The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-22
AND THEY RATIFIED AT BRIGHAM.
The Late Variety Show at Brigham City-A
One-night Stand.

One -nlgnU STAND.
Word had been heralded from mouth to
mouth and from dive to street corner that
there would be grand Liberal ratification
Wednesday evening.
At the hour appointed nearly half
score of Liberal Judges among the num-
Der were seen Judge Johnson, Judge Heed,
Judge Coombs, Judge Darlington, Judge"
Snow, Judge Boothe, etc, few ladies
with escorts; several inquisitive sight
seers. besides the whole gang of toughs of
the town, who were hopelessly in the ma
iority on this suspicious occasion.
The haranguers. with barely an eXcep-
ton, jumped completely off the subject of
rejoicing over the recent victory at Salt
Lake and threw mud at the Peoples
party in general and the MormonS in par
tticuiar and wound up with an invitation to
the progressive young Mormons to abandon
their "moss-back' fathers and join the
Liberal gang.
| The music by the Jewsharp band and the
songs and instrumental selections were
| blissful reliefs from the dry monotony of
/ some of the speeches.
Chairman Rev. Gillespie led out with a
| commendable spirit OF rejoicing, but wound
up with the startling information that
1.-The sun which shines over yonder noun
tain is free to every man" at the conclu-
sion of the desultory address the ring
leaders made a brave attempt to work up
a show of enthusiastic applause, but the
effect proved an ignominious failure.
| GJudge CoombS was the next on the
docket. His subject was the rise and
progress of the Liberal party. He handled
| the theme in his characteristic forcible
manner, working up somes little applause,
especially among the hoods, who were by
this time becoming exceedingly tired and
restless, and thus found this favorable
opportunity to stomp the floor and exercise
their boisterous lungs. After effectually
killing and burying MS subject, old Hercu
les launched out on Mormon Jirade, COM
lpletely knock-kneeing, web-footing, dis
tjoiting and scattering the bones OF this trlte
subject about the floor at his feet.
Next on the programme came another
Judge, an old hayseed from Plymouth fat
He opened out with the declaration that he
would now take a look into the future, but
somehow or other his prophetic spirit
failed to flow, and he postponed his peep
into futurity and the enlightenment OF his
auditors. He took mossbackism, his favor
tie theme, and got choked down several
times on it and was obliged to rest. He
ragged and yelled so vociferously that many
listeners closed their eyes aud clutched
, the backs of their seats in fear. In the
the Tribune compliment, but in his rat
tled'' state of mind he substituted The
HERALD. At this such deafening cheer
: from the audience wentup for The HERALD
that it must have knocked all the goodie
out of the old man, for he soon retired and
dropped into chair like a Quilted puddin 6
bag.
5 Judge Johnson concluded the perform
2 ance with long discussion of twenty-six
f years experience in Utah. In the course
of his remarks he said: eff the Peoples
party had come off victorious in the Salt
Lake election, they would have reioiced as
S long and loud as wel' AT this a big fat
S Englishmen in the back ground shouted
Justify, You bet we would!" This caused
a thunderous uproar which lasted for sew
eral minutes, as the reply was heard by
o every person in the room.
: Upright Thompson proposed three cheers
j. for the Liberals, at the conclusion of which
b some wag suggested rouser for thu
"young Mormons." 1t came with such
long, laundering and tremendous effec
that it dwindled all other demonstration
a into pusillanimous insignificance, and tn
p meeting broke up. AMUSED CITIZEN.
:. BRIGHAM CITY, Feb. 90.