The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-31


being an absolute failure. BY s o'clock.
the hour for which the meeting was
called there were about fifty people in
the house and by $40 probably fifty or
sixty more had dropped in. The meet
ing was called to order by the star
mileage maker of the county court, a.
S. Geddes, who named A. f. Doremus
as chairman Mr.. Doremus, blushing
under the weight of the honor, called
on David Emery. nominee for recorder
on the Republican ticket. Mr. Emery
said he already felt the responsibility
of the position TO which he hoped TO De
elected. He made the announcement
that he was a Republican and stated
that Republicans were the friends OF
all humanity. They would not see any
body starye as long as they had LOAF
of bread in the house. That was true
Republicanism. He, as working man.
thought a, working man should GET dL
least $3.50 a day and when ne goI 10
be recorder he would have IL SO oruefeu
or words to that effect.
Moses w. Taylor, candidate for coun-
Gilman from the Third, said he mad
come to be seen and not ITO be heard.
He had been asked before he came in
to make his speech short Inc
nomination had been forced on
him. He was being forced INTO
office and if elected he would never go
out until he was forced out. he prom
tsed to be very hospitable when he
holds the high office of city councillor;
| both rich and poor might approach
him and he would be affable and
agreeable to everybody. On the whole,
| he was a very approachable MANN
| fact, an humble man
J. C. Sanberg posed as an employer
of labor. He had always paid his
workmen, although sometimes he had
to go empty-handed himself he ha al
| little sense and little judgment he
said, but knew enough, he thought.
to distinguish between right and
! wrong. If elected he would do the
! square thing.
/ A. A. Parsons thought the Republic
! can party should be a, very religious
party this year. because it had SO
many Parsons in it. He was not, how
ever, one of those parsons who were
bringing church influence to bear on
| the elections He was a Republican
! because he believed in America for
| Americans, and believed in the cry,
! salt Lake work for Salt Lake work
men" If elected he would work for
| the good of the Third precinct and get
| them whatever they wanted.
| Ike Nesbitt colored quartette rem
! dered some music.
Elmer B. Jones, Republican candi-
( date for state senator, said he once
/ lived in the Third precinct and re-
membered the times when Joe Morris
made it pretty warm in the Republi-
can primaries. The Republican party
| had grave issues confronting it,
but he thought they would be
equal to the occasion. He was
not going to tell any falsehoods.
He wasn't going to tell the audience
| that the Republicans favored free coin
age of silver because if he did he would
| not be believed. Some of the Republi-
can leaders in the east had declared
+ for free silver with a string on it, that
was OF condition that foreign nations
adopted it also. The Republicans in
1873 he admitted demonetized silver.
/ but they were tricked into it by five of
I their leaders. Through long and
lalbored address he attempted to palli-
ate the unfriendly actions Of the Re
publican party towards silver during
the last twenty-five years and, by a
long and obscure process of reasoning,
attempted to show that the Republic
cans were, after all, the true friends of
silver. He then branched off into the
tariff question and Landed the Nc
Kinley bill and said the Wilson bill
made his blood boil. He firmly be-
lieved we were on the eve of a great
Republican victory and that this was
a Republican year. Heber NJ. Wells
majority was beyond computation.
Whittemore Defends the County
Court.
c. o. Whittemore had his speech type
written and read it. 1t was in the ma
ture of a brief defending the methods
Of the present county court and an
effort to show that they had carried out
and fulfilled their pledges of economy,
honesty, etc. made before election.
They had placed the stamp of disap-
prevail OF bribery and corruption on the
methods of the previous Republican
county court and inaugurated a season
of reform.
The county court had been unjustly
criticised and lied about by the Demo
cratic party and by The Herald For
this reason he thought some defense
was necessary in order that people
might not lose confidence in them
When they went into office there were
outstanding warrants to the amount OF
$427 900 issued by the preceding Repub-
lican county court and there was only
500, 900 in the treasury. They refused
to issue any more warrants for the rea-
son that the legal limit of the county
Indebtedness had been exceeded. The
territorial supreme court sustained
them in this position and decided thai
the legal limit of Indebtedness hdd
been exceeded by $4,000.
The present Republican county court
said Mr.. Whittemore, scored one in
thus striking from the shoulders of the
taxpayers the large sum of $4,000
Of this statement is true then Salt
Lake county must have repudiated this
indebtedness, which. will be news tC
most people) Anyhow the preseni
county court didn't propose at thai
time to issue any more warrants. They
wanted to issue bonds and pay up tha
way. but the people registered theil
want of confidence in the inmaculat f
trio by voting bonds No
Then he talked of the rottenness Of
the old county court and the work the
grand jury had done in finding thirty
six Indictments against the members
OF the court and their co-c0nSpira tors
and said they were not nearly through
yet Their work was approved by
Democrats except those in the Third
precinct and the Democratic Herald
he didn't want to prejudice the cast
against one of the Democratic cdndi
dates for the city council from th'
Third precinct, but Mr.. Watson haC
been endorsed by the Democrats of tn
Third precinct and these were the fe1
lows he was after He then read TIL
account of the meeting at which Mr.
Watson'S resignation was discussed a
published in the Herald, in order, a
he said. that the audience might set
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