The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-26

and spoke a few halting sentences tina
surprised the assembly who had sup
posed that Mac" could make a fv,
minute talk, but he couldn't. He ended
the misery by presenting Mr.. Booth.
| That gentleman, with marked delfber
| alton, emptied his pockets upon the
speakers stand, books, letters, oper
watch, etc, he, by the way, did moi
consult the watch again until nearly
| two weary hours had passed, during
which Mr.. Booth proceeded to win the
audience by making himself the victim
of a few jokes, one of which was that
he was one of six brothers, and every
brothers had four sisters. For an instant
the audience was paralyZed with the
idea of Mormon family Of thirty-four
then it looked like ten. But all of his
Jokes were not so easily figured out
He would make horse and COW, wheat
and potatoes, eggs and hay, illustra-
lions of tariff, confined solely to Provo
valley, sandwich them in between the
two ends of a joke, mix truth, error
and absurdity together and charge the
mess as Democratic The whole was
narrow, untrue, misleading and in
minds unfamiliar with the intricacies of
tariff, its manifold applications, its real
ly scientific elements, sowed seeds of
ignorance and prejudice. He sought,
by joke, story and ridicule, to produce
an effect that never could be made by
the truth and the whole truth.
AS an amateur backwoodS- humor1st
he succeeded. He wisely kept to farm
ing and let silver alone.
Such orators as Mr.. Booth are helping
to blind the people and fasten curse
upon them that century OF struggle
cannot cure.
Mr.. Brown was the next speaker. He
made a. long, dry, legal talk on not only
the extreme back history of the Re
publican party, but prowled among
the cob-webbed and dust laden
archives of acts long since
forgotten by the oldest fnhabitant- he
talked of land laws, homestead acts,
school laws; and in this connection
fought the air and swore the Republic
am party, regardless of any church,
sect or party, would drag the young
wards of the government into the pub
lie schools by the scruff of their neckS.
He said the Union Pacific and Central
Pacific railroads were the work OF the
Republican party, and that while not
very popular at present, and in fact he
himself was "a bitter enemy of them,
yet such as they were they were part
of the Republican record.
Both speakers promised to let dead
issues of past strife alone, because
they were dead" and possibly they had
heard of the reception of these issues
by those who had preceded them
However, Mr.. Brown could not forbear
to talk of "rebels," and tried an indi-
rect shake of the old red rag. He fixed
up "a series of compliments that ended
with the name of Joseph l.. Rawlins,
and unexpectedly received a rousing
cheer from the audience, which discon-
certed him; but he went on after a
stumble to damn him for being a Dem
ocrat.
He also spoke in complimentary
terms of Mr.. R. c. Chambers; boldly de-
clared that if the people of this county
elected him a Constitutional delegate
he would next want to be a senator of
the United States from this territory,
and that Mr. Chambers and Mr..
Rawlins di not believe in free
cad, although they were Democrats,
and that when they went to Washing |
TON Cleveland would crack his whip, |
Ind they would protest, but end in vot-
ng off half the lead tariff as a, compro- |
MISE.
The crowd was thinning out steadily |
when Mr. Brown jerked himself togeth-
n and asked to be heard on the silver
question. He stepped in front of the
little table, thrust both hands deep into
lis pockets, dropped his chin, assumed
/ confidential mien, and proceeded to
lis voice was low, his face assumed an
lir of detection and despair as he adj
nitted that very many of the Repub-
lean party did not believe in free coin
.ge of silver at the ratio of 16 to L. that
he Republican party was some to
,lame for the demonstration of silver
n 1873, but there were some Democrats
n Congress at the same time and they
ught to share that blame; though, he
q q 81 bat |
cry few knew anything about lit. He
orgot to say that John Sherman man.
ged the deed so adroitly, but went on
o fix 1T afterwards by the Sherman
lw to buy SO much silver per year; but
e added this was because it made sill
er a merchandise. In about twenty
ears of Republican effort this was all
Then the Republican party, al
most as one man, Joined with
minority of northern Demo-
rats and repealed a law that
verybody hated, but that silver men :
yanted to use as a fulcrum to pry up
for the real good of silver
lie slid over this history and charged
to the Democrats, despite
he record that the majority of the
party stood for silver, as
stands today.
NIL. oIOWn Jug up Ills aggressive |
erve and said that in spite of all
ppearances the Republican party was
ne only silver party, at which the
ghts f1ickered in the deadly pause.
nd number arose and left.
1t was all very sad, in fact Mr..
rown was in bad form. He lacked his
sual court aggressiveness and he {
allied even with his usual success of
taking faces. He was pale, distracted,
nd pleaded a case that he seemed to
lei was lost, that the jury was
gainst him, he could not catch the
ublic ear. Those who had tired of i
Doth and called for Brown were
)rry. At the last moment he made a
,eble stroke at the Populists, called
lem rag money men, and said they
ouldn't amount to much nor last Ii
ng. II
Two of the candidates for the con- !
itutional assembly who sat behind
i'm on the stage, and who have sue
,eded in staying on the Populist
cket without getting grey in a !
ght," tried to look unconscious as I
r. Brown made this last unfortunate
rive.
The Populists hold the hall tonight {
ctober rs, with three speakers from /
broad. IL
On Saturday, October 81, Judge
overs will speak 10 the people of !
ark City on Democracy Other special \
will be given II
AMERICA. !