The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-25
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COX ELDER DEMOCRATS.
Rousing Meeting Held on Saturday
-CannOn's Bad Breaks.

ROusing Meeting Held on Saturday
-CannOn's Bad Breaks.
BRIGHAM CITY, Sept. 24.-saturday
evening the Democratic society of
Brigham City met in the court house
On account of having been chosen
county chairman Hyrum Standing re-
signed as president of the society
Thomas II. Blackburn, ex-selectman and
prominent citizen and Democrat of this
city, was chosen to fill the vacancy.
The selection was a wise one, as Mr..
Blackburn is a man of wide influence
and is personally acquainted with
every man, woman and child in the
precinct.
Charles Kelly, the Democratic nomi-
nee for representative. was the first
speaker. He said that with very few
exceptions all the old time Utah people
We're Democrats ct heart. The speaker
said many good things, but the best of
all was the neat manner in which
he punctured one OF Frank Cannon's
''whoppers" delivered in Brigham
the previous night Cannon said Heber
G. kimball used to often travel up and
down Utah. He was particularly fond
of molasses and bread, said Cannon.
In certain town in southern Utah
Kimball stayed with family that
had a particularly good grade of mo-
lasses. AT the table one day, Mr. kim
ball asked his host to pass the molas
ses. The host replied, ''Well, you see.
Brother Kimball we have stopped
making mOlaSSeS because syrup is now
imported and it is cheaper to buy the
imported syrup than ; to make the
home article" well, then, pass the
syrup" said Brother K. well. the
fact is, Brother K, we are too poor
now to even buy the syrup" This was
one Of Cannon's profoundly subterran-
can arguments TO show the vile effects
of free trade Democracy on Utah in
dustries.
Now, Mr.. Kelly proceeded to prove
the fallacy of this story. Syrup was
not known in Utah in the days of He
Der G. Kimball. Kimban died in the
Cos, before the railroads reached Utah.
and until they arrived in these valleys
there were extraVagant charges for
hauling syrup over the plains and
mountains; that the freight charges
alone would amount to may times the
cost of producing molasses
This was one of Cannon's pet argu-
ments. A few more exposures such as
Mr. Kelly administered would soon
cause the people hereabouts to doubt
every other argument which this pet
of the Repubs. attempts with flowing
language, to befog and entrap the IN
wary voter
AT this society meeting, A. H. Snow
delivered a vivacious address on the
hive topics of the day He clearly ey-
planned the admirable basic principle
OF Democracy for a strict construction
of the constitution of the United States
as against the noxious Republican idea
of a loose and suit-our-p pleasure con-
struction. The speaker showed how
these two party opinions operated when
the recent church escheat cases came
before Congress. The Democrats said
the constitution did not grant the
power to the government of confiscat-
ing the Mormon church property. On
the other hand, the Republicans want
ed the property, and by their loose
ideas took it, The speak
er said almost to a man the Demo-
Gratis voted against the escheat act and
the Republicans for it, This was not
because the Democrats in Congress
liked the Mormons any more than the
as they did not. but they
voted that way from party principle.
Both speakers were warmly ap-
plauded.