The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-27
Fourth Ward DemOcrats.

The Democrats of the Fourth ward
turned out il fair numbers Thursday even
ing and enthusiastically welcomed Hon.
David Evans and Hon. L. r Rhodes to the
Amusement hall. Mr.. Evans spoke with
his customary earnestness. proving to his
audience that he believed in the propriety
and permanence Of the present political
movement and in the principles OF the
great constitutional party. He exposed
the fallacies and falsehoods uttered in the
same hall on the previous evening by he
publican speakers, and fully convinced MS
bearers that they had then been addressed
as or by simpletons or by wilful falsifiers.
MIR Rhodes aroused the ardor in his
hearers which he always displays In him
self. He told them of the glorious Demo
cratic results from small beginnings in the
eastern states Earnest honest work was
his exhortation and Democratic success his
prediction He reviewed the principles
end the record of the Democratic party and
compared them with those Of the other.
His address was able and effective. and the
seeds sown by him will yield rich harvest
in August if the people Of the Fourth ward
do but half their duty.
Mr. Rhodes will probably give another
, address in the same hall Thursday evening,
July 2.
Messrs Allison and Cannon are too
young to remember the events OF the
sixties. but Major Breeder and Colonel
Miller are not, and the latter should IN
strUct their youthful co-laborers that the
civil war was nearly concluded and the
spoiis were in sight before 1t was dis
covered that the union army was composed
exclusively Of Republicans. They should
tell the boys the politics OF Mcclellan. Han
cock, Butler and Rosecrans: that long after
TT Donelson was captured the hero OF that
G-b nauncrat- klnfnrkv
Missouri sent as many of their respective
residents to the union army as any states
in the union in proportion to population,
and that hundreds of thousands OF the boys
in blue were Democrats. A little hlstorl-
cal education might benefit these boys, and
nowhere could they get better instruction
than tho major aud the colonel could give
them, for there are united military powers,
great political experience, high order OF
education and forensic powers far above
rivalry in this territory.
There is a young man doing oratorical
job work for the Republican management
in Weber county who should be suppressed.
If his fame as a constitutional lawyer and
his ut.erances should escape across the
mountains and reach the ears of M Rous-
. tan. at Washington, the Nation with dig
M might become involved in serious din
cuIties. He has discovered that President
Jefferson. whom he previously elected to
the Kentucky legislature, in making the
louisiana purchase, acted without consti-
tutional authO GRITTY. 1t is true that was
nearly a century ago. but time does not run
against a sovereign power, and France
might assert her rights, for she is no longer
troubled with considerations Of what Eng
land might or could do, which actuated the
first Napoleon to think better of Yankee
gold than Of Mississippi bottom lands. This
is probably only another Republican trick
to obtain power. and to take from the Dem
ocratic phalanx the states in the Louisiana
purchase and Florida Alaska can be
spared if the other result be attained.