The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-20
RAWLIN'S SPEECH

AS Delivered at the Territorial Conven
ton at Salt Lake on September 18th.
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
the convention-You confound me
you overwhelm me with kindness.
do not know what to say. There are
no words, L know no phrase which is
adequate to describe my feelings at
this momeLt, (Applause.) My high
est ambition has been that my public
life should be successful and that
should honorably discharge my duty to
which your suffrage called me two
years ago, and then be at bone with
you. l expected NY lot to be eternaliy
cast here IN private life and had formed
the fixed purpose not again to accept a
nomination to public office; but
yoLu kiuunesS has wreetcd from me
my fixed purpose; has shattered my
frmest resolution, and here l am he D.
less, but not hopeless. applause and
laughter.) l have not sought this nom
ination, nor have [ sought any other
nomination, but coming as it does
from the representatives. of true and
honest people cannot reject it great
applause), but take it up AMI with the
aid OF the people we shall carry your
action of today on to tie elimination
OF a glorious triumph. applause
Some OF the gentlemen whe have
been instrumental in bringing this
granddaughter The Office appetite,
like the opium habit, when it gets
possession OF mani Voice: We
will make you senator vet! Applause
and cheers)-it is hard to get it loose.
have felt that | could quit without
breaking my heart, although this may
not be true. daughter But [ give
you all notice that l shall expect you
en- election DAY.
"The eloquent and charming gentle
man nominated atProvo the other day
Ia voice: Breckenridge Kisses No,
No! We are going TO nave tar &nd
friendly campaign (applause), d contest
that will deal equally with all classes.
tApplause.)
"Thls gentleman, in accepting the
nomination, inquired, SO l read in the
daily press, whether the people were
going to vote for the honest sons of toll
or the dynamite bomb. Now l don't
know which he claims to be. Voice,
He's Cannon Continued laughter
Whether he is the honest son OF toll or
the other.
4 can scarcely think he meant to say
that if not elected he ana his associates
we've going to join the latter, because
they adopted a resolution to exclude
anarchists. They also adopted a pro-
tective Plank and it would be unfair to
say tfat in the event of his defeat my
y0ppCnent and his associates would
build up a protected infant industry of
anarchists at home. Laughter
"It seems according to the press
reports of his speech that some OF Mr..
Cannon's FRIENDS, so he claims, were
not permitted to get on the grass at
Washington. daughter
at is too late to make a speech"
(Cries Of Go on Stopping a mo-
ment in his speech Mr.. Rawlins glanced
over his audience and silly remarked:
''Now, am an honest man, and il |
should happen to make a speech 1t
might be in my own interest.
To-day l receivec record from
Washington containing a list OF tie
bills introduced in the last congress
with the names of the men who offered
them. Here it is (hoiding up large
book 1t is official, and while l am
going to refer to the record l am not
going to read 1t unless some one chal-
lenges the truth of my statements, snd
then | may read it all. Eight thousand
bills and 1900 resolutions were intro
duced into the house, which is COM
posed of $50 members and four dele
gates. There are now So members of
the senate, which makes AL members
Of both houses, exclusive vi delegates.
There were passed during the speci-
al and regular sessions307 bills and res0-
lutions of public nature. Seven were
drafted and Introduced by the delegate
from Utah. Apportioning the others
would give each seYen-tenths OF one
bill apiece. (Applause.) OF the other
territorial delegates the standing is:
Arizona l, New Mexico 2, and 0klaho-
ma 4.
The republican papers at Washing
ton spoke of the success OF Delegate
Flynn, of Oklahoma, in the matter of
securing the passage of measures as
the remarkable event of the sge. One
of these bills was relief measure for
the heirs of a certain man; another for
permission to build a bridge over a
certain stream; another authorizing
postmasters of the fourth class TO ad-
minister oaths to pension applicants.