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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
Municipal Power.

A man who had been made mayor of a
small town, largely through an accident
of politics, was waited upon by a com
mittee of more or less indignant citizens.
who desired to protest against his arbi-
trary methods of conducting affairs
we represent the people, said the
spok and we think we ought to
have more say in running this place
1ou'r only the mayor, you know. We
didn't deed the town to you
OF course" assented the official, 81
realize that the people have a. right to
some say. But at the same time when a
things done I'm the one that must go
gether and hold mass meetings and hol-
Ter till doomsday but that wouldn't
transact any business. What do you
want anyhow?
What we principally want" said the
spokesman, lis to know who is running
this town.
Well" the mayor answered thought
fully, its a hard thing to say exactly.
You know my wife. don't your
yes"
We'll, my wife is a woman that has
her own way now and then. When it
comes TO figuring out where the supreme
authority in this community lies, you're
liable to run up against a good deal of
confusion. You see, my wife bosses me
and the baby bosses my wife. But | have
a legal right to spank the baby, so it
does seem. kind O. hard to tell exactly
where the highest power lies. But there s
one thing you'll be entirely safe in max
ing few friendly bets on. and that is
that 1t never gets outside the family
for minute. Detroit Free Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
AT OGDEN TONIGHT.

When Senator Teller, Senator Cam
non, Senator Dubois, Representative
Allen, Mr.. Kearns and others walked
out of the St. Louis convention every
man. woman and child in Utah APP
planded and indarsed their action,
while not one person could be found
to laud the gold standard, anti-free
silver platform which that convention
adopted. The financial plank of that
platform was regarded as a direct and
deadly blow 10 all the hopes and prom
ises which the Republicans Of Utah
had held out TO the people of Utah.
But now a change has come over a
great many of the Republicans of the
state. All Of great sudden they have
discovered that this country cannot
successfully undertake TO establish
policy of independent free coinage; they
have been told that free coinage Of
silver is no remedy for the very evils
they have always recognized as being
the direct result of the demoneelza-
tion of silver. Has anything transpired
since they held their state convention
and declared for the free and indie
pendent coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to l TO alter conditions so as to
justify the ignoring of That declaTa-
ton?
We believe now, as we have always
believed, that the great, the over
whelming mass of the Republicans of
Utah are for the free coinage Of sill
yer, but through some mahgn irAu-
ence many of them seem to have sur
rendered their convictions on the sub
ject. When they forsake free silver as
the great issue before them and the
American people, and would substi-
tute something else therefor, they run
after false gods. But those Republi-
cams who will speak at Ogden tonight
and those who wilq hear them are still
steering their course by that silver
lode star that has never led them
astray and never wiN. Had any man
in, the valleys or ON the mountains of
Utah on That eventfuE day when Teller,
Cannon and others walked out of the
St Louis convention said that the sill
yer Republicans wculd have to CALI
meeting to protest against the dictates
of the Mckinley managers and to re-
proclaim their allegiance to silver, such
a man would have been pronounced a
babbler whose reason had fed So far
as lay witElin the power Of the Re
publican state central committee the
Republican party has been delivered
over to Mark Hanna and the interests
of the gold standard men. A chief o'b-
ject of this meeting at Ogden is to
rescue the party from the conspirators.
Let the people scan the list of names
of men Who are 10 address it and see
if they can pick out one who has not
always been devoted to silver. They
have been the champions of silver in
their party in the past, and if the
Republicans trusted and followed them
in the past why can they not trust and
folliow them now? If they can IN
derstandl no argument they at least
should understand that it is never good
policy to swap horses while crossing a
stream.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

