The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-07-15
REPUBLICAN ARGUMENT.


Let man take the Enquirer of July
, 10th, and look down the second column
on the local page until he comes to tn,
head line Republican Convention,
and then read one of Mr.. WHITECoT.
TONS Characteristic speeches. THE
speaker was frequently applauded.' >
Applauded for what? Applauded fol
argument? Applauded for intelligently
discussing the questions now before
the people? Applauded for clearing
up the mysteries of protection? No!
Applauded for bombast, for scurrilitY,
for pomposity, in fact applauded foI
"nna 1,f I,i1 characteristic speeches.
Then the chairman was called for and
he came amid applause" 4" and then he
eloquently said that when you find a
people who don't know their a, b, c's,
there you will find Democratic MAORI
ties" Great applause.) Then he
said, The great issue between the two
national parties to-day is the tariff
question"
appprehend, however, that the great
issue should consist in the business of
learning the Democratic party their a.
b, c's. Let us see briefly whether the
chairman was correct. Iowa once had
the habit of giving Republican major
ity ranging along from twenty
five to seventy-fve thousand.
Michigan could poll up thirty or forty
thousand, Illinois could say, Just as
We told you, here is our usual forty
thousand" Nebraska WAS sure to fall
in, and Kansas reached the zenith of
her glory when eighty-two thousand
Republican majority was heralded to
the world. Other states could be men
toned We're it necessary. But do not
let US forget Ohio.
Times have changed. The Repub-
licans begin to look upon Iowa with
suspicion. Michigan requires patting
on the back Illinois is not near as
good and pretty as she used to be. Ne
braska has reached the point when
it is necessary to fight to hold her, and
it requires hundreds of thousands of |
dollars to hold Ohio to the old party, |
and Kansas, the State, the population
of which has been called as intelligent
as any state in the Union, stopped clean
orer.
Now according to the Provo chair
main, the Republicans in the states
mentioned don't know as much as they
used to know, or that the Democrats
are outstripping their opponents in the
a. b. c. sciences.
The Republicans held a meeting at
Pleasant Grove, July 9th, and after music
by the band, Mr.. WHITECoTToN was
and the report says:
He amused the audience for some
time" So characteristic.
But after all, it is left to GEORGE II.
BRIMHALL to explain the tariff and
sich.
Alta meeting Of the Provo Fifth Ward
Republicans, he eloquently told the
difference between the Republicans
and the Democrats. Said Mr.. B; Il
had span of horses; while l was
3hoeing one OF them, it kicked me and
knocked me down in the dust" Now F,
listen to the convincing argument. (,
exclaimed, YOU'RE
Democrat The other horse
the Republican horse realizing
hat Mr. B. was giving their.
eet protection, raised its foot to be :
hod, ,and that proyed''-O,I'n be darned
f know what it didn't prove. But.
Mr. Editor, such arguments should be
Ipplauded. What intellect! What
representations! What a
mass Of remarkable condolences! No c
gonder men are complaining of brain I
rouble. If the Republicans had few !
uch men as Judge ZANE land by the
Tay, Judge ZANE is Republican and a a
the merits of the questions S
ow agitating the minds of the people
would be discussed in an intelligent il
hammer. Argument would take the
lace of dead issues. Reason would be
be prompter, fairness would control, C
nd men would learn by comparative s.
Illustrations. YET