
ernor of Utah. g
Now, my frlonds, I nm through. to
Someone In the audience cried: h
"Tell us something about the tele
phone. Mr. Morris continued-
The telephone has been doing the
same thing as the railroads, offering
free telephones lo everybody and get
ting favors at tho hands of thc'legls
lators. This cause is sprendlng far moro j
than vou ar perhaps aware of. Whole
counties in the south we claim to be j
Progressive; we are assurrcd Salt
Lake county will go Progressive In
this coming campaign (Applause.) j
One-third of tho population of the j
state resides In Salt Lake county, so j
you haven't any occasion for fear or
misgivings regarding tho prospects
for our cause.
The people In the eastern part are
asking for us to come out and preach
tha good news to them; and in tho
south they are acting with the Demo- 1
crats in county tickets to defeat tho
common ouemy, and in the north the i
same kind of demand comes for Bull
Moose literature and Bull Mooso
speakers. Thoy have got the Bull
Moose spirit, but thoy don't know
quite how to handle It as yet, Tho I
thing Is catching and like an experi
ence w0 had down homo some littlo
time ago. A little neighbor of ours
comos over to play with my boy, and
when our lnct little child came to
town this littlo neighbor boy came
over to play with my little son. but
he said, "I won't go In tho house.
Your mamma Is sick, and if I go In I ij
might catch it," Ho said, "It I caught
It, I might giv It to mamma, and J
she would give it to papa, and then '
we would all have IL" '
Now, that is just about the way this j
cause is going from one town to an- J
other, rrom one county to another. j
Down in Utah county wo had Ropub- J
Hcan delegates come from tho Provo ill
convention to our meetings in Lohl; "
thoy came In. Republican and thor m
went out Bull Moosers T thank you. If
(Applause.) i
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