The manufacturers and ether en-
ployers of labor impose a severe tax
on public credulity when they give as
their reason for suspending operation
fear of the triumph Of free silver "
The truth is that this closing of es-
Establishments is merely a campaign
dodge intended to, not alone intirni-
date the voter, but restrain him from
voting to subserve his own best inter
eets. When congress was considering
the tariff on sugar the Sugar Trust
closed many of lis refineries because
it was afraid of unres tricted trade in
that commodity" That this step was
taken with the intent of intimidation
was made doubly clear by the resump-
ton of operation Immediately follow
ing the adjournment of congress. If
the factories or smelling works close
new they will close, not because OF
free silver. but for the lack Of iii, and.
in addition, for the one and only DUR
pose of preventing a free expression at
the ballot box. Indeed, if the doors are
to be kept open, or are to reopen, sill
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
GIVE A MAN A CHANCE.

Since the penitentiary became a
state institution the very bad prac-
tice of sending the names of convicts
10 be released each month to the press
for publication has ceased. This is as
1t should be- Lists are still sent TO the
chiefs OF police Of the principal towns
and to the sheriffs, which is proper.
In ome of our state exchanges we no
tee a list of convicts who are to be re-
leased this month. which list appears
to have been obtained from the chief
of police of the town where the paper
is published. The list should not have
been given to the paper for publfca-
tom, and we fancy that in the present
instance it was dome inadvertently, as
the chief is a man with a high sense
of the proprieties of his office and of
the right of an ex-convict to have no
obstructfons thrown in his way in at
tempting to lead a better life.
When the convict energies from the
prison door to go forth again into the
world his path is a hard one, and the
struggle 20 live down his past life and
20 lSaG a DeUeT ONE IN tne IuUuTe is
most severe one. To make announce
ment of his release through the press
is to revive the memory of his past
crimes fer which he has done that
penance which the state deems COM
nnensu1arta win them. To revive this
memory in the public mind is to do him
a direct personal injury, to make him
WAIVER in his resolve to reform, and to
close many avenues for earning an
honest livelihood to him. Give the man
a chance in life though he be an ex-
convict.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
Ii HUNG CHANG ON SILVER.

Ii Hung Chang has the reputation of
being one of the ablest diplomats of
the age, and it is a we'll deserved rep
utation, yet it is very doubtful if there
is another diplomat living who would
have expressed an opinion on the su-
preme political issue of the day in the
country through which he might have
been travelling. Ii did this in New
York, declaring he preferred Mr.. Bryan
should be elected because he is a silver
man. Blunt and direct as are his ques-
lions, still such declaration by a. man
in his position is without precedent.
When he remarked that he had told
Lord Salisbury that Great Britain
could settle the silver question in a
day if she chose, he unquestionably
told him a great truth. England may
be said to dictate what the money Of
says it shall be that which is most
advanta geous to her For this she can.
not be justly blamed, for she is but
looking out for her own interests. In
this regard England sets the United
States good example, one that they
could profit by if they would. Why
does not this country adopt that finan-
cial system which is best calculated
to further its interests? Why not be
as free and independent in our money
system as England is in hers? The
Chicago platform declares for this very
independence and freedom when it de-
clares for the free, independent and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of is to 1. The American people are
politically free but financially enthrall-
ed. 1t is time another emancipation
proclamation was issued.
Ii Hung Chang says Great Britain
can settle the silver question in a day
SO can the United States, and the peo-
pie will, on November 8, direct that it
be done.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
OFF WE FIGHT. WE WIN,

During that grand tour which Mr.
Bryan has been making through the
east he has told the people, the common
people, whom God must love or else he
would not have made so many of them.
as Abraham Lincoln said, many and
wholesome truths, but he has never
told them one that they should grapple
more closely 60 their aouls with books
Of steel than this: eff we are not will
ing to fight. we don't deserve to win"
In a way it is a modification of the
saying of the Wise Man: There is no
excellence without labor" A hundred
and twenty years ago this country was
willing 80 fight for life and freedom;
and it won. Thirty-five years ago this
country was willing to fight for the
preservation of THE Union and it Won
In this year of our Lord one Thousand
eight hundred and ninety-sfx if the
people are willing TO fight for free sill
ver which means prosperity and plenty,
they will win, But if che American
people are not willing to fight for pros
perity and plenty they don't deserve to
have them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
CONSISTENT BouRKE COCHRAN.

