The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-29

Wine, music and song was the order
of the day-or night, rather-at the
Republican meeting in the Third mu-
nicipal ward last evening. 1t was a
hot time they had; not literally, be-
cause the atmosphere was not so con-
ditioned and nearly everyone. got cold
feet and quit before it was over, but
in the colloquial sense of the term, it
was hot meeting. The audience
was demonstrative to an unusual ex-
tent and rent the air at intervals with
vociferous shouts, not, however, of ap-
prevail of the sentiments of the speak
ers-for the echo which answered each
peal bore back the word time" to the
great discontinue OF the gentleman
who had come to tell the ''labocer
how much the Republican party loved
him, and how they would like to be in
strumental in the passage of laws that
would give him a double cinch on all
the earth. The speakers had evidently
come to try and catch the vote of the
railroad men, for the burden of all the
speeches was a recitation of what
great benefit the Republican party
audience would listen for a time in
patience. and then recognizing it was
a sparring match in which the poor
spellbinder was sparring for wind,
they very generously called time.
Peter was there, and though too
hoarse to speak, he sung song.
The meeting was held in Budd's
garden. a grove of four trees in the
rear of The saloon on Fourth West
a A -to ern hnan
erected under two of the trees, and half
q dozen benches were arranged under
the other two in convenient proximity
to the rear door of the saloon. The
crowd consisted of at least 40 men,
mostly railroaders, and dozen small
boys. Being out-of-dors, the frosty
temperature added to the naturally
chilly temperament of the gathering,
with the result that the keeper of the
saloon had the attention of the men
much of the time. In fact, he had
entertained the great majority of them
all the time except during the musical
numbers, when they came forth and
listened, and then scurried back toi the
CHEEKY comforts of the fire within and
the more CHEEKY influences of the de-
coctions that came over the bar.
IF I WE'RE PRESIDENT"
<. F. Doremus presided as chairman
and introduced Peter Sharp Condie,
the Republican candidate for s1eriff,
as the first speaker, to warm the PEG
pie up. Peter announced that he DID
not think a man. had to be a talker
to get to be sheriff, and to demonstrate
this theory, he would sing song.
He turned his eyes toward the stars
and sang with great feeling that
touchingly sentimental ballad, The
n he
all the things he would do if he ever
got to be president, and when he had
finished, the people present made up
their minds he would never get there
by their votes if he really proposed
to do all the things he threatened.
THE OTHER TAYLOR.
Doremus introduced Hon. A. V. Tay
lor as the next speaker. Mr.. Doremus
did not think it necessary to follow
the example of the chairman of a
Republican meeting a few nights ago,
who, in introducing Mr.. Taylor. said:
This is not the colored gentleman by
the same name" and refrained from
doing so.
Mr.. Taylor started in on national
lines and told his listeners that the
reason the Democrats were for silver
was not because they loved it any
better than great many other people,
but they had recognized the hopeless
ness of their cause at the beginning of
the campaign and had waited to see
what the Republicans would do with
regard to silver, and when they de-
clared against it, the Democrats had
seized the pportunity-which was the
only one left open to them-and had
declared for free coinage without
waiting for the consent of any other
nation. Then he contradicted himself
by asking who were the Democrats
who were now in the saddle. and an
swered it by saying that they were a
new Democracy who were sincere ad-
vocates of silver, and declared that
the gold Democrats had gone out of
the party.
Then Mr.. Taylor got around to the
theme of the evening and started in
to tell the workingmen how the Re
publican party had always loved the
laborer; how it had guarded their in
terests and striven to pass laws for
their benefit. To prove his statement
he read the list of laws the last Re-
publican legislature had passed in la
boris interest. He mentioned the eight
hour law as one of the shining ex-
amples of the Republican party's 10y
atty to the laboring classes, and though
he did confess that it had been man
gled in passage till it's author didn't
know it, he did not relate the ex-
perience that bill had in both houses
how it was opposed by the Republican
leaders till it had been robbed of it's
intent-the author himself moving to
strike out the enacting clause-and
how, even then, it would have been
defeated had it not been that the Dem
ocratic members came to its rescue
and passed it by giving the bill their
undivided strength.
Then Mr. Taylor mentioned the bill
prohibiting the employment of women
in mines as another great concession
of the last Republican legislature to
the laboringman. Still another was
the bill to prevent coercion, which, he
said, was intended as "a measure
of protection against the laborer."
Whether Mr.. Taylor meant to say lust
that, or something else, it was i'm
possible to tell, but that is what he
did say, and the railroad men, who
made up the greater part of the audi
ence, thought they had heard enough
of Republican love for the working
Mr.. Taylor spoke but few minutes
longer.
THEY JOLLIED HOLMAN.
w A. Holman, the Republican can
didate for justice of the peace in the
Third, was next inflicted upon the
''laboringman.' He told at great
length about Democratic misrule and
branded President Cleveland as the
archmisruler. Then he got laughed
at when an auditor remarked thas
Cleveland was Republican and was
using his influence to elect Republic
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