The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-02

cinct met last night in the Richelieu
hall. There weren't many of them, but
what there were met in sufficient num-
bers to rather more than half fill the
small room which, by courtesy, they
call a hall. F. B. Plat was boss of the
ceremonies. The Republican drum
corps, half an hour before the meeting
began, paraded the streets in the hope
of drumming up an audience of re-
| spectacle dimensions, but their efforts
were futile; in fact, judging by the mu-
| sic 90 they made, their street perfor-
| nance was calculated to have an oppo-
! site effect to what was intended. Any
way, after they had performed a while
in the hall before the speakin' COM
menced, and while the crowds were
| supposed to be arriving, those who
were in charge of the arrangements
| requested them to stop and go a couple
or three blocks away and continue
| their performance at that distance, if
the people in their immediate vicinity
would let them. They went, but I'M
fortunately returned when the meeting
was three parts over and essayed to
I'LL In an interval, but at the
| earnest entreaty of their compuI-
sorry auditors were prevailed upon
TO nave mercy, and after a few bars
deSiSted.
C. S. VARIAN
was the first speaker. In his harshest
and most discordant tones he talked
for three-quarters of an hour, COM
planning that the Democratic cam
palgn speakers were opening up old
wounds inflicted on the people of Utah
py the Republican party. He thought
the Republicans had done just right in
infiicting those wounds, and that he
had no apologies to offer The last
territorial legislature, which was Re-
publican, had done just what major
! 1ty OF the voters had sent them there
to do, that was nothing. The 1890 leg
| islature, Democratic, wanted to do the
same as the 1892 legislature, but some
how John Marshall stopped them from
doing nothing.
He said Senator Wilson had gone
across the big sea water and had been
entertained by the London and the
Edinburgh chambers of commerce, but
the time was near at hand when the
people of this free country would no
longer endure its citizens having any
communication with foreigners. He de-
clared, whether he meant it or not is
doubtful, that Senator Wilson had
| gone to Europe for the purpose of ar
ranging for the Importation of hun
dreds of thousands of foreign paupers
annually to take the place of Ameri-
can workmen, who had hitherto been
protected from the invasion of these
hordes by the tariff laws.
After the fashion of the genuine cal
amity hewlers, he said this country was
on the eve of the greatest crisis she had
ever known. Patriotism seem to have
died out of the American breast he
thought, and nothing short of an inva-
sion by a foreign foe would effectually
rekindle the flame. The effect of the
Wilson bill was to place the American
wheat grower in competition with the
wheat grower of India. ut was true that
under the Mckinley law wheat had
been lower than ever before, but that
didn't cut any figure.
| Delegate Rawlins was brilliant man,
and had done good work, but his prin-
ciples were all wrong, and he wasn't
deserving of a vote from anyone.
The political complexion of the con-
stitutional assembly was of vast i'm
portance Here the speaker waved the
bloody shirt, cried copperhead, and
said the constitutional assembly must
be Republican, so that mo part of the
southern platform should find express
sion in the constitution of the state of
Utah.
HENRY DURR,
a gentleman of color took the stand
and led off by stating that he was
the representative of 100000 co1ored
people, and told the audience that he
was "a Republican party because he
was born Republican. The Populists
although they neither had brains OF
money, were growing and becoming the
terror of the Republican party. He
said the "damnable states of the south
were not able to administer the laws
against rape and the Republican party
was the only party capable of properly
attending to that branch of the judici-
airy. The Republicans were, he thought
the only friends of the colored people
and he found fault with President
cleveland for appointing but three col
iored men to represent this nation at
the courts of forcing countries. True
1.-THE Republicans had never appointed
ANY, but he thought Cleveland should
have given them more than three. He
concluded by stating that Levi P.
Morton would be elected President of
the United States in 1885, that "as
sure as God made Moses this terri
tory would go Republican, and that as
'other distinguished speakers were
waiting to address the meeting he
would sit down, and he did.
THEODORE BURMESTER.
Ia Democrat of thirty-five years stand
ing, showed that it went against the
igrain for Democrat to make a Re
publican speech. He thought Judge
Powers, in his speech at Logan which
by the enterprise of The Herald. -
said the speaker, "was published in
full in that paper had failed to es-
tablish any connection between Alex
lander Hamilton and the Republican
party. The Republicans, said Mr. Bur
mester, have nothing to do with Ham
iilton and his principles; they stand on
the Jeffersonian doctrine. He thought
there was no Democratic party now
cleveland was an internal mug
wump," and David B. Hill was the
only true Democratic leader left. The
late territorial legislature had "giver
bounties to the people of this terri
tory" but the Democratic governor
: had snatched them from them. '"The
Icolored people, when they were slaves
were princes compared to the white
men of today They, at least, had foo6
and shelter and doctors when sick, bur
white workingmen of today have no
where to lay their heads"
All that Rawlins had done would
count him nothing. True, he had done
a good deal, chad done his duty" sale
the speaker, and he would get his re
ward.
The fact is Burmester was wander
ing. He is a Democrat at heart, ant
couldn't make a Republican speech t.
, save his life. The truth and the man:
convictions kept cropping out in spit.
of himself.
"For out of Thoughts interior sphere
These wonders rose to upper air.
could well have been written of tn
Worlds Fair. There DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder got the highest award