When man bolts his party and
advocates the election of the candidates
of his party opponents, he is con-
sistent and is entitled to commenda-
ton for his consistency. Mr. Bourke
Cochran has bolted the Democratic
party and for a while he was men
toned as the probable temporary chair
man of the Indianapolis convention.
He refused to have his name considered
in that convention because he believed
the election Of Major Mckinley neces-
sary He was consistent. He bolted
because he desired to effect the defeat
of Mr.. Bryan and he plainly saw that
the best way to do that was not merely
by diverting votes from Mr.. Bryan but
by giving them directly to Major Nc
Kinley. A man bolts his party but for
one reason-which is. that he is I'M
willing to aid in bringing about its
success, and if he analyses the reasons
for his action he will always discover
that he wishes his party's defeat. That
may be termed the final cause for his
action. Bourke Cochran wishes the de-
feat of what was his party until he
bolted it and he takes the best posi-
bic method for accomplishing it-join-
ing forces with his party's opponents
He takes his Mckinley straight and is
now a full fledged Republican. What are
his sensations?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

yer must triumph, for just SO sure
as the gold standard is made the stand
a1d by AN eaectortal decree, just SO
sure will wages and the price of farm
products decrease. and just so sure
will the already large army of idle
laborers be recruited 10 an extent pain
full to contemplate. It is a fact sup
ported by common sense and CONNER
cial history that when money is scarce
wages and the price of all commodi-
ties are low. An appreciated dol,ar
means a, deprecated days labor. Not
alone does a. scarcity of money mean
low wages, but ut means TO the many
NO WAGES and consequent poverty
and distress. Every man who is a pro-
Queer, every man who depends on his
days labor for bread for himself, wife
and babes. will be benefited by the
free coinage of silver. Relief for the
great masses of the people can be OBJ
tafned in no other way. In regard TO
closing factories at this time it is a
mistake to assess adi the blame to the
manufacturers. Many of the manu-
facturers are indebted to the banks
and the latter united almost ss0lfdly
against SILVER. send out their orders
and the manufacturers must obey, or
suffer that loss which follows a fore
closure of mortgage. How much a
part this will play in the campaign
time will develop, but certain it is that
the scheme is very transparent, and
is not likely to modify or change re-
Suits to any material extent. When
exposed to the lens of intelligence its
scope Of influence will dwindle to moth
ing
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
TO INCREASE THE REVENUE.

The McKinIeyites are laying great
stress upon the deficit in the revenue.
There is a deficit and no one denies it.
All the deficit under the present ad-
ministration has not been produced
by the WilsoneGorman tariff law by
any means; the Mckinley law shares
the honors with it in this respect if it
does not carry them off. But that is
neither here nor there so far as the
question o. the existence of the deficit
is concerned. How to abolish it and
produce surplus in it's stead is the
important thing now. If Congress is
so minded it can, upon reassembling,
enact legislation that will very soon
produce ample revenue and without
increasing the cost of collecting it. In
his last annual report as secretary Of
the treasury, Hon. John w. Foster in
dicated the proper method for doing
this. Said he:
AS a, general revision of our customs
laws is now probable l do not feel like
suggesting any special method for in
creasing the revenue, though 1 should
otherwise think that an additional tax
on whisky, which could be collected
without additional cost, would furnish
an easy method.
If congress would but act upon this
recommendation how soon would de
ficits in the revenue disappear. The
taxes on wines, cordials and other dis
titled liquors and beverages as well as
on tobacco and manufactures thereof
could easily be increased so that they
would produce an abundant revenue.
1t would seem that all parties in con-
gress might lay aside their partisan
ship long enough for this. There must
be more revenue and it is the duty of
congress to provide it. 1t can very
easily be done without stepping upon
any ones political toes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
TALES OF THE DAY.
Different AItnrther

