The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-01

Gbi1d CiOHdCN biiLO q Low pdOululI
for mental meals for months. His re-
marks were highly relished, if incessant
applause could be taken as an indica-
ton.
THE legends say this is a Democratic
year. and the ballots on the 5th of No
vember will tell the same tale. 1t is SO
easy for the Republican, cavorters to
make a howl, but they don't make votes.
The other night during the parade of
the municipal end of our ticket L was
standing an on-looker with number of
prominent Republicans, who, as the head
of the procession came in sight TAIN
would jeer me, and made light with bit
ing sarcasm and ribald jest, at my eX-
pense. They would ask me what we we're
paying Republican noodlums for march
ing in our lines; if it was possible that
there were fifty men in line, and, in fact,
they were full of jests and Jibes until
they began to crane their necks I'M won,
derment why the end did not get around
the corner of Third South street on to
Main street sooner than it did. noticed
the silence that soon fell among them as
the marching columns OF enthusiastic
business men came ON up the street, car
,ying fire in every shape that a blaze can
be made portable, all in the blare of
bands and trumpets, and the ear-plercStg
poems of musketry. And the end was not
yet The silence in that crowd of Re
publican gentlemen was one OF the most
painful cases of suspended ANIMATION
ever witnessed or heard tell Of On ana
square was passed in review ana SUN
the tail was not in sight. Those Repuoll-
can gentlemen looked at each other, tnen
at me. [ said nothing. but Kept saving
fine solid uuarter-oak of eminent satlsfac.
ton. They each wore the mean grim OF
emphatic disappointment ana chag[Mi..
ri be = if you haven't hays got tb;s rev is b Gg.
germ [ thought she'd be- said anoLner.
Didn't know there were so many DEM
ocrats in town. drawled a tnlrd, ana so
II was that those oVer-conhdent RepuD-
iican politicians saw the first break IN
rhe aValanchian landslide of the people
that is going to bury their corrupt nlu-
nicipal ticket They were aetqa leo sG rr hit
there. Up to that time, like the late
james G. Blaine, they, as RepupncdiiS'
claimed everything. COUNTY,
ssRut the people of this city and county
are tired Of being robbed. Repu6Dnc saI
rule or ruin policy has mace Z9'oyo So go,
lionaires and 100000 professional ttallf ns
in its thirty years of ignonie t eSie'eh had
Under the same period Of tune me - ma inl
Democracy held sway. all this vast In ~,
dividual wealth would have oeen Wiz VIII
ami divided among the tolllnS masses MASSES
Will you continue TO eno0rse ga siri9 And
nat is fine cry that is yelling up from ON
ali over this territory and througheoult ,. ING
country. BY that silent process Oh viii NJ he he
Snne and the result will be an avalahc enc
tbat Will shake the heavens and the
| earth LIN. .rv other
,r1rths which space forbids proper re-
n u and with some very timely
and honest personal references ne MI.
! duced the honorable mayor OIL o , ienefhy
on5 invaluable rehearsal OF Repuoucdii
! iofbery Mayor Baskin SAID: +ho
~ .eThere's filing and drumming on tne
streets tonight, and there are in fniI
performance but the subjects we T,, o.
ehout to deal with are serious. lneIe
never was a time In politics Wheh ino'
! torS were so important as now
ioThis should have been conquest OF
nolitical strength between the two oiu
! narties. but 1 am sorry to say IL Is Ho.
other matters have crept mo p. PoiitiIis %
| .,bich nuts a bad aspect on aflalrs' 1t 10
,,arv had as it puts wormwooi INTO our
months and we find that neighp9r Is
AGAINST neighbor, all Of which snoulo not
/ be- and l am very sorry. ~ 10 9;r md #
is going to win. First, because us prllI
! cipies are right, and second, pecause L
Relieve that the people or Utah are III
] telIigent and honest in their convlctloEs,
md they can vote without fear, favor or
| frowns it makes no difference Whdt m
! Fuence is brought to bear upon liieni-
l prolonged applause) 20 +,,a Do
'srThis campaign on the part OF the re
nrblicans has been virulent. we nave
Young man raised here who is cuttlng a
ye,v wide swath but l can see as II >
anybodys business toion ;f dsdac rts to
/ hut he should have done what ne Is dolIs
legitimately, and with an honest purpose.
! All the Republican leaders here, ana tnelr
| journals. have jumped upon him. NOW
| he is an aspirant for the United states
senate. Compare him with Rawllns and
Thatcher and he will not pass muster
but compared with the Republican canol-
| dates he does pass muster, and, IN fact,
they dwarf beside him: He is a good
moral man. he don't drink; hasn't got
nm in a, stake meeting and confessed that
he was an outeast ana ana promises cure re he
paws his debts, and yet he is dazZler.
lust why his party should jump on him
so / don't know, and, of course, the
| democrats owe him nothing.
SIt is the municipal election in .particu-
lar that / wish to treat upon. 1t is to the
music of the incoming municipal candi-
dates that the, tax payer has got to dance
70 You are already taxed as high as you
can stand it. This is Fifth precinct
meeting and you people have two candi-
dates in the field that are not entitled to
YOUR suffrage.
M. Baskin then reviewed the period of
real estate speculation that nearly killed
the city four years ago: the place Place beln ing
| falsely doomed out of It's skirts, and
council were in a mood to give the city
away to any set of scherling sharks that
came along and asked for all or part of
it. In fact, he told the whole story OF TN tne
"iaye you heard of the Copper plant?'
asked the mayor of his vast audience,
and from responses and laughter mis-
question elected there was no ooupt dpout
their knowledge.
ssVeII." continued the mayor "it was
built to boom the town-did it? Twenty
five thousand dollars was voted by the
city council out of the taxes in the city
trea sury-a bonus to the sharks of the
Copper plant. 1 objected, and the result
you all know
Mayor Baskin then went through the
familiar. to all citizens of this city.
.When my efforts and the courts finally
saved the people the $50, 900 some of the
members of the city council got huffed
Let's see how Councilman Cohen, who is
a candidate for reelection, met my veto
way to insult. the members of the city
council All, are you gentlemen of the
Fifth precinct ready to vote again for
such man? He said he was not guilty
of any assault upon the city treasury
why not? When I get. out of the city
conscience will be as clear as the
MAYORS My God, what kind of Con
science has that man got? Where's his
oath? Rebulie him; don't set a preceden1
by re-electing such a man. Clear up the
name of the Fifth precinct; l have conf
people, and we will succeed at the polls
If you but do your duty" (ProlongeE
The B. II. Roberts Glee club then sang
two selections. and were followed by
George 2. Woolley candidate for the
briefly outlined his policy If elected. He
spoke of the candidates Of the old parties
before he went abroad, and as he found
them upon his return. He made a. very