The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-07
IDAHO'S CAMPAIGN.
How the Republicans Are Strug-
CLING for Supremacy.
THE SUBSTANCE Of. THE ISSUES.
The Astonishing Impudence Of the Republic
cans on the silver Question-Other
Very Cranky Notions.

ASASA OAA13 N1SFs' - lOE>S~
pondence to The HERALD. Were it not
that the sayings Of the Republican speakers
at the rally held atthe opera house on Mon
day evening last foreshadowed the line OF
action proposed to be pursued during the
present campaign, an extended notice
thereof would be inappropriate in the
columns of THE HERALD and of little con-
sequence to its general readers. What
was there said rang
THE KEY NOTE OF THE CAMPAIGN.
1t was the first mass meeting since the
were made and the line of
and Justification there enunciated
will be repeated upon the stump through
out the length and breath of the state.
This meeting had been extensively adver-
tised. 1t had been announced that Cover
nor Shoup and ex-Delegate Dubois were to
speak. The Governors Guards band was
employed to drum up recruits, and in all
600 men, women and children were gathered
together.
MAJOR ]. w. HUSTON,
one of the candidates for the supreme
court, presided. He opened with one of
his characteristic speeches, during which
he stated that the Republican party pro-
posed to deal only with live issues" The
tariff, he said would cut no figure in the
coming contest, except so far as related to
the silver, lead and wool interests. The
Republican party had undertaken to wipe
out polygamy, and would eventually be
successful with its continued success.
GOVERNOR sHoUP
was then introduced. The line of the gov
ernor's argument appeared to be that the
party he represented favored protection to
the silver and lead industries of the state,
and the suppression of Mormonism
themselves to be the friends of
Idaho, while the national Democracy
had shown themselves to be its enemies.
The speaker then undertook to argue the
tariff question and to answer some of the
arguments introduced by eXCongressman
Mill at the Democratic convention few
nights before.
HON. FRED t. DUBOIS
Major Huston and Governor Shoup, to deal
only with s'live issues" He gave his YER
sion of the action of Congress in relation to
silver and lead and said that the Demo
Gratis were not in earnest in their efforts to
obtain free coinage, but that it was mere
party trick. He gave lengthy desserta-
tion upon polygamy and Mermonism, tend
ing to show that there was still danger in
the premises and that the Democracy were
sincere in their pretended opposition. TIC
show this, he read from speech delivered
by Senator Vance, of North Carolina, in
opposition to Idaho's admission, wherein
he denounced the unjust apportionmen1
of the state based upon its vot
ers and not its population and also
read an article from the St. Louis
Republic in opposition to Idahos admission
Mr. Dubois said ttat the Democratic mem
bers of Congress aud the press of the cas-
had heaped calumnies on the people OF
Idaho, calling them ignorant miners ant
cowboys. The speaker alluded to his eff
forts to save Idaho from ACKNOWLEDGMENT
and told how, when Hon. JohnHa LEY was
member of Congress in 1887, he procured
the passage of bill cutting off the north
ern four counties and anneXing them tt
Washington, having no better excuse thar
the fact that he had been so instructed BY
the convention that nominated him.
The foregoing may be regard as
THE SUBSTANCE OF THE ISSUES
to be made and presented to the people o.
Idaho during the campaign. These olive
| issues" men propose to ignore the tariff
dS ucdO S&Ccpb III SuCl
portions as they may select. The sup
preston of Mormonism will always bt
to them Live issue,' no matter how fal
constitution and supreme court decision
may have affected the rights of that elias!
to citizenship. The attempted segregation
of north Idaho which was put to rest BY
the veto of the then president
Grover Cleveland, because of a tele
gram sent by Governor Stevenson
then Democratic governor OF Idaho il
another of their tive issues" 1t would
have been far more honest for MIR. Dubois
in his speech to have told how, when il
Nez Perez county during his first canvass
he had voted for segregation, and that hi
ballot was preserved in his own hand
writing and given to Delegate Voorhees,, o
Washington territory, and when Duboi
did appear before committee to oppos
the act, he was confronted by the presenta
ton of that ballot. 1t might be said tina
Mr. Dubois never did oppose segregation
until he saw his own interests looming u
in the distance.
THE ASTONISHING IMPUDENCE
of the Idaho Republicans in attempting t
instill into the minds of the people th
idea that they are the especial friends @
silver is appalling. In all their represents
tions they ignore the fact that both gol
and silver ores were placed on tn
free list in 1867, when there was
Republican Senate, House and Presiden
and that it has been there maintained eve
since. While silver ores means chloride!
argentiferous galena, in spar or quartz c
wherever else found. 1t is also true the
the Republicans demonetized silver an
have persistently refused to remonetize
since, and at the present session of Coz
gress continued in the same course. Whs
right has Mr.. Dubois to assert that th
Democrats were not honest in the
actions This comes with i'll graz
from the prince of Idaho's ballt
box suffers. Aud then this delec
able candidate for Senator wants the pei
pie of Idaho to vote the Republican tickt
and through it for him as a matter of graf
, tude. Carried along by current he coul
not have resisted if he would-that currel
the greed of the monopolisuic party of tt
, country to retain power in the Senate ar
in tie hope of additional votes in the ele
toral college, and impelled by person
ambition. in his mild and modest way |
asks for gratitude to himself and that We
geance be melted out to the national D
mocracy because, forsooth, some of
members of Congress and certain newsp
pers opposed Idaho's admission. Eve
though this fellow Dubois had swayed Il
House or Representatives, Inc senate al
the President, it might well be asked
the franchise exercised for gratitude We
geance or the expression of the will of t
people in regard to public measures
He also told the people that Hon. Jol
Haily had
NO BETTER EXCUSE
to offer for his action in relation to segl
cation than the instructions he receiv
hot cd hi
He might have further said that duri
the same year the Republican convent
| passed similar resolution a
led off in doing so. This W
in 1854 The whole course mark
out by the republicans is one of {