AS new woman" he said, "I sup
pose you will object to the wedding ring
as symbol of mans tyranny"
"Of course 1 SHALL" she replied.
"Under no circumstances would T CON
sent to wear such thing. 1t is not es
sential to marriage, and it stands for
all that is Objectionable in the marriage
relation
and on the same theory" he con-
tinued, Il suppose you will refuse to wear
an engagement ring also"
"Well-no," she answered slowly and
thonghtfully. That's a very different
matter"
But theoretically it"
There is no use arguing" she inter
rupted. Il don't care what it is theoreti-
cally. Practically it is very often a
diamond. while the wedding ring is only
plain gold. and that makes all the diff
ference in the world. Cincinnati En-
Quirer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

The several county committees are re-
quested to call county conventions for the
purpose of electing delegates to the state
convention and to judicial and senatorial
conventions and to nominate candidates
for the legislature and county offices at
least ten days before the time fixed for the
state convention.
AS soon as the same are chosen, the
chairman of each county committee shall
forward to the secretary of the state
to the state convention, and the names
and postoffice addresses of all candidates
nominated.
Ali voters, independent of past party
affiliations, are invited 10 participate in the
Democratic primaries and conventions, pro-
vided they intend voting for the Demo
cratic candidates. By order of the Demo-
cratic state committee.
E. A. MCDANIEL, o. W. POWERS.
Secretary Chairman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
THE SONG OF THE OK WAGON.

This is the song of the Straining span, the
tune Of The tattered tilt.
OF the slow essays in perilous ways of the
wagon stoutly built
The song that was sung in the ancient
tongue, when the days of the world
dawned gray,
The creaking Groom of the disselboom, the
song that is sung today.
East and west and south and north the
hrSt-born herdsmen spread,
From the waters clear of the high Pamir,
from the ancient Oxus bed;
On and on to the plains of the Don, their
creaking wagons ran,
And the disselboom showed out the doom
that has given the earth to man.
Over the sands of the thirsty lands, under
a braZen sky,
Where the only law men bow before is the
law Of the aSsegai;
Forth and forth to the dim far north
Still today in the ancient way the rum
bling wagon goes.
Through the forest ways where the wild
things craze, the dapple, the fawn,
Where the tall ''Kameel'' at sunset steal
like ghosts to the silent vley:
Where the lions drink at the reedy brink
of the slowly Swallowing pan,
The disselboom shows out the doom that
has given the earth to man.
Slow and slow the wagons go by thicket
and thorn and pool,
But their thin path traced on the homeless
waste is the road of the coming rule:
And in dread of that track the wild sinks
back, and the thief ana the beast gives
place
To the farm and the field and the yearly
yield OF the men of the wiser race.
East and west and north and south, from
the days of the dawn till now,
Ere grass was burned or sod was turned
by the share of the furrowing plough,
rms was the tune of the tattered tilt the
song of the straining span,
How the dsselboom points out the doom
that has given the earth to man.
st. James Gazette
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

Der of The United Press, and re-
cefves the complete leased wire
Overland and Pacific Coast news re-
ports of The United Associated Press
es, embracing accurate intelligence
of all current events in the whole
world. With it's special wire and
operator in it's own office THE HER
AID is daily in immediate possess
sion OF the latest news up till the
lour of going to press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

The Democratic state convention for
the purpose of nominating three electors
who will, if elected, cast their votes in
the electoral college for William J. Bryan
for president, and Arthur Sewall for vice
president; a candidate for representative
in congress; and to transact such other
business as may properly come before it,
will be held at the city OF Provo at IL
o'clock a. M on Thursday, the 24th day of
September, 1896.
The basis of representation in said con-
vention shall be one delegate for every
forty votes cast for Hon. John t. Game
for governor, at the November election of
1895, apportioned among the several coun-
ties as follows:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
Did You Eyer

