The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21
THE OPERA HOUSE CROWDED
FROM PIT TO DOME.
L Mastery Presentation of the Is
sues of the Day-The Financial
Observation-Disclosures and Silver
RawIins' Work-Frank CannOn's
Theatre Speech-Colonel TrumbO
and the Sugar Trust.


that on November 6. the Republicans
will meet a veritable Waterloo.
The Salt Lake party left for Provo
over the Rio Grande Western at Ais p.
m There were 263 Tuscarora braves
on board, together with the Jefferson
Drum corps, forty-five strong, and
many ladies, among the latter being
Mrs. Powers, Mrs. John T. Game, Mrs.
Brixen, Mrs. Blair, Mrs. M. Hanak,
Mrs. E. G. Hitler, Miss Mary Brixen,
Miss Hodgert and Mrs. G. E. Howe.
Provo was reached at $40 p. M, and
on disembarking, the visitors were met
by the Provo Drum corps and many
prominent citizens. The procession
marched to Southworth's hall, where a
banquet was served by the Democratic
ladies.
After this there was "a monster parade,
the streets being crowded with people.
The meeting at the opera house fol-
lowed and it was one of the greatest
gatherings in the history of Provo. The
house was packed from pit to dome,
while hundreds were unable to gain ad-
, mittance.
Sam A. King presided, and intro
duced as the first speaker
NORRIS SUMMER,
who referred to the recent revival in
business, due to Democratic legislation,
and predicted great victory for Raw
lins in November.
FISHER HARRIS,
the silver tongued Salt Laker, made an
eloquent address and was followed by
HON. JOHN T. CAME,
who made a telling ten minutes speech.
JUDGE POWERS ADDRESS.
The orator of the evening was then
introduced, and he received an ova-
ton.
1t was a great occasion, and the
judge arose to it. making one of the
finest addresses ever heard in Utah.
His eloquence was matchless, his logic
convincing and all set forth in the
orators best style.
The speaker opened as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen:-In this Gar
den City of Utah, with its valley of
fruits and flowers and it's clear crystal
lake, one ought not to be compelled to
argue ITO any extent i'm behalf of the
party of the people and against the
Tory party of these latter days. Be
cause, you are a people of homes and
the Democratic party is a nome loving
party, it believes in 'thome rule it is
opposed to special privileges and to the
rule either of kings or of aristocrats. /
always feel at home among you, and
you always seem to me to be my neigh
bors. When I lived here, I learned to
like you and to like your town and
have never taken from my heart the
flowers of memory, which took root
when we daily met.
1t is also a pleasure for me to address
you, because the Timpanogos tribe OF
the Democratic party, of your city, has
joined hands with the Tuscaroras and
unite this evening to do battle against
our common enemy under the leader
ship of Rawlins, who has honored the
Democracy by accepting it's nomA alton
| for Congress. When 1 say that the
Democratic party has been honored by
his acceptance, speak advisedly.
RAWLINS THE MAN FOR THE
EMERGENCY.
Speaking of Mr. Rawlins, Judge
Powers paid a high tribute to his
splendid ability, his integrity and his
courage, and outlined his splendid work
i'm Congress. The great issue before
/ the American people today was the
! financial question. Under present laws,
the people were chained, gagged and
bound hand and foot by a. merciless
shylock. Back of the thrones of Europe,
back of our flnancfers and legislators
was the money power, cracking its
whip over the heads Of the enslaved
masses. The gilded coach of Dives
ever day rode over Lazarus.
The situation today was graphically
depicted, and the Wilson bill, crippled
although it was by the Senate, came to
the people like a. rainbow of promise
painted upon the heavens by the hand
of divinity. But the fight was still on,
and many battles must yet be fought,
and the people of this fruitful land
would never remove the usurers yoke
until silver was placed on an equality
with gold. The duty of the hour i'm
Utah was to re-elect Rawlins to- Con-
gress.
The Judge stated that ne was sur
prised recently to read in the Republican
organ of Utah that ''the Republicans
of Utah must make haste to put them
selves on record with the Republicans
of the east All know where the RE
publicans of the east stood on silver,
and if the candidate of that party was
in accord with them, he did not re-
present the farmers, miners, merchants
and working men Of Utah. He was an
untried man, ambitious and anxious
for prefernenlt. The party whose
standard he bore was under the domi-
nation of Wall street. 1t was safe to
assume that the next national cam
paign would be fought with free silver
written on the Democratic banner. The
hope of silver men was with that party.
The speaker quoted from Senator
Jones letter withdrawing from the Re
publican party because of it's antagon-
ism TO silver, and quoted from such
Democrats as Crisp and McVeagh.
The Judge then took UP the history OF
silver legislation and proved from the
record that the Republicans alone were
responsible for the position it occupies
today. He then showed the absolute
necessity of free silver to the prosper
ity of the country, and covered the
whole subject as it has never been
covered before in this section.
FINANCIAL TROUBLES.
The financial troubles from which
the country was suffering, could not be
charged to Democracy It was due tc
believed that this country was big
enough and strong enough to take al
the silver that would come, coin it and
| give back merchandise and products ir
EXCHANGE Historical facts and statis
tics were cited in proof of this, and the
/ attitude of the leading nations on the
question was outlined.
THE TARIFF.
| Coming next to the tariff question
Judge Powers landed some terrific
blows upon the calamity howlers THAI
fthe tariff Expresses the masses and en-
riches the classes was demonstrated
beyond controversy.
why" asked the speaker, "shoult
the Democratic party be the enemy OF
labor when the great urn of Democra
cy has ever been borne upon the shoul
ders of our workingmen? Why SHOULD
the Democratic party, be charged with
being the enemy of labor, when 1T has
Railways battled against the aristocratit
tendencies of its opponents The cal