The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-19
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EPHRAni, oct. 1S-John Henry
Smith is now making his annual tour Of
Sanpete in the interest of the RepubH-
can party. He and Bishop and Ham
mond spoke here last night. They we're
greeted with a fairly large audience.
but enthusiasm was conspicuous by
its absence.
Bishop was the first speaker. He
evidently has his talk committed to
memory, as il was the same, almost
word for word as the one delivered
by him at Moroni. He began by sup
posing that the people had not been
attracted there by his presence, max
ing at least one truthful statement.
He made a desultory talk on all the
subjects supposed to be connected with
politics. On the question Of tariff he
had to stop and inquire of local pol
itician for his statistics. Said the cat
tle-raising industry had been greatly
injured by ii contrary to reports Of our
farmers, who say the price of cattle
has not been SO good in years as now.
He delivered q most narrowing tale
about the injury done to the poor
ships. He scored the Democrats for
passing the income tax law and at
tackled the administration for issuing
bonds, carefully neglecting to state
why they were issued or to give the
party vote on the question.
Hammond was the next speaker
His statement that suffrage was
granted TO the women by the Repub-
licans in the constitutional convention
was greeted with a great laugh This
seemed to rattle him for a while He
attacked Roberts for his stand on this
question and said the people should
vote for Allen as he was strong on
woman suffrage. His next attempt
was on the tariff and the utter care
lessness with which he handled the
truth on this question was aSt0nish-
ing to the audience. He read some
statistics showing that in a certain
year Of the Mckinley tariff the exports
of wheat, etc, were greater than dur
ing the first year under the Wilson
bill and gave the latter as the cause
Of this reduction in exports. The sup
ply of wheat had nothing to do with
the price Of it. the latter by some OBJ
scure method being regulated by the
tariff. He accused the Democrats of
trying to establish a nobility in this
country. In his remarks on the mon
etary question he said that Harrison
was ready and willing to sign a silver
bill If he had only had the chance. and
that the Democratic leaders were all
going over to the gold party and soon
there would be none left in favor of
the restoration of silver According
To him. Mississippi was the only
Democratic state that had declared for
free silver
J. II. Smith. in abiding to the stand
taken by Democracy on the question
of church and state. stated that Pow
ers, having failed to secure the influ-
ence Of the Mormon church. had start
ed this movement He said that the
man who preferred territorial govern
ment 10 statehood had lost all sense
Of manhood and had bowed down and
accepted slavery. He stated that the
territorial system was a blot on this
government; that it gave the gov
ernor too much power especially in
the matter Of vetoes. 40 matter If
statehood does increase our taxes. il
also gives US more liberties
He then delivered a nice little ora
ton on the independence of American
character, and said that if he had his
choice in this world he would like to
be an American woman.
The tariff seemed to be his pet
theme. Jefferson. according to him.
was protectionist He said England
adopted free trade simply and for the
sole purpose Of running the United
States.
To low tariff were due all the ills to
which the flesh is heir. 1t tended to
make slaves of the people. He said
Cleveland could not find a Democrat
whom he could trust, so he chose
Gresham. Republican. as his secre-
tary of state. and then went on TO tell
what a poor secretary Gresham made,
He ended with comparison of the
candidates and said that Moses
Thatcher was a fine man. but there
was but little probability Of his being
able TO accept an Office He paid some
rather chilly compliments to Roherts
Rawlins and Game The mentioning
of the formers name received great
applause.
He eulogized all the candidates on
the Republican ticket, even down to
our Jacob. of Sanpete fame. but for
some unacceptable reason he failed
TO mention Allen.
The talk Of ali of them seemed 10
fall fat, and it is extremely douhtfu1
If they made single Republican vote