The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-24
COLBORN PRESIDES.

COLBORN PRESlDES.
When the band had finished, Jack
Daveler called the meeting to order and
introduced Judge Colborn as chairman.
Judge Colborn said he did not feel
physically able to perform the duties
of the place. yet he accepted the posi-
ton with satisfaction because he was
proud to be one of an audience to
welcome men homa sent to perform
a mission which they have nobly ac-
complished.
1t has been said that to preside at
this meeting is equivalent to leaving
the Republican party. "a voice,
'Sure.') No, not sure. l have not left
the Republican party 1 believe in its
teachings as laid down in it's history,
But the Republican party has left me.
(Applause.)
! am glad l am a mountain man.
For among the hills. liberty has her
birthplace and, her home. Tell struck
his blow in the Insight of Switzerland
and the Draw Scot fought his bat
ties in the hills. And how proud we
should be that thai grand Highlander,
Henry M. Teller (proloT ger csheers)
threw down the gage, fought the bat
tie and come home like him, who de-
fed Gesler, saying:
"Ye cfags and peaks I'm with you once
again;
/ hold to you the hands ye once beheld
And tell to you they're free"
And how proud we should be that
our senator and our congressman left
that convention rather than sacrifice
a principle.
They say we are in the minority. 1
do not believe it, When we are in the
right we are never in the minority.
And 1 believe that when the delegates
from the several states left the con-
vention, bimetailism was born anew
right there. And while we are APP
parently in the minority, like Spartacus
and his little band, we are going to
make it warm for Imperial Rome.
JUDGE GOODWIN TALKS.
Judge C. C. Goodwin received an ova-
ton when he appeared. He made one
of his characteristic speeches full of
huHor and bright sayings. Judge Col
born has mentioned Tell. He should
have said Switzerland had her Tell but
Colorado had her Teller. The boot
ing crowd around the cross on
which the Savior was crucified was
no more infected With ignorance and
deceit than the bowling mob which
Kissed the silver men who walked out
of the convention.
How any man from the west could
sit there, after the gold verdict was
| rendered by that mighty majority l
cannot understand.
If a goldbug candidate is elected this
fall he will be the most frightened man
that ever sat in the executive chair.
The poor men of this country, the
farmers and the laborers are saying,
Let silver come, it cannot be worse
than it is. The gold men have be-
come frightened and now Mr.. Whitney
and Mr.. Foraker, both leaders of the
two parties, are hedging, and although
! representing extreme views, their two
addresses dovetail together and make
one speech.
MR.. CLEVELAND TALKS.
Following Judge Goodwin came Hon,
A. c. Cleveland, of Nevada, who said:
Mr.. Cleveland said he was on his
way home, after performing the great
est duty of his life. The proceedings at
st. Louis from the start showed that
silver had very few friends in the con-
vention. 1t was a slate convention
and the slate was carried through, but
the silver men ran the race we'll and.
didn't throw off either. The rabbi who
opened the convention with prayer
prayed, that the gold news might go
/ forth, and 1T went forth without giving
silver a chance. The speaker told of
the efforts of the silver men in COM
mlttee Tor the insertion or silver
plank in the platform and their fail
! ure and how he and others had come
| to the conclusion that the only thiN;
to do was tc walk out of the conven-
ton like men. The unequal fight, how
ever, was carried onto the floor of the
! house and then came the parting of
| the ways. Right there the silver men
dropped the convention, a convention
| from which no cheer went UP except
| for something with gold in it, The
| speaker complimented Senator Cannon
on the courage he displayed in stand
ing before the bowling and kissing con-
vention, reading his manifesto.
CONGRESSMAN ALLEN.
Hon. G. E. Allen was the next speak
er and was vociferously cheered as he
advanced, to the front of the stage.
Mr.. Allen said he had made his can
vass in 1895 upon the free silver issue
and the doctrine of protection He ar
rogated to himself no great amount of
knowledge, but he knew enough to
not run on one platform and vote for
another. His judgment was the restor-
alton of the right of living by an in
J crease of the money supply.
While an earnest believer in protec-
ton, there can be no protection so
long as the silver issue remains un-
settled.
The speaker quoted the money plat
forms of the party for several years