The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-24
RAWLIN's SPEECH

As Delivered at the Territorial Ccnven.
ton at Salt Lake on September 18th.
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
the convention-You confound me
you overwhelm me with kindness. l
do not know what to say. There are
no words, know no phrase which is
adequate to describe my feelings at
this momeLt. (AppIause.) My high
est ambition has been that my public
life should be successful and that l
should honorabIy discharge my duty to
which your suffrage called me two
years ago, and then be at home with
you, l expected my lot to be eternally
cast here In private life and had formed
the fixed purpose not again to accept q
nomination to public office; but
your kindness has wrested from me
my fixed purpose; has shattered my
frmest resolution, and here l am hep
less, but not hopeless. applause and
laughter.l 1 have not sought this NOM
nation, nor have I 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 the elimination
of glorious triumph. (Applause)
''Some of the gentlemen who have
been instrumental in bringing this
sbout-tIaughter The office appetite,
like the opium habit, when it gets
possession of man-(A voice: We
will make you senator Yetp Applause
and cheers)-it is hard to get it loose.
l have felt that l could quit without
breaking my heart, although this may
not be true. Laughter But 1 give
you all notice that | shall expect you
en- election day.
"The eloquent and charming gentle
man nominated at Provo the other day
Ia voice: breckenridge Hisses.) No,
No! We are going to have tair and
friendly campaign (applause), contest
that will deal equally with all classes.
lApplause.l
This gentleman, in accepting the
nomination, inquired, so ! 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.j
Whether he is the honest son of toll or
the other.
Il can scarcely think he meant to say
that if not elected he and his associates
were going to join the latter, because
they adopted resolution to exclude
anarchists. They also adopted pro-
tective plank and it would be unfair to
say that in the event of his defeat my
opponent and his associates would
build UP protected infant industry of
anarchists at home. Laughter
1T seems according to the press
reports of his spesch that some of Mr..
Cannon's frien0S, so he claims, were
not permitted to get on the grass at
Washington. daughter
at is too late to make speech"
(Cries of Go on.'") Stopping mo-
ment in his speech Mr., Rawiins glanced
over his audience and silly remarked:
''Now, am an honest man, and if /
should happen to make speech 1t
might be in my own interest.
To-day L receivec a record from
Washington containing a list OF the
bills introduced in the last congress
with the names of the men who offered
them. Here it is (holding up large
book.) 1t is official, and while l am
going to refer to the record l am not
going to read it unless some one chal-
lenges the truth of my statements, and
then | may read it all. Eight thousand
bills and 1000 resolutions were intro
duced into the house, which is COM
posed of 1856 members and four dele
gates. There are now IS members of
the senate, which makes AL members
of both houses, exclusive of delegates,
There were passed during the speci-
al and regular sessions307 bills and reso-
lutions of a 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 Oklaho-
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 a relief measure for
the heirs of certain man; another for
permission to build bridge over q
certain stream; another authorizing
postmasters of the fourth class TO adj
minister oaths to pension applicants.
Speaking of the bills for Utah's
benefit, Mr.. Cstchings, chairman Of the