The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-16

of the country was in the hands OF
monopolies. Individual enterprise was
substantially unknown, and in its
stead there were corporations linked by
immense capitalization into gigantic
trusts. which were fattenning off the
industries of the people, protected, as
they were, by the worse than war tar
liff Following their chariot wheels
were the footsore and respondent Cox
ey armies, the direct result of Republi-
can legislation. The iron kings, coal
barons and sugar lords had tasted the
sweets of power and We're coming I'M
told wealth. They did not propose to
yield to the peoples demand. The
result was battle royal at Washing
ton and the people finally Won While
they did not secure all they asked, they
drove the enemy into the open coun-
try and struck a strong blow for COM
mercial freedom. The tide has turned.
The pendulum has begun to swing in
the other direction and a long step has
been taken toward American olsen
thrallment
Again are the monopolies summon
ing their retainers. Once again are
Republican orators singing the sirens
song, that it does the people good to be
| taxed. With brazen effrontery they
| loudly charge that the very conditions
| which they created by their ill-advised
| legislation is the fault of Democracy,
and yet, since the passage of the Sen
ate bill. the skies have frightened and
| hope once more finds Judgment in the
| hearts of all.
Here in Utah the fight is on. The
Republicans have met in convention
and presented a platform of principles
remarkable for it's silent condemnation
of that wonderful aggregation, the first
| Republican legislature of Utah. Why
this oppressive silence? Why this con-
crio hot 1,ox
faith in Republican legislatures? Was
it because the builders of the platform
were SO "suffused with bushes" over
| the Hawaiian matter that they simply
FLUSHED and blushed and forgot all
about their first political creation in
Utah? The worst of all crimes is in
gratitude, and Republicans were I'M
grateful in not pointing with pride"
Ito it's statesmen Of our thirty-first ter
tritorial assembly. They covered it's
Irecord over with the mantle of silent
Icontempt and rejoiced that they had
made themselves secure by poking
their heads in the sand.
They forgot the legislature, but they
did not forget to blush over Hawaii.
10 consistency, you do not perch on the
Republican banner. The Republicans
never fail to chant the praises of the
colored race. When Democracy declared
that certain peculiar actingS and do
ings in the Pacific under Harrison's adj
ministration should be investigated,
they forget the colored man for public
office, and cried out loudly for the old
flag and an appropriation
And they have opened the campaign
and declare that the fight is won. On
their fingers they count few feeble
minded children of Democracy who
have wandered into their camp, why
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or stolen, but the Republicans wax ex-
ceeding joyful. The handwriting how
ever, is on the wall and their Waterloo
is ahead.
Why should people, in the light of
history, in the light of living argu-
ments all about us, desire Republican
success? Why should they desire
longer to prevent our manufactures
from competing with all the world?
Why should they urge that the settle
ment of the silver question should be
! placed in the hands of a party whose
rich men and leaders take their finan-
cial ideas from the bank of England?
Every mine that is closed down;
every discouraged prospector; every
silent stamp mill is an argument
! against Republican rule. Every mother
| who, during the coming winter shall
hug her freezing babe to her breast, is
| an argument against the party which,
| in the last Congress, made it possible
| for the coal barons of the east to set
! their own price on coal. Every acre OF
land with it's reduced valuation; every
| mortgage thereon which is rapidly eat
| Ing the substance, is an argument
| against the Republican party. Every
! dollar taken from the farmer and his
| family that some great manufacturer
| shall have more and more, speaks loud
er than words for revenue and finan-
| cial reform.
! Do you desire to see an ideal Repub-
lican town controlled by Republican
methods? Then look toward starving
Pullman with it's pauperized tenants
and it's wealthy owners, and tell me
whether you have the hardihood to de-
sire that such conditions shall every
where be found.
The Democratic party, coming as it
does from the people, has the power to
reduce to the ranks every unfaithful
leader, and to demand that the will of
the citizen shall be heeoed.
You will declare your principles to-
day. You will say that there must be
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio Of is to 1, whether England
wants it so or not, and Democrats will
insist that the silver so coined shall be
used as a money of ultimate redemp-
ton, the same as gold.
Rawlins for Congress. You will do SO.
for you could not face your constitr-
ents if you did otherwise. You want
him, the Democratic party as a unit
wants him, and many independent Re
publicans who admire his brilliant rec
ord desire that he be our nominee.
He secured the opening of our-reserva-
sions; he obtained a site for our mi
versity; he restored the money of orr
leading church, and he gave statehood
to Utah. Brave, eloquent, true as steel
and faithful as the stars, he has earned
the good will of all, and richly deserves
the reelection which Utah will give
him.
When we shall leave this hall. let us
return to our homes and work for our
candidate and our principles. Let our
campaign be clean and dignified Let
there be no faltering Let there be no
hesitation. Prepare for the dawn Of
Utah's greatness Place in her hands
the Democratic banner Write unon
her forehead the principles of Denoc-
racy, and your children will rise I'M
and call you blessed
A DEMONSTRATION.
IL Frank Cannon had taox