The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-04
REPUBLICANS TRY THEIR HAND.
The Bloody Shirt and FAIRY Tales About
the Tariff.

Pennington, Nov. 3.-The Republi-
cans of this precinct held their rally
last Thursday evening. The meeting
was SHINY attended. Charles Crane,
editor S. S. pamphlets) was the first
to open (?) the eyes of the people to
the beauties Of protection as applied
to the sheep owners of the west. He
wished it distinctly understood that
the tariff was not a tax, and spent
some time in so stating. 1t gave him,
apparently, much pleasure to know
that not a. single dishonest dollar had
ever chung to the hands of the Re-
publican members of the f1fty-flrst
congress. His desire to say something
more prompted him to state that the
English left free trade England" in
millions yearly and landed in America;
so that under protection they could
become the possessors of homes, filled
with sweet flowers, books, etc." that
for thousands of years back their
ancestors have never been able to
own" A fine tribute indeed to the
forefathers of the greater part OF the
American people. Not exciting the
enthusiasm intended, the famous COM
piler of photographs, snatched the
bloody shirt from the shades Of OBJ
livion, into which it has been cast
by sober minded people, and tried the
red rag and the bull trick but no
stampede occurred.
1t was quite evident that he could
not rest until something was said
about how much he had suffered since
Grover Cleveland sat in the presiden-
tial chair. and he was not the only
one, oh! dear no! The late Mayor Har-
rison, of Chicago, had recently told
him that the women of Chicago were
selling their virtue that bread might
be put in the mouths of their children,
and this he had the effronterv to say
was due to the Democratic ascen-
dency.
Another thing (anlong the many he
did not want was the Democrats to re-
move the tariff from the wool on HIS
sheep's back and let the tariff on the
wooden clothes on the aforesaid Cranes
back remain (as the G. o. P. has left
IT'D
He closed with an earnest appeal to
the voters of Utah to lift our fair ter
ritory out of the 'trut she is now in.
The eloquent young orator. Dan Har-
rington, of Salt Lake, then proceeded
to air his mind.
Dan meant well and I believe he is
honest, but-he should learn his little
piece better especially when he quotes
SCOTS poetry and those pretty little
campaign stories that have about as
much connection with the young ora
tors" well, that's what they called
him) story as Charley Cranes refer
ence to the mother protecting young
had to do with Republican taxation
At this stage of the game Daniel
wanted to know why the Democrats
hadn't fixed up this terrible state Of
things that at present existed?
''They blame it on the Sherman
law" the lawyer insisted. cit has
nothing at all to do with it-only in
The graduate from Ann Arbor,
quoted from "Colton's History of
Clay, Vol. l." where a certain sheriff
sold some old stock at a forced sale
for 81 per head, ard Daniel the elo-
uuent would have it that such was the
immediate result of Democratic legis-
lation at 3. time, too, that the great
est students of political economy are
pleased to call the golden era of
American history In answer to his
friend, Joshua Paul, who claims that
tariff is a tax" Dan begged leave to
call the attention of his hearers to the
fact that the tariff cheapened goods;
and that the importer paid the tax
and of course he had to charge a lit
tie extra to make things even
Then Daniel Harrington asserted
that if the Republicans would do their
duty and with the aid Of the Liberals
the Democrats would be defeated at
the coming election.
With that statement Dan had to
quit He started in with Scott and
Cotton; wrestled with the Apostle
Paul (as did c. c. but when he fin
ished by acknowledging such an I'M
holy alliance even the Republicans
smiled as if the end was near. Thus
it ended.
for grand rally on Monday next
when Judge Henderson is expected to
be with us, and to use friend Dams
own words, anything that gets the
life tramped out of it ought to quit" as
the g. o. p. of Davis will have to
hereafter.