The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-11

all true genuine stalwart Republicans
IS eight years, and the term of General
Harrison will be eight years. He is al
ready elected for il
Music by the band.
JUDGE NJ BRIDE
came next: 1 am too proud to night to
speak he said. I'm sure I can't say
hall that feel
-four years ago when Grover Cleve-
land Was nominated ne wrote letter,
saying that no man who had once filled
the PRESIDENTIAL cnair was eligible 10
another term. Grover had changed his
mind since then, or rather the nnbIic
had changed its mind. 1t had elected
him four years ago, but had dropped
him this time.
1t has been so long since have made
a Repu olican speech that 1 am liable to
switch off on to something else. .
The election 10 US In Utah meant
either safety, prosperity and happiness,
or it meant unrest, dissatisfaction and
despair.
believe, as believe that there is a
God in heaven, that the President of
the United States had plotted with the
Mormon Church to give statehood to
Utah. And l am equally sure that
Statehood has baen buried for the next
i've years
To the nation this election means
protection at home and abroad. states
manship in the Presidential chair and
honest, upright government.
We have won for eight years, and I
hope for twenty-four more. We say to
the Democrats that we are sorry to see
you out in the cold, for we have been
| there ourselves, and We know how it
feels.
We hope that whether we are Demo-
Gratis or Republicans we shall all in the
future in Utah be Americans. Gap
plause.)
More music.
JUDGE c. W. BENNETT
was N at the birth of the Republican
Party and had ibeen in ever since. 1t
gave him great pleasure to hold in his
hand the American flag, which, during
his stay abroad, he had not seen. What
does the flag mean2 In Utah it means
American rule; not Republican, not
Democratic, but American rule, 1t
means Statehood bye and bye, and
American Statehood.
experience, | want to saw to
you that the success of the Republi-
can party means the success of AmerI-
can idea the world over. We don't
want England to dictate in matters of
American politics, as she has tried to
do. We want our flag to wave en-
blem;Zing manhood, womanhood, free
action and everything that that means.
1t symbo lizeS the old Latin proYerb,
VOr p0puJi, VOr Del, which has Oeen re-
versed tere, unfortunately, for a short
time.
After another ro1nd Of mIslc, Judge
Goodwin said: Il We got here d little
image of Abraham Lincoln from Hi
noiS. Some folks think he's not worth
much, but he catches on pretty quick"
As Judge Zane stepped forward, the
cheers and yells were deafening.
1t seemed at first as though this
would never cease, and when there was
finally lull. someone called out some
thing about the grand Old man" AMI
it started again.
JUDGE ZANE
was at last permitted to proceed. He
said: The grief and disagreeable feel. I
ings of our Democratic triends, as "a
result of their recent defeat, affords me
no pleasure. The reason is, [ suppose,
that | do not believe In punishment at
ter death. Four years ago the enemies
OF the Republic IN party said that its
end had come and that it would dis
band, and another party (the Prohibit
tion) announced its intention of STEP
ping into the place. The party has
come out of the contest so badly mashed
up that there are hardly enough mem
bars left for seed. was at the birth of
the Republican pf rty. AS stood 3. the
cradle, thought IL exhibited some Of
the characteristics or giant and as 1t
grew it proclaimed eternal enmity to
the twin relics of barbaris n-polygamy
and slavery.
Judge Zane then paid a glowing
tribute to President Lincoln and said
that when confronted with the state.
ment that the United States was
simply g coafederacy and that the
states had right to withdraw, he met
it with the assertion that the United
States was a Republic and must stand
united. Where are the principal
planks of the early Republican plat
forms? They are written in the Consti-
tn ton of the United States. There
they will stand as the governmental
law of the great st Republic on the
face of the earth.
After the war was over and the
country had settled down in peace, an
other question arose. At that question
the Republican Parry chooses 10 look
from beneath the stars and stripes. 1t
don't choose to look at it fro m under
the British flag. They want the Amer
lean workingmsn to be men who can
have bread and meat on their tables
and who can sleep in warm bed and
whose wives and children can be we'll
dressed.
On last Tuesday we received reve-
lation. 1t didn't come down through
the timbers of any temple, nor through
the roof of any tabernacle. It was not
coined in the brain of any man. 1t came
fresh from the intelIects and consciences
of the American people. 1t came
the regular way. 1t came from the
same source as the Declaration of In
dependence 1t came from the source
that makes that fsg hOnored and re-
specled in every lsnd-the sovereignty
of a free people.