The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-15
MURRAY DEMOCRATS.
Rousing Meeting and Much Enthu-
siasm-A Surprise For the Enemy


siasm-A Surprise For the Enemy
MURRAY, Aug. 14.-There is a local
dish rag that styles itself The Ameri-
can, but even more conspicuous by its
hero-courage in speaking out it's own
mind (of course, it has no one else's to
speak, in opposition to statehood and
the onlyi yes, the only sheet in the
fair territory that dares to split
lightning? All, that dares to oppose
statehood from convictionsi
On an otherwise calm summer morn
ing this bob-tailed oracle opened its
mouth like a whale. and accidentally
showed its teeth, like a hens, while its
well-rooted tongue wagged Tor miles
around, and loi it spake, yes, it spake,
in a low botheFing voice, like someone
in agony, which at first sounded like
a magpie, but then, the dying echoes
were like the howl of a lost coyote on
the prairie.
Some fairy genius wrote the music
down for some future state occasion;
the winding up line Of the last stanza,
reciting all the glory of the earth for
the Republicans because they had now
organized in this precinct and half a
dozen ladies attended their caucus.
was as follows: Now where are the
Democrats" This seemed an i'm
portant question, and for the moment
unanswerable, and withaI soft and
soothing, is not downy as a breeze
from the cotton-zope. TO irritated brain
nerves!
But last night the mystery was
solved, and the quietudes awoke and
Democrats from every quarter in Muir
ray turned out and had the local
oracle deigned to take cogniZance of
the fact of the magnificent gathering
OF ladies and gentlemen at the ward
house, no doubt it would have swooned
and afterwards been surprised.
Mrs. F. S. Richards was the only
one of the invited speakers who could
be present, but she was equal to the
occasion.
Space will allow of but a few words
of what she spoke, in substance as fol-
lows: Democracy commences with
the living stones. Republicanism and
Hamiltonianism commences with the
temple first and then the stones.
Women are naturally Democrats, b2s
lieving as they do in home rule.
Women are the home makers, our
government is a great family. Women
stand on an equality with men in the
decline of independence as in its crea-
ton. I never did believe it is politics
that degrades man, but man degrades
politics. The great majority of women
are mothers and teachers, and thus
already obligated TO understand the
leading questions"
After Mr.. Rawlins outlined the OBJ
iect of the meeting, to organize and
get in shape for the campaign, a
nominating committee was on motion
appointed, and while this committee
retired, the audience was addressed by
the following: DR.. Sharp, Nathan
Tanner, John G. Lambrum. Mrs
Elizabeth Erickson, NJ. A. Willumsen.
/ The report of the committee was
then adopted by reclamation and the
! following elected permanent officers
President, J. G.. Labrum; first vice
president, Mrs. Sarah Atwood; second
vice-president, Martha G.. Young; sec
rotary, NJ. A. Williamson; assistant sec
rotary, Garlic Atwood: treasurer, W
! H. Atwood; executive committee, Mrs
Mary Rawlins, Mike Mauss, Albert
Shaw, Jennie McQuin, Celica Bird
| Sarah Ann Brown, Andrew Thomp-
son, Heber Sanders, John Berry.
An invitation committee of twenty
five ladies were retained and the
meeting adjourned for two weeks.
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