The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-25

1880 unQer democratic RUE, 10 SHON
that the officers mentioned by Allen
as appointed by the governor, were
elected at the same time as the gov
ernor and held office for the same
| length Of time.
1t did not take the audience long TO
catch the point. They started first to
applaud; then they stamped their feet;
then they whistled, and finally they
cheered. Wave upon wave of cheers
swept over the house. When 1t sub
sided Mr.. Rawlins raised his hand and
asked:
Not Fit For Congressman.
Where did Mr.. Allen get his author
ity for his statements?'
He probably lied" said voice.
No. said Mr. Rawlins, ''he has not
been a Republican long enough for
that"
Then MI. Rawlins clinched the nail
in Aliens political coffin. He said that
there had been such provisions in the
constitutions of southern states as
had been quoted by the Republican can
didate; but these provisions were to
be found in the constitutions which
had been fastened on the south during
the rule of Republican carpet-baggers
in reconstruction times They were
made for the purpose OF helping the
carpet-baggers.
Mr.. Allen must either have made a
wilful misstatement of the facts or
have been too ignorant to state the
TRUTH continued Mr.. Rawlins. In
either case the fact should prevent
him from holding the high office to
which he aspires" (Cheers.)
Mr. Rawlins then referred to some
of the bad legislative acts of the Con-
crosses of the country which came into
power just after the war, and showed
how their extravagancy had been
checked by a Democratic House OF
Senate Next he referred to the acts
Of the Fifty-first Congress, which, re
said, had given vast sums TO
fraudulent pensioners and to favored
States and persons and had made
other illegal use of the public money
1t had passed the Mckinley bill. with
it's sugar bounty clause, and he
showed how the stock of the great
sugar trust had, according TO sworn
evidence. gone up from 90 cents to
81. &c a share on the passing Of that
bill. Charles Foster, the last Repubi-
can secretary of the treasury, found
it necessary to advertise for bonds
and had already done so when Presl-
dent Cleveland was inaugurated
Grover Cleveland had no legislative
power He had to execute the laws
under the constitution, and he had
done so. If the Republicans had not
squandered the money there would
have been no necessity for issuing
bonds and the public debt would have
been reduced instead of being in
creased. But the Republicans passed
the Mckinley bill, and the story of
how it has been of benefit to the la
boring classes is told in the story Of
460 strikes and lockouts within the
two years after the passage of that
bill" Applause9 The desolation
wrought by the Republican party was
worse than that wrought by the
barbarous Huns when they sacked
Rome" (Applause) THE Republi-
cans, he stated. had said if the Demo-
Gratis reduced the tariff in the way it
overtake all the protected industries.
But. no such results followed. He
made a strong plea for leaving in
dustries unprotected and allowing
trade conditions to adjust themselves.
Record on Silver.
Mr.. Rawlins then took up the re-
cord of the two parties on the silver
question which he had carefully COM
piled from the Congressional Record.
He gave the authors of all silver
measures and the votes on important
stages of them, showing that the
Democratic party had been more con-
sistent and constant in its advocacy
of free silver than the Republican
party. 1.-THE last recorded expressions
of the parties on the subject in
August 1898, showed the Republicans
in the majority against the cause Of
free silver (Applause.) He read
from a recent statement of Mckinley
to the effect that the Republican party
stood where it always stood on the
financial question. This was true Ev-
cry promise had come from the Demo-
Gratis on this silver question and none
from the Republicans. The Republi-
cans east of Colorado stand where
they have always stood.
81 speak to you candidly. l believe
the hope of the solution of this prob
lem is with the Democratic party. l
have tabuIated the states and their
representation in the next Democratic
convention, and giving every doubtful
state to the gold side of the question,
the silverites will still have a majority
in the national Democratic conven-
ton" There was a Republican in the
south who said that he would
vote for a yellow dog rather
than Democrat, and the reply was:
That is right; every animal should
1OOh dlISI us own species.
One on Cannon.
In closing. Mr.. Rawlins said:
81 have read in this mornings ma
per of distinguished Republican who
stood upon this platform, marching IN
and down, and, with that flow of elo-
Quence and grace of gesture which
would catch any audience with things
that, without it, would perhaps be of
no weight, in a special burst of elo
quence asked the Republicans to please
vote their ticket straight and not listen
to any grapevine message (Applause)
He was talking in the interest of the
Republican candidate for Congress and
he said: I believe that Mr.. Allen is
such a good man that 1 would vote
for him if he was running on the
Democratic ticket That reminds me
of the story this same gentleman told
about Cleveland selling the people of
the United States to the Rothschilds
for thirty pieces of silver. That re-
minds me. further, of the story told
about Victor Hugo. In 1873 he was on
board warship out in the ocean, and,
in the midst of the ragings of the
storm, a gun broke from its fastenings