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

One Of the greatest political meetings
ever held in Utah win be held tonight
az Ogden WREN the silver Republicans
casting ASIDE party for patriotism, will
protest against the action of the St.
Louis convention and speak for free
silver and the rights of the people.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

The good people of Ogden are still
growing over the Tact that the relay
race riders passed through their town
ins1ead of through this city. 1t is the
only event (and not a very big one,
either) that has happened in Ogden
for a number of years and the people
are entitled to crow over it,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

At Harrodshurg. KY, the other day
at the unfurling of a Bryan banner
from hundred-foot pole yankee Doo-
daey and Dixie" were sung. That is
one of the beneficial effects of the agi-
tation for free silver. Give the coun-
try free silver and its good effects win
be felt everywhere.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
GARFIELD BEACH.
Objective August 3D.

Trains between Salt Lake and Car
field Beach run as follows:
Leave Arrive Leave Arrive
Salt Lake. Garfield. Garfield Salt Lake.
s7:45 am. *S:45 am. LOO pm. lao pm.
1000 am 1O:4O am. %3:O5 pm. 1900 D. m.
2:15 pm 2:55 pm. 5:15 pm. 5:55 D.
+Daily except Sunday.
Fare for round trip, so cents.
Olson's orchestra in attendance ev-
ery afternoon and evening. Bathing,
boating, dancing.
Depot corner First South ard Fourth
West. D. E. hurley,
General Manager.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
sCHOoI, NOTES.

Rowland Hall will open for the sew
enteenth year, on the 9th Miss Col
bu1ne is the principal.
The Collegiate Institute will COM
mence it's twenty second year on the
Sth inst. The teachers will be the same
as last year with one addition
Ogden and Utah public schools com
mence operations on the 18th.
The Salt Lake college will begin it's
third year in the old Hammond Hall,
on the 7th.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
sToCxHoLDERs, MEETTNGs.
esssssssstssssasssasss asasassssss

NOTICE: A SPECIAL MEETING OF
the stockholders of the Home Fire In
surance Company of Utah, will be held at
the office of the company, at number 20
South Main street. in Salt Lake city
Utah, at O'Clock the Sth day of Septer1-
Der, 1886, for the purpose of amending
article two of the articles of incorpora-
ton Of said company by empowering said
to insure plate glass from breakage. how
ever such breakage may be caused.
HORACE G. WHITNEY.
Secretary
Dated August II. 1896.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

The Tacoma banks propose to dis
count Canadian money by way of re-
taaiation for Canadian bank discount of
American money. Canada will find
this discounting OF money a game that
can be played by two as well as one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

The New York World says that Cam
paign adviser Morgan IS entirely pat
riotic in his labors. He asks nothing
from the next administration except to
retain his place as the head of the
treasury relief committee while there
is a bond to be issued or an unselfish
and hlgh-minded premium to be re-
allied. Could a Johnsonian patriot ask
a better position?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

The shooting Of Policeman johnson
by burglar yesterday morning shows
that there are some desperate charac-
tiers in the city. No policeman or 9TH
er person should attempt to apprehend
a burglar without being prepared to
shoot MIN on the spot if necessary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03
THE SALT LAKE HERALD THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER s. 1898.

will be news to the people of 1.-The
whole Pacific coast" The relay race
was hardly such an event as to put
the people under arms. The six-shoot-
ers were the six men who were shoot
ing off their mouths
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

Soon after graduating from West
Point, and while still a subaltern, Con-
sui General Lee met in deadly embrace
a much bigger ;njun than Weyler and
came off victor. Weyler viii do we'll
not to wrestle with Lee.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-03

Colonel Breckenridge says his con-
science will not allow him to vote for
Bryan. His conscience appears to be
in a healthier and more active condi-
ton than it was a few years ago.