The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-10

dent 1t was. he said in the power of
the workingmen to correct the abuses
from which the country was suffering
and it was their duty to correct them
in the election of men of honesty, men
of intelligence and men of integrity.
Theodore Burmester spoke with char
acteristic fervor and assured the audi
ence if it was there celebrating upon
what should be done to stop the devas-
tation by which this country was be-
ing swept, he was with it. Never had
there been a time when four millions of
men were crying for something to do,
nor was there ever time when it was
the duty of the masses to rise in their
might and correct the evils that inn
periled US. Perhaps it was the defect
in his hearing which permitted the
speaker to rush on to ground which
the non-partisan nature of the conven-
ton prohibited, and drag in politics.
He had mathematical Cleveland, ridi-
culed the governor, damned the mayor
and rounded up the chief of police
when he shrieked:
Organize as Republican working
men! Organize as"
"No!r' rose with tumultuous volume
from the hundreds who were gathered.
mol MOI, No!ir'
The speaker was dazed. The out
burst of disapproval had reached his
ear with the violence of a thunderbolt.
Burmester looked into the face of the
chair then at the storm of reproach
which swept across the audience. In
his ill-timed effort to promote the in
terests of the Republican party, of
which he is a recent annex, he mad
committed an egregious blunder
II don't know what this interruption
is about belched Burmester, his face
alternating between the pallor of the
grave and the blush of a cranberry
marsh "but | think it is ill-timed and
Iill-bred.
Let him speak was interposed by
a voice that was burdened with pity.
He doesn't mean anything.
MI Burmester's peroration lost its
glitter-it was an abject apology to the
gentlemen to whose purpose and whose
patience he had done such violence,
Colonel Miller deplored the fact that
conditions in this country were such as
to lead to classes that must be desig-
mated as the workingman and the
capitalist but admonished the audience
that under this government the remedy
for it was with the masses and no mat
ter how humble the man to vote was
his sovereign right. He drew some very
pretty lessons from the lives of Lin
coin, Garfield and Grant demonstrat-
ling that nothing was beyond the reach
of intelligent effort, honesty and in
tegrity and warned the workingman
that in his might it was his fault if the
evils Of which he complained were per-
petuated as long as the present form of
popular government existed.
H L. r. Jones, whose white hairs
register the story of many adnlinistra-
tons, reaffirmed that the organiza ton
was non-partisan in its nature. That
it had been effected for the purposes
expressed in the declaration of princi-
pals, that its members were men of all
parties and that while he saw some
thing in the populistic doctrine to
which he might reconcile himself it was
frought with others he abhorred. He
was not prepared to advocate Popul-
ism under these circumstances and
would not urge it upon his brothers.
He took the papers to task on the
policies they had observed in the treat
ment of the industrial demonstrations
and warned them that their views of
a movement to which the meeting
gave expression were altogether too
light
At the conclusion of his remarks the
meeting adjourned until Monday even
ing next at which time permanent
organization will be effected.