The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-09


thinker He has figures on hand for
many things. But while he is trying
to make a point Roberts can make
three. Roberts will descend on him
like a perfect whirlwind. He will be
taken up, thrown down. pummeled and
( left in a very exhausted and precar-
ious condition. He may be a good
speaker. but this time he has a giant
against him.
Aliens Library Speech.
Every man who was either a mem
her or -.ttache of the last legislature
knows enough about Aliens speeches.
to be DESTROYS only Of being away when
he makes them. Allen was on several
committees in that body and had sew
eral net schemes. On each one of
these he prepared speech that would
I take from one to three hours. He
used to borrow the time of all the
men on the Republican side and oc-
casionally of some on the Democratic
side In order to make the speech more
effective he would generally notify
some of his admirers or the friends
/ of the measure that he was about to
] deliver it. Then when everything was
set he would wade in, and the bar
would be literally patronized by the
members while he was taking the
| time.
Along towards the end of the session
a bill providing for free public libra
ries in cities of the first and second
! class, was scheduled as a special or
! der for one afternoon. This was Al
/ lens particular pet. He had prepared
/ an elaborate speech to be delivered on
4 the subject and had borrowed about
/ three hours of time from the Repub-
1 lican side. The passage of the. bill
was assured, but that did not satisfy
Allen. He wanted to make a speech.
Had His Audience.
In order to make the speech effect
i've he notified the ladies who were
pushing the theme, that he would open
the debate that afternoon. So just be-
fore the clock pointed to 2:S0 and
while Chief Clerk Charley Stanton was
reading the estray bill, a number of
women trooped into the hall and took
! seats inside the bar near Mr.. Allen.
At the hour Allen arose to make his
speech. He started with the libraries
of ancient Egypt, striking far back
into the time when the first CLEANS of
historical daylight were cleaning
| through the darkness. He discoursed
learEedly on the Babylonian libraries
Then he came down through various
libraries until he went into rapture on
those of Greece. He struck Rome at
exactly 1925 and was discussing learn
edly all things in relation to the libra
ries of that city. This was too much
A few days before a resolution had
been passed combining all speakers to
ten minutes and A. W. WINS raised a
point of order on that. Aquilla Nebe-
ker was in the chair and the point was
sustained. Allen never finished that
speech, and the women were compelled
to go out without hearing It.
Crane Men Feel Bad.
Nor is his inability TO cope with Rob-
erts as a, speaker, thinker or statesman
the only thing that will operate against
Allen. The Crane men have a very
serious grievance. They have only
lately begun TO discover what bitter
fight was made against them by AL
len before the state convention If AL
len had not made such a fight against
him, Crane would have been nominated
on the first ballot. But Allen thought
his. only chance would be to kill any
non-Mornlon who might show himself.
That is why he was SO bitter against
both Crane and Thomas, and why he
fought for any man who was a Nor
mon. Allen was never very popular
in the party. He has never held "a very
good record. Many Republicans re
member old Sights and sneers that he
has cast upon them in the past.> This
year he will not be able to get a ma
jority of one by manipulating the cleo
ton up in Bingham. Dead men can
not be voted for him. The names of
Democrats cannot be voted by saloon
buns But Charley Crane is either
forgiving man, or his Republicanism
is of the cast iron order. While his
admirers are very sore over the mat
ter, Charley himself is working for the
man who did what he could to defeat
him.
This Farcical Campaign.
Having taken Wells off his bicycle,
the Tribune is now looking for some
reason to give why he should be elect
ed. After searching long time it has
found a reason that appears entirely
conclusive to itself. Some countryman
has sent the paper an egg which has
a w on the end of it in the shell and
the Tribune mas grasped this as
drowning man would grasp a straw
1t says that this is an omen for Wells
It's heart is as glad as We're the hearts
of Romulus and Remus when they saw
the crows flying through the air. Now
it has what it believes is an unanswer-
able argument. 1t will go to the ter
ritory and say: I'VE have nothing to
say for Mr.. Wells except that he is
not so undignified as to ride a. bicycle
in the day time and that an intelligent
old hen out here in the country has
just laid an egg with a w on the end
of it. We are constrained to admit
that the w might have stood for
wheels or Weber or a. dozen other |
things. But we think it stands for
Wells, and you must think as we do |
Is this not enough to make you elect |
a man who is just at the age of Ma /
poleon when the latter was made EN-.
peror of France and Alexander when !
he was in the height of his power
What matters experience? What mat
ters ability to govern the state? We |
stand on the war cry, The egg, the age
and the Wheel /"
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