The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-19
RAWLIN'S SPEECH
AS Delivered at the Territorial Conven
ton at Salt Lake on September 18th.

AS Delivered at the Territorial Conven
ton at Salt Lake on September 18th.
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
the convention-Y0u confound me
you overwhelm me with kindness.
do not know what to say. There are
no words, | 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 home with
you l expected my lot to be eternalIy
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 nv
firmest resolution, and here [ am he D.
less, but not hopeless. applause and
laughter.) L have not sought this NOM
ination, nor have l sought any other
nomination, but coming as it does
from the representatives of true and
honest people l cannot reject it (great
spplause), but take it up AMI with the
aid of the people We shall carry your
action OF to-day on to tie elimination
Of a glorious triumph. applause.
Some of the gentlemen who have
been instrumental in bringing this
about-tlaughter The Office appetite,
like the opium habit, when it gets
possession of man-(A Voice: we
will make you senator Yetl' 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. (Laughter) But l give
you all notice that l shall expect you
en- election DAY.
"The eloquent and charming gentle
man nominated at Provo the other day
Ia voice: breckenridge Hisses.) No,
Mol We are gong to have a TAR and
friendly campaign (applausel, a 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 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.
II can scarcely think he meant to say
that if not elected he and his associates
we've going to join the latter, because
they adopted resolution to exclude
anarchists. They also adopted a 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.)
''It seems according to the press
reports of his speech that some of Mr..
CaDnon's frienas, 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 sIiIy remarked:
Now, am an honest man, and If |
should happen to make a speech t
might be in my own interest.
L
Washington containing a list oil Il
bills introduced in the last congress
with the names of the men who offered
them. Here it is (hold!ng up large
book IL is official, and while | am
going to refer To the record | am not
going to read It unless some one chal-
lenges the truth of my statements, ard
then | may read 1t all. Eight thousand
bills and 1000 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 of delegates.
"There were passed during the speci-
al and regular sessions307 bills and reso-
buttons of a public nature. Seven were
drafted and introduced by the delegate
from Utah. Apporti0ning 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 +.
The republican papers at Washing
ton spC Ike of the success of Delegate
Flynn, of Oklahoma, in the matter Of
securing the passage of measures as
the remarkable event of the age. One
of these bills was a relief measure for
the heirs of certain man; another for
permission to build bridge over
certain stream; another authorizing
pnstmasteis OF the fourth class 10 adj
minister oaths to pension applicants.